From the moment the iron bird landed in the r...

From the moment the iron bird landed in the roaring noise of Logan Airport with its wings proudly spread, my wings withered quietly in this unfamiliar country.

“I think... I don’t know... I just want to say ...” My voice _______　 into the noise of the grand dining hall of Deerfield Academy, _______ listening. Like most of the Asian students, I found myself able to　 ___________　 my head, only in math class. All this made me puzzled and _______ .

“Helen, what is your name in Chinese?” Rosie asked me one morning as I_______ my backpack onto the seat next to her.

“Gao Yuxin”, I_______ clearly in standard Chinese, slightly surprised by the _______.　　 “Why?”

“Just interested. Can you write it there?” She_______ at the board.

I printed my name in Chinese characters “高雨莘” in the center of the board.

“ Yuxin (雨莘) is my _______ name. Yu (雨) means ‘to give rain’ and ‘xin’ means ‘many’. ‘To give rain to the many’________ my parents’ hope that I can nourish the many people around　 me.”

Mild laughter, even one or two whistles ________from the silence. “Wow.” “Cool!”

“But I am new.” I murmured, “I think I need your　 ________more than you need mine...”

“So, what are the four little　 ________in the character ‘rain’?” Rosie asked.

“They are rain drops.”

“ ________I put eight dots in it?”

“Hmm...Big rain, then.” I answered ________.

For the first time since my ________ at the school, I laughed with such abandon and my old __________. Helen Keller, after whom I __________　 myself in English—a privilege __________　 for most Asian students coming West—magically managed to________ with the world and “ nourished the many” despite her loss of vision and hearing.

1.A.picked up B.died away C.sent out D.carried away

2.A.anybody B.somebody C.nobody D.everybody

3.A.raise B.hold C.turn D.shake

4.A.sensitive B.innocent C.conservative D.upset

5.A.seized B.cast C.dropped D.found

6.A.pronounced B.wrote C.announced D.yelled

7.A.expression B.request C.command D.question

8.A.glared B.aimed C.kept D.pointed

9.A.full B.first C.family D.original

10.A.stands by B.stands out C.stands for D.stands back

11.A.rose B.ranged C.escaped D.made

12.A.comfort B.help C.sympathy D.contribution

13.A.characters B.signs C.signals D.dots

14.A.How about B.How come C.What if D.What about

15.A.carefully B.jokingly C.frankly D.angrily

16.A.arrival B.departure C.application D.approach

17.A.patience B.caution C.ease D.interest

18.A.taught B.prepared C.devoted D.named

19.A.reserved B.swapped C.served D.compensated

20.A.communicate B.consult C.discuss D.live

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A beer bottle thrown from the stands landed near Usain Bolt in the moments before the 100-meter final Sunday night in London.

As Bolt and seven other competitors ducked into their starting crouches, a bottle sailed from the first row of the stands at Olympic Stadium.

It harmlessly bounced in the lane belonging to Yohan Blake and didn’t appear to cause a distraction(分心) to the runners, who started a moment later. The thrower’s lack of distance was a blessing. Had he gathered tips from the competitors of the hammer throw(链球) competition, which was taking place in the infield at the same time as the 100 final, the bottle could have hit one of the competitors. It ended up landing a few feet from Blake (lane5).

Edith Bosch, a female Dutch judoka who won a bronze medal earlier during the Olympics, claimed that the man who threw the bottle was sitting near her and that she “beat” him. Whether that’s true or the hyperbole (夸张的语句) of an aggravated athlete was unclear in the minutes after the incident. Pictures show a group of Dutch athletes sitting behind the starting area.

Police took the man into custody(监护). He will appear in court on Monday morning.

Neither Bolt nor Blake said they knew of the incident until they were informed by reporters. “I don’t know who would have done that,” Bolt said.

Gatlin was aware of it but implied it was only a slight distraction. “I didn’t know what it was,” he said, according to the BBC, “but when you’re in those blocks, the whole stadium is so quiet that you can hear a pin drop.”

1.How many exact athletes are mentioned in the text?

A. Two　　 B. Four　　 C. Seven　　　 D. Eleven

2.What is the text mainly about?

