| Americans think they're good drivers _______ drivers in other countries. |
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| _____ I read Chicken Soup for the Soul, ______ optimistic and caring I become. |
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| A. More; more B. More; the more C. The more; more D. The more; the more |
| It is ________ to think a few of the students still don't take the reading homework seriously. |
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| A. disturbed B. disturbing C. interrupting D. interrupted |
| Bring an extra pencil with you ___ something goes wrong with this one during the exam. |
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| A. in case B. in case of C. so that D. in order that |
| As a member of the Youth League, you should _________ other students. |
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| A. give an example of B. set an example to C. make an example for D. take an example for |
| We will explore different approaches _________ information. |
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| A. to gathering B. of gathering C. to gather D. in gathering |
| It is really a challenging job to deal with people _____ various ages and backgrounds. |
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| A. in B. at C. with D. of |
| Although the students complained sometimes, they found their efforts in the preparation for the play ______. |
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| A. laid off B. switched off C. paid off D. gave off |
| Though tired out after the performance, everyone _______ with pride. |
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| A. kept B. Swelled C. acquired D. involved |
| The task ______ more difficult than we'd thought. |
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| A. proved to be B. was proved to be C. proved being D. proved was |
| The Rock & Roll Club was ______ to develop and demonstrate the students' talent for music. |
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| A. set off B. set up C. set down D. set out |
| _____ being fun, watching English videos is a good form of listening exercise. |
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| A. Aside from B. In addition C. Besides that D. Except for |
| The numbers of students applying for this position ________ 320. |
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| A. added B. added up C. added to D. added up to |
| People ________ need less sleep as they get older. |
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| He didn't get a satisfactory result. _______, he failed. |
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| A. To start with B. Frankly speaking C. In other words D. In a word |
| We _______ her to consider the offer again, but she refused. |
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| A. urged B. Approved C. allowed D. adapted |
| If a student ______ in the exam, he/she won't escape punishment. |
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| A. gets caught to cheat B. gets caught cheating C. gets to catch cheating D. gets catching cheated |
| I had never heard an English word ________ before I went to junior high school. |
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| A. speak B. to speak C. speaking D. spoken |
| — You _______ your drama play very much. I saw you preparing for it excitedly. — Not really, because of the exam. |
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| A. must enjoy B. must have enjoyed C. can enjoy D. should enjoy |
| — Wash your hands before having a meal. Have I made myself understood? — Sure. You _______ before having a meal. It is because of H1N1 flu, right? — What a good boy! |
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| A. asked to wash your hands B. said to wash our hands C. said to us to wash our hands D. asked us to wash our hands |
| — If I _____ Barack Obama, I ______ to receive the Nobel Prize for Peace. — Really? Why? |
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| — What _______ if you _______ on the Titanic? — What a question! |
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| A. would you do; were B. did you do; were C. had you done; would have been D. would you have done; had been |
| You ________ hand in your writing homework next Monday. |
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| The park ________ bottles and cans after the concert. |
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| A. was littered with B. littered with C. was littering with D. littered |
| They _________ him unless he did as they asked. |
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| A. threatened killing B. threatened to kill C. were threatening to kill D. threated to kill |
| The students' ages _______ 15 to 17. |
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| They had to give up the plan because many people ________ it. |
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| A. objected B. objected to C. objected with D. objected at |
| She used to be terribly shy, but a year abroad has completely _______ her. |
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| A. represented B. Bustled C. transformed D. integrated |
| She's ________ our best player, but she needs to practice much harder. |
