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Christmas Eve was tomorrow. I hoped one of the packages that held a camera had already been placed under the Christmas tree. It was the only thing I wanted. I had been dropping hints to my parents. I love taking photos. My bedroom walls are covered with photos I had taken with my mom’s old camera. I’m always trying to capture (捕捉) those perfect moments in which you can hear the laughter or touch the beautiful scene, but my camera has always seemed to fall short.
I knew Mom had put a few presents under the tree this morning, so I went on a hunt in my mom’s room. I opened the door and found my Christmas present was lying unwrapped on the floor — a big pink cat. I felt so disappointed.
Mom seemed to notice that, and she tried to cheer me up. “Stacy, I got your present today. I am so excited to surprise you!” “I can’t wait,” I said. The next day I couldn’t wait any longer. I needed to tell her.
“Mom, may I talk to you for a second?”
“Sure, dear. What do you need to talk about?” she asked.
And so it came — how upset I was that I was getting a cat.
“Stacy, that cat is for your sister Julia!” she said with a smile.
“Then what am I getting?” I asked.
She just smiled. “You’ll have to wait and see.”
The next morning, I happily got into the living room and sat next to the tree. I pulled out the box with my name on it and opened the wrapping paper to find ...
My camera! “Thank you!” I said to both Dad and Mom.
Dad picked up the camera and took a picture of Julia, Mom and me. It has become one of my favorite pictures. Just on that Christmas morning, I took lots of photos with my camera — my little sister making a face, my parents giving me a soft smile — and all of these photos have come to mean one thing to me: love.
1.The underlined phrase “dropping hints” in Paragraph 1 means _____.
A. talking often B. suggesting indirectly
C. sending presents D. taking pictures
2.Why did Stacy feel disappointed at first?
A. Her mother couldn’t understand her at all.
B. Her mother didn’t buy her any Christmas gift.
C. She didn’t find her present in her mom’s room.
D. She mistook her sister’s Christmas gift for hers.
3.We can infer from the passage that _____.
A. her mother bought Stacy a camera after discovering her disappointment
B. Stacy finally got her gift on Christmas Eve
C. Stacy thought it’s OK to have an old camera
D. her mother knew what gift Stacy wanted for Christmas
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
A. A Christmas gift as wished.
B. Love is more important than gifts.
C. A wonderful Christmas.
D. Love can not be bought.
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What are you feeling right now as you start to read this? Are you curious? Hoping that you’ll learn something about yourself? Bored because this is something you have to do for school and you’re not really into it — or happy because it’s a school project you enjoy? Perhaps you’re attracted by something else, like feeling excited about your weekend plans or sad because you just went through a breakup.
Emotions like these are part of human nature. They give us information about what we’re experiencing and help us know how to react. We sense our emotions from the time we’re babies. Young children react to their emotions with facial expressions or with actions like laughing or crying. They feel and show emotions, but they don’t yet have the ability to name the emotion or say why they feel that way.
As we grow up, we become more skilled in understanding emotions. Instead of just reacting like little kids do, we can identify（定义） what we feel and put it into words. With time and practice, we get better at knowing what we are feeling and why. This skill is called emotional awareness.
Emotional awareness helps us know what we need and want, or don’t want! It helps us build better relationships. That’s because being aware of our emotions can help us talk about feelings more clearly, avoid or settle conflicts（冲突） better, and move past difficult feelings more easily.
Some people are naturally more in touch with their emotions than others. The good news is that everyone can be more aware of their emotions. It just takes practice. But it’s worth the effort.
Emotional awareness is the first step toward building emotional intelligence, a skill that can help people succeed in life.
1. How do young children react to emotions?
A. With laughter and shouts.
B. With signs and expressions.
C. With facial expressions and actions.
D. With gestures of different kinds.
2. From the passage we know that emotional awareness actually _________.
A. enables us to live in society more easily
B. lets people understand others better
C. brings about conflicts between people
D. smooths away difficulties in our life
3.Where is the passage probably taken from?
A. A science fiction. B. An advertisement.
C. A science magazine. D. A television show.
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English is fast becoming the language of science around the world, but what is its future among everyday speakers? One expert points out that the percentage(比率) of native English speakers is declining(降低) while the languages of other rapidly growing regions are being spoken by increasing numbers of people. But English will continue to remain widespread and important.
