23.______I accept that he is not perfect, I do actually like the person. A. While B. Since C. Before D. Unless 24. He got to the station early, _______ missing his train. A. in case of B. instead of C. for fear of D. in search of
25. The man insisted________ a taxi for me even though I told him I lived nearby. A. find B. to find C. on finding D. in finding 26. More patients ___________ in hospital this year than last year. A. treated B. have treated C. had been treated D. have been treated
27. Tom owns _______larger collection of _______ books than any other student in our class.
A. the; 不填 B. a; 不填 C. a; the D. 不填; the 28. -- You haven't lost the ticket, have you?
-- _________. I know it's not easy to get another one at the moment. A. I hope not B. Yes, I have C. I hope so D. Yes, I’m afraid so
29. It's ten years since the scientist _______on his life's work of discovering the valuable chemical.
A. made for B. set out C. took off D. turned up 30. A man is being questioned in relation to the ________ murder last night. A. advised B. attended C. attempted D. admitted
31. The old man, ___abroad for twenty years, is on the way back to his motherland. A. to work B. working C. to have worked D. having worked 32. The_____ house smells as if it hasn't been lived in for years. A. little white wooden B. little wooden white C. white wooden little D. wooden white little
33. ________ is often the case, we have worked out the production plan. A. Which B. When C. What D. As
34. Sales of CDs have greatly increased since the early 1990s, when people_____ to enjoy the advantages of this new technology. A. begin B. began C. have begun D. had begun 35. ----How long are you staying? ----I don't know.______. A. That's OK B. Never mind C. It depends D. It doesn't matter
In 1990 a report was published about what the earth might be like 20 years from then on. The report was a result of a three-year ___1___.
according to the report, the picture of the earth in the year 2010 is not a ___2___ one. The world will be more ___3___ because the population will continue to grow. The population could be ___4___ 6 300 million, almost 2 150 million more than in 1985. More people would move into cities, especially cities in ___5___ countries. Cities like Cairo and Jakarta probably would ___6___ have 15 million by then.
Food production will ___7___, but not enough to feed all the people. Farmers will grow 90% more food than they did in 1985, ___8___ most of the increase would be in countries that ___9___ produce enough food for their people. Little increase is ___10___ in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Poor farming ways are ___11___ large areas of crop land, changing farms into deserts. More farmland is ___12___ as cities become larger and more houses are built. ___13___ will get worse as industrial countries burn more coal and oil. Many of the world’s ___14___ could disappear as more and more trees are cut down. Energy will continue to be a serious problem. The experts say their picture of the earth for the year 2010 ___15___. They only carried out the situation that ___16___ today. By changing the situation, by ___17___ the problems, the picture can be changed. There is ___18___ time for the nations of the world to work ___19___ a plan of action. But they warned that ___20___ too long to make decisions would greatly reduce the chances of success.
1. A. learning B. project C. notice D. study
2. A. pleased B. pleasant C. safe D. blue 3. A. dangerous B. beautiful C. crowded D. terrible 4. A. no more than B. as many as C. as much as D. as large as 5. A. developing B. developed C. big D. mountainous 6. A. none B. each C. all D. neither 7. A. insist B. reduce C. increase D. continue 8. A. so B. but C. or D. however 9. A. already B. hardly C. partly D. never 10. A. wanted B. lacked C. found D. expected 11. A. destroying B. protecting C. disturbing D. interrupting 12. A. saved B. lost C. discovered D. used 13. A. Air pollution B. Water pollution C. Some diseases D. All farmland 14. A. animals B. plants C. forests D. people 15. A. must be true B. will come true C. can’t be true D. may be wrong 16. A. happens B. develops C. exists D. appears 17. A. settling B. working out C. answering D. dealing 18. A. no B. still C. less D. plenty of 19. A. about B. in C. out D. for 20. A. working B. suggesting C. spending D. waiting
Olaf Stapledon wrote a book called First and Last Men, in which he looked millions of years ahead. He told of different men and of strange civilizations(文明), broken up by long “dark ages” in between. In his view, what is called the present time is no more than a moment in human
history and we are just the First Men. In 2,000 million years from now there will be the Eighteenth or Last Men.
However, most of our ideas about the future are really very short-sighted. Perhaps we can see some possibilities for the next fifty years. But the next hundred? The next thousand? The next million? That’s much more difficult.
