题目内容
In order to keep our air clean, we should __________(加强)the protection of our environment.
On Sunday morning in Rio, when Chinese women’s volleyball team took on Serbia for the Olympic title, 70 percent of Chinese families watched live broadcast on TV, easily beating the audience rating for Lunar New Year Gala. As team captain Hui Ruoqi hit a powerful spike to seal it 19-25， 25-17， 25-22， 25-23 on Sunday morning in Rio, applause and cheers almost blew off the roof of Maracanazinho. China’s news program Xinwen Lianbo spent seven of 30 minutes reliving the story. This is their third Olympic gold medal the Chinese women’s volleyball team has won since the 1980s.
In Rio, the Chinese women’s volleyball team was assigned to the so-called group of death and faced several strong competitors. But the team never gave up. When the team lost its Rio Olympic opener to the Netherlands on Aug 6, Lang Ping urged her players to support one another through the ups and downs. When China lost to Serbia and the United States, finishing fourth to get a narrow escape from Group B and had to face host Brazil in the quarters, Lang Ping helped her players grow from each defeat on the pressure-packed Olympic stage.
Lang Ping, nicknamed “Iron Hammer”, is a national heroine as well as a legend in world sports. She made histories in coaching many clubs and national teams to top level. She resigned due to health reasons in 1998. However, when the Chinese women’s volleyball faced difficulties after the Beijing Olympics, the 52-year-old lady came back in 2013 and took the coaching position. She dug out a group of young talents including Rio 2016 MVP Zhu Ting to help seasoned players Hui Ruoqi and Xu Yunli. But more importantly, she passed on the spirit to them.
Among all the Chinese sports teams, the women’s volleyball remain the most special one, whose victories fueled Chinese confidence in the 1980s and still represent the best things that sports can offer to the Chinese: perseverance, courage and unity.
1.What can we learn from Paragraph 1?
A. The game against Serbia attracted more Chinese audience than Lunar New Year Gala.
B. China’s Xinwen Lianbo reported the team’s victory for 30 minutes.
C. The roof of Maracanazinho was blown off by the excited audience.
D. The Chinese women’s volleyball team was beaten by Serbia.
2.It can be inferred from the text that ________.
A. the team beat the Netherlands on Aug 6
B. Lang resigned from a club due to health problems in 2013
C. Lang brought the Chinese women’s volleyball back to the Olympic glory
D. after the Rio Olympic opener, the team experienced non-stop victories
3.Who does the underline word “she” in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A. Zhu Ting. B. Hui Ruoqi. C. Xu Yunli. D. Lang Ping.
4.What make the Chinese women’s volleyball team so special?
A. The coach and strong competitors. B. Some young talents and seasoned players.
C. Each defeat and pressure. D. The teams’ success and spirits.
An 80－year－old man was sitting on the sofa in his house along with his 45－year－old highly educated son.
Suddenly a crow(乌鸦)perched on the tree near their window.
The father asked his son，“What is this? ”
The son replied，“It is a crow.”
After a few minutes，the father asked his son the 2nd time，“What is this? ”
The son said，“Father，I have just now told you ‘It's a crow’.”
After a little while，the old father again asked his son the 3rd time，“What is this? ”
“It's a crow，a crow，a crow.”said the son loudly.
A little after，the father again asked his son the 4th time，“What is this? ”
This time the son shouted at his father，“Why do you keep asking me the same question again and again? ‘IT IS A CROW’. Are you not able to understand this? ”
A little later the father went to his room and came back with an old diary，which he had kept since his son was born. On opening a page，he asked his son to read that page. When the son read it，the following words were written in the diary：
“Today my little son aged three was sitting with me on the sofa，when a crow was sitting on the window. My son asked me 23 times what it was，and I replied to him all 23 times that it was a crow. I hugged him lovingly each time he asked me the same question again and again for 23 times. I did not at all feel annoyed; I rather felt affection for my innocent child.”
1.What does the underlined word “perched” mean in the passage?
A. knocked B. landed
C. hit D. flew
2.Why did the Father ask the same question again and again?
