He ___ away before we arrived, since the hous...

He ___ away before we arrived, since the house was deserted．

A．shall have gone                  B．should have gone

C．could have gone                 D．must have gone

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Just before Christmas in 1994, a letter arrived at our house. The postmark was from Tuskegee, Alabama, so we all knew who it was from. We excitedly gathered around mother as she opened it.

My Dear Mother,

I didn’t get the leave I expected for Christmas. I’ll miss all of you. Please leave the Christmas tree up until I make it back. I hope to be home by March.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Love from your son,

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Clifton

My heart sank. I felt profound sadness that my favorite brother wouldn’t be home for Christmas. My mother, being the optimist she always was, said, “Well, it looks like we’ll get to have two Christmases this year!”

After Christmas, my sister and I worked together to make sure we kept that Christmas tree looking as pretty as possible. This was no easy feat. By mid-January, the branches drooped so low to the ground. Each day, ornaments would come crashing to the ground and there were brand new sprinklings of pine needles all over the wooden floor. My sister and I took turns sweeping them up. We repositioned the ornaments to the stronger branches on the tree, hoping they would stay on.

Each time we freshened that tree up, my sister and I were full of thoughts about Clifton and how happy we would be to see him again. It made us feel that he was close by, even though he was hundreds of miles away.

On March 5, the doorbell rang. We ran to the door and gave Clifton a big hug. As he hugged mother, I could see him peek over her head at the Christmas tree.

“It’s beautiful,” he said. “Thank you.” Clifton opened his presents and told us all sorts of stories about his work in Tuskegee. That night as we slept, we heard a crash in the living room. We all ran to see what had happened. The tree had toppled onto the sofa and there were needles and broken ornaments everywhere. We all had a good laugh. It was fortuitous (巧合的) Clifton got home when he did.

1.How did the author feel when he read the letter?

A.Deeply sad. B.Quite annoyed.

C.Very regretful. D.A little disappointed.

2.Why did the author try hard to freshen the Christmas tree up?

A.Because his mother asked him to keep the tree up.

B.Because he wanted to keep all the ornaments on the tree.

C.Because he longed to have another Christmas with his brother.

D.Because he intended to keep the Christmas tree alive until next December.

3.What do you think is the tone of the passage?

A.Approving. B.Upsetting. C.Unconcerned. D.Hopeful.

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——＿＿＿＿you ＿＿＿＿ the editor at the airport?

—— No, he ＿＿＿＿ away before my arrival.

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This was my grandmother's first Christmas without grandfather, and before he passed away we had promised grandfather that we would make this her best Christmas ever. When my parents and I 　　 　 at her house, we found she had waited up all night for us. The house did seem a little 　　 without grandfather.

Grandfather had always said that the Christmas 　　 　 was the most important decoration of all. So we immediately set to work on the beautiful artificial tree that was stored in grandfather's closet (壁橱). Through our efforts, we finally stepped back to 　　 our handiwork. It looked beautiful. 　　 something was missing.

"Where's your star?" I asked.

The star was my grandmother's favorite part of the tree.

"Why, it 　　 be here somewhere," she said, starting to sort through the boxes again. "Your grandfather always 　　 everything so carefully when he took the tree down."

As we emptied the boxes and 　　 no star, my grandmother's eyes filled with tears. Grandfather had given it to grandmother some fifty years ago on their first Christmas together. It brought them great happiness. Now, on her first Christmas without him, the star was 　　 , too.

"Don't worry, Grandmother," I 　　 her. "We'll find it for you."

My mother and I formed a search 　　 . "Let's start in on the closet where the ornaments (装饰品) were," Mother said. "Maybe the star just fell out of the box."

That sounded 　　 , so I began to search the closet. I thought I tried every 　　 , but no star. I could see grandmother was 　　 , although she tried not to show it.

"What’s in this wrapped box?” Mother suddenly called out. "It was at the bottom of father’s closet."

Grandmother took the box in 　　 and opened it. Her face 　　 when she unfolded the paper and pulled out a golden star. There was a(n) 　　 attached.

Don't be angry with me, dear. I broke your star while packing the decorations, and I couldn't 　　 to tell you. Thought it was time for a new one. I hope it brings you as much 　　 as the first one. Merry Christmas!

Love,

Bryant

So grandmother's tree had a star after all, a star that expressed their everlasting love for one another. And we were glad we were able to make this Christmas 　　 for her.

