| 听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最 佳选项。 |
| 1. When will the two speakers meet? |
| A. At 8: 30. B. At 9:00. C. At 9: 30. |
| 2. What is the possible relationship between the two speakers? |
| A. Teacher and student. B. Father and daughter. C. Doctor and patient. |
| 3. How did the man go to Canada? |
| A. By train. B. By car. C. By bus. |
| 4. What does the man feel about the interview? |
| A. Confident. B. Disappointed. C. Nervous. |
| 5. Why is Tracy so happy? |
| A. She has received the latest issue of the journal. B. She has won a prize for her research. C. She has got her paper published. |
| _____the city center,we saw a stone statue of about 10 meters in height. |
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| A. Approaching B. Approached C. To approach D. To be approached |
| That is the only way we can imagine_____the overuse of water in students' bathrooms. |
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| A. reducing B. to reduce C. reduced D. reduce |
| I have a lot of readings ______ before the end of this term. |
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| A. completing B. to complete C. completed D. being completed |
| He has considered all the______of the problem. |
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| A. tendencies B. aspects C. instructions D. directions |
| The boy was sitting on the floor ______ by toys. |
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| A. fsurrounded B. surrounding C. surroundings D. surround |
| Though _______ not to,the girl let out the secret. |
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| A. telling B. was told C. to tell D. told |
| The Titanic was a ship just not ______to run into icebergs. When it did,nothing could stop it. |
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| A. design B. to design C. designed D. designing |
| After the operation,my brother is now ______ on his feet and is living an active life. |
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| A. part B. down C. back D. up |
| The language system must constantly _______a new environment and situation to survive and flourish. |
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| A. refer to B. adjust to C. see to D. tend to |
| The picture ____me of the happy days in Qingdao last year. |
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| A. tells B. remembers C. thinks D. reminds |
| Cleaning women in big cities usually get _______ by the hour. |
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| A. pay B. paying C. paid D. to pay |
| _______on time, I think,the medicine will work on him before long. |
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| A. Taken B. Being taken C. Taking D. To take |
| Was the door of the room _______ the whole day? |
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| A. remained opening B. allowed open C. kept opened D. left open |
| ____ from the top of the tower,the south foot of the mountain is a sea of trees. |
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| A. Seen B. Seeing C. Have seen D. To see |
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| Are you carrying too much on your back at school? Lots of kids at the same age are as you are. Not only are students in China 1 from this problem,but kids in the United States are 2 fed up with(饱受……之苦) heavy school bags. Experts are starting to 3 that more and more young students are having back and neck problems as a result of school bags 4 too heavy for them. "It's hard for me to get up the 5 with my bag because it's so heavy," said Rick Hammond, 6 ll-year-old student in the US. Rick is among the students who have 7 backpacks(背包) with two straps(带子) to carry them, 8 a number of other students choose rolling backpacks. But even with rolling backpacks, 9 up stairs and buses with them is 10 a problem for kids. Many of them have hurt their knees,backs or necks because of heavy school bags. But how much is too 11 ? Experts say students should carry 12 more than 10 to 15 percent of their own body weight. Scott Bautch,a Wisconsin 13 docotor,said kids under4th grade should 14 within 10 percent. But it's also important that older kids don't go 15 15 percent,because their bones are still growing. Bautch explained that there are other injuries caused by backpacks. "Kids are 16 their balance and falling down with these backpacks,"he said. Parents and teachers are starting to tell the kids to only take 17 library books they will be reading that night.Some teachers are using worksheets (作业纸) or 18 workbooks for students to take home. One of the best answers is,as some 19 themselves suggested, to have no homework 20 ! | ||||
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| 阅读理解。 |
