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10．Xie Lei lives with a host family who give her        good advice．Which is wrong？（　　）
A．lots ofB．muchC．plenty ofD．a number of

分析 谢蕾和寄宿家庭一起居住，这个寄宿家庭给了她好的建议．下面哪一项错了？

解答 答案：D．advice为不可数名词，lots of/plenty of后接可数或不可数名词均可，much后接不可数名词，而a number of后接可数名词复数，故不能用a number of，故选D．

点评 本题考查表达数量的短语辨析．根据表达数量后接名词类型加以区分．

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As  China's  economic  miracle  develops，the  market  opportunities for all sorts of luxury goods and services are  increasing．Luxury consumption in China now extends ways  beyond well-known car，clothing and jewelry brands．For  example，the luxury jet market in China is the fastest-growing  in the world，even  outstripping that of the United States，with a market share of 25percent．This trend appears to continue，with 20to 30percent growth expected in China，compared with only 2to 3percent in the US．But more importantly，China's luxury jet market growth represents a major development in the private consumption of luxury items．
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28．What do you think the author would most probably be？C
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B．An accountant．
C．A professor．
D．A conductor．
29．The underlined word"outstripping"in Paragraph 2probably  means"C"．
A．falling far behind of
B．going out of
C．going far ahead of
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30．What can we learn from Paragraph 2and 3？B
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D．China's red wine consumption has increased to 1.86billion bottles since 2013．
31．What can be the best title for the passage？B
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B．Chinese Appetite for Luxury Goods and Services
C．The Potential Luxury Jet Market in China
D．The Maturity of the Chinese Consumers．
1．"Plants were expected to get larger with increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere，but changes in temperature，humidity （湿度） and nutrient availability seem to have trumped the benefits of increased carbon dioxide，"said researchers from  the National University of Singapore
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67．What does the text mainly talk about？D
A．Why some species become smaller．
B．How climate changes in Earth's history．
C．Climate change has many negative effects．
D．Species are becoming smaller as climate gets warmer．
68．What does the underlined word"trumped"in paragraph l mean？A
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70．What does the auther feel about the climate change？A
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A．be shown on only one page．           B．show the time of the tasks or events．
C．include appointments and activities． D．only record the important events．
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D．It can help us know how to change our schedules．
32．The passage mainly tells us thatD．
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5．Cleveland has won the distinction of being the worst city in the United States，according to a new survey．The city has high unemployment，terrible weather，heavy taxes，and ordinary sports teams，all of which have pushed it to the No.1 position in the Forbes．com list．
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68．From the text we can learn thatD．
A．Cleveland has been entitled a lovely nickname
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C．Miami scored in the bottom 10 percent in all nine categories
D．commuting time in New York is too long
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A．The number of officials who are guilty is large in Memphis．
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C．High income taxes made New York get 16th place．
D．Ohio has the country's highest sales tax．
70．The word"blur"underlined in the last paragraph but one probably meansB
A．make it possible   B．make it unclear  C．make if obvious  D．make it important
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C．Cleveland，Stockton，Miami，Chicago，Florida．
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If you leave your bike in a strange place，put it near something like a big stone or a tree．Note landmarks on the route as you go away from your bike．When you return，go back along the same route．
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A．people never lose their sense of direction
B．everybody has a sense of direction from birth
C．some babies are born with a sense of direction
D．people learn a sense of direction as they grow older
64．What is true of seven-year-old children according to the passage？B
A．They never have a sense of direction without maps．
B．They have a sense of direction and can find their way around．
C．They should never be allowed out alone if they lack a sense of direction．
D．They can develop a good sense of direction if they are driven around in a car．
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A．Tie it to a tree so as to prevent it from being stolen．
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C．Remember something easily recognizable on the route．
D．Avoid taking the same route when you come back to it．
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B．Our ancient ancestors had no better surviving abilities than we do nowadays．
C．Humans have been getting steadily more intelligent since the invention of farming．
D．Mutations in genes that decide human intelligence have affected the development of intelligence．
62．According to Crabtree，ancient humansB
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B．were forced to be smart due to natural selection pressures
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D．developed a diverse intelligence to adapt to the hard realities
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A．people today are under much more pressure than early humans
B．it's ridiculous to compare a hunter's and a poet's intelligence
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D．human intelligence nowadays is different from that of the distant past
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A．Supportive          B．Unfavorable           C．Worried            D．Confused．
19．We may all like to consider ourselves free spirits．But a study of the tracks left by 50，000mobile phone users over three months has finally proved that the truth is otherwise．
"We are all in one way or another boring，"says Albert-Laszlo Barabasi at the Center for Complex Network Research at Northeastern University in Boston，who co-wrote the study．"Spontaneous individuals are largely absent from the population，"
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Surprisingly，the mobile phone data showed that individuals'movements were more or less as predictable at weekends as on weekdays，suggesting that routine（日程） is rooted in human nature rather than being an effect of work patterns．
The mobile phone records were handled to make out the most visited locations for each user．Then the probability of finding a given user at his most visited locations at each hour through the day was calculated．
People were to be found in their most visited location for any given hour 70percent of the time．Not surprisingly，the figure increased at night，and decreased at lunchtime and in the early evening，when most people were returning home from work．
The team analyzed the randomness（随意性） of people's traces to show it was possible in theory to predict the average person's places as much as 93percent of the time．
"Say your routine movement is from home to the coffee shop to work：if you are at home and then go to the coffee shop it's easy for me to predict that you are going to work，"says co-author Nicholas Blumm．
This predictability was not much affected by differences in age，gender，language spoken or whether a person lived in a rural or urban setting．

58．The"spontaneous individuals"are most probably people whoB．
A．are boring in some way
B．act with much freedom
C．can live without a mobile phone
D．rely much on a mobile phone in life
59．A phone user's location is shown byC．
A．which mobile phone network he is connected to
B．the content of his every phone call
C．which mobile phone tower he is connected to
D．how often he uses the phone every day
60．According to the sixth paragraph，a person is more likely toD at night than in the early evening．
A．return home from work
B．be found at home
C．take home as his most visited place
D．go to his most visited place
61．What is the passage mainly about？B
A．The factors that help determine one's routine．
B．The predictability of one's routine．
C．The influence of mobile phones on one's routine．
D．The new application of mobile phone．
20．He hurried to the station onlyto find（find ）that the train had left．

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