Why does the man need a map?
A.To tour Manchester. B.To find a restaurant. C.To learn about China.
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What does the woman want to do for vacation?
A.Go to the beach. B.Travel to Colorado. C.Learn to snowboard.
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What will the man probably do?
A.Take the job. B.Refuse the offer. C.Change the working hours.
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What does the woman say about John?
A.He won’t wait for her.
B.He won't come home today.
C.He won’t be on time for dinner.
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What will the speakers probably do next?
A.Order some boxes. B.Go home and rest C.Continue working.
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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1.What does the man suggest the woman do?
A.Save up for the car.
B.Go to another car dealer.
C.Ask someone to check the car.
2.What is the salesman going to do?
A.Give a discount. B.Stick to a high price. C.Ask for cash payment.
3.How will the man help the woman?
A.Lend money to her. B.Drive her car home. C.Take care of her car.
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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1.What does the woman think of the living expenses in the city?
A.Fairly low. B.Just Okay. C.Very high.
2.What does the woman spend most on?
A.Meals. B.Trains. C.Clothes.
3.What does the woman do in her free time?
A.See films. B.Travel around. C.Go for a drink.
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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1.How does the woman usually go to work?
A.By car. B.By bus. C.By train.
2.What do the speakers agree about taking the train?
A.It is safer. B.It is faster. C.It is cheaper.
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听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1.What will Rebecca do on June 12?
A.Go on a business trip.
B.Organize a trade exhibition.
C.Meet the people from Head Office.
2.What is John preparing for the meeting?
A.A report. B.A timetable. C.A speech.
3.When do the speakers decide to have the meeting?
A.On June 3. B.On June 10. C.On June 17.
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New energy-sharing projects _____ in dozens of cities across the country to fuel China’s sharing economy in the next few years.
A.are to carry out B.are being carried out
C.were carried out D.will have been carried out
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(2018·北京) In today’s information age, the loss of data _________ cause serious problems for a company.
A.need B.should
C.can D.must
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When enough years _____ to enable us to look back, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident.
A.went by B.were to go by C.had gone by D.goes by
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The violence in Hong Kong has threatened its stability. We would rather it ______ its former order soon.
A.would restore B.will restore C.restored D.had restored
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Our neighbor is always doing what he can to help those in need. He is really ________.
A.a Scrooge B.a good Samaritan C.a sacred cow D.a Judas
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—This new dress code ______ everyone at school, teachers and students alike.
—Yes, there are no exceptions.
A.contributes to B.subscribes to C.adds to D.applies to
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We didn't travel much during the holiday, ______ because of the tight budget, but also because of the huge crowds.
A.in turn B.in vain C.in part D.in effect
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Nowadays, many people struggle to maintain the ______ balance between work and family.
A.deliberate B.delicate C.desperate D.definite
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If you feel any_____ in your neck, put a towel under your head for support when sleeping.
A.tension B.abortion C.submission D.dimension
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Not well prepared for this lecture, he had to____his memory by looking at his notes.
A.refresh B.relax C.relieve D.register
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—Chinese women's volleyball team proves that with hardships ______great success.
—Absolutely! Opportunities favor the prepared mind.
A.comes B.is coming C.will come D.are coming
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—Where is your new home now?
—In the new developed zone. But I ______ downtown for five years.
A.have lived B.had lived C.was living D.lived
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Unfortunately, when I dropped in, Mr. Smith __________. So we only had time for a few words.
A.has just left B.was just leaving C.had just left D.just left
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（2018·江苏）By boat is the only way to get here, which is _______ we arrived.
A.where B.when
C.why D.how
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There are so many spelling mistakes in the composition, and I have to write the letter out again. It means I will ______.
A.give the cold shoulder B.kill the fatted calf
C.cost an arm and a leg D.start from scratch
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California has been facing droughts for many years, with certain areas even having to pump freshwater hundreds of miles to their distribution system. The problem is growing as the population of the state continues to expand. New research has found deep water reserves under the state which could help solve their drought crisis. Previous drilling of wells could only reach depths of 1,000 feet, but due to new pumping practices, water deeper than this can now be extracted (抽取). The team at Stanford investigated the aquifers (地下蓄水层) below this depth and found that reserves may be three times what was previously thought.