A. Because he couldn't understand what his son said.
B. Because he was too old to remember anything.
C. Because he wanted to make his son angry.
D. Because he wanted to see how patient his son would be.
3.How old was the old man when his son asked him 23 times “What is this”？
A. 80 years old. B. 45 years old.
C. 38 years old. D. 35 years old.
4.What is the most suitable title for the passage?
A. A crow. B. An old man.
C. An old dairy. D. Father's love.
When we know somewhere well，we say we “know it like the back of our hand”. But new research has shown that we don’t actually know as much about our hands as we think we do.
Wider and shorter
Professor Matthew Longo at the University of London and his team did an experiment, covering the left hands of 100 people. Then they asked the people to point to where they thought their fingertips and knuckles (指关节) were. They made some quite big mistakes.
“People think their hand is wider than it actually is,” said Longo. The fingers also seem shorter than they are. This mistake gets worse as you go across the hand from the thumb to the little finger.
Sense of position
“It is connected to our sense of position,” explained Longo. This is our ability to tell where different parts of our bodies are, even when we can’t see them. “It tells us whether a joint is straight, or not” he said. It also tells us whether we are going up or down in an elevator. All this information comes from signs from nerves in real time. It’s like our brain has maps — maps that show the size and shape of our body. “This experiment tried to find those maps,” said Longo.
Strength(强度) of feeling
But these maps make mistakes. These mistakes may be made because of how the brain understands different parts of the skin. “Our brains ‘see’ areas as larger where the skin feels touch strongly,” said Longo. Body parts don’t appear as their true size, but appear bigger or smaller depending on how strongly they feel touch. Our lips, for example, have more nerves than our nose. So brain “sees” lips on its map of the body as being bigger than our nose. The same thing happens for other parts of the body that have lots of nerves.
Longo believes that more research in this area may help us to understand eating problem better, because people suffering from these problems may not know their bodies properly.
1.Which of following statement is TRUE about the experiment according to the article?
A. People think their body parts are larger than they actually are.
B. People made more mistakes about their little fingers length than their thumbs’ length.
C. People’s fingers are actually shorter than they think.
D. People were asked to draw their hands from memory
2.What does the underlined “it” in Paragraph 4 refer to?
A. The new experiment. B. The location information.
C. The mistake people made. D. The sizes of fingers and hands.
3.We can learn from the article that ________.
A. the maps of people’s bodies form before they are born
B. the maps of our body are based on information from nerves
C. our sense of position tells how different parts of the body work
D. how we feel about our body shape is only decided by our sense of position
4.We can infer from the article that ________.
A. the hand feels touch more strongly than fingers do
B. our lips have a weaker sense of touch than our nose
C. there are more nerves in the finger than in the hand
D. our sense of position should not be trusted because it is too often incorrect
Once Tom talked with his classmate, the teacher s____________ at him into silence.
Riding School
You can start horse-riding at any age. Choose private or group lessons any weekday between 9 am and 8 : 30 pm (3 : 30 pm on Saturdays). There are 10 kilometers of tracks and paths for leisurely rides across farmland and open country. You will need a riding hat.
Opening Hours : Monday through Friday : 9 : 00 am---8 : 30 pm
Phone : (412) 396-6644 Fax : (412) 396-6752
Sailing Club
Our Young Sailor’s Course leads to the Stage 1 Sailing qualification. You’ll learn how to sail safely and the course also covers sailing theory and first aid. Have fun with other course members, afterwards in the club-room. There are 10 weekly two-hour lessons.
Opening Hours : Tuesdays : 6 : 00 pm---8 : 00 pm
Phone : (412) 396-6644 Fax : (412) 396-6644
Diving Center
Our experienced instructors offer one-month courses in deep-sea diving for beginners. There are two evening lessons a week, in which you learn to breathe underwater and use the equipment safely. You only need a swimming costume and towel. Reduced rates for couples.
