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1、阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。
Ausie Perine is not a typical superhero. Well, maybe he looks the part, with his signature cape (斗篷) flapping against his blue shirt. But two things set this caped fighter apart: His enemy is not an imaginary one from a comic book but hunger and homelessness. Also, he's only four years old.
Our hero's story started in the family living room. Ausie and his father, TJ Perine, were watching a program on Animal Planet about a mother tiger leaving her cubs. "I told him that the cubs would be homeless," TJ says. "Ausie didn't know what homelessness meant, but he was sad and wanted to know more."
Seeing this as a teachable moment, TJ took Ausie to a local shelter, where they saw some homeless men. "Dad, they look sad," Ausie said. "Can we take them some food and smiles?" That day, Ausie used his allowance to buy each man a sandwich. When they returned the next week, Ausie again dipped into his piggy bank to buy sandwiches, which he handed out along with his new catchphrase, "Don't forget love!"
Days later, word of Ausie's acts of kindness spread through social media. A local food chain jumped aboard, agreeing to donate $10,000 toward the cause. Soon, donations poured in continuously. Thanks to the collective support, now he can feed about 800 people at once.
But Ausie isn't just filling bellies. He's improving the lives of those he meets. In the shelter, Ausie talked to a man named Raymont with respect, which touched him deeply. He shared with TJ just how grateful he was to be treated so considerately by a young stranger. With the help of TJ, Raymont obtained a driver's license, with which he found a job. All that was made possible because a little boy took the time to care.
Ausie's passion has now become his family's calling. They established the Show Love Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to offering medical and mental health care as preventive steps against homelessness. Young Ausie continues to give out food, smiles, and his inspirational message of love. "It makes me feel like I'm saving the day."
(1)、What can we learn about Ausie from paragraph 1 and 2?A、He is fond of animal programs. B、He is nothing special as a fighter. C、He felt upset about the homeless cubs. D、He has imaginary enemies from books.(2)、What action of Ausie's impressed Raymont most?A、Offering him a job. B、Giving him respect. C、Donating food to him. D、Keeping encouraging him.(3)、What word best describes Ausie?A、Sympathetic. B、Single-minded. C、Confident. D、Hardworking.(4)、Which of the following can be the best title for the text?A、A Loving Family. B、The Show Love Foundation. C、A Young Kid Helping Others. D、A Caped Fighter against Homelessness. -
2、阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。
Las Vegas can offer a lot more than you expect. Here are the best guided tours to help visitors make the most of their Sin City getaway.
Big Bus Las Vegas—Open Top Night Tour
Admire the glittering lights downtown on this evening double-decker bus tour. Along the drive, you'll pass well-known buildings before hopping off to enjoy the free light shows on Fremont Street. Tour-takers praise the guides for their informative, friendly account.
Passengers can board the buses at the LINQ Promenade starting at 7 p.m. each evening.
Cowboy Trail Rides—Red Rock Canyon Sunset Horseback Ride
When you need a break from the city life, put on a cowboy hat and boots for a sunset trail ride through Red Rock Canyon. On the ride, you'll follow a guide through the picturesque desert landscape, watching for wildlife. Travelers warn that it can get chilly on the ride, so they advise wearing warm layers.
Trail Rides are offered Tuesday through Sunday.
Papillon Grand Canyon Helicopters—Grand Celebration Tour
Papillon Grand Canyon Helicopters' Grand Celebration tour offers bird's-eye views of sought-after sights, like Eagle Point and Lake Mead. The tour also includes a Champagne picnic. The pilots and staff earn praise for their friendliness and professionalism.
There are several daily departure options.
Secret Food Tours—Las Vegas Strip
Every day Secret Food Tours take groups of 10 participants to five-star restaurants on the Strip to sample a variety of cooking delights, including pizza, chocolates and lobster. During the walking tour, highly praised guides teach tourgoers about the city's food and culture. Travelers say the food on the tour is plentiful and tasty, but they warn that you'll be doing a lot of walking.
Tickets include all food tastings.