1.A. arrived                B. looked             C. stayed        　         D. worked

2.A. noisy                 B. empty                C. safe                D. clean

3.A. flower　             B. bell　　             C. stocking             D. tree

4.A. admire                B. repair                C. paint                D. design

5.A. Or            　　         B. So                C. But                D. And

6.A. might                B. must　　             C. need　             D. will

7.A. packed　　　　　　     B. decided　　　         C. covered             D. searched

8.A. made            　　 B. left                C. found        　　     D. felt

9.A. gone                　　 B. hidden             　　 C. broken                D. forgotten

10.A. warned                B. persuaded            C. reminded             D. comforted

11.A. game                B. class　             C. company　　　　　     D. party

12.A. challenging            B. reasonable            C. pleasant            D. difficult

13.A. suggestion        　　     B. direction            C. possibility            D. method

14.A. ashamed            B. shocked            C. disappointed        D. frightened

15.A. fear　　　　             B. relief                C. anger                D. surprise

16.A. cleared                B. brightened            C. darkened        　　     D. tightened

17.A. article                 B. note    　　　　         C. receipt                D. poem

18.A. bear            　　 B. afford                C. wait　                 D. agree　　　　　　　　　

19.A. peace　　             B. change                C. luck　                 D. joy

20.A. special                 B. funny                C. relaxing            D. favorite

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It was at midnight ________ we arrived at the airport, resulting from the heavy fog.

A. that　　 B. before　　 C. since　　 D. now that

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Brian arrived at the San Francisco airport two hours before the flight to Paris. He was wearing three shirts, a jacket, two pairs of socks, a pair of shorts, and two pairs of jeans. He was carrying one small backpack, which was very full, but he didn’t have any other luggage. Brian needed to meet a man named Tony before he checked in for his flight. He found Tony near the Air France counter. Tony gave him a round-trip ticket and a small package.

“Give this package to Jean-Paul at the airport in Paris. He will have a sign with your name on it. I think you can find him easily, “Tony said.” You don’t have any luggage, right?”

“Only this backpack,” Brian answered. “You said I could bring one carry-on bag.”

“That’s right, one carry-on bag is fine. Have a good trip.”

“Thanks.”

Is Brian a criminal（犯罪）? Not at all. He is an air courier. And he paid only $110 for the round-trip ticket to Paris. Air couriers get cheap airline tickets because they take important packages and papers to foreign countries. Businesses sometimes need to get packages and papers to people in foreign countries by the next day. Often, the only way they can do this is to use an air-courier company. It is not cheap for a business to send a package with an air courier, but it is quick.

Every year about 80, 000 people worldwide travel as air couriers. The number of tickets for courier travel is growing by about 10 percent a year. However, air-courier travel isn’t for everyone, But if you have very little money, can be flexible（灵活的）about your travel plans, and don’t mind wearing the same clothes for a week, it can be a great way to take a vacation!

1.Why was Brian wearing so many clothes for his travel?

A. Because they were the uniform for air couriers,

B. Because that made him easier to be recognized.

C. Because his backpack had no room for his clothes.

D. because he did not have any luggage with him.

2.An air courier is a person who ________

A. manages a business company in foreign countries

B. organizes international flights for tourists

C. travels around the world with cheap tickets

D. delivers papers and packages to foreign countries

3.Businesses choose the air-courier service because ________

A. it costs less     B. it is flexible     C. it saves time     D. it grows fast

4.One of the disadvantages of traveling as an air courier is that he

A. cannot decide when and where to travel

B. cannot take any luggage with him

C. has to wear two pairs of jeans

D. saves little money from the travel

5.The author of the text mainly

A. describes the activities of a law-breaker

B. suggests an ideal way to travel

C. argues against the air-courier travel

D. tells us about a developing business

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Brian arrived at the San Francisco airport two hours before the flight to Paris. He was wearing three shirts, a jacket, two pairs of socks, a pair of shorts, and two pairs of jeans. He was carrying one small backpack, which was very full, but he didn’t have any other luggage. Brian needed to meet a man named Tony before he checked in for his flight. He found Tony near the Air France counter. Tony gave him a round-trip ticket and a small package.

“Give this package to Jean-Paul at the airport in Paris. He will have a sign with your name on it. I think you can find him easily, “Tony said.” You don’t have any luggage, right?”

