A recent study has come up with _____ unexpected conclusion that ____ Africa elephants should be divided into two different species.
A.a, the B. an, the C. an, an D. the, the
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The purpose of the campaign is to raise the public’s_______ of the dangers of passive smoking.
A. existence B. connection C. awareness D. consciousness
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The new building _____ at the end of this year _____ to that university.
A. be completed; belongs B.being completed; is belonging
C. to be completed; belongs D. completed; is belonged
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As a rough estimate, Nigeria is _______ Great Britain.
A. three times the sizes as B. the size three times of
C. three times as the size of D. three times the size of
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Is this the reason ______ at the meeting for his carelessness in his work?
A. What he explained B. how he explained
C. he explained D. why he explained
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―Do you still live in the countryside?
―Yes. I don’t want to leave the house,______ it is very shabby.
A .though B. because C. once D. As
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― How did you find your Spring Festival holiday?
―______ the bad weather, I had fun meeting friends and relatives.
A. As to B. But for C. In spite of D. Regardless of
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―Our company will organize a trip to Hongkong next month. I ______ my mother there.
―I’d rather you ____. After all she has just recovered from her illness and she still feels weak.
A. will take; won’t B. am taking; don’t
C. will take; didn’t D. am taking; didn’t
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A new regulation has passed for bidding supermarkets and stores to ____ free plastic bags
to shoppers.
A. give off B. give in C. give out D. give up
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_____ suddenly occurred to me _____ I had to attend an important meeting in Shanghai the next day.
A. It; which B. What; that
C. What; which D. It; that
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―What’s Apple’s attitude toward the matter?
―Apple does not look into the matter directly, ______.
A. so does it intend to B. nor does it intend to
C. so it intends to D. neither it intends to
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You were stupid to try climbing up there. You ______ yourself.
A. can kill B. might have killed
C. might kill D. must have killed
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I can’t believe that there are _____ many poor people in ____ a rich country.
A. such; such B. so ; such C. so; so D. such; so
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In this company, it is required that anyone who ______ recently come here _____ this kind of test.
A. has; has B. has; have C. have; have D. have; has
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―Hey, you haven’t been acting like yourself. Everything is OK?
―_________.
A. Sure, it is B. I’m fine, thanks
C. That’s good D. It’s a pleasure
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阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Why should you go to college? One important answer to this question is more __16___. As opposed to generations of the past, high school graduates today are _17___ to get the number of high-paid jobs that were __18__ available. The U.S. has been changed from a manufacturing-based economy into an economy based on ___19_, and the importance of a college education today can be _20___ to that of a high school education forty years ago. It __21__ as the gateway to better choices and more opportunity.
There are __22_ reasons as to why it is important to go to college. When students _23__ a post-secondary education, they have the opportunity to read books and listen to the __24__ of top experts in their fields. It __25__ students to think, ask questions, and __26_ new ideas, which allows for additional growth and ___27_ and provides college graduates with an edge in the job market __28__ those who have not experienced a higher education.
The importance of a college education is also because of the opportunity to __29__ valuable resources. The more connections which are __30___ during your college career, the more _31___ you will have when you begin your job search. Once you have ended your job search and have started your career, ___32__, the importance of a college education has not been exhausted. Having a college degree often __33_ greater promotion opportunity.
So, why should you go to college? The reasoning does not begin and end with the _34___ aspect. A good education is __35__ from many different viewpoints, and while the importance of a college education is quite evident for many high school students, what is often not as clear is how they will pay for that education.
1.A. time B. freedom C. respect D. opportunity
2.A. likely B. unable C. afraid D. unwilling
3.A. once B. just C. never D. also
4.A. nature B. culture C. knowledge D. agriculture
5.A. referred B. added C. devoted D. compared
6.A. follows B. serves C. unites D. disappears
7.A. additional B. secret C. interesting D. financial
8.A. discuss B. ignore C. experience D. imagine
9.A. stories B. requests C. suggestion D. lecture
10.A. helps B. encourages C. forbids D. advises
11.A. design B. explore C. change D. refuse
12.A. development B. payment C. agreement D. experiment
13.A. for B. over C. in D. with
14.A. admire B. satisfy C. gain D. notice
15.A. removed B. collected C. explained D. controlled
16.A. inventions B. choices C. worries D. salaries
17.A. besides B. therefore C. however D. otherwise
18.A. saves B. includes C. ensures D. means
19.A. life B. character C. communication D. job
20.A. free B. rare C. beneficial D. absent
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Recently, South Korean star PSY’s ‘Gangnam style” video has been popular on the Internet. It has become most people’s favorite music.
In fact, the song has set the Guinness World Record for the most popular video in the history of the Internet. More than two million people have said “like” since the song was on the Internet on July 15.
PSY”s special dance moves and funny horse riding style have attracted many people. Although many people do not understand the language, the video has become the talk of the Internet. The song has come to first place in the music charts(排行榜) in 31 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
“I just sang for my South Korean fans. I have never expected it to be popular in other countries,” PSY told the reporters on a concert. The song was so popular that a few of South Korean’s politicians showed PSY’s moves to attract supporters.