It is profitable to drill to depths more than 1,000 feet for oil and gas, but only recently in California has it become profitable to pump water from this depth. The aquifers range from 1,000 to 3,000 feet below the ground, which means that pumping will be expensive and there are other concerns. The biggest concern is the gradual setting down of the land surface. As the water is pumped out, the vacant space left is pressed by the weight of the earth above.
Even though pumping from these depths is expensive, it is still cheaper than desalinating (脱盐) the ocean water in the largely coastal state. Some desalination plants exist where possible, but they are costly to run and can need constant repairs. Wells are much more reliable sources of freshwater, and California is hoping that these deep wells may be the answer to their severe water shortage.
One problem with these sources is that the deep water also has a higher level of salt than shallower aquifers. This means that some water may even need to be desalinated after extraction, thus increasing the cost. Research from the study of groundwater has just been published. New estimates of the water reserves now go up to 2,700 billion cubic meters of freshwater.
1.According to the text, what causes the water crisis in California?
A.Previous drilling of wells. B.The messy distribution system.
C.Constant droughts in the area. D.The adoption of new pumping practices.
2.The research teams think it ________ to extract water from deeper aquifers.
A.expensive but practical B.reliable and profitable
C.cost-free but demanding D.cheap and environment-friendly
3.What is mentioned as a consequence of extracting water from deep underground?
A.The damage to aquifers. B.The sinking of land surface.
C.The decrease in operation costs. D.The negative effects on the climate.
4.What is the author’s purpose in writing the text?
A.To encourage people to save water.
B.To promote the seawater desalination.
C.To introduce a new way of extracting freshwater.
D.To draw people’s attention to the droughts in California.
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Brecon Beacons YAC has an amazing opportunity for budding(崭露头角的) archaeologists of all ages, in Sunderland in Tyne and Wear. Thanks to funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund, professional archaeologists from Wardell Armstrong will be investigating an archaeological mystery and they need your help.
Romans?
“The site is a bit of a mystery”, Frank Giecco from Wardell Armstrong said. “There is a very nice cropmark recorded on the site that has got lots of people very excited. Geophysicists failed to find anything relating to the cropmark. There is anecdotal evidence of Roman material being found, but nothing is officially recorded. We hope to finally answer the question of what is in this field, during the two weeks on site. Is there evidence of any Roman occupation on the site? Can you help us find out?”
Get involved
This is an opportunity for both adults and children to take part in field walking and trial trenching (small hand-dug test pits for children). No experience is necessary, training will be provided by the professional archaeologists from Wardell Armstrong, and all equipment will be provided. Volunteers can attend for as few or as many days as they wish, but they do need to book a place.
For more information, and to book your place, please contact Norman Kirtlan at sunderlandforgottenstones@gmail.com.
1.If you intend to take part in the activity, you ________.
A. will be charged for using equipment
B. will be coached by experts in the field
C. should have worked with archaeologists before
D. should spare two weeks to stay at the site
2.What’s the main purpose of the passage?
A. To seek funding for archaeological research.
B. To appeal for help in proving findings based on anecdotal evidence.
C. To find volunteers to help solve an archaeological mystery.
D. To organize volunteers to help sort our data on the Roman occupation.
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Listening to a radio broadcast in a foreign language is difficult for many of us. We may have studied the language for several years, and are able to read it, perhaps even write in it. But listening and understanding the spoken language require special skills. Some people have a natural ability that helps them to learn a language quickly, while others must study for a long time. Everyone, however, can improve his or her listening skills with practice.
We are good listeners in our own language because we have had years of practice. We understand the grammar and the language. We know what to expect a person to say to us in almost any situation. We have been in similar situations many times, and we have heard it all before. We can understand it, even if we do not listen carefully.