A. Usain Bolt along with seven other competitors

B. A female Dutch judoka sitting behind the starting area.

C. The lane belonging to Yohan Blake before 100 final.

D. A beer bottle thrown at Usain Bolt before 100 final.

3.What’s the writer’s attitude towards the athletes for the 100-meter final?

A. Critical　　 　　 B. Doubtful

C. Disapproving　　 D. Positive

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Birds in cities are damaging their health by trying to sing above the noise of urban life．

New research shows that male birds are trying to compete against traffic and city sounds．They are now singing louder and at higher frequencies，which could harm their vocal cords．Some birds are choosing to sing at night instead of dudng the day．This makes them more open to attack and also creates stress and exhanstion．

“The difference between urban and rural birdsong is becoming so big that the two groups could now be unable to communicate．This could lead to inbreeding and a weak gene pool．”said Dr Sue Anne Zollinger of the University of St Andrews．

According to Zollingar,a bird group with a small geae pool might adapt less quickly to new diseases and could be wiped out．

A study of the dawn chorus found that birds in Berlin sang up to 14 decibels(分贝)louder than those in the forest．The birds sang loudest on weekday momings．

“By trying to sing over the sound of the city,birds are rising vocal injury,”said Zollinger．“All this puts the sarne strain on a bird’s vocal cords as when  ahuman need to shout to be heard—except the birds are doing it all day,every day,”she said．

“Singing under such pressure means birds have less control over the sound they produce． Their songs may lose quality and become more rough—sounding．”said Zollinger．This could make them appear less attractive to female birds．

Mark Constantine，author of The Sound Approach to Birding，said：“Birdsong is important for our quality of life and has been proved to reduce our blood pressure．When we live in the centre of large，urban areas，we get stressed and it's extremely good to have birdsong around us．The impact on humans of birdsong is massive．It harms us，as well as the birds，if their songs become louder and simpler

53．Some birds in cities now choose to sing at night time because_______．

A．they want to attract more birds of opposite sex

B．they are more likely to be discovered by their family

C．they can’t adapt to the loud noises during the daytime

D．they have to frighten their enemy away

54．According to the passage，urban and rural birds might not be able to_______．

A．recognize each other

B  communicate with each other

C  live with each other

D．compete against each other

55．It requires greatest efforts for birds in cities to sing o_______．

A．Monday nights            B．Wednesday afternoons

C．Saturday Evenings         D．Friday momings

56．According to Dr Sue Anne Zollinger,birds singing louder might eventually lead to_______．

A．the harm done to man’s health

B  the dying out of a species

C．the serious damage to the bird’s vocal cords

D．the decrease ofthe birth rate ofa bird group

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__________ from above, the 2008 Olympic stadium in Beijing looks just like a bird’s nest made of the branches.

A. To see             B. Seeing               C. Seen          D. Having seen

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MEXICO CITY： A jetliner from the beach resort of Cancun was briefly hijacked as it landed in Mexico City on Wednesday. The hijackers released all passengers shortly before federal police stormed the plane, and the crew emerged unharmed moments later.

Police, who did not fire a single shot, led as many as eight handcuffed men away from the airplane, which was isolated at the end of a runway in an area designed for emergencies. The hijackers’ motive was unclear, though Mexican news media initially identified them as Bolivians demanding to speak with Mexican President Felipe Calderon.

US, French and Mexican citizens were among the 112 passengers and crew on Aeromexico Flight 576, according to a US official who had been briefed on the situation. The official was not authorized to discuss the case and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Mexico’s transportation and communications secretary, Juan Molinar, said there was no bomb on the airplane, although some passengers said one of the hijackers held a package that resembled an explosive device, and a bomb squad (拆弹小组) was later seen near the airplane.

He did not immediately identify the hijackers or speculate on their motive.

“Various people who participated in the act have been detained and we are investigating,”Molinar said.

The attorney general’s office said it was opening an investigation into terrorism and kidnapping but did not specify how many people could be charged.

Mexican news media initially reported the hijackers were Bolivian, but Bolivia’s ambassador to Mexico, Jorge Mancilla, said Mexican authorities had no evidence that was the case. Mancilla said sources told him they could be Colombian or Venezuelan. Several passengers told reporters they did not notice a non-Mexican accent.