“The song came out in mid-July. It sings about the rich life of South Korea —especially Gangnam in Soeoul, where a lot of rich people live.
Millions of people have watched the video. Many stars, such as Katy Perry, Robbie Williams and Nelly Furtado said that they love the song. These stars performed part of the song at a recent concert.
Riding high on the success of “Gangnam Style”, PSY was signed by Scooter Braun to Braun’s Schoolboy Records, a label distributed by Universal Republic.
PSY has written many hit songs of varying styles for different singers. Prior to “Gangnam Style” his most famous composition perhaps was Lee Seung Gi’s debut(首次亮相) song “Because You Are My Woman”.
1. What makes PSY’s “Gangnam Style” the famous music of millions of people?
A. The song has set the Guinness World Record.
B. The song has come to first place in the music chart.
C. They like the dance moves and the horse riding style.
D. They don’t understand the words of the song.
2.Why did some of South Korea’s politicians show PSY”s moves?
A. They wanted to tell people that they were also fond of music.
B. They wanted people to support them.
C. They were PSY’s fans.
D. They liked PSY’s dancing style.
3. What’s “Gangnam Style” about?
A. The way of horse riding.
B. The rich life of people of Gangnam in Seoul.
C. The Guinness World Record.
D. The love of stars.
4.What is the best title of the passage?
A. Life of the Music Star PSY
B. “Gangnam Styly” —— Most people’s favorite Music
C. PSY’s Famous Compositions
D. Meaning of “Gangnam Style”
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Online Money Earning
Yes you can earn money online without any investment or without anytime limit. I have many useful easy methods for earning easy money while we all spend our useful time on the Internet by surfing, chatting, downloading and other work. There is no need to stop any other work. We can earn with or without our daily routine. Here I tell you the complete method for online earning.
First Method
Earn money with “Bux. to”. You can earn money through “Bux.to” by clicking on ads on “Bux. to” site. First you need to open an account at “Bux. to”.
“Bux. To” is a new international and FREE English based service that allows advertisers to reach thousands of potential customers by displaying their ads on our “Surf Ads” page. An exact calculated percentage of all advertising income is paid to our members. “Bux. to” makes money through advertising.
How you make money
You view websites in 30 seconds through the “Surf Ads” page. Once the 30 seconds is up, you’ll either get a green tick(对号) sign or a red “x”. The green tick sign means you’ve earned $0.01and the “x” means you have not earned money for the visit. You’ll get red x’s when you have more than one websites from the “Surf Ads” page open. When this happens, you get no credit.
Earnings example
You click 10 ads per day =$0.10
20 referrals(转送) click 10 ads per day =$2.00
Your daily earnings =$2.10
Your weekly earnings =$14.70
Your monthly earnings =$63.00
How to get paid
If you have at least $10.00 accumulated, you can click on your account balance within your states area and it will meet your request. At present, it only makes payments through “AlertPay”. It will soon be using other methods of payment.
AlertPay is the payment processing solution that we use to pay members. Your AlertPay address is the e-mail address you use to register with AlertPay. You can get a free AlertPay account at http:// alertpay. com.
Method 2 will publish soon…
1. What is the author’s purpose of writing this passage?
A. To tell an interesting story.
B. To introduce a surprising way to earn money.
C. To solve a puzzling problem.
D. To present an exciting research.
2.You can earn money by ________.
A. chatting online B. advertising some products
C. clicking on advertisement D. choosing green ticks or x’s
3.The underlined word “accumulated” can be replaced by “_________”.
A. wasted B. spent C. lost D. gathered
4.What can we know from the passage?
A. You’ll earn $0.10 if you click 1 ad.
B. You’ll get many green ticks if you have many websites open.
C. You can get your payments through AlertPay.
D. Your AlertPay account is not for free.
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Teachers and parents usually call attention to the pictures when they read storybooks to pre-school children. But a new study suggests that calling attention to the words and letters on the page may lead to better readers.
The two-year study compared children who were read in this way in class with children who were not. Those whose teachers most often discussed the print showed clearly higher skills in reading, spelling and understanding. These results were found one year and even two years later.
Shayne Piasta, an assistant professor of teaching and learning at Ohio State University, was an author of the study. She says most pre-school teachers would find this method manageable and would need only a small change in the way they teach. They already read story-books in class. The only difference would be increased attention to the printed text. “If you get children to pay attention to letters and words, it makes sense that they will do better at word recognition and spelling.” But she says research suggests that very few parents and teachers do this in a systematic way.
More than 300 children aged four and five were observed in classrooms. They came from poor families and were below average in their language skills. For thirty weeks, the children took part in a program called Project STAR--- Sit Together and Read. The project is based at Ohio State. It tests the short-term and long-term results of reading regularly to pre-school children in their classrooms.
There are different ways that adults can talk to children about print. They can point to a letter and discuss it, and even trace the shape with a finger. They can point out a word and discuss the meaning of the print or how the words tell the story. And they can talk about the organization of the print--- for instance, showing how words are written left to right in English.
