One-third of the country _____ covered with trees and the majority of the citizens _____ black people.
A. is; are B. is; is
C. are; are D. are; is
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Mother said that Mike could eat two of ten oranges and that the rest _______ left for Tom and Betty.
A. were B. was C. be D. being
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We don't imagine the twins have arrived, _____?
A. do we B. have they
C. don’t we D. haven’t they
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I don’t think she will come to the meeting on time, ______?
A．do I B．do you
C．will she D．won’t she
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_____ is even important _____ as the earth cooled down, water began to appear on its surface.
A. That, which B. What, that
C. What, what D. It, that
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______ surprised the hostess most is _______ one of her friends left the party without saying a word.
A. What, what B. What, that
C. That, that D. That, what
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John invited about 40 people to his wedding, most of _____ are family members.
A. them B. that C. which D. whom
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I still remember the house _____my mother and I used to stay in that evening．
A．where B．which C．in that D．the one
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The door _____ open, no matter how hard she pushed.
A. shouldn’t
B. couldn’t
C. wouldn’t
D. mightn’t
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When we saw the road _____ with snow, we decided to spend the holiday at home.
A. block B. to block
C. blocking D. blocked
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When I got off the crowded bus, I found my pocket _____ and the disk in it with the important documents gone.
A. stolen B. missing
C. lost D. picked
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The driver wanted to park his car near the roadside but was asked by the police _____.
A. not to do B. not to
C. not do D. do not
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The boy wanted to ride his bicycle in the street, but his mother told him _______.
A. not to B. not to do
C. not do it D. do not to
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When I was little, my mother used to sit by my bed, _____ me stories till I fell asleep.
A. having told B. telling
C. told D. to tell
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What is your daughter doing now?
She is on the phone, ________with one of her schoolmates.
A. to chat B. chatting
C. chatted D. being chatted
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The girl has a great interest in sport and ____ badminton classes twice a week over the last three years.
A. took B. is taking
C. takes D. has been taking
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I graduated from college twenty years ago and I ____________ as an English teacher in this middle school ever since.
A. worked B. have been working
C. had worked D. was working
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It’s much easier to make friends ____ you have similar interests.
A. unless B. when
C. even though D. so that
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Some people get in touch with each other by mobile phones__________ others keep contact with each other by e-mail.
A. when B. before C. while D. since
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SECTION B （共12小题；每小题 1分，满分12分）
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
I just read a beautiful story. It is about a little girl, a movie and a corporation. , if crying at work might be a problem, you should wait until you get home to read it. Trust me.
10-year-old Colby Curtin of Huntington Beach, California, had been with a rare form of cancer for three years. This month, it became that Colby would probably die soon. The one thing she wanted to do before she died was to see the movie Up. She’d been by the previews.
But Colby’s health was so that she could not be taken to the theater, and Up is only playing in theaters. By June 9, it was clear Colby wouldn’t it. A family friend began desperately dialing numbers at Pixar. She finally to someone and told them Colby’s will. After a discussion, Pixar to help.
Colby’s mother asked her, “Do you think you can hold on?” “I’m to die, but I’m going to wait for the movie, ”the girl replied.
On June 10, Pixar an employee to the Curtin’s home and showed the film on DVD-possibly the only DVD copy of the movie that exists.
Here’s what her mom said, “When I watched it, I had really no idea about the or the theme of the movie. I just know that word ‘Up’ and all of the balloons and I swear to you, for me it meant that Colby was going to go up, up to . ”
Colby died seven hours after watching the movie.
1.A. However B. Besides C. Therefore D. Finally
2.A. sticking B. suffering C. keeping D. living
3.A. clear B. uncertain C. sorry D. sure
4.A. fascinated B. fond C. interested D. surprised
5.A. good B. poor C. healthy D. ordinary
6.A. do B. see C. make D. survive
7.A. got over B. got away C. got down D. got through
8.A. refused B. hoped C. agreed D. offered
9.A. scared B. ready C. afraid D. sad
10.A. planned B. made C. shipped D. flew
11.A. trick B. contents C. hint D. disadvantage
12.A. sky B. balloon C. heaven D. sea
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SECTION C （共8小题；每小题 1分，满分8分）
Directions: plete the following passage by filling in each blank with one word that best fits the context.
Jimmy started painting when he was three years old, and when he was five, he was already very good at it. He painted many beautiful and interesting pictures, and people paid1.lot of money for them. They said, “This boy’s going to be famous when he’s a little older, and then we’re going to sell these pictures for a lot 2.money. ”
Jimmy’s pictures were different 3.other people’s because he never painted on all of the paper. He painted on half of it, and the 4.half was always empty.
