________ amazing music! Tan Dun made it just by controlling the speed of water flow.
A. How B. How an C. What D. What an
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— Modern technology is developing so quickly!
— I agree with you. With the ________of the robot, people will have more free time to relax.
A. situation B. instruction C. condition D. invention
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About ______ two thirds of the engineers in the company were born in _____ 1990s.
A. a; the B. /; / C. /; the D. the; /
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—Do you know that Mr Zhang died ______ the morning of December 12 last year?
—Yes. He died ______ heart disease.
A. on; of B. in; from C. in; with D. on; as
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Japanese invader(侵略者) ______ China in the 1930s. And the War ______ in 1937.
A. broke out, broke out B. broke into, broke into
C. broke into, broke out D. broke out, broke into,
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______we cannot change yesterday,we can learn lessons to face tomorrow.
A. Though B. As C. Since D. Unless
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His parents are satisfied with him because he has made ____ rapid progress.
A. so B. such C. even D. many
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— I haven’t been to Shanghai Disneyland. What about you?
— _______. But I plan to go there this summer holiday.
A. Me, too B. Neither have I C. So have I D. I hope so
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With WeChat becoming more and more popular in China, it seems that we are _____the art of chatting face-to-face.
A. enjoying B. improving C. losing D. reminding
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—It’s said that the school network will be shut down for safety reasons.
—Well, that doesn't worry me at all. I'm not a net-worm, ________.
A. anyway B. instead C. besides D. anywhere
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―The high school entrance examination is coming!
―Yes, our teacher tells us we ______ be too careful while taking exams.
A. mustn’t B. shouldn’t C. needn’t D. can’t
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Jane Austen, the writer of Pride and Prejudice, wrote many stories of love. However, she ______ single all her life.
A. remained B. reminded C. realized D. required
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—How wonderful these paintings are! Which one do you think the artist?
—Perhaps he __________ the one hanging on the wall.
A. satisfying; satisfies B. satisfies with ; satisfies
C. satisfies ; is satisfied with D. satisfied with; is satisfied with
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–What did your teacher say just now?
--He asked me __________.
A. how could I work it out
B. when did I go to the library
C. why I am late for school
D. if I had get ready for the exam
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—What a mess! The visitors will be here soon.
— . I promise your rooms will be perfect in a minute!
A. Take your time B. Take it easy C. Never mind D. Not at all
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On a trip to California, my family stopped for lunch. As we walked toward the entrance to the restaurant, a man, with a _____ beard and dirty hair, jumped up from a bench and opened the door for us and greeted us in a friendly way.
Once inside, my daughters whispered, “Mom, he _____.” After we ordered our lunch, I explained, telling the kids to look _____ the appearance. The day I became a mother, I had made my mind to set a good _____ for my children. Yet sometimes when things didn’t go right, being a good example was _____. When our meal arrived, I realized I had left the car-sick pills in the truck. With the most winding trip ahead, the _____ needed them, so I went for them.
Just then, the “doorman” was opening the door for a couple. They rushed past him without even noticing him. Letting them in first, I said a loud “thank you” to him as I _____.
When I returned, we talked a bit. He said he was not allowed inside _____ he bought food. I went back and told my family his _____. Then I asked our waitress to add one soup and sandwich. The kids looked ______ as we had already eaten, but when I said the order was for the “doorman”, they smiled. When it was time to ______ our trip, I noticed the “doorman” enjoying his meal. Upon seeing me, he stood up and thanked me heartily. He then ______ out his hand for a handshake and I gratefully ______. I suddenly noticed his tears in eyes.
Back in, I fell into deep thought. Though we can’t choose many things in life, we can choose when to show thanks. I said thanks to a man who had ______ held open a door for me, and also said thanks for that ______ to teach my children by example.
1.A. heavy B. long C. messy D. grey
2.A. smokes B. smiles C. tastes D. smells
3.A. beyond B. over C. around D. into
4.A. standard B. rule C. record D. example
5.A. stressful B. strict C. easy D. hard
6.A. kids B. couple C. man D. waitress
7.A. pulled out B. pulled in C. went out D. went in
8.A. before B. unless C. though D. since
9.A. situation B. purpose C. habit D. method
10.A. worried B. tired C. puzzled D. bored
11.A. make B. start C. take D. continue
12.A. reached B. washed C. raised D. gave
13.A. pushed B. accepted C. missed D. refused
14.A. carefully B. simply C. specially D. patiently
15.A. journey B. wisdom C. chance D. challenge
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Happy Family Salad
Ingredients（成分）:
★Two adults (married, responsible and loving parents)
★One child(or more)
★Two large bowls of tolerance
★A cup of understanding
★Four leaves of fun and games
★Two tablespoons of salad cream of kindness
★A whole heap(堆) of sharing and caring
★Abag of happy thoughts
★A bag of smiles
Methods（做法）:
1Put all the ingredients except the leaves of fun and games, cream of kindness, happy thoughts and smiles, in a mixing bowl.