(1)、What can visitors do during the Open Top Night Tour?A、Admire charged light shows. B、Explore well-known buildings. C、Board buses on Fremont Street. D、Enjoy an evening double decker bus tour.(2)、What do the Grand Celebration Tour and Las Vegas Strip have in common?A、Visitors can try a horseback ride. B、Visitors can have some food to taste. C、Visitors can enjoy views from high in the air. D、Visitors can learn about the history of Las Vegas.(3)、Which tour is unlikely to offer services every day?A、Secret Food Tours—Las Vegas Strip B、Big Bus Las Vegas—Open Top Night Tour C、Papillon Grand Canyon Helicopters—Grand Celebration Tour D、Cowboy Trail Rides—Red Rock Canyon Sunset Horseback Ride -
3、 听材料,回答问题。(1)、When did Britt want to build a website originally?A、After university. B、At high school. C、At university.(2)、Why did Britt change the name of her website?A、The original name wasn't suitable. B、She wanted to include other games. C、The website wasn't successful at first.(3)、What can we learn about the content of the website?A、It's old-fashioned. B、It's student-targeted. C、It's wide-ranging.(4)、What is the main focus of the website?A、Team sports. B、Computer games. C、Make-up and fashion.
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4、 听材料,回答问题。(1)、What is the job about?A、Guest reception. B、Hotel decoration. C、Building construction.(2)、When will the job get started?A、On Monday. B、On Tuesday. C、On Wednesday.(3)、Who will tell the client about the update?A、The woman. B、The man. C、Richard.(4)、Why does the woman want the job to go smoothly?A、To attract more workers. B、To shorten the working period. C、To get more work from the client.
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5、 听材料,回答问题。(1)、What does Grace need Jack to do?A、Fix the copy machine. B、Attend a staff meeting. C、Print some documents.(2)、What do we know about the copy machine?A、It is under repair. B、It is in poor condition. C、It has broken down three times.(3)、Where is Jack heading next?A、A branch office. B、A copy shop. C、A repair shop.
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6、 听材料,回答问题。(1)、What is the woman shopping for?A、Envelopes. B、A camera. C、Art supplies.(2)、What additional service does the man mention?A、Photo printing. B、In-store mailing. C、Online purchasing.
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7、 听材料,回答问题。(1)、What are the speakers talking about?A、Working on a car. B、Making an outing plan. C、Entertaining some friends.(2)、What does the woman ask the man to do?A、Ignore their guests. B、Invite Frank to join them. C、Cancel his plan to meet Frank.
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8、 What is the man doing?A、Offering a favor. B、Showing the way. C、Serving a customer.
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9、 How does the man feel now?A、Excited. B、Regretful. C、Refreshed.
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10、 Where does the conversation take place?A、At home. B、At a restaurant. C、At a supermarket.
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11、 Why hasn't the woman seen the man for a long time?A、He was ill. B、He went traveling. C、He moved to Glasgow.
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12、 When will the woman meet the staff manager?A、At 9:30. B、At 11:00. C、At 12:40.
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13、 读后续写
It was an art lesson. Rachel sat at the desk watching her classmates busy preparing the water jars and paints. She understood why Mrs Weston asked her to sit down and got Lisa to fetch everything for her. It was always a disaster when Rachel tried to do art!
Rachel sighed and reached out to dip her brush in some black paint and—oh, no! She knocked over the jar. The water spread across the desk and drowned the paper. Lisa called Mrs Weston to see what Rachel had done. Rachel went red in the face. She jumped to her feet to get a cloth. Her chair fell over backwards. She turned round and her paintbrush caught Lisa across the face, giving her a black moustache. Lisa was so surprised that she fell back against a wire bookstand. It was knocked down and the books went all over the floor.
How clumsy(笨拙的)! Rachel thought as she went home on the bus. The bus stopped outside her house. She jumped up and her elbow(肘部) knocked a woman's hat right over her eyes. Oh, no! Rachel said sorry, got off and ran indoors. Mum wasn't in the kitchen but lay in bed as she caught a bad cold. Rachel offered to make a cup of tea but mum would rather wait for dad. Rachel sighed. She understood mum was afraid she would spill it.
"But would you go to Mrs Willow for some cold medicine?" asked mum. Rachel turned to the door at once. "But Rachel, Mrs Willow's house is full of beautiful things, so if she asks you to come in, you'd better say no. " Rachel sighed and ran out.
Mrs Willow was an old lady with white hair and sharp blue eyes living in an old house. She opened the door and invited her in. Rachel said why she came and that she preferred to wait outside remembering her mother's warning. Mrs Willow insisted Rachel come inside. Rachel took a deep breath and stepped in. She looked round Mrs Willow's sitting room and saw at once why mum had been worried.
