I looked out at the smiling faces in the school auditorium. The applause filled my ears. I had really done it!
Just a few months earlier I would never have ______ myself acting in a play in front of two hundred people. But when the time came, I got up on stage and ______ one of my greatest fears. I found a new person inside me, a much more ______, outgoing person who had been hidden all along, just waiting for the opportunity to come. If not for my teacher, Mrs. Sather, I might never have found that ______.
I was extremely ______. I had friends, but it just wasn’t in my personality to be very outgoing, even when I knew someone well. I was even ______ with strangers.
One day, Mrs. Sather ______ that our class was going to perform a play. “I need someone to play the lead part of Dorothy,” she said. “Anybody want to try?” A few ____ hands shot up—mine, of course, was not one of them.
After class Mrs. Sather came to join me. “Dallas, I was thinking you would be the person for Dorothy. But I was ______ you didn’t raise your hand.”
Was she ______? Me, the lead? I was ______ just thinking of standing on stage in front of a lot of people.
“Dallas, you’re great at ______ things, so you won’t worry about lines. And you have such a sweet personality. Perfect for Dorothy!” She said.
Mrs. Sather stared into my eyes as if seeing my inner self locked away inside. “I’d love you to give this a ______ for me. But if you really don’t want to, I won’t make you. It’s your ____.” Mrs. Sather wanted me in this role. She ______ me. I realized it was time to ____ my shy cloak (披风).
Fast-forward through five months of practicing, we were ready. ______, I was as nervous as I had ever been. I proved to myself that I could do it in practice, ______ could I prove it to everyone else when it really mattered?
“It doesn’t matter how you do tonight,” said Mrs. Sather, ______ reading my thoughts when she came backstage for a final check. “You have already shown yourself how wonderful you are.”
At the end of the play, when the audience stood and applauded, I knew they were not just cheering for my performance that night, but for the performances they knew would come in later years because of my newfound ______.
1.A.praised B.agreed C.pictured D.remembered
2.A.expressed B.faced C.discussed D.shared
3.A.energetic B.daring C.generous D.sincere
4.A.story B.method C.solution D.opportunity
5.A.shy B.slow C.curious D.patient
6.A.colder B.calmer C.quieter D.happier
7.A.realized B.repeated C.found D.announced
8.A.firm B.excited C.powerful D.friendly
9.A.surprised B.annoyed C.amused D.embarrassed
10.A.objective B.crazy C.reliable D.nervous
11.A.ashamed B.regretful C.doubtful D.terrified
12.A.analyzing B.observing C.memorizing D.predicting
13.A.plan B.try C.guess D.promise
14.A.choice B.destination C.suggestion D.interest
15.A.reminded B.challenged C.trusted D.shocked
16.A.throw off B.keep off C.knock off D.call off
17.A.Therefore B.Otherwise C.Instead D.Still
18.A.but B.so C.or D.and
19.A.in case B.ever since C.as if D.even though
20.A.popularity B.ambition C.advantage D.confidence
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假设你是红星中学高三学生李华。你的英国笔友Jim来信询问你校开展体育活动的情况。请你给他回信，内容包括：
1. 你校开展的体育活动；
2. 给学生带来的益处。
注意：1. 词数不少于50；
2. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Jim,
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Yours,
Li Hua
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Camp All-Star
Welcome to Camp All-Star, your No. 1 summer sports camp for kids! Located on the famous Kents Hill School campus by the beautiful lake, Camp All-Star hosts kids from around the world. When thinking about your next overnight summer camp, consider the best—Camp All-Star!
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We have a wide variety of activities and sports to choose from: fishing, dance, basketball, soccer, baseball, and tennis. Boys and girls, aged 8-16, can customize their own schedules in our 2, 3, 4 or 6 week summer camp session for kids.
The aim of Camp All-Star is to develop athletic skills, encourage abilities in leadership, fair play and team work, and provide a fun, rewarding and memorable summer sports camp experience. Our staff have the experience and qualified training necessary to ensure that your child has a successful, memorable and enjoyable time at our summer camp.
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1.Camp All-Star stands out among the others because ___________.
A.it is surrounded by a beautiful lake
B.it provides various activities and sports
C.it offers timely information on its website
D.it allows children to play outside all day long
2.Which is one of Camp All-Star’s goals?
A.To fire kids’ imagination. B.To build up kids’ confidence.
C.To develop kids’ leadership skills. D.To promote kids’ self-control.
3.Where is this text most likely taken from?
A.A newspaper. B.A guidebook.
C.A news report. D.A textbook.
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Frederick Phiri is the junk-art king of Zambia: at just 22, he started to earn an international reputation for being able to make complex and elegant sculptures from scrap (废弃的) metal found in his community.
Phiri’s father died when he was starting primary school. Then his mother abandoned him and he had to stay with his grandfather. His grandfather paid for his schooling through primary school but when he entered secondary school, he had to get various jobs to pay for his fees. Yet even in school, he was always drawing and making things in class.