“Only this backpack,” Brian answered. “You said I could bring one carry-on bag.”

“That’s right, one carry-on bag is fine. Have a good trip.”

“Thanks.”

Is Brian a criminal（犯罪）? Not at all. He is an air courier. And he paid only $110 for the round-trip ticket to Paris. Air couriers get cheap airline tickets because they take important packages and papers to foreign countries. Businesses sometimes need to get packages and papers to people in foreign countries by the next day. Often, the only way they can do this is to use an air-courier company. It is not cheap for a business to send a package with an air courier, but it is quick.

Every year about 80, 000 people worldwide travel as air couriers. The number of tickets for courier travel is growing by about 10 percent a year. However, air-courier travel isn’t for everyone. But if you have very little money, can be flexible（灵活的）about your travel plans, and don’t mind wearing the same clothes for a week, it can be a great way to take a vacation!

1.Why was Brian wearing so many clothes for his travel?

A. Because they were the uniform for air couriers.

B. Because that made him easier to be recognized.

C. Because his backpack had no room for his clothes.

D. because he did not have any luggage with him.

2.An air courier is a person who ________ .

A. manages a business company in foreign countries

B. organizes international flights for tourists.

C. travels around the world with cheap tickets.

D. delivers papers and packages to foreign countries.

3.Businesses choose the air-courier service because ________

A. it costs less     B. it is flexible     C. it saves time     D. it grows fast

4. The author of the text mainly..

A. describes the activities of a law-breaker          B. suggests an ideal way to travel

C. argues against the air-courier travel              D. tells us about a developing business

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The second little pig was unlucky. He built his house from sticks. It was blown away by a huffing, puffing wolf, which quickly ate him up. His brother, by contrast, built a wolf-proof house from bricks. The fairy tale could have been written by someone hired by the building industry, which strongly favours brick, concrete and steel. However, in the real world it would help reduce pollution and slow global warming if more builders copied the wood-loving second pig.

In 2015 world leaders meeting in Paris agreed to move towards zero net greenhouse-gas emissions in the second half of this century. That is a tall order, and the building industry makes it even taller. Cement- making(水泥制造) alone produces 6% of the world 's carbon emissions. Steel, half of which goes into buildings, accounts for another 8%. If you factor in all of the energy that goes into lighting, heating and cooling homes and offices, the world's buildings start to look like a giant environmental problem.

However, buildings can become greener. They can use more recycled steel and can be made in sections that can be put together later in off-site factories, greatly reducing lorry journeys. But no other building material has environmental credentials (证书) as exciting and overlooked as wood.

The energy required to produce a wooden beam is one-sixth of that required for a steel one of comparable strength. As trees take carbon out of the atmosphere when growing,wooden buildings contribute to negative emissions by storing the stuff. When a mature tree is cut down, a new one can be planted to replace it, capturing more carbon. After buildings are torn down, old beams and panels are easy to recycle into new structures. And for improving older buildings to be more energy efficient, wood is a good insulator(隔热材料). A softwood window frame provides nearly 400 times as much insulation as a plain steel one of the same thickness and over a thousand times as much as an aluminium equivalent.

Wood alone will not bring the environmental cost of the world's buildings into line. But using wood can do much more than is appreciated. The second little pig was not wrong, just before his time.

1.Why is the second little pig with his brother mentioned in Paragraph 1?

A.To attract readers. B.To share a story.

C.To support the main idea. D.To introduce the topic.

2.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A.The world’s buildings are the biggest environmental problem.

B.The goal set by world leaders in Paris in 2015 is difficult to achieve.

C.The wooden house is not only exciting but also overlooked for a long time.

D.The building industry produces 14% of the world's carbon emissions totally.

3.How can buildings become eco-friendly?

A.Restoring them.

B.Planting more trees in them.

C.Recycling old wooden structure.

D.Substituting steel windows for wood ones.

4.What is the best title　 for the text?

A.The benefit from wood

B.The building industry

C.The lesson from fairy tales

D.The house made of wood

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The second little pig was unlucky. He built his house from sticks, which was blown away by a wolf. His brother, by contrast, built a wolf-proof house from bricks. The fairy tale could have been written by an agent for the construction industry, strongly favoring brick, concrete and steel. However, in the real world it would help reduce pollution and slow global warming if more builders copied the wood-loving second pig.