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| Several students of our school won a(n) ________ victory in the English Drama Contest with their excellent performing talents. |
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| Twice-crowned beauty queen Michele Reis is 18 years old. But she is still mummy's little girl. Mrs. Reis described her 1 feeling the night her daughter 2 the Miss Hong Kong Beauty Pageant, "I felt 3 I suffered the loss of something important when they crowned her, not because I was not happy for her, 4 because I knew my daughter no longer belonged to me alone and I would have to share her 5 everyone else." But Mom should have seen it coming. With her Portuguese-Chinese heritage（血统）,Michele was quite 6 as a youngster. She 7 modeling part time as a school girl. There was something 8 about her even as a child. People in the street always turned around to 9 her. 10 her recent fame, the beauty queen said, "Sometimes I have the feeling that I am no longer myself now. My schedule is 11 . I'm not getting enough 12 , and I am always 13 from one place to another. There are times when I am 14 tired that I just want to sit and sleep." Being a celebrity has another 15 . "People no longer regard me as an 16 person. It's becoming more 17 for me to make friends, and I've learned to 18 old friends because they 19 treat me as Michele 20 Miss Hong Kong." | ||||
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The management and staff are happy to welcome you and will do all they can to make your stay an |
| 1. Meals can be served _______. |
| A. outside the room at 3:00 p. M. B. in the dining-room at 6:00 p. m. C. in the dining-room from 7:30 a. m. to 9:15 p. M. D. in rooms at 9:00 p. m. |
| 2. If you intend to leave the room tomorrow, you may leave at any of the following hours except _______. |
| A. 3:00 p. m. B. 12:00 a. m. C. 10:00 a. m. D. 11:00 a. m. |
| 3. Where is this notice most likely to be found? |
| A. At restaurants. B. In shops. C. In hotels. D. In the newspapers. |
| 4. What can we conclude from the last paragraph? |
| A. You should respect the other guests. B. You are not allowed to use radios and televisions. C. You shouldn't make the radios and televisions too loud after 11:00 p.m. D. To comfort others, you should turn off radios and televisions after 11:00 p.m. |
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| Our boat floated on, between walls of forest which were too thick to allow us a view of the land we were passing through, although we knew from the map that our river must from time to time be passing through chains of hills which crossed the jungle plains. Nowhere did we find a place where we could have landed: where the jungle did not actually spread down into the river, banks of soft mud prevented us going ashore. In any case, what would we have gained by landing? The country was full of snakes and other dangerous creatures and the jungle was so thick that one would be able to advance only slowly, cutting one's way with knives the whole way. So we stayed in the boat, hoping that when we reached the sea, a friendly fisherman would pick us up and take us to civilization. We lived on fish, any fruit and nuts we could pick up out of the water. As we had no fire, we had to eat everything, including the fish, raw. I had never tasted raw fish before, and I must say I did not much enjoy the experience: perhaps sea-fish which don't live in the mud are less tasteless. After eating my fish, I lay back and dreamed of such things as fried chicken and rice, and ice cream. In the never-ending heat of the jungle, ice cream was a particularly frequent dream. As for water, there was a choice. We could drink the muddy river water, or die of thirst. We drank the water. Men who have just escaped what had appeared to certain death lose all worries about such small things as diseases caused by dirty water. In fact, none of us suffered from any illness as a result. One day we passed another village, but fortunately nobody saw us. We did not wish to risk being taken prisoners a second time: we might not be so lucky as to escape in a stolen boat again. |
| 1. The only thing that they could see in the boat was _______. |
| A. chains of hills B. high walls C. vast land D. tall trees |
| 2. They were prevented from landing because they could not _______. |
| A. find the place marked on the map B. go through the thick forest C. go across the soft mud D. see the plains |
| 3. This passage is mainly about ______. |
| A. the problem of landing B. a terrible experience C. walls of forest D. the fishermen's worries |
| 4. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage? |
| A. The author and his partners were trapped during scientific exploration. B. They were floating on a small boat in the jungle without help. C. The dirty water they drank didn't threaten their lives. D. They had no food or drinking water prepared. |
| 阅读理解。 |