After graduating, he did what he could to support himself by making animal sculptures from wires and sold them to tourists. His work was so popular that it caught the eye of Karen Beattie, director of Project Luangwa, a nonprofit organization dedicated to education and economic development in central Africa.
“I introduced him to a local welder (焊工),” Beattie told Newsweek.
In 2017, Phiri worked with welder Moses Mbewe during the rainy season, helping to make a complex set of doors for Project Luangwa. The piece sparked an idea in Beattie’s mind: “I handed him a bunch of scrap metal and said, ‘Make something with this.’ And he did. It was wonderful.”
Today, Phiri continues his art, using pieces of junk people bring him—keys, broken bike chains, old metal plugs and whatever scrap metal is lying around. He then turns the junk into abstract animals—elephants, cranes, giraffes, chameleons—and sells them at Project Luangwa headquarters. The community has recognized his talents.
“My dream is to earn enough to study art at the Evelyn Hone College in Lusaka and be able to make a living from it,” Phiri said “and then to make very large sculptures.”
1.What is Phiri known for?
A.Serving his community. B.Collecting works of art.
C.Being the king of Zambia. D.Turning trash into treasure.
2.What can we learn about Phiri from paragraph 2?
A.He had an unhappy childhood. B.He paid for his primary school.
C.He had to support his grandfather. D.He missed school to do part-time jobs.
3.How does Phiri feel about his future?
A.Uncertain. B.Confident.
C.Depressed. D.Satisfied.
4.What can be a suitable title for the passage?
A.A Successful Path of Art. B.The Junk-art King of Zambia.
C.A Young Man’s Wildest Dream. D.The Modern Junk Works of Art.
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Mice and rats have long been used in medical research because of their biological similarities to humans. Now, scientists have trained rats to drive small vehicles created for them. One of the main findings of the experiment was that the driving activity seemed to help the rats relax.
Researchers at the University of Richmond in Virginia led the experiment. The team built tiny cars out of plastic and other materials. The vehicles had an opening at one end where electrical wires were attached. By touching one of three different wires, the rat could control the direction of the vehicle.
Researchers trained 17 rats over several months to drive around the experiment containers. The animals proved that they could be trained to drive forward as well as in other directions to get to the sweet treats placed inside the containers.
The researchers examined levels of two hormones (荷尔蒙) in the rats—one that causes stress and another that reduces it. All rats that took part in the training had higher levels of the hormone that reduces stress. The research suggests the increased relaxation levels could be linked to the enjoyment of successfully completing a new skill. The team also found that the rats that drove themselves showed higher levels of the stress-fighting hormone than those that simply rode in small cars controlled by humans.
Lambert said the most exciting result of the experiment for her was about the possible effect on humans. The research may open new areas of non-drug treatments for people suffering from mental health conditions.
“There’s no cure for schizophrenia or depression and we need to catch up,” she said. “And I think we need to look at different animal models and different types of tasks and really respect that behavior can change our neurochemistry (神经化学). ”
Speaking to the British-based magazine New Scientist, Lambert said her team is planning to continue experiments to learn more about how the rats learned to drive. The new research will also examine why some activities appear to reduce stress, and which areas of the brain are involved in the process.
1.What did the experiment find?
A.Rats are able to drive vehicles. B.Rats feel relaxed when driving.
C.Rats can be used in medical research. D.Rats are biologically similar to humans.
2.The finding of the hormone examination in the rats suggests that ___________.
A.one hormone causes stress and another reduces it B.acquiring a new skill brings about joy
C.levels of hormone are controlled by stress D.relaxation contributes to enjoyment
3.The research is significant because ___________.
A.it may lead to a way to treat human mental problems
B.it will affect the way that humans drive their cars
C.it may help people train animals better.
D.it can surely change neurochemistry
4.What Lambert’s team will do next is find out ___________.
A.which parts of the rats’ brain control their emotions
B.why rats have the ability of fighting stress
C.when activities affect the levels of stress
D.why certain activities reduce stress
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Throughout history, music spread among people of different cultures. In today’s technological advanced society, however, people spread music online, sometimes without an artist’s permission. This can lead to many problems, and music companies are now cracking down on this practice. Sharing music online without permission is theft.
Sharing music online prevents recording companies from making money from their efforts. They say that sharing music online has resulted in a huge drop in profits and sales over the past 10 years. People who find music for free online are not paying for CDs or every MP3 downloaded. To truly understand the influence of music piracy (盗版行为) on creators, one must understand how many people are involved in the recording process. For the sale of each album, profits must be shared between musicians, sound engineers, music producers, managers, advertisers, and the company selling the product. Many people believe sharing music only affects the recording artist, but the reality is that sharing hurts business for all companies involved.
There are many people who don’t see the harm in sharing music online and even think they have the right to do it. One online blogger states that he originally paid for an entire CD and that he should be able to do with the material whatever he wants. While he may have legally paid for the music, he does not have the right to provide permission, which means people like the blogger are thieves.