2Pour in the cream of kindness and mix well.
3Arrange the leaves of fun and games in a salad bowl.
4Sprinkle (撒上) the happy thoughts and smiles on top and serve.
Serving suggestions:
Do not put into the fridge. Always serve salad fresh and eat immediately, and together as a family. Stale salad should be thrown away before it causes sadness. The Happy Family Salad can be eaten at any time of the day as part of breakfast, lunch or dinner.
1.Which ingredient will the writer choose for “Happy Family Salad”?
A. Grandparents and at least a child. B. Understanding and happy thoughts.
C. Salad cream of kindness and friendship. D. Four leaves of fun and games without smiling.
2.What does the underlined word “stale” mean in the last paragraph?
A. Losing freshness. B. Being coldness.
C. Getting hardness. D. Tasting badness.
3.What does “Happy Family Salad” mainly tell us?
A. How to make a delicious salad. B. How to have a happy family life.
C. How often it is the best to eat a salad. D. How many ingredients there are in a salad.
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Some students get so nervous before an exam that they do poorly even if they know the material. Sian Beilock, a psychology (心理学) professor at the University of Chicago, has studied these highly anxious (焦虑的) exam-takers.
“They start worrying about the results. They might even start worrying about whether this exam is going to prevent them from getting into the college they want. And when we worry，it actually uses up attention and memory resources that we could otherwise be using to focus (集中) on the exam.” says Sian Beilock.
The researchers tested the idea on a group of twenty anxious college students. They gave them two short math tests. After the first one, they asked the students to either sit quietly or write about their feelings about the coming second test.
The researchers added to the pressure. They told the students that those who did well on the second exam would get money. They also told them that their performance would affect other students as part of a team effort.
Professor Beilock says those who sat quietly scored an average of 20% worse on the second exam. But the students who had written about their fears improved their performance by an average of 5%.
Next, the researchers used younger students in a biology class. They told them before final exams either to write about their feelings or to think about things not connected to the test.
Professor Beilock says highly anxious students who wrote about their feelings got an average grade of B＋，compared with a B－for those who did not.
But what can they do if students do not have a chance to write about their fears immediately before an exam or presentation? Professor Beilock says students can try it themselves at home or in the library and they can still improve their performance.
1.In which paragraph does the author introduce the background of his study?
A. In the last paragraph. B. In the second paragraph.
C. In the third paragraph. D. In the first paragraph.
2.According to Sian Beilock, if you want to succeed in an exam, you should ________.
A. focus your attention on the exam B. be as serious as you can about the exam
C. set clear study goals and keep them D. make a careful preparation for the exam
3.The underlined word “it” in the last paragraph means “_______”.
A. looking for a chance B. preparing for the exam
C. writing about the feelings D. taking the exam
4.We can infer (推断) from the study that students who sit quietly before the exam ______.
A. are more likely to get better exam results
B. worry more about the exam in their mind
C. have a positive attitude towards exam results
D. have a strong will to be successful in the exam
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Miguel gathered his guitar and all the Ernesto de la Cruz albums he could carry and rushed down from the rooftop. His family surrounded him when he reached the yard.
Abuelita’s eyes darted from the guitar to the albums. “What is all this?” she said. “You keep secrets from your own family?”
“It’s all that time he spends in the plaza,” Tio Berto said.
“Fills his head with crazy fantasies,” Tia Gloria added.
“It’s not a fantasy (幻想)!” Miguel protested. He handed his father the old photograph of Mama Imelda, Coco, and the unidentified (未知身份的) man and pointed to the guitar. “That man was Ernesto de la Cruz! The greatest musician of all time!”
“We’ve never known anything about this man. But whoever he was, he still left his family,” Miguel’s father said. “This is no future for my son.”
“But, Papa, you told me to look to the ofrenda (灵坛). You said my family would guide me! Well, Ernesto de la Cruz is my family! I’m supposed to play music!”