But this is not true with a foreign language. We must listen with our full attention. And we must try not to let the cultural style of our language affect our understanding of the foreign language. Listening to a foreign language broadcast is easier if we know something about it. There are clues that can help us. One clue is the time of a day. Morning programs usually contain many short items of news, information or entertainment. The items are short because most of us are getting ready to go to work in the morning. Often we do not have time to listen to long programs. Evening programs are different. There is time for more details about the subjects discussed.
We can get a clue about the program from the music at the beginning, but we must be familiar with the music of the foreign culture. The kind of music-serious and slow, or fast and light-can tell us what kind of program to expect. The name of the program can give us good information about what it will contain.
Another good clue is the broadcaster. The more we listen to the same person, the easier it will be to understand him. His speaking style will become familiar to us. Further, the broadcaster provides clues to the organization of the broadcast at the beginning of the program. The broadcaster usually gives us the highlights of the program to prepare us for the details that will follow.
1.We are good listeners in our own language because ______.
A.we have a natural ability of learning language
B.our own language is much easier
C.we listen to our own language more carefully
D.we have practiced it for years
2.If you don’t have enough time, you can listen to ______.
A.evening programs B.programs with soft music
C.morning programs D.familiar programs
3.You can know the information of the program according to ______.
A.its name B.the broadcaster
C.its music D.the time of the program
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To learn to think is to learn to question. Those who don't question never truly think for themselves. These are simple rules that have governed the advancement of science and human thought since the beginning of time. Advancements are made when thinkers question theories and introduce new ones. Unfortunately, it is often the great and respected thinkers who end up slowing the progress of human thought. Aristotle was a brilliant philosopher whose theories explained much of the natural world, often incorrectly. He was so esteemed by the scientific community that even 1，200 years after his death, scientists were still trying to build upon his mistakes rather than correct them!
Brilliant minds can intimidate upandcoming thinkers who are not confident of their abilities. They often believe they are inferior to the minds of giants such as Aristotle, leading many to accept current paradigms instead of questioning them.
I, like many thinkers of the past, once believed in my mental inferiority. I was certain that my parents, my teachers-adults in general-were always right. They were like a textbook to me; I didn't question what was written on those pages. I respected them, and accepted whatever they told me. But that attitude soon changed. My mind's independence was first stimulated in the classroom.
A stern, 65yearold elementaryschool science teacher once told me that light is a type of wave. I confidently went through years of school believing that light is a wave. One day，however I heard the German exchange student mention that light could be made up of particles. As the others laughed at his statement, I started to question my beliefs.
Maybe the teachers and textbooks hadn't given me the whole story. I went to the library, did some research and learned of the lightasawave versus lightasaparticle debate. I read about Einstein's discovery of the dual nature of light and learned the facts of a paradox(悖论) that puzzles the world's greatest thinkers to this day. Light behaves as both a particle and a wave, it is both at once. I realized I had gone through life accepting only half of the story as the whole truth.
Each new year brought more new facts, and I formulated even more questions. I found myself in the library after school, trying to find my own answers to gain a more complete understanding of what I thought I already knew. I discovered that my parents and teachers are incredible tools in my quest for knowledge, but they are never the final word. Even textbooks can be challenged. I learned to question my sources, I learned to be a thinker. I once believed that everything I learned at home and at school was certain, but I have now discovered to reexamine when necessary.
Questions are said to be the path to knowledge and truth, and I plan to continue questioning. How many things do we know for sure today that we will question in the future? At this moment, I know that our sun will burn for another five billion years, and I know nothing can escape the gravity of a black hole. This knowledge, however, may change in the next 20 years-maybe even in the next two. The one thing we can control now is our openness to discovery. Questions are the tools of open minds, and open minds are the key to intellectual advancement.
1.In the first paragraph, Aristotle is taken as an example to show that ______.
A.he is the greatest and respected philosopher of all time
B.huge influence of great thinkers may block human thought
C.advancements are made when thinkers question theories
D.great thinkers often make mistakes and then correct them
2.What does the underlined word “intimidate” in Paragraph 2 mean?
A.Frighten. B.Encourage. C.Strength. D.Persuade.