Although we don’t spread today’s music the same way we did before, there’s no doubt that people around the world love to share music. However, internet piracy would prevent musicians from continuing producing albums for fear of theft. Therefore, if people want to continue listening to their favorite artists, they need to buy their music so that artists will make enough profit to continue their music careers.
1.The underlined phrase “cracking down on” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to ___________.
A.bringing up carefully B.speaking highly of
C.dealing seriously with D.destroying completely
2.What can we infer from the text?
A.Artists are taking action to protect their right.
B.Sharing music files online affects a lot of people.
C.Online music sharing increases sales of music CD.
D.A person who bought a CD has the right to share it online.
3.How is the text organized?
A.Topic—Argument—Explanation.
B.Opinion—Discussion—Description.
C.Main idea—Comparison—Supporting statements.
D.Introduction—Supporting statements—Conclusion.
4.What is the main idea of the text?
A.Music piracy is kind of theft. B.Sharing music is Acceptable.
C.Downloading music should be punished. D.Music piracy is good for music lovers.
难度: 中等查看答案及解析
To shoot a scene of people eating food, you need two different perspectives (角度). To record a bus journey to school, you need three quick cuts. To complete this short, morning rush-hour video blog – or “vlog” – you need four pieces of music. 1.
With more than 90 million vlogs available online, and 2,000 posted every hour on the YouTube video-sharing site, CBS News says they are mainstream with people born after 1995.
2. More young Chinese people have become inspired to grab a camera and recount the details of their day on Sina Weibo, Bilibili or WeChat Moments.
“The most important thing about vlogging is to tell a good story. Other visual effects are auxiliary (辅助的),” wrote US vlogger Casey Neista, who has almost 10 million subscribers on YouTube.
Chinese vlogger Wang Xiaoguang is an example of a good storyteller. In one of his popular vlog posts, Wang tells the story of traveling to Japan. While there, he took a ride in the wrong direction and got lost. Worse, he forgot to bring a phone charger. 3.
Another key aspect of vlogs is that the content is based on everyday life, according to Ouyang Nana, 18, a young Chinese musician. She documents her life at Berklee College of Music. Ordinary as vlogs are, as many as 15 million fans share her wows and woes (喜怒哀乐) on a daily basis.
4. Peng Yixuan, a news reporter with China Daily, recorded her first experience attending and reporting on the two sessions in March of this year. With a relaxed, chatty and personal approach, she presented the conferences, “bringing more warmth” to the grand political event, according to People’s Daily.
There are popular vlogs for beauty, gaming, fashion, food and travel. Vloggers are learning new ways to experience the thrill of them. 5. Then what are you waiting for? Grab a camera!
A.They come from all walks of life.
B.However, he didn’t take the number of his hotel.
C.Vlogging has taken China by storm over the past year.
D.Some other popular vloggers choose to show their careers.
E.Vlogs pave the way for future advertising and sales campaigns.
F.Luckily he was able to borrow money from a stranger and escape trouble.
G.Vloggers have these techniques in mind as they film their daily activities.
难度: 中等查看答案及解析
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
“A heavy ion (离子) cancer treatment system developed by Chinese researchers will soon be put into 1. (operate) in northwest China’s Gansu Province,” researchers said.
The system will be used in a hospital in Lanzhou, capital of Gansu, 2. is mainly devoted to treating cancer patients with the technology of heavy-ion accelerators.
Cancer radiation treatments 3. (employ) heavy-ion accelerators can attack 4. target with high-energy electrons (电子) to kill cancer cells.
Compared to traditional therapy (治疗) such as radiation, heavy ion treatment 5. (consider) to have more balanced properties with 6. (little) radiation on healthy cells. The treatment period is shorter, 7. the therapy could more 8. (effect) control cancer cells, according to Wang Xiaohu, deputy director of the Gansu Provincial Cancer Hospital.
Researchers with the Institute of Modern Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences started basic research 9. the technology in 1993 and developed the accelerators in 2015.
A report published by the National Cancer Center in 2017 showed that China has nearly 25 percent of the world’s new cancer cases, with 10,000 cancer patients 10. (add) per day. Every year, there are two million cancer-induced deaths. Lung, breast and stomach cancers are the most common types.
难度: 中等查看答案及解析
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，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。
注意：
1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Dear Kate,
A serious problem makes me very worried. So I am writing in hope that you can help me out.
As is known to us all is that mobile phones make it easily for us to communicate. Therefore, in the meantime, they also lead to a great many of problems. I have become a victim of overusing the mobile phone. I am so addicted to it to focus on my studies. Every possible means had been tried to rid itself of its bad effects, but none works. I know it is time I take action to solve the problem. Could you give me some advices?
Looking forward to your early reply.
Yours,
Li Hua
难度: 中等查看答案及解析