We all hold ________ belief that those who have ________ wonderful sense of humor are more popular.
A．the; a B．/; / C．the; / D．a; the
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She likes walking best because there is ________ like walking as a means of keeping fit.
A．something B．anything
C．nothing D．everything
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At no time ________the rules of the game. It was unfair to punish them.
A. they actually broke B. do they actually break
C. did they actually break D. they had actually broken
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I left university with a good degree in English Literature, but no ___ of what I wanted to do.
A．sense B．difference C．hope D．chance
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Our government ________ much importance to education now, which enables so many people to be well educated.
A．attaches B．pays C．links D．applies
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As usual, the 2013 Spring Festival Gala _____ on New Year's Eve, which attracted almost all the Chinese.
A．took up B．took in
C．took overD．took place
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The supermarket rules state that no goods ________ be taken out of the supermarket, ________ paid for by the shopper.
A．must; once B．should; when
C．can; if D．shall; unless
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Be careful that a good name of a product doesn't ________ mean good quality of it.
A．alternatively B．approximately
C．obviously D．necessarily
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As is reported, it will be more than 20 years ________ humans are able to walk on Mars.
A．before B．when C．since D．after
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—________ you interrupt now? Can't you see I'm on the phone?
—Sorry Sir, but it's urgent.
A．Can B．Should C．Would D．Must
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—Did you know more about the mine accident?
—Oh，sorry，I had no idea. I ________ the Rescue Center now.
A．will be phoning B．am to phone
C．will phone D．phone
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I admire my English teacher. I can remember very few occasions ________ she stopped working because of ill health.
A．that B．when C．where D．which
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________ for children, the album became popular with parents ________ it came out.
A．Designed; when B．Designed; immediately
C．To design; as soon as D．Designing; as
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Help me out in the kitchen and I ________ you to some westernstyle food.
A．treat B．was treating
C．will treat D．have treated
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—I have to go and get the clothes from the laundry.
—________？ I can pick them up on my way home this afternoon.
A.So what B．How come
C．Why bother D．Why not
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He was driving home one cold evening on a country road when he saw an old lady, stranded on the side of the road. He stopped to give her a ____. “Why don't you wait in the car where it is warm, Madam? It won't take me long.” He said, “____，my name is Joe.”
She had a flat tire. Joe crawled under the car and changed the tire. But he got dirty and his hands hurt. She couldn't thank him ____ and asked him how much she ____ him. He told her that if she really wanted to ____ him back, the next time she saw someone in ____ of help, she could give that person the ____ he needed, and Joe added, “And think of me.”
She drove off with gratefulness. A few miles ____ the road the lady saw a small ____. She went in. The waitress who was nearly eight months pregnant, ____ her with a sweet smile. The old lady ____ how someone like her who seemed so poor could be so genuinely happy and how she could ____ her enthusiasm in her work in such inconvenient conditions. Then Joe's words ____ her. After the lady finished her meal, the waitress went to get her ____ from a hundreddollar bill. ____， the lady stepped right out of the door.
When the waitress came back, she noticed a note on the table, ____ “I'm helping you because someone once helped me. If you really want to pay me back, here is ____ you can do—Do not let the chain of love ____ with you.”
The waitress went home that night with the ____ tip and what the lady had written. With the baby ____ next month, she and her husband needed money. She knew how worried her husband was and as he lay sleeping next to her, she whispered, “Everything's going to be all right. I love you, Joe.”