| Making them sweeter JAPANESE scientists have developed a special kind of tomato. It can change an eater's sense of taste,says a report in Science News. For about an hour after a person eats one of the tomatoes,sour foods taste sweet. Say you eat one of the tomatoes before lunch. Then you take a bite of a lemon (柠檬). You will find that the lemon tastes like super-sweet lemonade. How magical is that ! The key ingredient in the taste-changing tomatoes is " miraculin (非洲奇果蛋白 ) ". Miraculin is found in berries that grow in West Africa. These fruits are sometimes sold as " Miracle(奇迹) Fruit" berries. People have long known about the ability of miracle berries to change taste. In some countries,the berries are used as a way to help people lose weight: For example,a dieter can eat a berry and then eat low-calorie sour foods that will taste wonderfully sweet. Scientists found miraculin in the miracle berry in 1968. Since then,people have wondered how to manufacture it. One way could be to harvest the berries. The problem was that if demand got too large, the berry plants could be driven to extinction. That's where the Japanese scientists came in. Professor Kazuhisa Kato and his team at the University of Tsukuba studied the DNA of the miracle berry. They found a gene(基因) that contained the instructions for how to make miraculin. Kato and other researchers put the gene for miraculin into the DNA of a tomato. As a result,the tomatoes started to make miraculin. Those tomatoes had just as much miraculin as miracle berries do. These "miracle" tomatoes could be grown in large numbers. If scientists can grow other foods with miraculin inside,then there won't be any need to harvest all the miracle berries. The researchers don't know yet how the tomato-based miraculin can be used. Perhaps it could be sold as a dieting food,to be taken before meals. |
| 1. The tomato is special in that___. |
| A. it tums all tastes sweet B. it can only be eaten before lunch C. it changes a sour taste to a sweet one D. it has a magical ingredient |
| 2. According to the article,the Japanese scientists____. |
| A. found a gene that contained instructions for making miraculin B. discovered the secrets of miracle fruit berries in 1968 C. have planted miracle tomatoes in large numbers D. invented the miraculin gene and put it into the tomato= |
| 3. According to the article,which of the following statements is TRUE? |
| A. It was a latest discovery that miracle berries could change taste. B. The tomato is a low-calorie fruit that tastes wonderfully sweet. C. Scientists have already found many uses for mariculin. D. The tomato-based miraculin might help people lose weight,so it might be used as a dieting food. |
| The Cost of Higher Education Individuals(个人) should pay for their higher education. A university education is of huge and direct benefit to the individual. Graduates eam more than non-graduates.Meanwhile,social mobility is ever more dependent on having a degree. However,only some people have it. So the imli- vidual,not the taxpayers,should pay for it. There are pressing calls on the resources(资源) of the government. Using taxpayers' money to help a small number of people to earn high incomes in the future is not one of them. Full govemment funding(资助) is not very good for universities. Adam Smith worked in a Scottish university whose teachers lived off student fees. He knew and looked down upon 18th-century Oxford, where the academics lived comfortably off the income received from the govemment. Guaranteed salaries,Smith argued,were the enemy of hard work;and when the academics were lazy and incompetent,the students were similarly lazy. If students have to pay for their education,they not only work harder,but also demand more from their teachers. And their teachers have to keep them satisfied. If that means taking teachjng seriously,and giving less time to their own research interests,that is surely something to celebrate. Many people believe that higher education should be free because it is good for the economy (经济) . Many graduates clearly do contribute to national wealth,but so do all the businesses that invest (投资) and create jobs. If you believe that the government should pay for higher education because graduates are economically productive,you should also believe that the government should pay part of business costs. Anyone promising to create jobs should receive a gift of capital from the govemment to invest. Therefore,it is the individual,not the govemment,who should pay for their university education. |
| 1. The underlined word "them" in Paragraph 2 refers to _____. |
| A. taxpayers B. pressing calls C. college graduates D. govemment resources |
| 2. The author thinks that with full govemment funding _____. |
| A. teachers are less satisfied B. students are more demanding C. students will become more competent D. teachers will spend less time on teaching |
| 3. The author mentions businesses in Paragraph 5 in order to____. |
| A. argue against free university education B. call on them to finance students' studies C. encourage graduates to go into business D. show their contribution to higher education |
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| 写作。 请你设想一下，未来的汽车是怎样的呢？ 科学家们指出，有两种小汽车有朝一日会取代大型汽车，可以减少空气污染，增加城 市空地，提高城市安全水平。未来汽车之一是电动汽车，将有两个电池(battery) ，一个用 于发动机，另一个用于车喇叭(hom) 和信号灯(signal) ；另一种是燃油汽车，每次加油可行 驶450 千米。 请根据以上介绍和自己的想象，写一篇短文来描述未来的汽车。词数120 左右。 |
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