When men and women lived by hunting 50,000 years ago, how could they even begin to picture modern life? Yet to men of 50,000 years from now, we may seem as primitive(原始的) in our ideas as the Stone-Age hunters do to us. Perhaps they will spend their days gollocking to make new spundels, or struggling with their ballalators through the cribe. These words, which I have just made up, have to stand for things and ideas that we simply can’t think of.
So why bother even to try imagining life far in the future? Here are two reasons. First, unless we remember how short our own lives are compared with the whole human history, we are likely to think our own interests are much more important than they really are. If we make the earth a poor place to live because we are careless or greedy(贪婪) or quarrelsome, our grandchildren will not bother to think of excuses for us.
Second, by trying to escape from present interests and imagine life far in the future, we may arrive at quite fresh ideas that we can use ourselves. For example, if we imagine that in the future men may give up farming, we can think of trying it now. So set you imagination free when you think about the future.
1. A particular mention made of Stapledon’s book in the opening paragraph ________.A. serves as a description of human historyB. serves an introduction to the discussion
C. shows a disagreement of viewsD. shows the popularity of the book
2. The text discusses men and women 50,000 years ago and 50,000 years from now in order to show that ________.
A. human history is extremely longB. life has changed a great deal C. it is useless to plan for the next 50 years
D. it is difficult to tell what will happen in the future
3. Spundels and ballalators are used in the text to refer to ________. A. tools used in farming B. ideas about modern life
C. unknown things in the future D. hunting skills in the Stone Age 4. according to the writer of the text, imagining the future will ________. A. serve the interests of the present and future generations B. enable us to better understand human history C. help us to improve farming D. make life worth living
The easy way out isn’t always easiest. I learned that lesson when I decided to treat Doug, my husband of one month, to a special meal. I glanced through my cook book and chose a menu which included homemade bread. Knowing the bread would take time. I started on it as soon as Doug left for work. As I was not experienced in cooking, I thought if a dozen was good, two dozen would be better, so I doubled everything. As Doug loved oranges, I also opened a can of orange and poured it all into the bowl. Soon there was a sticky dough covered with ugly yellowish marks. Realizing I had been defeated, I put the dough in the rubbish bin outside so I wouldn’t have to face Doug laughing at my work. I went on preparing the rest of the meal, and, when Doug got home, we sat down to Cornish chicken with rice. He tried to enjoy the meal but seemed disturbed. Twice he got up and went outside, saying he thought he heard a noise. The third time he left, I went to the windows to see what he was doing. Looking out, I saw Doug standing about three feet from the rubbish bin, holding the lid up with a stick and looking into the container. When I came out of the house, he dropped the stick and explained that there was something alive in out rubbish bin. Picking up the stick again, he held the lid up enough for me to see. I felt cold. But I stepped closer and looked harder. Without doubt it was my work. The hot sun had caused the dough to double in size and the fermenting yeast(酵母) made the surface shake and sigh as though it were breathing. I had to admit what the 憀iving thing?was and why it was there. I don’t know who was more embarrassed(尴尬) by the whole thing—Doug or me.)
1. The writer’s purpose in writing this story is ________.
A. to tell an interesting experienceB. to show the easiest way out of a difficulty C. to describe the trouble facing a newly married woman D. to explain the difficulty of learning to cook from books
2. Why did the woman’s attempt at making the bread turn out to be unsuccessful? A. The canned orange had gone bad. B. She didn’t use the right kind of flour.
C. The cookbook was hard to understand.D. She did not follow the directions closely.3. Why did the woman put the dough in the rubbish bin?
A. She didn’t see the use of keeping it. B. She meant to joke with her husband. C. She didn’t want her husband to see it.D. She hoped it would soon dry in the sun. 4. What made the dough in the bin looks frighting?
A. The rising and falling movement. B. The strange-looking marks. C. Its shape. D. Its size.
5. When Doug went out the third time, the woman looked out of the window because she was ________.
A. surprised at his being interested in the binB. afraid that he would discover her secret C. unhappy that he didn’t enjoy the mealD. curious to know what disturbed him
Parts of Africa are covered by a dark cloud. But this is no rain cloud. It is a living cloud made of billions of locusts (蝗虫) that are traveling across the continent eating everything in their path.
