A group of people were in search of a home. A...

A group of people were in search of a home. After　　　　 some time walking around, they finally found a place to　　　　 down.

They needed some　　 , and the chief (首领) sent out three groups of people to　　　　 the surrounding areas. After a short discussion, the three groups went out in　　　　 directions.

The first group explored the north. There, they saw large fields with　　　　 crops, vegetables and fruits. They went back to report their　　　　 . “We saw lots of vegetation (植物). We can be 　　　　 .”

The second group went southwest. There, they saw lots of　　 . As they went back, they said, “We saw hundreds of animals. We can 　 　 for our food, and rely　　　 on meat to sustain (维持) us.”

The last group went southeast. There, they reached the sea and saw hundreds of fish swimming. They returned and said, “We saw plenty of fish. We can go　　　　 for our food.”

“We can eat meat alone!” shouted the second group.

“No! 　　　　 ! We did not see any animals at all!” said the first group.

The third group joined in, “Are you　　　　 ? We did not see anything like you have　 　　 . There was only water. We need to become fishermen!”

Each group got so　　　　 with the others that they each went to the place they had explored. They were　　　　 that they alone had the answer and that the others must have been wrong.

　　 , each group of people only chose to believe themselves. 　　　　 they had chosen to learn from one another and　　　　 them, they could have had the best of everything.

1.A. spending　　　 B. costing　　　　 C. taking　　　　 D. losing

2.A. break　　　　 B. cool　　　　 C. settle　　　 　　 D. calm

3.A. water　　　　 B. food　　　 C. energies　　　　 D. information

4.A. explore　　　 B. clean　　　 C. measure　　　　 D. cover

5.A. same　　　　　 B. a　　 　　 C. /　　　　　　 D. different

6.A. main　　　　 B. few　　　　 C. poor　　　　 D. many

7.A. experiences　　 　　 B. findings　　 　　 C. results　　 D. conditions

8.A. vegetarians　　　 B. fishermen　　 C. hunters　　　　 D. miners

9.A. mountains　　　 B. people　　　 　　 C. animals　　　 　　 D. houses

10.A. prepare　　　 B. hunt　　　　 C. fight　　　　 　　 D. wait

11.A. mainly　　　　　　 B. partly　　 C. fully　　　　 D. hardly

12.A. surfing　　　 B. boating　　 C. fishing　　 　　 D. swimming

13.A. Fishes　　　　 B. Crops　　 C. Cows　　　　 D. Flowers

14.A. going　　　　 B. sleeping　 　　 C. coming　　 D. joking

15.A. described　　 B. brought　　　 C. wrote　　　　 D. explained

16.A. strict　　　　 B. angry　　　 C. sad　　　　 D. pleased

17.A. sad　　　 B. pleasant　　　 C. sure　　　　 D. anxious

18.A. Happily　　 B. Luckily　　 　　 C. Unluckily　　 D. Hopefully

19.A. After　　　 B. Because　　 C. Before　　　 D. If

20.A. admire　　 B. believe　　 　　 C. appreciate　　 D. understand

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A British farmer has been searching for a group of fighter planes for 15 years. The planes were lost in Burma during World War II. David Cundall, 62, traveled to Burma a dozen times. He spent about US $207,000 in the hope of finding a British Spitfire（喷火式战斗机）buried in the Southeast Asian country. Finally, his hard work paid off.

Cundall started his search after his friend heard from a group of U.S. war veterans（老兵）that they had buried Spitfires in the region. “We’ve done some pretty silly things in our time, but the silliest was burying Spitfires,” the veterans said.

Cundall began placing ads in magazines to try to find soldiers who might have been involved. After 15 years of searching, he finally managed to locate the missing airplanes. The planes had never been flown and were buried in their transport crates（条板箱）. “We made a borehole（钻孔）and used a camera to look at the crates. They seemed to be in good condition.” Cundall told The Telegraph. The aircraft had arrived at a Royal Air Force base in Burma in August 1945. But, by that point in the war, the planes weren’t needed. “In 1945, Spitfires were ten a penny, and you could see them everywhere.” Said Cundall.