However, British language scholar David Graddol says English will probably drop in dominance(主导) by the middle of this century to rank after Chinese, about equally with Arabic, Hindi, and Urdu. “The number of people speaking English as a first language continues to rise, but it isn’t rising nearly as fast as the numbers of many other languages around the world, simply because the main population group has been largely in the less developed countries where languages other than English have been spoken,” he says.
In a recent article in the journal Science, Mr. Graddol noted that three languages that are not near the top of the list of the most widely spoken now might be there soon. These are Bengali, Tamil, and Malay, spoken in south and southeast Asia.
David Crystal, the author of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, says about 1.5 billion of the world’s six billion people speak it as a second language compared to the 400 million native speakers. But another expert on the English language says Mr. Graddol underestimates (低估) the future of its dominance. “All the evidence suggests that the English language snowball is rolling down a hill and is getting faster, but nobody quite knows what’s going to happen because no language has been in this position before.” he said.
1.In David Graddol’ s opinion, English will _______.
A．remain widespread and important
B．be more important than any other language
C．lose its dominant position
D．die away in the near future
2.The underlined sentence in the last paragraph implies that ______.
A．more and more language users will choose English
B．the English language snowball is rolling down faster than any time in the past
C．English language will soon drop in dominance
D．snowballs will roll down faster than language balls
3.How many experts does the passage mention who express their ideas about the future of English?
A．2. B．3. C．4. D．5.
4.What should be the best title for the passage?
A．English Remaining in the Dominant Position
B．The Future of English? Who Knows?
C．Opinions from Different Experts
D．The English Language Snowball Rolling Down
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International students are allowed to work for the university they study at or for a business at the school. But the business must directly provide a service for students. You could work at the bookstore, for example, but not for a company that is building something at the school. Also, a foreign student cannot take the place of an American in a job.
International students can work 20 hours a week while having classes; more during school breaks. You can work until you finish your studies.
International students normally cannot take a job that has nothing to do with their school. But the government may give permission if students are suddenly faced with difficulties. Examples include large medical bills, the shortage of financial (财政上的) aid or an unexpected change in the financial support.
Students must also meet other conditions (条件). They must have studied at their American school for at least one year. Students must ask for permission again after a year if they want to continue an off-campus (校外的) job.
International students who will be studying at graduate school can apply (申请) for some jobs before they come to the United States. A good example is a university job like a teaching or research assistant.
Some schools pay their assistants. Others provide free education in return. Many do both. Graduate assistants might teach, give tests, grade work, help with research and clean the offices. Many universities now provide language training for foreign teaching assistants to help them improve their English. Some schools ask foreign students to pass an English speaking test before they are allowed to teach.
International student offices at schools have to provide information on students each term for the Department of Homeland Security. Students who violate visa (签证) rules — for example, by working off-campus without permission — could be sent home.
1.What can we learn according to the passage?
A. All the international students can work for large companies.
B. International students are able to work whenever they like.
C. International students may be allowed to work outside the school when having financial trouble.
D. International students must have studied at their American school for less than a year to get a job.
2.We may infer from the passage that ____.
A. international students could apply for some jobs before coming to the US
B. all the schools pay their assistants and provide free education for them
C. international students cannot take their jobs before having language training
D. international students normally are not completely free to choose their jobs
3.The underlined word “violate” in the last paragraph probably means ____.
A. ask for B. go against C. forget D. obey
4.What is the passage mainly about?
A. The rules about getting a job while studying in the US for international students.
B. The reason why international students like studying in the United States.
C. What international students should do while working in the United States.
D. How international students could find jobs while studying in the US.
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完形填空
Every person needs water and a diet of healthy foods. These foods should some fat, some fiber, a little salt and so on.
People need energy . They eat different kinds of food which change into energy. The energy is_ in calories. Even when you , you are using energy - about 65 calories an hour. you are at school, or walking home, your body is burning up 100 calories an hour. When playing football or basketball, you _ be using 400 calories an hour. _ Sports Day, during the relay race, you will use most of all, as much as 650 calories an hour.
The Chinese diet is considered to be the healthiest in the world. It contains a lot of fruit and green vegetables. It is in fiber and low in sugar and fat. The Chinese eat sugar than many other countries in the world. That is lots of people in China have healthy white teeth.