1.A. surprise B．hand C．sympathy D．glance
2.A. Just in case B．As you wish C．For one thing D．By the way
3.A. enough B．right C．straight D．extra
4.A. charged B．provided C．owed D．offered
5.A. pay B．bring C．put D．hold
6.A. honor B．favor C．need D．possession
7.A. guidance B．assistance C．acquaintance D．consequence
8.A. down B．off C．beside D．beyond
9.A. bank B．grocery C．gas station D．restaurant
10.A. introduced B．greeted C．identified D．spotted
11.A. thought B．suspected C．wondered D．questioned
12.A. taste B．measure C．remain D．maintain
13.A. struck B．moved C．obtained D．reminded
14.A. tip B．change C．order D．service
15.A. Moreover B．Otherwise C．However D．Eventually
16.A. writing B．showing C．going D．saying
17.A. how B．which C．what D．whether
18.A. combine B．end C．disagree D．deal
19.A. honest B．generous C．modest D．graceful
20.A. due B．ready C．born D．likely
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Low-Cost Gifts for Mother's Day
Gift No. 1
Offer to Be your mother's health friend. Promise to Be there for any and all doctor's visits
whether a disease or a regular medical check-up. Most mothers always say "no need," another set of eyes and ears is always a good idea at a doctor's visit. The Best part ? This one is free.
Gift No. 2
Help your mother organize all of her medical records, which include the test results and medical information. Put them all in one place. Be sure to make a list of all of her medicines and what times she takes them. "Having all this information in one place could end up saving your mother's life," Dr. Marie Savard said.
Gift No. 3
Enough sleep is connected to general health conditions. "Buy your mother cotton sheets and comfortaBle pillows to encourage Better sleep," Savard said. "We know that good sleep is very important to our health."
Gift No. 4
Some gift companies such as Presents for Purpose allow you to pay it forward this Mother's Day By picking gifts in which 10 percent of the price you pay goes to a charity (慈善机构) Gift givers can choose from a wide variety of useful But inexpensive things -many of which are "green" - and then choose a meaningful charity from a list. When your mother gets the gift, she will Be told that she has helped the chosen charity.
【 小题1】.What are you advised to do for your mother at doctor's visits?
A．Take notes.
B．Be with her.
C．Buy medicine.
D．Give her gifts.
1.What can be a gift of organization for your mother?
A．Keeping her medical information together.
B．Buying all gifts for her from one company.
C．Making a list of her medical check－ups.
D．Storing her medicines in a safe place.
2..Where can you find a gift idea to improve your mother's sleep?
A．In Gift No. 1. B．In Gift No. 2.
C．In Gift No. 3. D．In Gift No. 4.
3..Buying gifts from Presents for Purpose allows mothers to________．
A．enjoy good sleep B．be well－organized
C．get extra support D．give others help
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It is widely known that any English conversation begins with The Weather. Such a fixation with the weather finds expression in Dr.Johnson’s famous comment that “When two English meet, their first talk is of weather.” Though Johnson’s observation is as accurate now as it was over two hundred years ago, most commentators fail to come up with a convincing explanation for this English weather-speak.
Bill Bryson, for ezample, concludes that,as the English weather is not at all exciting,the obsession with it can hardly be understood. He argues that”To an outsider,the most striking thing about the English weather is that there is not very much of it.” Simply, the reason is that the unusual and unpredictable weather is almost unknown in the British Isles.
Jeremy Paxman, however, disagrees with Bryson, arguing that the English weather is by nature attractive. Bryson is wrong, he says,because the English preference for the weather has nothing to do with the natural phenomena.”The interest is less in the phenomena themselves, but in uncertainty.” According to him, the weather in England is very changeable and uncertain and it attracts the English as well as the outsider.
Bryson and Paxman stand for common misconceptions about the weather-speak among the English. Both commentators, somehow, are missing the point. The English weather conversation is not really about the weather at all. English weather-speak is a system of signs ,which is developed to help the speakers overcome the natural reserve and actually talk to each other. Everyone knows conversations starting with weather-speak are not requests for weather data. Rather, they are routine greetings,conversation starters or the blank”fillers”, In other words, English weather-speak is a means of social bonding.
1.The author mentions Dr.Johnson’s comment to show that________.
A.most commentators agree with Dr.Johnson
B.Dr.Johnson is famous for his weather observation
C.the comment was accurate two hundred years ago
D.English conversations usually start with the weather
2.What doe s the underlined word”obsession” most probably refer to?