British Prime Minister, David Camerion, recently visited the country. As The Telegraph reports, Camerion’s help may mean that the Spitfires could soon be on their way back to the United Kingdom. Cundall hopes that with the help of investors, the planes can finally take to the skies.

“Spitfires are beautiful aeroplanes and should not be rotting away（腐烂）in a foreign land,” Cundall says. “They saved our neck in the Battle of Britain and they should be protected.”

1.Which of the following is the best title for the text?

A. A British Farmer’s Dream

B. Burma’s Buried Treasure

C. A Search for Buried Planes

D. The Design of the British Spitfire

2.What did the war veterans feel when they talked about the buried planes?

A. Disappointed　 B. Excited.

C. Regretful　 D. Hopeful

3.What does the underlined phrase, “ten a penny ”, in the third paragraph mean?

A. expensive.　 B. cheap.　　 C. rare　　 D. common

4.What can we learn about the British Spitfires?

A. The planes buried under the ground were seriously damaged.

B. The planes were not needed at that time during World War II.

C. It will be very difficult to take the planes back to the United Kingdom.

D. The planes were buried in Burma after they crashed there.

5.What can we infer from the last two paragraphs?

A. Cundall has asked Prime Minister David Cameron for help to bring Spitfires back.

B. The government of Burma will not allow Britain to bring the Spitfires back

C. The Spitfires buried in Burma are beginning to rot away.

D. Cundall likes Spitfires very much and he thinks they should be preserved.

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Although some people raised objections at the meeting, most of them were ________ the reform.

A. in honor of　　 B. instead of　　 C. in favor of　　 D. by means of

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Some young people ____ a good salary in a job at home instead of working hard day and night abroad, but they chose to go abroad.

A. must make         B. could have made

C. should have made    D. would make

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Last Friday my brother and I were driving home together after doing some shopping and gave our attention to an interesting conversation. Because of this distraction (分心)my brother took a wrong turn.

Unfortunately, the wrong turn took us towards a bridge and we had no way to turn back. Unwillingly, my brother paid the bridge fee and drove on. He was clearly frustrated by the mistake and the needless waste of $4.

We eventually reached an exit and, as we took it, my brother noticed a young fellow pulled over to the side of the road. He came out of his car and tried to phone someone. I was busy trying to figure out which way we would go next but my brother pulled over and asked the guy if he needed any help. And he did. He had a flat tire and needed a tool to get it off.

My brother gave him a wrench, and then began to help him change the flat. The young man said that this had been a bad week for him: earlier he had gotten into a minor car accident, and now this flat on his way home from work. But he called us “a breath of fresh air” and kept thanking us because he really would have been stuck if we hadn’t come along.

After we finished the job he thanked us again and pulled out $20 from his pocket and tried to give it to us. “No,” I said. “We were never supposed to even get on that bridge,we took a wrong turn. But now we know why we did. It was to help you. Thank you for turning our mistake into an opportunity to serve.”

What I loved most was that my brother was able to see a chance to help. His reaction in the situation is a lesson for everyone and we felt so good the rest of the day.

1.When did the author and his brother notice the young man who had a flat tire?

2.We can learn from the text that the writer’s brother ________.

3.What did the young man mean by calling the writer and his brother “a breath of fresh air” ?

4.Which of the following sentences best describes the writer’s experience?

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Even now, almost a year after their astonishing act of group heroism, the dozens of people who risked their lives to save two boys from drowning in Panama City Beach, are still remembered.

The story began on July 8, 2017. Members of the Ursrey family, eight in total, were enjoying an evening together at the beach. As the sun sank lower on the horizon（地平线）, the two boys—Noah, 11, and Stephen, 8—took their skateboards and walked into the waves without the grown-ups noticing. When the boys were about 70 yards from shore, they realized that the ocean pulled them out to sea. After trying and failing to paddle（涉水）back, they started waving and screaming for help. But the lifeguards had clocked out for the evening.