| Millions of Americans run to the bank or visit ATM when they need cash. They use credit cards when they want to buy clothes, VCRs, or television sets. But there is an underclass-people with low incomes and no credit history -who visit their neighborhood pawnshops (当铺) when they need cash or a loan. About 20 percent of the US population has no bank account. More than half of this group don't have credit cards and cannot get bank loans. "These people are borrowing an average of $50," said John P. Caskey of Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania."If you add up in terms of how much dollar value pawnshops provide, they don't look very important. If you add up how much of the population they serve or the number of loans they make, they are important." Because they make loans, pawnshops are a type of bank, often calling themselves"the bank of the little people." Caskey and Swarthmore student Brian Zidmund in 1989 looked at the importance of pawnshops in the US economy-the first serious study of the subject since the 1930s. Their conclusion: pawnshops are the consumer's lender of last resort (最后贷款人). Pawnshop customers typically cannot get credit at banks. They have poor credit records, low and unstable incomes, or cannot maintain positive bank account balances. Typically, pawnshop customers borrow relatively small amounts that traditional lenders are unwilling or unable to provide on a secured basis. "If you look at total consumer credit, the amounts provided by pawnshops remain small," Caskey said. "They are lending mainly to low-income people. In terms of the population they serve, they're really important." In 1988, there were about 6,900 pawnshops in the United States - one for every two commercial banks. They made about 35 million loans, providing 1 percent of the nation's consumer credit. |
| 1. The best title for the passage would be ______. |
| A. Credit Cards for the Poor B. Banks for the Poor C. Pawnshops vs. Banks D. Commercial Banks |
| 2. What do the underclass people do when they need cash? |
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| 3. What can we learn about pawnshops? |
| A. Poor people come to pawnshops as their last resort. B. Most people prefer pawnshops for their need of cash. C. Pawnshops are an important part of the state economy. D. Pawnshops are not important because they make up only 1 percent of the nation's consumer credit. |
| 4. According to John P. Caskey, pawnshops are important because ________. |
| A. they provide great dollar value to the poor B. they make big loans to a lot of people C. they are serving the majority of the population D. they make a large number of loans to the poor |
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| Memory, they say, is a matter of practice and exercise. If you have the wish and really make a conscious effort, then you can quite easily improve your ability to remember things. But even if you are successful, there are times when your memory seems to play tricks on you. Sometimes you remember things that really did not happen. One morning last week, for example, I got up and found that I had left the front door unlocked all night, yet I clearly remember locking it carefully the night before. Memory "tricks" work the other way as well. Once in a while you remember not doing something and then find out that you did. One day last month, for example, I was sitting in a barbershop waiting for my turn to get a haircut, and suddenly I realized that I had got a haircut two days before at the barbershop across the street from my office. We always seem to find something funny and amusing in incidents caused by people's forgetfulness or absent-mindedness. Stories about absent-minded professors have been told for years, and we never get tired of hearing new ones. Unfortunately, however, absent-mindedness is not always funny. There are times when "tricks" of our memory can cause us great trouble. |
| 1. If you want to have a good memory, you should ______. |
| A. force yourself to remember things B. make a conscious effort of practice and exercise C. never stop learning D. try hard to remember things |
| 2. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage? |
| A. One night the writer forgot to lock the front door. B. One night the writer forgot having locked the front door. C. The writer remembered to lock the door. D. The writer remembered unlocking the front door. |
| 3. What can we infer from the last paragraph? |
| A. Absent-mindedness stories can bring people fun. B. Absent-mindedness is more troublesome than forgetfulness. C. Absent-minded professors are often amused by the incidents, too. D. Absent-mindedness happens not only to professors but to all other people. |
| 4. Which of the following could be the best title for this passage? |
| A. The Key to a Good Memory B. "Tricks" of Memory C. The Dangers of Forgetfulness D. The Dangers of Absent-mindedness |
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| It doesn't make any difference how long your speech is. Unless you tune in the first 60 seconds, the chances are they will tune you out. Take the fellow who opens: "On my way over to the club tonight, I ran into a bum (流浪汉) who asked me for $ 49.50 for a cup of coffee. I told him he'd do much better if he asked for a quarter. He said, 'Do you think I'm going into the Ritz in these clothes?'" We know his purpose: to win his audience over with humor. His bit of humor, however, has no connection with his speech. He has his audience laughing at the wrong time. Once you have an audience laughing it's hard to get them to switch to an entirely different train of thought. There is nothing wrong with humor in a speech as long as it has something to do with the purpose of his speech. To open a speech with humor just to be entertaining invites an almost sure"turnoff" for the remainder of the talk. |
| 1. What, in a speech, determines its failure or success? |