No other building material has environmental credentials (认证信息) as exciting and overlooked as wood. The energy required to produce a laminated wooden beam (层压木梁) is one-sixth of that required for a steel one of comparable strength. As trees take carbon out of the atmosphere when growing, wooden buildings contribute to negative emissions by storing the stuff. And for refitting older buildings to be more energy efficient, wood is a good insulator (绝缘体). A softwood window frame provides nearly 400 times as much insulation as a plain steel one of the same thickness and over a thousand times as much as an aluminium (铝) equivalent.

But such bigger stories are still uncommon. Governments can help push the industry to use more wood, particularly in the public sector — the construction industry’s biggest client. That would help wood-building specialists achieve greater scale and lower costs. Zero-carbon building regulations should be altered to take account of the emissions that are presented in materials.

Construction codes could be regulated to make building with wood easier. Here the direction of travel is wrong. Britain, for instance, is banning the use of timber on the outside of tall buildings after 72 people died in a tower fire in London in 2017. That is a nonsense. Grenfell Tower was covered in aluminium and plastic, not wood. Modern cross-laminated timber (交叉层叠木板) panels perform better in fire tests than steel ones do.

Carpentry alone will not bring the environmental cost of the world’s buildings into line. But using wood can do much more than is appreciated. The second little pig was not wrong, just before his time.

1.The purpose of the writer telling the story in the first paragraph is to _______.

A.attract the readers’ attention B.make the argument more convincing

C.criticize the author of the tale D.lead in the topic of the text

2.Paragraph 2 is intended to inform us _______.

A.wood is a good insulator

B.such skyscrapers with wood are uncommon currently

C.the unique advantages of wood material being friendly environmental

D.how wood reduces the emission of carbon dioxide

3.Which of the following does NOT belong to the governments’ measures to help the scheme?

A.To encourage the construction industry’s biggest client to use more wood.

B.To transform Zero-carbon building regulations.

C.To arouse the public’s awareness of protecting the woods.

D.To regulate the Construction codes.

4.The author may imply that _______.

A.the second pig in the tale was unlucky

B.the outside of tall buildings Grenfell Tower could have been constructed in wood

C.we haven’t appreciated the characteristics of using wood at all

D.wood-building specialists will achieve greater profits

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The second little pig was unlucky. He built his house from sticks. It was blown away by a wolf. His brother, by contrast, built a strong house from bricks to prevent the wolf’s attack. However, in the real world it would help reduce pollution and slow global warming if more builders copied the wood-loving second pig.

Governments in the rich world are now trying to promote greener behavior by forcing developers to build new projects to “zero carbon” standards. These standards are less green than they seem. Wind turbines (涡轮) and solar panels on top of buildings look good but are much less productive than wind and solar farms. And the standards only count the emissions from running a building, not those given out when it was made. Those are thought to account for between 30% and 60% of the total over a structure’s lifetime.

Buildings can become greener. They can be made of more recycled wood and parts of them can be prefabricated in off-site factories, greatly reducing truck journeys. But no other building material has environmental certificates as exciting and overlooked as wood. The energy required to produce a wooden beam is one-sixth of that required for a steel one of comparable strength. When a mature tree is cut down, a new one can be planted to replace it, capturing more carbon. After buildings are pulled down, old wooden beams and boards are easy to recycle into new structures. Wood is also a good insulator (隔热材料). A softwood window frame provides nearly 400 times as much insulation as a plain steel and over a thousand times as much as an aluminium (铝) frame.

Carpenters’ efforts alone will not bring the environmental cost of the world’s buildings into line. But using wood can do much more than what is appreciated. Thus, the second little pig was not wrong, just before his time.

1.Why is the story about the pigs mentioned?

A.To bring up the topic of the text.

B.To prove the author’s argument.

C.To offer background information.

D.To inspire the readers’ imagination.

2.What can we know about the “zero carbon” standards?

A.It’s impossible to make them come true.

B.They don’t mean no carbon is given out.

C.They are only fit for developed countries.

D.It’s easy for them to meet today’s needs.

3.What is paragraph 3 mainly about?

A.The ways of making buildings greener.

B.The usage of recycled steel in buildings.

C.The findings of new research about wood.

D.The advantages of wood as building materials.

4.Which can replace the underlined word “prefabricated” in paragraph 3?

A.Registered. B.Recycled.

C.Constructed. D.Compared.

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