The boys had been struggling for several minutes when Brittany and Tabatha Monroe, a married couple from Georgia, wandered by. They didn’t see the boys at first, but they heard them.

They jumped into the water and easily reached the brothers, who were still in fairly shallow water. The woman reassured the frightened boys and seized their skateboards, telling them they would be safe and then discovered that they, too, were now in a world of trouble. They couldn’t get back to shore and could barely and only occasionally hit the sandy bottom with their feet. After a few minutes, it was clear to the woman that they were all trapped in a terrible whirlpool.

Then scores of tourists were walking to them, hand in hand, forming a line. Soon the first person held the woman’s hand. In turn, her husband and the two boys joined her. The long line moved slowly until they were back to the safety of the beach.

The rescuers call it the Human Chain. But it was the deeply “human” aspect of the rescuers’ cooperation（合作）that made it so astonishing and successful.

1.What happened to the two boys?

A. They got into deep sea by chance.　　 B. They couldn’t be seen in the sea.

C. They went out without supper.　　 D. They met with danger in the sea.

2.What does the underlined word “reassured” in Paragraph 4 mean?

A. Saved.　　 B. Comforted.　　 C. Congratulated.　　 D. Accompanied.

3.Which of the following best describes the water the young couple stayed in?

A. It appeared calm on the surface.　　 B. It was very deep.

C. It was mixed with sand.　　 D. It moved fast.

4.What made the four persons in the sea escape the risky situation?

A. Team spirit.　　 B. Confidence.　　 C. Good luck.　　 D. Bravery.

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.---Who were those people with the flags?

---A group ______ itself the League of  Peace.

A. calls         B. calling      C. called      D. being called

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Many artists late in the last century were in search of a means to express their individuality. Modern dance was one of the ways some of these people sought to free their creative spirit. The beginnings of modem dance were happening before Isadora Duncan, but she was the first person to bring the new dance to general audiences and see it accepted and acclaimed.

Her search for a natural movement form sent her to nature. She believed movement should be as natural as the swaying of the trees and the rolling waves of the sea. Her great contributions are in three areas.

First, she began the expansion of the kinds of movements that could be used in dance. Before Duncan danced, ballet was the only type of dance performed in concerts.　 In the ballet the feet and legs were emphasized, with virtuosity (技巧高超) shown by complicated, codified positions and movements. Duncan performed dance by using all her body in the freest possible way.　 Her dance stemmed from (源自) her soul and spirit. She was one of the pioneers who broke tradition so others might be able to develop the art.

Her second contribution lies in dance costumes (服装). She discarded corset, ballet shoes, and stiff costumes.　 These were replaced with flowing clothes, bare feet, and unlimited hair.　 She believed in the natural body being allowed to move freely, and her dress displayed this ideal.

Her third contribution was in the use of music. In her performances she used the symphonies (交响乐) of great masters, including Beethoven and Wagner, which was not the usual custom.

She was as exciting and eccentric in her personal life as in her dance.

1.. The best title for the passage would be“_________”.

A. Dance in the Twentieth Century　　　　　　

B. Artists of the Last Century

C. Natural Movement in Dance　　　　　　　　　　

D. A Pioneer in Modern Dance

2. According to the passage, nature meant_________ to Duncan.

A. something to conquer　　　　　 B. a model for movement

C. a place to find peace　　　　 D. a symbol of disorder

3. The paragraph following the passage most probably discusses_________.

A. Duncan’s further contribution to modern dance

B. The music customarily used in ballet

C. other aspects of Duncan’s life

D. audience acceptance of the new form of dance

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Only some people were at the railway station just after 2 pm. A man_______a pillar( 柱子)，waiting for the train. Then suddenly Tulic _______him falling forward onto the tracks.

“This man,” said Rachelle, a researcher also on the _______ , “ overlooked the edge, then dropped onto the tracks carelessly. ”

“_______gentleman was trying to awake him, _______he just couldn’t,” said another eyewitness, “and two more jumped down.”