注意:(1)续写词数应为150左右;(2)请按如下格式作答。
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14、 完形填空
Last week the electricity in my flat went out. I had just got home from work and was1 making my tea, when all of a sudden the power was off. I was surrounded by complete2 . The lights had gone out, the oven had stopped working and my phone was no longer3 . My flatmates and I tried to4 it but we soon realised that we couldn't. We would have to wait for a(n)5 to come the next morning. This left me a whole night without any6 . My typical evening is spent watching TV and looking through social media. At that night this wasn't7 . Due to the lack of lights I couldn't even read a book. We weren't prepared with candles or matches. We just rely too much on electricity, expecting that it will8 .
So for me it was an early night to sleep. And I couldn't help but think, do we9 electricity too much? That night, losing our electricity felt like losing a basic10 , as basic as running water. But really, electricity is a luxury(奢侈品) that we've grown to11 for granted. I use electricity all the time, even when it's not really necessary. I use it to12 my phone when I have to wait for even just a minute, for example when waiting for friends.
Our overuse of electricity is a big13 . It contributes to global warming, which is something that we really should be worried about. It is harming our environment and we need to do what we can to stop it. How would we14 in a world without electricity? Cutting back on our use of electricity would save energy resources so that they could last for longer. I know15 that I can cut down on my use of electricity.
(1)A 、 occasionally B 、 happily C 、 urgently D 、 apparently(2)A 、 silence B 、 bitterness C 、 darkness D 、 astonishment(3)A 、 calling B 、 charging C 、 controlling D 、 existing(4)A 、 set B 、 put C 、 get D 、 fix(5)A 、 friend B 、 assistant C 、 electrician D 、 neighbour(6)A 、 electricity B 、 expectation C 、 recognition D 、 facility(7)A 、 possible B 、 frequent C 、 important D 、 general(8)A 、 fail B 、 work C 、 leave D 、 appear(9)A 、 look on B 、 hold on C 、 live on D 、 depend on(10)A 、 regulation B 、 necessity C 、 intensity D 、 system(11)A 、 take B 、 make C 、 control D 、 become(12)A 、 keep B 、 check C 、 read D 、 search(13)A 、 challenge B 、 temptation C 、 question D 、 problem(14)A 、 survive B 、 succeed C 、 supply D 、 sacrifice(15)A 、 after all B 、 at times C 、 for sure D 、 with ease -
15、 阅读理解
A City in the Jungle
In the summer of 1848, in Guatemala, a man called Ambrosio Tut went out into the jungle, as he did almost every day. Tut was a gum collector, looking for gum in the jungle. One day, he got to the top of one tree and something caught his eye. He looked out across the trees and saw the tops of some old buildings.
He ran to tell the local governor excitedly, and together they walked into the jungle. There they found Tikal, the city that the Mayans had built many hundreds of years before. The two men saw pyramids, squares and houses.
For a long time before that day, local people had known that somewhere in the jungle there was an old Mayan city. Between 200 and 900 AD, the city of Tikal had been the centre of Mayan civilisation(文明) in the area, but then the Mayans left it—nobody knows why!After 1000 AD, the jungle began to cover it.
Seven years before Tut found Tikal, two British explorers had gone to Guatemala and had written a report about Mayan treasures in the jungle—but they hadn't mentioned Tikal. Even earlier than this, local Indians had told people about a great city hidden in the trees, but no one had listened to them. Now the lost city had been found again, and people went there immediately to see it.
A. But no one had seen it for centuries.
B. To do this, he had to climb the trees.
C. And then people forgot that it was there.
D. So they lost the chance to find the treasure.
E. Tut found many other treasures after that.
F. More and more scientists began to study the Mayan city.
G. Tut didn't really know what he had seen but he knew it was something special.
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16、 阅读理解
By the end of the century, if not sooner, the world's oceans will be bluer and greener thanks to a warming climate, according to a new study.
At the heart of the phenomenon lie tiny marine microorganisms(海洋微生物) called phytoplankton. Because of the way light reflects off the organisms, these phytoplankton create colourful patterns at the ocean surface. Ocean colour varies from green to blue, depending on the type and concentration of phytoplankton. Climate change will fuel the growth of phytoplankton in some areas, while reducing it in other spots, leading to changes in the ocean's appearance.