3.The author began to question his previous beliefs because ______.
A.what he learned from textbooks before turned out to be wrong
B.he was inspired by the different ideas from an exchange student
C.he was laughed at by other students for his unacceptable statement
D.he was not satisfied with his life and desperate to achieve success
4.According to the passage, the author ______.
A.looks down upon great thinkers all the time
B.never doubts what he has learned in the textbook
C.always throws himself into the laboratory
D.determines to be a thinker and questioner
5.We can conclude from the last paragraph that ______.
A.the author is not quite sure about his future
B.we human beings don't dare to predict future
C.theory of black holes will change in two years
D.questioning is necessary to promote advancement
6.What does the passage mainly talk about?
A.Following rules. B.Challenging yourself.
C.Questioning giants. D.Predicting future.
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听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。
1.What did the speaker decide to do after lunch that day?
A.Stay to help her friend. B.Walk alone to her car. C.Wait for the train to stop.
2.What can we learn about the speaker then?
A.She worked at a hotel.
B.She had bought a new car.
C.She was having a baby soon.
3.Where did the speaker meet the taxi passenger?
A.At a crossroads. B.In front of a hotel. C.Besides a car park.
4.What does the speaker talk about?
A.An exciting lunch party.
B.A well-known short story.
C.An unforgettable experience.
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My parents are from South Africa, and I’m a vegetarian, which no one in my small hometown in Washington understood. I always felt ______ from everybody else at school. As hard as I tried to keep myself ______, I started getting bullied(霸凌). I ______ who I was, wore really plain clothes, and tied up my bright red hair and ______ I wouldn’t attract as much attention. Eventually, I ______ to an arts high school, which was much more ______. There, I felt brave enough to show off the unique sides of my ______ and made friends who loved me for who I was.
More recently, I’ve ______ with confidence in my skin. When I moved to L. A. , I started getting bad cystic acne(痤疮). I didn’t want to go outside, and if I had to, I would ______ makeup. I’ve learned that you can’t ______ control your skin, but you can control how you treat yourself. When I tell myself I’m beautiful, or take a(n) ______ few minutes for skin care, I wake up the next morning feeling ______.
A lot of Riverdale fans made the ______ that I was as mean as Cheryl when the show was first ______, so I started a YouTube channel for them to get to know my true ______. And so many of them ask for advice about how to ______ bullying. Playing a ______ girl has helped me see the reasons I was bullied. I tell them, whoever is treating you that way is ______ something, and it has nothing to do with you. Like for Cheryl, every time her ______ erupts, it has to do with how she’s feeling about herself rather than the other characters. Cheryl behaves in a way that ______ her wealth and upbringing, a privileged daughter of a businessman.
My motto: If you take care of yourself, you’ll always feel confident and happy.
1.A.absent B.free C.distinct D.immune
2.A.active B.unique C.unnoticed D.ambitious
3.A.hid B.displayed C.remembered D.forgot
4.A.yet B.thus C.moreover D.meanwhile
5.A.submitted B.transported C.slipped D.transferred
6.A.persuasive B.inclusive C.expensive D.negative
7.A.hair B.origin C.personality D.identity
8.A.gone B.met C.started D.struggled
9.A.abuse B.absorb C.attach D.apply
10.A.constantly B.strictly C.hardly D.loosely
11.A.spare B.extra C.precious D.unhappy
12.A.nervous B.depressed C.content D.ridiculous
13.A.presentation B.explanation C.definition D.assumption
14.A.aired B.scheduled C.designed D.adapted
15.A.strengths B.charms C.values D.characters
16.A.handle B.relieve C.clarify D.monitor
17.A.popular B.mean C.foreign D.sensitive
18.A.seeing through B.falling through C.putting through D.going through
19.A.violence B.excitement C.curiosity D.anxiety
20.A.multiplies B.shares C.reflects D.decreases
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Marketers have more options in today’s increasingly multilingual society — a variety of electronic and print media can address groups of consumers in different languages. Various factors influence the choice of media and language. In some cases, it’s simply practical to advertise in the consumer’s native language, particularly if many of the consumers in this group are primarily monolingual. In other cases, by advertising on, say, a Spanish television channel in the US, an advertiser may earn the respect of the consumer by addressing him in his native language, as well as develop positive associations with the medium and its unique content. Now, marketers have another factor to consider when deciding where to advertise and in what language. A paper. Do bilinguals have two personalities? A special case of cultural frame switching published by researchers at the University of Texas, shows that bilingual individuals exhibit different personality characteristics when speaking different languages.