“I don’t know where these men got the wit(智力,智慧) and the _______, ” Tulic recalled. “The man who fell was tall, strong and heavy. He was kind of _______in the tracks. It was really _______to know the train was coming, only two stations away.”

On the tracks, the_______ man was sat up by the three, who then ________ him from below to others that raised him from above and ________him onto the platform. Then the three ________were pulled back to safety by helping hands. The train________immediately they were all clear.

He was not ________. Two others attended him, repeating, “Buddy, you’ll be fine.” Then a( an)________arrived, and the man was taken to hospital ________.

David, one of the three, told gothamist.com that he had ________with the injured man, who couldn’t recall what had happened.

“That is the ________thing," Tulic said. “ and seeing people helping others ________was really beautiful, especially without ________the person.

1.A.put up B.climbed down C.rested against D.painted over

2.A.set B.found C.kept D.looked for

3.A.road B.stage C.train D.platform

4.A.Another B.One C.Every D.Any

5.A.but B.so C.because D.if

6.A.politeness B.quickness C.nervousness D.quietness

7.A.stuck B.interested C.lost D.involved

8.A.right B.eager C.tense D.important

9.A.uncertain B.unlucky C.unhappy D.unconscious

10.A.scratched B.lifted C.hit D.hanged

11.A.signaled B.pushed C.rolled D.span

12.A.drivers B.conductors C.passengers D.rescuers

13.A.pulled in B.pulled out C.pulled over D.pulled down

14.A.abnormal B.aboard C.alone D.absent

15.A.lorry B.bus C.train D.ambulance

16.A.instantly B.carefully C.hopefully D.approximately

17.A.competed B.chatted C.played D.fought

18.A.hardest B.cheapest C.greatest D.easiest

19.A.in need B.in silence C.in surprise D.in comfort

20.A.inviting B.greeting C.finding D.knowing

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In my senior year of high school, Mike and I were lined up in front of a small group of students made up mainly of the leaders of the senior classes. Our teacher said to us," The two of you will never amount to anything."

There was some snickering (窃笑)from some of the seniors as the teacher continued,"From now on,I am not going to waste any more time on either of you. I am only going to spend my time with these class leaders. You two are the class downs with bad grades, and you will never amount to anything. Now get out of here. "

That teacher did Mike and me the biggest favor of all. While what she said was true in many ways and her words hurt us deeply, her words also inspired both of us to work even harder. They carried us through college and into our own businesses.

A few years ago, Mike and I attended our high school reunion.It was nice to visit with people with whom we had spent three years during a period of time when none of us really knew who we were. It was also interesting to see that most of the so-called senior leaders had not become successful in the years after high school.

I tell this story because Mike and I were not academic whiz kids. We were neither financial experts nor athletic stars. For the most part, we were slow-to-average learners and students. In my opinion,we were not as naturally gifted as our fathers. Yet it was our teacher's stinging words and the snickering from our classmates that gave us the strength to move forward, to learn from our mistakes and to keep doing in both good times and bad times.

Just because you didn't do well in school, were not popular, bad in math, or have other reasons to underestimate yourself-none of them count in the long run. They only count if you think they count.

For those who're considering beginning your own financial fast track, you may have some doubts about your abilities. Trust that you have everything you need right now to be successful financially. All it takes to bring out your natural God-given gifts is your desire, determination and a deep faith that you have a genius and a gift that is unique.

1.What did Mike and I think of the teacher's words?

A.Her stinging words inspired them.

B.Her inspiring words hurt them deeply.

C.Her encouraging words helped them through bad times.

D.Her bitter words discouraged them from working harder.

2.At the school union,the author found _______

A.their former classmates didn't recognize him

B.it was boring to see their formers classmates

C.most of the class clowns turned out successful

D.most of the senior leaders didn't become successful

3.The underlined word "whiz" in Paragraph 5 means"

A.know-nothing B.slow

C.stupid D.genius

4.According to the author,which of the following people can achieve financial success?

A.Those who have faith in themselves

B.Those who did not do well in school

C.Those who have natural God-given gifts

D.Those who are doubtful about their abilities

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