Opening Hours: Monday and Friday 6:30 pm---8:30 pm
Phone : (412) 396-6312 Fax : (412) 396-6706
Medical Center
The staff(全体职工) of the Medical Center aim to provide convenient and comprehensive medical care for students and staff of the university. The center is well equipped and the staff here are trained to deal with common medical problems. All staff here are available for consultation. Also, all kinds of medicines are sold here and are cheaper for students than other drugstores.
Opening Hours: 24 hours from Monday to Sunday
Phone : (412) 396-6649 Fax : (412) 396-6648
Water-sports Club
We use a two-kilometer length of river for speedboat racing and water-skiing. A beginners’ course is made up of ten 20-minute lessons. You will learn to handle boats safely and confidently, but must be able to swim. The club is open daily from 9 am to 4 pm, with lessons all through the day.
Opening Hours : Monday through Sunday : 9 : 00 am---4 : 00 pm
Phone : (412) 396-6899 Fax : (412) 396-6890
1.If you want to experience activities in the countryside, you may fax_____________.
A. (412) 396-6706 B. (412) 396-6648 C. (412) 396-6890 D. (412) 396-6752
2.When can you attend your lessons if you want to explore the ocean depths?
A. Monday through Friday : 7 : 00 pm---10 : 00 pm.
B. 24 hours from Monday to Sunday.
C. On Monday and Friday : 6 : 30 pm---8 : 30 pm.
D. On Tuesdays : 6 : 00 pm---8 : 00 pm.
3.What convenience can the Medical Center provide?
A. A certificate in medicine. B. Reduced rate for groups.
C. Nursery for newly-born babies. D. Various less expensive medicines.
Recently my wife and I were faced with a difficult situation while traveling by car in the mountains with our hired drive. It was going to be a long ride and we were _________. Just as we began to doze(打盹), the engine made a strange , loud noise and then _________working.
The sun was just setting and the air was getting _________. We tried communicating with the driver but with little _________. He told us he was going to get _________and then left.
In a(n) _________location with no houses in sight, we started to hear the cries of wild animals. We also didn’t have much food it was getting colder and darker. I began to _________confidence. Should we leave the car and seek shelter? Would our driver ever_________?Was he a trustworthy man? We were very_________.
A couple of hours passed.____________, the headlights from another car could be seen in the____________. An unfamiliar man got out of the car. He looked ______________at first until his mouth opened with a big friendly smile. He asked us to get into the ____________with him. He had such a kind face, so we knew we could ______________him. We climbed into the car.
Before we left, he put a note on the windshield(挡风玻璃) of our car with his phone number on it. Then he drove us to a nearby village, and we ____________his family. They offered us tea and local foods, and everyone asked us questions and were thrilled to have ____________guests.
Later that evening, the phone rang. It was our ______________. He had kept his work and____________the car. We prepared to leave and thanked our new friends.
I will never forget the____________and hospitality(好客) we received on that day because we relied on a(n) ______________for help.
1.A. afraid B. tired C. bored D. nervous
2.A. stopped B. began C. continued D. kept
3.A. fresher B. hotter C. cooler D. drier
4.A. patience B. luck C. success D. fun
5.A. food B. help C. fuel D. light
6.A. exact B. secret C. special D. faraway
7.A. lose B. express C. build D. share
8.A. visit B. believe C. return D. fail
9.A. disappointed B. ashamed C. puzzled D. worried
10.A. Gradually B. Immediately C. Suddenly D. Formally
11.A. air B. end C. dark D. daytime
12.A. unhealthy B. unhappy C. unfriendly D. uncomfortable
13.A. shelter B. car C. house D. mountains
14.A. give up B. look after C. come across D. rely on
15.A. met B. left C. helped D. invited
16.A. familiar B. regular C. unwelcome D. unexpected
17.A. guest B. driver C. member D. relative
18.A. bought B. fixed C. driven D. washed
19.A. courage B. beauty C. warmth D. need
20.A. engineer B. traveler C. stranger D. cook
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Everyone, from homeless people to billionaires, is likely to be influenced by stress; there’s simply no way to avoid it.1.Here are five powerful tips for ways to kill stress in almost any situation.