“Never! That man’s music was a curse (诅咒)! I will not allow it!” Abuelita said, raising her voice.
“You will listen to your family. No more music,” added Miguel’s father.
“Just listen to me play – ” “End of argument,” Papa said.
Miguel thought they’d change their minds if they heard him play. He lifted his guitar and prepared to strum, but Abuelita snatched it from his hands. She pointed to the photo. “You want to end up like that man? Forgotten? Left off your family’s ofrenda?”
“I don’t care if I’m on some stupid ofrenda!” The words burst out before Miguel could stop them. He couldn’t take them back, even though he wanted to.
The family gasped. Abuelita’s brow hardened. She raised the guitar in the air.
“No!” Miguel cried.
“Mama,” Miguel’s dad said just as Abuelita smashed (撞击) the guitar against the ground.
“There! No guitar, no music,” she said.
The whole family was silent as Miguel stared at his guitar, shattered into a hundred pieces on the ground. Miguel couldn’t move — he felt like someone had smashed him to pieces.
1.Where would this passage most likely be found?
A. In a book of travel. B. In a history book.
C. In a book of nature. D. In a novel.
2.What does “it” in the passage refer to?
A. photograph B. guitar C. music D. curse
3.How did Miguel’s feelings change in the passage?
A. hopeful → hopeless B. excited → hopeful
C. hopeless → hopeful D. hopeful→ excited
4.Why did Miguel’s father say “This is no future for my son.”?
A. Because he thought his son Miguel was crazy about fantasies because of a curse.
B. Because he thought it impossible for Miguel to be a great musician like his hero.
C. Because he thought Miguel shouldn’t only dream for music after leaving his family.
D. Because he thought music couldn’t guide Miguel to a bright future instead of family.
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The immune system is the body’s defender. It identifies, tracks down, and destroys troublemakers before they can hurt the body. Those troublemakers may be, for example, bacteria from a cut or splinter, a measles germ, a cold bug, or even a cancer cell. These invaders try to take over our tissues and feed off our bodies’ nutrients. If they succeed, we become sick or, sometimes, even die. It’s the job of our immune systems to destroy these invaders before they destroy us.
Say you picked up a flu virus last week. Perhaps it entered your body through a cut from a drinking glass, or from the air you breathe. Of course, you didn’t feel it, but the virus made its way into your bloodstream. As soon as it entered your body, it began to reproduce. Viruses have only one goal: to take over your cells. Once inside your body, viruses try to enter cells and disrupt their normal work. If left alone, these viruses would hurt so many cells that you would weaken, or worse, get a serious illness.
But this flu virus should not be so complacent as it seems to be. As it reproduces in your bloodstream, the virus is met by a certain kind of white blood cell, the lymphocytes. The lymphocytes are the foot soldiers that keep you alive.
The number of lymphocytes in your body is hard to imagine. Thousands of them could fit in the period at the end of this sentence. Your body holds about a trillion —that’s 1,000,000,000,000 of them, or about 3,000 in every drop of blood. Since you began reading this sentence, over 800,000 of them have been created and destroyed.
Some of these lymphocytes pass through a small walnut-sized organ called the thymus. The thymus is the base of the neck. Here, special hormones turn lymphocytes into fighting cells, called T cells. T cells have one terrific talent: They can tell the difference between friend and foe; what should be in our bodies and what shouldn’t. They do not affect the body ’s healthy cells. Yet they attack everything that is foreign to our bodies, such as germs, transplants, and even our own cells which have become abnormal, as in the case of cancer.
1.What is the function of our immune system?
A. To take over our tissues and feed off our bodies’ nutrients.
B. To prevent bacteria or germs from entering the body.
C. To destroy the troublemakers in order that they might not hurt the body.
D. To fight against T cells.
2.What does the underlined word “lymphocytes” in paragraph 3 mean?
A. Food soldiers. B. Flu virus.
C. White blood cells. D. Troublemakers.
3.The last sentence in paragraph 4 “since you began reading this sentence, over 800,000 of them have been created and destroyed” implies that ____.
A. this sentence contributes to the increase of the number of lymphocytes in your body
B. you would not realize that lymphocytes reproduce themselves rapidly but for th is sentence
C. because you read this sentence, a large number of lymphocytes have been consume d
D. the number of lymphocytes in your body is extremely large
4.Which of the following questions best summaries the main idea of the whole passage?