And now in the battle to stop this disaster, a radio station in Senegal, West Africa, is offering listeners 50 kilograms of rice if they can catch and kill 50 kilograms of locusts. “We think this idea will get more people to take part in the war on the locusts,” said Abdoulaye Ba, from Sud-Fm, a radio station in one of Senegal’s worst affected area.
This is West Africa’s biggest locust disaster in 15 years, and it is moving east, causing huge damage to crops. As they move they produce young and increase their number and will soon threaten (威胁) Sudan in the northeast of Africa. Some say it could reach Asia.
Experts say the harmful effect on crops in areas already suffering from food shortage and war could cause many people to go hungry. Governments in the areas are not well equipped to fight the pest.
Although leaders of 12 countries have agreed on a plan, it is not expected to be enough. “We are now treating 6,000 hectares (公顷) per day with pesticide (杀虫剂), but we need to treat 20,000 hectares per day in order to have any hope of controlling this disaster,” said Mohamed Abdallahi Ould Babah, director of locust control in Mauritania.
Requests are being made for international aid, which is the only way to limit the disaster, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization warned.
1. By using “dark cloud” to describe locusts in the first paragraph, the author of the article ________.
A. showed the size and speed of the mass of locusts
B. suggested the great damage that locusts can cause
C. warned that locusts would sweep the continent like rain clouds D. both A and B
2. The story is mainly about ________.
A. West Africa’s united effort in fighting a disaster B. the difficulty in controlling locusts
C. how locusts caused great damage to West Africa
D. a struggle to fight against a disaster brought by locusts in West Africa 3. The locust disaster ________.
A. would be even more serious in Asia B. is(was)out of control C. affected only the warning areas
D. can not be stopped unless twice as much pesticide is provided for the affected areas 4. Which of the following is WRONG?
A. Sud-Fm offered a reward for fighting locusts so that more people would join in the effort. B. Senegal is to the southwest of Sudan.
C. The locusts can cause such damage mainly because it has no natural enemy in West Africa .D. 12 countries affected by locusts have united but still lack pesticide.
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A. Gift giving proven to be valuable. B. Memories from gift giving.
C. Moments and events for gift giving. D. Various functions of gift giving
E. Gift giving as a wasteful practice. F. Gift giving as a two-way socia61. ________
There are many occasions (场合) for giving gifts in modern industrialized societies; birthdays, naming ceremonies, weddings, anniversaries, New Year, It is common to give gifts on many of these celebrations in western cultures. In addition, special events, such as one’ s first day of school or graduation from university, often require gift giving.
62. ________What is happening when we give gifts? Most important, we are exchanging gifts. If someone gives me a gift for my birthday, I know that I am usually expected to give one on his or her next birthday. A gift builds up or confirms a social obligation (义务).
63. ________Gifts tighten personal relationships and provide a means of communication between loved ones. People say that a gift lets the recipient (接受者) know we are thinking of them, and that we want to make the person “feel special. ”We want people to feel wanted, to feel part of our social or family group. We give presents to say “I’m sorry. ”Sometimes it is difficult for us to find a present that someone will like. Sometimes we give things that we like or would feel comfortable with. In all these cases, the gifts are sending out messages—often very expressive ones.
64. ________People tend to talk about presents in a fairly loving way. A woman whose mother had died years ago described the many gifts around her house. These were gifts that her mother had given her over the years: “I appreciate these, and they mean something to me, ” the woman said, “because I remember the occasions they were given on, and that they were from my mother, and the relationship we’ve had. ” The gifts remain and keep the relationship alive in mind. This woman felt the same way about the gifts she gave to others. She hoped that the recipients would look at her gifts in years to come and remember her.
65. ________Emotions (情感) like these suggest that a positive spirit still lies behind gift giving. They prove that the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss was wrong to say that modern western gift giving is highly wasteful. Studies in Canada and elsewhere have also shown that this is not the case. Each gift is unique even if so many are given. The emotional benefit for those who exchange gifts is the very reason for the tradition to continue.
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The other day my brother and me went to the cinema by bike. My brother is riding with me sitting on the seat behind. As we came the crossroads, a young man and a girl came up and stop us. “We’ve found you at last.” they said. Or we didn’t know them. Pointed to a policeman not far away, a young man explained, “He stopped us about half an hour before and made us to catch the next offender. So come on! Stand here. Hope you won’t have to wait as soon as we did. Good luck.”
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