Eat Healthier
Though a lot of stress is psychological, there are also plenty of physical factors that lead to this natural human response to noticed danger. In order to relieve stress, make sure you’re treating your body right. A big part of this is eating healthier.2.Anyway, adopting an alkaline(碱性的) diet instead of an acidic(酸性的) one is recommended.
Wake Up Earlier
3.However, waking up 15 or 20 minutes earlier each morning may have more benefits than sleeping in. By giving yourself some extra time, you won’t feel quite rushed in the morning, which leads to better preparation and more confidence.
4.
Since you are never going to remove 100 percent of the stress in your life, one of the best things you can do is let it be one of your motivations. This is what stress is designed to do, after all. The psychological and physical reactions brought on by stress are supposed to heighten our senses and empower us to fight off a threat.
Watch a Funny Video
Here is a simple and practical tip: watch a funny video on YouTube. Research shows that seeing something amusing activates the part of the brain that produces calm physiological(生理的) responses. This can lead to less anxiety and more happiness.
Take Walk Outside
Whenever possible, make sure you take your walk outdoors.5.It can improve energy levels and memory by as much as 20 percent.
A. A number of studies show that spending time in the open is a great way to relieve stress.
B. Diet and relaxation are two important keys to good health.
C. There are no magic “anti-stress” foods.
D. However, there are ways to reduce the amount of stress you suffer from.
E. Keep Positive Relationships
F. Let Stress Motivate You
G. It is certainly true that the more sleep you get, the less stressed you’ll be.
I’m seventeen. I had worked as a box boy at a supermarket in Los Angeles. People came to the counter and you put things in their bags for them and carried things to their cars. It was hard work.
While working, you wear a plate with your name on it. I once met someone I knew years ago. I remembered his name and said, "Mr. Castle, how are you?" We talked about this and that. As he left, he said, "It was nice talking to you, Brett." I felt great, he remembered me. Then I looked down at my name plate. Oh, no. He didn’t remember me at all. He just read the name plate. I wish I had put "Irving" down on my name plate. If he’d have said, "Oh yes, Irving, how could I forget you?" I’d have been ready for him. There’s nothing personal here.
The manager and everyone else who were a step above the box boys often shouted orders. One of these was: you couldn’t accept tips. Okay, I’m outside and I put the bags in the car. For a lot of people, the natural reaction is to take a quarter and give it to me. I’d say, "I’m sorry, I can’t." They’d get angry. When you give someone a tip, you’re sort of being polite. You take a quarter and you put it in their hand and you expect them to say, "Oh, thanks a lot." When you say, "I’m sorry, I can’t." they feel a little put down. They say, "No one will know." And they put it in your pocket. You say, "I really can’t."
It gets to a point where you almost have to hurt a person physically to prevent him from tipping you. It was not in agreement with the store’s belief in being friendly. Accepting tips was a friendly thing and made the customer feel good. I just couldn’t understand the strangeness of some people’s ideas. One lady actually put it in my pocket, got in the car, and drove away. I would have had to throw the quarter at her or eaten it or something.
I had decided that one year was enough. Some people needed the job to stay alive and fed. I guess I had the means and could afford to hate it and give it up.
1.What can be the best title for this text?
A. The Art of Taking Tips
B. Why I Gave up My Job
C. How Hard Life Is for Box Boys
D. Getting along with Customers
2.From the second paragraph, we can infer that ________.
A. the writer didn’t like the impersonal part of his job
B. Mr. Castle mistook Irving for Brett
C. with a name plate, people can easily start talking
D. Irving was the writer’s real name
3.The box boy refused to accept tips because ________.
A. customers only gave small tips
B. he didn’t want to fight with the customers
C. the store didn’t allow the box boys to take tips
D. some customers had strange ideas about tipping
4.The underlined phrase "put down" in the third paragraph probably means ________.
A. misunderstood B. defeated
C. hateful D. hurt
of hours passed.____________, the headlights from another car could be seen in the____________. An unfamiliar man got out of the car. He looked ______________at first until his mouth opened with a big friendly smile. He asked us to get into the ____________with him. He had such a kind face, so we knew we could ______________him. We climbed into the car.
C. special D. faraway