| A. The purpose of the speech. B. A sense of humor. C. The opening remarks. D. A forceful ending. |
| 2. If a speaker decides to be humorous, his humor should _________. |
| A. be connected with his subject B. make his audience laugh C. be fresh and different D. be reserved for the end |
| 3. What do the underlined words mean? |
| A. bring your speech to an end B. cause your audience to lose interest C. make your audience go away at once D. have your audience laugh with you |
| 4. Which of the following best expresses the main idea of the passage? |
| A. The opening part of your speech should not be long. B. Humor is important in the success of your speech. C. Your humor should be relevant (相关的) and timely. D. An outstanding speech is full of jokes. |
| 阅读理解。 请先通读下列短文，然后从所给的七个选项中选出能填入空格的最佳选项。 |
| Without proper planning, tourism can cause problems. 1 . If tourists create too much traffic, the inhabitants become angry and unhappy. They begin to dislike tourists and to treat them impolitely. They forget how much tourism can help the country's economy. It is important to think about the people of a destination country and how tourism affects them. 2 . Tourism should also improve the health and happiness of the local inhabitants. Too much tourism can be a problem. If tourism grows too quickly, people must leave other jobs to work in the tourism industry. 3 . On the other hand, if there is not enough tourism, people can lose jobs. Businesses can also lose money. It costs a great deal of money to build large hotels, airports, first-class roads and other support facilities (设施) needed by tourist attractions. 4 . If this room is not used most of the time, the owners of the hotel lose money. Building a hotel is just a beginning. There must be many support facilities as well, including roads to get to the hotel, electricity, sewers to handle waste, and water. 5 . If they are not used because there are not enough tourists, jobs and money are lost. |
| A. This means other parts of the country's economy can suffer B. Tourism can bring a lot of benefits C. For example, too many tourists can crowd public places that are also enjoyed by the inhabitants (the people living there) of a country D. For example, a major international-class tourism hotel can cost as much as 50 thousand dollars per room to build E. All of these support facilities cost money F. Therefore, tourism plays an important part in local economy G. Tourism should help a country keep the customs and beauty that attract tourists |
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| When I asked my daughter which item she would keep: the phone, the car, the cooker, the computer, the TV, or her boyfriend, she said"the phone". Personally I could do without the phone, which makes me unusual, because the telephone is changing our life more than any other piece of technology. Point 1 The telephone creates the need to communicate, in the same way that more roads create more traffic. My daughter comes home from school at 4:00 and then spends an hour on the phone talking to the very people she has been at school with all day. If the phone didn't exist, would she have anything to talk about? Point 2 The mobile phone means that we are never alone."The mobile saved my life," says Lucy. She had an accident in her Volvo. Trapped inside, she managed to make the call that brought the ambulance. Point 3 The mobile removes our secret. It allows Marketing Manager of a large company to ring his sales staff all around the world at any time of day to ask where they are, where they are going, and how their last meeting went. Point 4 The telephone separates us. A person said,"We worked in separate offices but I could see him through the window. It was easy to get his number. We were so near-but we didn't meet for the first two weeks!" Point 5 The telephone allows us to reach out beyond our own lives. Today we can talk to several complete strangers at the same time on chat lines. We can talk across the world. We can even talk to astronauts while they're space-walking. And with the phone line hooked up to the computer, we can access the Internet, the biggest library on Earth. |
| 1. Why is the writer unusual? ___________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Why is the mobile phone important to us according to Para.3 (Point 2)? ___________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Does the person in Para.5 (Point 4) feel happy or sad about the telephone? Why? ____________________________________________________________________________________ 4. What does the underlined phrase"hook up to" mean? ____________________________________________________________________________________ 5. Please draw up a title for the passage. _____________________________________________________________________________________ |
| 汉译英 。 请用所提供的词汇或句型翻译下列句子。 |
| 1. 跟着老师学比我们自己在家学更有趣。(fun) _________________________________________________________________________ 2. 我们学校的学生都能够自由使用图书馆。(access) __________________________________________________________________________ 3. 在我们地区遭到暴风雪袭击后，各地人民都赶来援助。(come to) __________________________________________________________________________ 4. 每天听英语是值得做的。（worthwhile） __________________________________________________________________________ 5. 这次考试的失败是由于我的准备不足。（lack） ___________________________________________________________________________ |