People in the Western world do not eat such healthy foods. They eat fat and sugar and don’t take enough . Because of this, they weight very easily. Their diet contains a lot of fat in the of potato crisps, potato chips, butter, cream and chocolate. They eat a lot of sugar exists in cakes, soft drinks, and so on.
The result is that many of them become fat. some have bad teeth. In some parts of Britain, one person in ten, the age of thirty, has had no teeth .
1.A. include B. contain C. keep D. gain
2.A. for life B. to live C. to live in D. for a living
3.A. measuring B. taken C. measured D. measure
4.A. are asleep B. fall asleep C. go to sleep D. go to bed
5.A. While B. During C. Although D. If
6.A. must B. can’t C. need D. might
7.A. At B. On C. In D. With
8.A. surely B. usually C. perhaps D. hardly
9.A. rich B. poor C. good D. bad
10.A. more B. larger C. less D. smaller
11.A. how B. why C. what D. that
12.A. much too B. many too C. too many D. too much
13.A. exercises B. food C. work D. exercise
14.A. put on B. gain on C. get on D. put up
15.A. type B. form C. kind D. sort
16.A. what B. which C. as D. whose
17.A. sweets B. sweet C. candy bar D. sweet thing
18.A. But B. Or C. And D. So
19.A. at B. for C. with D. by
20.A. left B. leave C. leaving D. to leave
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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。
Memory, they say, is a matter of practice and exercise. 1. But even if you are successful, there are times when your memory seems to play tricks on you.
2. One morning last week, for example, I got up and found that I had left the front door unlocked all night, yet I clearly remember locking it carefully the night before.
3. Once in a while you remember not doing something, and then find out that you did. One day last month, for example, I was sitting in a barber（理发师）shop waiting for my turn to get a haircut, and suddenly I realized that I had got a haircut two days before at the barber shop across the street from my office.
We always seem to find something funny and amusing（有趣的）in incidents caused by people’s forgetfulness or absent-mindedness. 4. Unfortunately, however, absent-mindedness is not always funny. 5.
A. Stories about absent-minded professors have been told for years, and we never got tired of hearing new ones.
B. Memory “trick” work the other way as well.
C. If you have the wish and really made a conscious（自觉的）effort, then you can quite easily improve your ability to remember things.
D. Generally forgetting things is serious and dangerous.
E. It is necessary to remember the way to protect yourself from memory “tricks”.
F. There are times when “trick” of our memory can cause us great trouble.
G. Sometimes you remember things that really did not happen.
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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。
They lost their way in the forest and __1.____ made matters worse was ____2._______ night began to fall.
3. ____________we will go there tomorrow by train hasn't been decided yet.
4.____________ of you comes in first will be given a prize.
5.I don’t think it’s my ____________ that the TV blew up. I just turned it on. That’s all.
6.___________ days went by, he didn’t succeed in anything he had planned.
7. On my __________(arrive) at the airport, my friend gave me a big hug.
8. Using all their ___________(strong), the driver and the passers-by pushed the car out of the mud in the end.
9.The storm left, ____________ (cause) a lot of damage to this area.
10. How ____________ (believe) beautiful the scenery beyond the mountain is!
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根据所给汉语部分，补全英文句子。每条横线上填一个单词。
1. It ___________ ___________ ___________ she has known the news. 她好像知道这个消息了。
2. All America ___________ ___________ ___________ ____________ see who would win the election.
全美国屏息而待，看谁会在这场选举中获胜。
3. He’s not dumb at all; ___________ ____________ ___________(与此相反), I think he’s rather
cute.
4. Levy was born in a single parent family and was ____________ ___________ （抚养大）by his mother.
5. I think you should __________ ___________ __________ （当心）that man -- don’t be cheated by him.
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单句改错
下面十个句子，每句中有一处错误。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出改加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（﹨）划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
1. --I’ll tell Mary about her new job tomorrow. –You must have told her last week.
2. Students are not permitted ride their bikes on the campus.
3. By the time they reached the top of the mountain, they were exhausting.
4. In order to keep fit, one has to be on a balance diet.
5. When asked that they needed, the kids said they wanted to feel important and loved.
6.When the fire broke up, I broke into the house to find my daughter; finally we successfully broke away from the burning building.
7. It is said that it takes patient and imagination to do the work well.
8. She didn’t think she would ever be able to forgive him keeping that information from her．
9.It’s important for you to know your own strengths and weakness.
10. Some notes will remember you how to present your ideas when you are giving a speech．
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