Phytoplankton live at the ocean surface, where they pull carbon dioxide into the ocean while giving off oxygen. When these organisms die, they bury carbon in the deep ocean, an important process that helps to regulate the global climate. But phytoplankton are vulnerable to the ocean's warming trend. Warming changes key characteristics of the ocean and can affect phytoplankton growth, since they need not only sunlight and carbon dioxide to grow, but also nutrients.
Stephanie Dutkiewicz, a scientist in MIT's Centre for Global Change Science, built a climate model that projects changes to the oceans throughout the century. In a world that warms up by 3℃, it found that multiple changes to the colour of the oceans would occur. The model projects that currently blue areas with little phytoplankton could become even bluer. But in some waters, such as those of the Arctic, a warming will make conditions riper for phytoplankton, and these areas will turn greener. "Not only are the quantities of phytoplankton in the ocean changing, " she said, "but the type of phytoplankton is changing. "
(1)、What are the first two paragraphs mainly about?A、The various patterns at the ocean surface. B、The cause of the changes in ocean colour. C、The way light reflects off marine organisms. D、The efforts to fuel the growth of phytoplankton.(2)、What does the underlined word "vulnerable" in paragraph 3 probably mean?A、Sensitive. B、Beneficial. C、Significant. D、Unnoticeable.(3)、What can we learn from the text?A、Phytoplankton play a declining role in the marine ecosystem. B、Dutkiewicz's model aims to project phytoplankton changes. C、Phytoplankton have been used to control global climate. D、Oceans with more phytoplankton may appear greener.(4)、What is the main purpose of the text?A、To assess the consequences of ocean colour changes. B、To analyse the composition of the ocean food chain. C、To explain the effects of climate change on oceans. D、To introduce a new method to study phytoplankton. -
17、 阅读理解
California has lost half its big trees since the 1930s, according to a study to be published Tuesday and climate change seems to be a major factor.
The number of trees larger than two feet across has declined by 50 percent on more than 46, 000 square miles of California forests, the new study finds. No area was spared or unaffected, from the foggy northern coast to the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the San Gabriels above Los Angeles. In the Sierra high country, the number of big trees has fallen by more than 55 percent; in parts of southern California the decline was nearly 75 percent.
Many factors contributed to the decline, said Patrick McIntyre, an ecologist who was the lead author of the study. Woodcutters targeted big trees. Housing development pushed into the woods. Aggressive wildfire control has left California forests crowded with small trees that compete with big trees for resources.
But in comparing a study of California forests done in the 1920s and 1930s with another one between 2001 and 2010, McIntyre and his colleagues documented a widespread death of big trees that was evident even in wildlands protected from woodcutting or development.
The loss of big trees was greatest in areas where trees had suffered the greatest water shortage. The researchers figured out water stress with a computer model that calculated how much water trees were getting in comparison with how much they needed, taking into account such things as rainfall, air temperature, dampness of soil, and the timing of snowmelt.
Since the 1930s, McIntyre said, the biggest factors driving up water stress in the state have been rising temperatures, which cause trees to lose more water to the air, and earlier snowmelt, which reduces the water supply available to trees during the dry season.
(1)、What is the second paragraph mainly about?A、The seriousness of big-tree loss in California. B、The increasing variety of California big trees. C、The distribution of big trees in California forests. D、The influence of farming on big trees in California.(2)、Which of the following is well-intentioned but may be bad for big trees?A、Ecological studies of forests. B、Banning woodcutting. C、Limiting housing development. D、Fire control measures.(3)、What is a major cause of the water shortage according to McIntyre?A、Inadequate snowmelt. B、A longer dry season. C、A warmer climate. D、Dampness of the air.(4)、What is a suitable title for the text?A、California's Forests: Where Have All the Big Trees Gone? B、Cutting of Big Trees to Be Prohibited in California Soon C、Why Are the Big Trees Important to California Forests? D、Patrick McIntyre: Grow More Big Trees in California -
18、 It is believed that the beauty of the Li River will be preserved for generations to come.
句式:It is believed that ...
仿写:人们相信, 总有一天我们将能充分利用太阳能。
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19、 It is obvious that we should plant more trees to fight against sandstorms.
句式:It is obvious that ...
仿写:旧方法显然不能满足新的要求。
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20、 As is known to all, smog is harmful to everyone.
句式:As is known to all ...
仿写:众所周知, 语言能反映出其背后的文化与习俗。