A.A social trend. B.An emotional state.
C.A historical concept. D.An unknown phenomenon.
3.According to the passage,Jeremy Paxman believes that________.
A.Bill Bryson has little knowledge of the weather
B.there is nothing special about the English weather
C.the English weather attracts people to the British Isles
D.English people talk about the weather for its unccrtainty
4.What is the author’s main purpose of writing the passage?
A.To explain what English weather-speak is about.
B.To analyse misconceptions about the English weather.
C.To find fault with both Bill Bryson and Jeremy Paxman.
D.To convince people that the English weather is changeable.
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Many people think that listening is a passive business. It is just the opposite. Listening well is an active exercise of our attention and hard work. It is because they do not realize this, or because they are not willing to do the work, that most people do not listen well.
Listening well also requires total concentration upon someone else. An essential part of listening well is the rule known as ‘bracketing’. Bracketing includes the temporary giving up or setting aside of your own prejudices and desires, to experience as far as possible someone else’s world from the inside, stepping into his or her shoes. Moreover, since listening well involves bracketing, it also involves a temporary acceptance of the other person. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will seem quite willing to open up the inner part of his or her mind to the listener. True communication is under way and the energy required for listening well is so great that it can be accomplished only by the will to extend oneself for mutual growth.
Most of the time we lack this energy. Even though we may feel in our business dealings or social relationships that we are listening well, what we are usually doing is listening selectively. Often we have a prepared list in mind and wonder, as we listen, how we can achieve certain desired results to get the conversation over as quickly as possible or redirected in ways more satisfactory to us. Many of us are far
more interested in talking than in listening, or we simply refuse to listen to what we don’t want to hear.
It wasn’t until toward the end of my doctor career that I have found the knowledge that one is being truly listened to is frequently therapeutic(有疗效的) In about a quarter of the patients I saw, surprising improvement was shown during the first few months of psychotherapy(心理疗法), before any of the roots of problems had been uncovered or explained. There are several reasons for this phenomenon, but chief among them, I believe, was the patient’s sense that he or she was being truly listened to, often for the first time in years, and for some, perhaps for the first time ever.
1.. The phrase “stepping into his or her shoes” in paragraph 2 probably means _______.
A. preparing a topic list first
B. focusing on one’s own mind
C. directing the talk to the desired results
D. experiencing the speaker’s inside world
2.. What is mainly discussed in Paragraph 2 ?
A. How to listen well.
B. What to listen to.
C. Benefits of listening.
D. Problems in listening
3.According to the author , in communication people tend to ________.
A. listen actively
B. listen purposefully
C. set aside their prejudices
D. open up their inner mind
4. According to the author , the patients improved mainly because _______.
A. they were taken good care of.
B. they knew they were truly listened to.
C. they had partners to talk to.
D. they knew the roots of problems.
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While Jennifer was at home taking an online exam for her business law class, a monitor（监控器）a few hundred miles away was watching her every move.
Using a web camera equipped in Jennifer’s Los Angeles apartment, the monitor in Phoenix tracked how frequently her eyes moved from the computer screen and listened for the secret sounds of a possible helper in the room. Her Internet access was locked - remotely - to prevent Internet searches , and her typing style was analyzed to make sure she was who she said she was: Did she enter her student number at the same speed as she had in the past? Or was she slowing down?
In the battle against cheating, this is the cutting edge and a key to encourage honesty in the booming field of online education. The technology gives trust to the entire system, to the institution and to online education in general. Only with solid measures against cheating, experts say, can Internet universities show that their exams and diplomas are valid - that students haven’t just searched the Internet to get the right answers.
Although online classes have existed for more than a decade, the concern over cheating has become sharper in the last year with the growth of "open online courses." Private colleges, public universities and corporations are jumping into the online education field, spending millions of dollars to attract potential students, while also taking steps to help guarantee honesty at a distance.