“That’s very clever, ”everyone said, “5.else does that! ”
6.day somebody bought one of Jimmy’s pictures and then said to him, “Please tell me this, Jimmy. Why do you paint on the bottom half of your pictures, but7.on the top half? ”
“8.I’m small, ”Jimmy said, “and my brushes don’t reach very high. ”
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Jack Johnson is a singer and song writer known for his smooth voice and calming songs. His most recent album(专辑)is Sleep Through the Static. It is filled with personal songs about love, family and life. And this new album is also environmentally friendly.
Jack Johnson wrote the song Angel for his wife, Kim. When they met in college, Johnson was not a professional(专业的)musician. In fact, he used to be a professional surfer who rode ocean waves on a surfboard. Johnson has said that he started writing music and playing the guitar after a surfing accident. He later wrote several songs for a movie he made about surfing. In the song Go on Jack Johnson expresses what it is like to watch his two young sons grow up.
Jack Johnson may be a famous musician, but he does not like to lead a very public life. He likes to spend time with his family doing sports outdoors. Johnson is also very interested in environmental activities. Six years ago, he and his wife started the Kokua Hawaii Foundation to provide environmental education to school children. Jack Johnson’s new album shows another environmental effort. The whole album was made using energy power from the sun in his environmentally friendly recording studio (工作室).
Jack Johnson
| Profession (职业) | In the past | surfer |
| At present | 1.________ | |
| What he is famous for | Smooth voice and 2.________ | |
| His new album | Sleep Through the Static | Filled with personal songs about love, family and life |
| His songs | Angel | Writing it for his wife |
| 3.________ | Expressing what it is like to watch his two young sons grow up | |
| What he doesn’t like | Leading 4.________ | |
| 5.________ | Spending time with his family doing sports outdoors and environmental activities | |
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PART THREE READING PREHENSION （共15小题；每小题 2分，满分30分）
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage.
A
With school out and hot weather in, it’s not unusual for youngsters to gather around the refrigerator or the television rather than take part in active play. Such habits may be relaxing but can wreck a healthy lifestyle, say specialists at Texas Children’s Hospital.
“For some kids, the state of feeling bored triggers（引发）eating,” says Jennifer Thomas, a doctor at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas. “A child can pick up 5 to 10 pounds over the course of a summer, so it’s important to recognize the difference between boredom（无聊）and hunger.”
Because children may be adjusting（适应）to lack of routine, adding some structure to their daily schedules can help. “For example, instead of letting kids eat while they watch television, permit eating only in the kitchen with the television turned off,” says Thomas. “This way can help determine if they are really hungry or just bored.”
If hunger causes a snack attack, nutritious snacks should be available（可得到的）and easy to reach, says Thomas. She suggests two or more servings of fruit and three or more servings of vegetables as a reasonable（合情理的）daily goal. Thomas says, “Fresh or frozen fruit is better than fruit juice. Fresh or frozen vegetables are better because canned vegetables usually contain salt.”
In general, kids should avoid snacks with high sugar content, says Thomas. “More importantly, if a sugary snack takes the place of healthier food, the child is not getting the nutrition he or she needs. High-fat food tends to make a child feel worried, while eating foods that are naturally lower in fat will make it easier for kids to feel more energetic and stay on the go.”
1.What can help to stop children from eating because of boredom?
A. Giving them a daily schedule.
B. Giving them a lot of snacks.
C. Preventing them from watching TV.
D. Making them eat a lot of fruits.
2.What kind of snacks should we give children?
A. Fruit juice.
B. Frozen fruit.
C. Canned vegetables.
D. Snacks rich in sugar.
3.Foods that are naturally lower in fat are necessary for children because _______.
A. they help children lose weight
B. they help children get necessary nutrition
C. they stop children from getting bored
D. they make children active and energetic
4.We can infer from the text that _______.
A. it’s hard to tell the difference between boredom and hunger
B. children may get bored for lack of routine in summer
C. we should limit children’s eating while they’re watching TV
D. nutritious snacks should be available at any time
5.The underlined word “wreck” in Paragraph 1 probably means“_______”.
A. improve B. change C. ruin D. include
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When you walk into a room on the 17th floor of Copenhagen’s Bella Sky Hotel, you’ll be greeted by soft roses and other fresh flowers, fruits, fashion magazines, and a bathroom with beauty products. This is Europe’s first hotel floor dedicated（专用的）entirely to women—and according to the hotel’s CEO Arne Bang Mikkelsen, it is designed by women, for women.
“Women’s hotel preferences（偏爱）are very different from men’s with key priorities（优先考虑的事）being to feel safe and comfortable. When men come into a hotel room, the first thing they do is check the view, turn on the TV, plug in their computer, and check out the fridge. Women, on the other hand, go straight to the bathroom. Does it smell nice? Is it clean? Does it have a nice bathtub and shower?”