A. How does the immune system attack the flu virus?
B. How does the immune system function in our body?
C. How do the lymphocytes work in our body?
D. What is the so-called immune system?
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请根据要求改写下列句子，每空一词。
1.The dress my aunt sent to me last week looks fashionable. （改为一般疑问句）
_______ the dress your aunt sent to you last week ______ fashionable?
2.Henry put on his scarf so that he could look cool. (就划线部分提问)
______ ______ Henry put on his scarf？
3.I noticed a young couple as well as a child enter the building just now. (改为被动语态)
A young couple as well as their child _____ noticed _____ enter the building just now.
4.Mr. Wu is very patient. He repeats grammar rules for us. (合并成一句）
Mr. Wu is _________ ________ to repeat grammar rules for us.
5.It is only twenty minutes’ bus ride from my school to the Wolf Hill. (就划线部分提问)
_______ _________ is it from your school to the Wolf Hill?
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请认真阅读下面短文，并根据各题所给首字母的提示，写出一个合适的英语单词完整、正确的形式，使短文通顺。
Auntie Ruby r1.to her job in Scotland, but she visited her father every s2. weekend.Auntie Ruby and Tim did the shopping w3.did her exam preparation. It w4.well. Tim kept Arkwright tidy t5.his KAT project. The r6.of the time he planned his trip to Disneyland. Jenny d7.Arkwright’s walls and open spaces with student art. Then she did the same in Wrightham General Hospital and o8.painting lessons for the children in the hospital. William worked on his Citizen’s Aid project. B9.he was so lazy, he only aided one c 10.-- Mrs Green.
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阅读与回答问题
The way we spend our time can be divided into three groups or jars (罐子). These would be the necessary tasks jar, the voluntary tasks jar and the happiness jar.
Every day, we spend time filling the necessary tasks jar. We fill this jar with useful things, like making money, doing housework, buying food and paying bills. We then fill another jar with voluntary tasks. These are things that we do for others, but we may not enjoy them. This jar is filled with tasks like taking children to activities and cooking family meals. Those jars are very important. If we don’t fill them each day, our family won’t run properly.
However, we often forget to fill the third jar− the happiness jar. This is the jar that we fill with activities that make us happy. Is your happiness jar sometimes empty at the end of the day? We all have days like that. Between doing all the necessary and voluntary tasks, time flies by on some days, and before we know it, it is time for bed.
That is why each day we try to fill our happiness jar. Most days, I fill mine by going to the ballroom dance (社交舞) class. Between the music, the dancing and the friendship among the students, I always leave classes happier than when I entered. Playing music is another way that I fill my happiness jar. This week, I was happy to take part in an orchestra (管弦乐队) practice at my church (教堂). A small group of us met to practice Christmas music for a church service. It was a time of fun, friendship and music making. At the end of the evening, my happiness jar was full.
Consider how your time is spent. Try to find ways to achieve a balance. At the end of the day, hopefully we’ve done all we can to make sure that our happiness jar is filled.
1.How many kinds of jars are mentioned in this passage?
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2.What will happen if we don’t fill the necessary tasks jar and the voluntary tasks jar?
_____________________________________________________________________________
3.Why do we often forget to fill the third jar?
____________________________________________________________________________
4.How does the writer fill her happiness jar?
____________________________________________________________________________
5.Do you think it important to fill the happiness jar? Why or why not?
____________________________________________________________________________
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书面表达
越来越多的年轻人热衷于过圣诞节等洋节日，你们学校论坛就“是过洋节日还是过中国传统节日”这一话题展开讨论。假如你是Tom，请根据下表所给提示写一篇短文，陈述讨论结果并表达你的观点。
| 赞成过西方洋节 | 节日增多，丰富生活；增进交流，加深理解； 多元文化，开拓视野（或自拟内容） |
| 赞成过中国传统节日 | 中国文化，博大悠远；了解节日，继承传统； 传统文化，爱国意识（或自拟内容） |
| 你的观点 | ……（请自拟两点内容） |
参考词汇：inherit v. 继承
注意：1.词数90左右。短文的开头已为你写好，不计入总词数。
2.把表格中所示内容表达完整，可以适当发挥，使条理清晰，内容完整，意思连贯。
3.句式规范，字迹工整。文中不得出现真实的姓名与校名等信息。
In recent years, more and more Chinese celebrate foreign festivals. At our school, we had a discussion on whether to celebrate foreign festivals or Chinese traditional festivals.
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