Aside from the web cameras, a number of other high-tech methods are becoming increasingly popular. Among them are programs that check students’ identities using personal information, such as the telephone number they once used.
Other programs can produce unique exam by drawing on a large list of questions and can recognize possible cheaters by analyzing whether difficult test question are answered at the same speed as easy ones. As in many university classes, term papers are scanned against some large Internet data banks for cheating.
1.Why was Jennifer watched in an online exam?
A．To correct her typing mistakes.
B．To find her secrets in the room.
C．To prevent her from slowing down.
D．To keep her from dishonest behaviors.
2. The underlined expression cutting edge in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to______.
A．advanced technique B．sharpening tool
C．effective rule D．dividing line
3.For Internet universities, exams and diplomas will be valid if _____.
A．they can attract potential students
B．they can defeat academic cheating
C．they offer students online help
D．they offer many online courses
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Urbanization
Until relatively recently, the vast majority of human beings lived and died without ever seeing a city. The first city was probably founded no more than 5,500 years ago 1. . In fact, nearly everyone lived on farms or in tiny rural (乡村的) villages. It was not until the 20th century that Great Britain became the first urban society in history--- a society in which the majority of people live in cities and do not farm for a living.
Britain was only the beginning. 2. .The process of urbanization--- the migration (迁移) of people from the countryside to the city--- was the result of modernization, which has rapidly transformed how people live and
where they live.
In 1990, fewer than 40% of Americans lived in urban areas. Today, over 82% of Americans live in cities. Only about 2% live on farms. 3. .
Large cities were impossible until agriculture became industrialized. Even in advanced agricultural societies. It took about ninety-five people on farms to feed five people in cities. _ 4. . Until modern times, those living in cities were mainly the ruling elite(精英) and the servants, laborers and professionals who served them. Cities survived by taxing farmers and were limited in size by the amount of surplus food that the rural population produced and by the ability to move this surplus from farm to city.
Over the past two centuries, the Industrial Revolution has broken this balance between the city and the country 5._ Today, instead of needing ninety-five farmers to feed five city people, one American farmer is able to feed more than a hundred non-farmers.
A. That kept cities very small.
B. The rest live in small towns.
C. The effects of urban living on people should be considered.
D. Soon many other industrial nations become urban societies.
E. But even 200 years ago, only a few people could live in cities.
F. Modernization drew people to the cities and made farmers more productive.
G. Modern cities have destroyed social relations and the health of human beings.
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短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
假定英主事课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请您修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语文错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅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（），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜钱（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
My parents and I went to the park on last Sunday. There were lots of visitors stood in front of the ticket window. We waited a long time and buy three tickets. In the Tiger Mountain of the park, I was too eager to see the fierce frightened animals that I quickened my steps through the crowd. Unfortunate, I got separated from my parents. I had hard time looking for him, but I had no luck. Wandering in the park, I felt alone without any companions. Worse still, I had no money, so I had to walk home, covered as much as 5 kilometers.
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2012伦敦奥运会展示了我国体育强国的实力，孙杨等奥运冠军已逐渐成为青少年的偶像。“如何与奥运冠军一同成长”已成为各级学校、教育机构青少年的热点话题。请根据以下提示，写一篇发言稿。
内容要点如下：
1．奥运冠军的共同点：①追求卓越；②尊重他人(对手，裁判，媒体等)；③永不言败。
2．如何做生活中的冠军：①明确的目标是动力的源泉；②专注和良好的心态是成功的决定因素；③你的观点(至少两点)。
注意：1.对所给要点，不要简单翻译，要有适当发挥；
2．词数100左右。短文中已写好的部分，不计入总词数；
3．参考词汇：追求pursue; 卓越excellence; 因素factor
Boys and girls，
Our great motherland has seen 2012 London Olympic Games, and we admire all the Olympic Champions very much.
That's all. Thank you!
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