Lead researcher Nairan Ramirez-Esparza, tested individuals who were bilingual in English and Spanish for various personality traits, and found that the subjects answered the questions differently when asked in English and Spanish. The new work built on past research showed the values of subjects changed when they were surrounded by stimuli from different cultures.
How can marketers take advantage of “cultural frame switching”? It may sound challenging without specific research, but at least for Spanish, English bilinguals in the US, there is now some hard data on the language-related personality shift. Extrapolating to other language combinations may be possible, too. Since the Spanish/English bilingual results seem to be in agreement with testing of monolingual Spanish and English speakers, language-specific testing of bilingual subjects may not be essential to get an idea of what kind of cultural frame switching might occur in other bilingual combinations. Rather, comparing known personality differences for each language/ culture would give an indication of the differences bilingual individuals would exhibit.
I think it would be a mistake to over-emphasize this phenomenon over other criteria affecting the selection of appropriate media and language to reach a target market. Clearly, the major considerations of demographics (人口统计资料), perception of the medium, language fluency, etc. should remain major factors. Besides, the language-driven cultural frame switching may not make much difference to many products or services. If the product does attract one cultural personality more, though, it may make sense to exploit that difference of the other decision criteria are more or less equivalent.
The researchers point out that the differences aren’t great. Even if slight, though, the differences are noticeable.
| Cultural Frame Switching: Different Language, Different Personality | |
| Concept of cultural frame switching | Cultural frame switching refers to the phenomenon of shifting from one cultural mindset to another when people are 1. to their new cultural environment. |
| Applications of cultural frame switching | Cultural frame switching is a factor marketers now take into 2. to reach target customers. |
| Personality shift proves to be 3. for Spanish/ English bilinguals, which makes it not 4. to do language-specific testing of bilingual subjects. | |
| Looking for the known personality differences between each language/culture would give marketers a better 5. of how bilingual individuals would 6. in two different cultures. | |
| Facts about cultural frame switching | It’s wrong to put too much 7. on the functions of cultural frame switching. |
| Compared with other criteria, the language-driven cultural frame switching simply plays a (n) 8. role in marketing success. | |
| Providing that a product 9. to a certain cultural personality more, the difference is worth employing. | |
| Conclusion | The effect different languages have on personality is 10. but noticeable. |
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阅读下面材料，然后按要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
A set of textbooks designed to help high school students learn about traditional Chinese culture is to be published soon Beijing Times reported on Monday.
The books are the first national-level works of their kind and have been developed by a working group that promotes traditional culture. They will be used by students from autumn this year the report said.
The set contains four classics from ancient times. Two of the works Confucian Analects and Mencius are for 10 th -grade students while the other two Great Learning and Dao De Jing will be used by 11 th graders.
The initiative follows a series of steps the authorities have taken in recent years to spread and promote traditional Chinese culture on campus.
Last April the Ministry of Education released a series of guidelines requiring the inclusion of more information about traditional culture in primary and middle school textbooks especially those used for subjects such as Chinese language history art and physical education.
The guidelines said students’ knowledge of traditional culture will be tested in the senior high school entrance examination and the gaokao --- the college entrance exam.
（写作内容）
1. 用约 30 个单词写出上文概要；
2. 用约 120 个单词就”高中生学国学”这一主题发表你的观点，内容包括:
⑴ 国学入高中的缘由；
⑵ 你对这一举动的看法。
（写作要求）
1. 阐述观点或提供论据时，不能直接引用原文语句；
2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；
3. 不必写标题。
（评分标准）内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。
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