Passenger Rocio Garcia told the Televisa network that the pilot made an announcement after landing in Mexico City that the airplane was being hijacked. Passengers said the hijackers never communicated with them directly.

“These were scary moments,”she said.

She said she saw one of the hijackers whom she described as a well-dressed, older man.

“He looked fine, like a normal passenger,”she said.

Passenger Daniel Hernandez said he saw a hijacker carrying a Bible.

1.From the first paragraph we can conclude that _________.

A．the hijackers just wanted to play a trick on the police

B．the hijackers didn’t prepare for their action

C．the hijackers surrendered before the police fired

D．the hijackers lost their way at the last moment

2.From what Juan Molinar said we can learn that _________.

A．police were still trying to identify a possible bomb

B．passengers succeeded in stopping the explosion

C．a frightening bomb was found later on the airplane

D．several Mexicans were involved in the hijacking

3.What may be the first step taken when the hijacked plane landed?

A．They gave a sudden attack at the hijackers.

B．They kept the plane away from other planes.

C．They asked the crew to control the hijackers.

D．They abandoned the plane at the end of the runway.

4.The hijackers, as some passengers described, _________.

A．were good at bargaining with the police

B．were all well-dressed American old men

C．all came from Colombia or Venezuela

D．stayed calm and appeared noble, educated

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The noise from the top floor, loud and constant, of the meeting-room ______ can be clearly heard in our classroom.

A. to be decorated                                                      B. having been decorated

C. being decorated                                                           D. decorated

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A biologist once criticized for stealing eggs from the nests of the rarest bird in the world has been awarded the “Nobel Prize” of conservation after his methods saved nine species from extinction.

Professor Carl Jones won the 2016 Indianapolis Prize --- the highest accolade in the field of animal conservation --- for his 40 years of work in Mauritius, where he saved an endangered kestrel from becoming the next Great Auk.

When the 61-year-old first travelled to the east African island in the 1970s, he was told to close down a project to save the Mauritius kestrel. At the time there were just four left in the wild, making it the rarest bird on Earth. However, he stayed, using the techniques of captive breeding (人工繁殖), which involved snatching eggs from the birds’ nests and hatching（孵化）them under incubators, prompting the mothers to lay another set of eggs in the wild.

A decade later, the number of Mauritius kestrels had soared to over 300 and today there are around 400 in the wild. The biologist has also been necessary in efforts to bring other rare species back from the edge of extinction, including the pink pigeon, echo parakeet and Rodrigues warbler.

Prof Jones was awarded the $250,000 (£172,000) prize at a ceremony in London.

“As a young man in my 20s, I certainly didn’t enjoy the stress and the tension of the criticism I received,” reflecting on the start of his career, he said the Maurutius kestrel project had been seen as a “dead loss” at the time. In the 1970s there was fierce opposition to the captive breeding techniques, with critics arguing that they were too risky and took the emphasis off breeding in the wild.

Prof Jones has devoted his whole life to his work, only becoming a father for the first time eight years ago, at 53. He said receiving the prize was particularly important to him, because it proved that his work to save birds was right.

1.What does the underlined word “accolade” mean in Paragraph 2?

A. return B. level

C. honor D. research

2.According to the passage, Great Auk is ________.

A. an endangered bird B. an extinct bird

C. a popular bird D. a fierce bird

3.What can we know from the figures in Paragraph 4?

A. Taking eggs from the nests has worked well.

B. The wild environment for kestrel has changed a lot.

C. Kestrel has adapted to the life in the wild.

D. It’s difficult to protect kestrel.

4.Prof Jones’ idea of taking eggs from the birds’ nests ________.

A. was proved of no use B. was widely accepted

C. was promoted officially D. was criticized by some people

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The noise from the top floor，loud and constant，of the meeting-room_________ can be clearly heard in our classroom．

A．to decorate　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B．having been decorated

C．being decorated　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D．decorating

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Some kinds of birds in winter fly to the south to ______ the cold in the north．

A．get away from      B．come up with

C．break away from    D．put up with

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The part in the film Rio _______ the two birds escaped from the crashing plane made some of the audience give a cry.

A. which         B. who          C. where        D. whom

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