1. What do we know about the ways pre-school children are usually taught?
A. More attention is paid to the pictures ,with words and letters being ignored.
B. Preference is given to the shape of letters and the organization of the print.
C. The focus of the teaching is on bringing them up to be good readers.
D. Equal attention is paid to the texts and the pictures.
2.What does Shayne Piasta suggest pre-school teachers should do in class?
A. Teach children how to draw pictures to get an idea of what they mean.
B. Change the way they teach and pay more attention to words and letters.
C. Adopt different methods according to the students’ difference in reading skills.
D. Read storybooks to children rather than explain the meaning of the pictures.
3. Which of the following is TRUE about the study on language skills of pre-school children?
A. Many teachers want to change their way of teaching pre-school children.
B. Attention on the pictures has made the children uninterested in reading.
C. Project STAR aims to research into the results of reading books to pre-school children in the classroom.
D. Teachers are often prevented from taking different approaches to language teaching.
4.Which section of a magazine does the passage probably come from?
A. Fashion. B. Economy . C. Entertainment. D. Education.
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For years we have been told that encouraging a child’s self-respect is important to his or her success in life. But child experts are now learning that too much praise can lead to the opposite effect. Praise-aholic kids who expect it at every turn may become teens who seek the same kind of approval from their friends when asked if they want to go in the backseat of the car.
The implication(含义) of saying “You are the prettiest girl in class,” or talking about the goals she scored but not her overall effort, is that you love her only when she looks the best, scores the highest, achieves the most. And this carries over to the classroom.
Social psychologist Carol Dweck, PHD, tested the effects of over-praise on 400 fifth graders while she was at Columbia University. She found that kids praised for “trying hard” did better on tests and were more likely to take on difficult assignments than those praised for being “smart”.
“Praising attributes(品质) or abilities makes a false promise that success will come to you because you have that quality, and it devalues effort, so children are afraid to take on challenges,” says Dweck, now at Stanford University, “They figure they’d better quit while they’re ahead.”
1.The underlined words “Praise-aholic kids” refer to kids who are ______.
A. tired of being praised B. worthy of being praised
C. very proud of being praised D. extremely fond of being praised
2.The author quoted Dr.Dweck’s words in the last paragraph in order to make the article ______.
A. better-known B. better-organized
C. more persuasive D. more interesting
3.We can infer from the passage that _______.
A. praise for efforts should be more encouraged
B. praise for results works better than praise for efforts
C. praising a child’s achievements benefits his or her success in life
D. praising a child’s abilities encourages him or her to take on challenges
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Love and Friendship
They are both so much related to each other. And both are so dissimilar! What are the differences between friendship and love? Is platonic(柏拉图式的) friendship possible between persons of the opposite sex? _1. _
What is friendship? Why do we call a person our friend? When do we call someone a very good friend? If we care for a person, if we are always ready to help that person and if we share most of our thoughts with a person, they are our good friends. We can always count upon our good friends in an emergency. We are always sure that our friends will understand why we acted in a certain way. 2. The friendship is so deep and the relationship is so intimate, that most of the things are automatically understood by our friends.
_3. _ In a relationship of deep love, all the sharing that we discussed above is taken for granted. But love transcends(超出) all this. During love, we are attached with a particular person, while in friendship, one may have many friends. A loving relationship makes one so much attached to the other that one gets pained if his/her beloved is hurt! Love also involves a physical element. __4. __ This is a vital difference. Nature gives us love so that the species can go forward. Nature does not give us friendship.
Your heart beats will never increase in anticipation of meeting your friend. _5. __ You will not feel totally lost, if you don’t meet your friend for a few days. You will not have dreams in your eyes thinking about your friend. But in love, you will do all this and much more. Indeed, there is no comparison between love and friendship.
A.What about love?
B.My answer is “Yes”.
C.Let us try and understand.
D.Friendship does not have that.
E.We need not explain anything to our very good friends.
F.You will not lie awake at night thinking about your friend.
G.The physical element may include hand in hand while walking.
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This afternoon I went to see my grandfather by a bus. It was very crowded and I had to stand. Besides me there was a woman held a little boyin her arms. In front of her, a young man occupies two seats, pretending to be sleeping. I heard the little boy curious asking his mother, “What’s wrong with the uncle?” I had thought if perhaps the woman would blame the man. Beyond her expectations, the woman answered with a smile, “Be quiet. This uncle must very tired because of hard work.” The young man must haveheard the word. His face turned red and offered one seat for the woman at once.
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在英语课上，你喜欢你的老师授课时只用英语，还是英语、汉语兼用？ 某英语杂志社就此话题邀请中小学生发表看法。请你围绕“How do you prefer your English classes to be taught? In English only, or in both English and Chinese?” 这个问题，参考所给要点，选择一种授课形式，写一篇英语短文。
| 授课形式一： 只用英语 优点：有助于提高听说能力等…… 缺憾; 不易听懂等…… 结论：…… | 授课形式二：英语、汉语兼用 优点：易于理解等…… 缺憾：英语氛围不浓等…… 结论： …… |
注意：
词数100—120，短文开头已给出，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：atmosphere 氛围
I prefer my English classes to be taught in __________________________________
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