Unlike other hotels, it seemed like someone actually thought about what women wanted. To get it right, the hotel asked a number of women what they wanted, and added to their list of things like cleanliness, a nice bathroom, high-powered hairdryers, steam irons, cosmetic mirrors, healthy choices on the room service menus, and full-body mirrors.
It seems that they are helped by the boom（繁荣）in female business travelers. Global numbers are hard to get, but a research report shows women account for about half of all business travelers in the US in 2010, up from approximately 25% in 1991.
Places like the Naumi Hotel in Singapore, the Premier Hotel in New York, the London Dukes Hotel and the Georgian Court Hotel in Vancouver seem to be realizing the possibility in catering（迎合）for women.
At the London Dukes Hotel, the manager says bookings（预订）for their “Duchess Rooms”，which are standard rooms with fresh flowers, fruit, and styling things, have increased 25% over the past year.
1.We can learn from the text that Bella Sky Hotel _______.
A. is the first hotel designed for women
B. offers special service to women guests
C. has a big garden with all kinds of flowers
D. can arrange rooms according to guests’ wishes
57. Paragraph 2 mainly wants to tell us _______.
A. men are wiser in choosing hotels
B. guests usually care about fort most
C. women differ from men in judging a hotel
D. hotels have difficulty satisfying each guest
2.What can we learn from the text?
A. Men guests usually don’t care about hotels’ cleanliness.
B. Living in a hotel, women guests may consider their safety.
C. Women business travelers spend more than men in hotels.
D. In the US the number of women travelers is higher than men.
3.The example of the London Dukes Hotel is used to show ________.
A. London is known for hotel management
B. guests like to experience different hotels
C. the new hotel service is very popular
D. hotel industry is developing rapidly
4.What is the text mainly about?
A. How to run hotels.
B. A new practice in hotel service.
C. Different hotels’ service in the world.
D. Differences between men and women hotel guests.
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It is now February 7, 2035. The search engine TalkTalk will be open to the public next week and this service will soon be something beyond your imagination. For the first time you can not only talk to the search engine, but you can discuss with it what you are looking for.
For example, if you want to know more about the oil price, TalkTalk asks if you want to know the current oil price, the development of the oil price, or news related to the oil price. You say that you want to read news about it and TalkTalk then directs you to your source, or lets you have the latest news related to the oil price in order from the most respectable sources.
Compared with other search services that use a certain algorithm (程序) to provide data from a search, the artificial intelligence (人工智能) behind TalkTalk is said to easily spot if a certain source is aiming to cheat the searcher. TalkTalk also judges and stores every given reply and discussion, to learn how to give correct answers. TalkTalk is also set to answer questions directly where there is a definite answer. How well this will work in the long run is yet to be seen, but thousands of people have tested TalkTalk and the quality is really good.
The first talking search engine saw the light of day more than 30 years ago and was called Speegle. It could read the results from a written search on the Internet, and was mostly for blind people.
So far, TalkTalk cannot read the information from a certain source to you by phone, if it is not freely available. There are currently talks to find an arrangement for this, but it would most likely be difficult because of copyright(版权).
TalkTalk is available over the Internet and also by phone, even though it only speaks English. There are no plans to add other languages in the near future, most likely because it will cost a lot of money. When you are tired of asking TalkTalk all your questions, just ask, “Where is TalkTalk?” and you will get an answer that will make you leave it with a smile on your lips.
1.The example in Paragraph 2 is given to show .
A. how to use the search engine TalkTalk
B. how to search for news on the Internet
C. the oil price is a very hot issue currently
D. TalkTalk has a very high intelligence
2.The advantage of TalkTalk is that it can .
A. be available wherever you go
B. tell if a certain source is reliable
C. read the search results for you
D. offer different kinds of search results
3.What can be inferred from the text?
A. TalkTalk can read all the information online.
B. TalkTalk will speak other languages soon.
C. TalkTalk may have a bright future.
D. TalkTalk is very expensive.
4.What would be the best title for the text?
A. Hello, TalkTalk
B. Where is TalkTalk
C. TalkTalk is improving
D. Development of search engines
5.In which part of a future newspaper can you read the text?
A. Opinion. B. Culture.
C. Lifestyle. D. Technology.
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请根据下面的提示，写一篇短文，介绍一位你最崇拜的偶像。
字数要求：120词左右。
1. Who do you admire (钦佩，欣赏) most?
2. What does / did he / she do?
3. Something interesting / moving you know about him / her.
4. What should you learn from him / her?
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