I.Grammar
1.Many workers are organized to clear away _____________ remained of the World
Trade Center.
A.those
B.that
C.what夏望平
D.where
2.Mr. Reed made up his mind to devote all he had to _______ some schools for poor
children.
A.set up
B.setting up
C.have set up
D.having set up
3.Mr. Green stood up in defense of the 16-year-old boy, saying that he was not the
one _________.
A.blamed
B.blaming
< blame
< be blamed
4.He will surely finish the job on time _______ he’s left to do it in his own way.
A.each time
B.so long as
C.even though
D.as far as
5.The behavior of gases is explained by _______ scientists call the kinetic theory.
A.what
B.that
C.which
D.why
6.The bell _____ the end of the period rang, ______ our heated discussion.
A.indicating…interrupting中国商检局
B.indicated…interrupting
C.indicating…interrupted
D.indicated…interrupted
7.______ and happy, Tony stood up and accepted the prize.
A.surprising
B.Surprised
C.Being surprised
D.To be surprising
8.— Was his father very strict with him when he was at school?
— Yes. He had never praised him ______ he became one of the top students in his grade.
A.after
B.unless
C.until
D.when
9.If you are travelling _______ the customs are really foreign to your own, please do
as the Romans do.
A.in which
B.what
C.when
D.where
10.We will be for ________ promises to volunteer to help us solve the puzzling
problem.
A.whoever
B.whomever
< matter who
< matter whom
11.The secretary worked late into the night, _______ a long speech for the president.
< prepare
B.preparing
C.prepared
D.having prepared
12.Mother was worried because little Alice was ill, especially ______ Father was away
in France.
爱像一颗子弹A.as
B.that
C.during
D.if
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规划设计13.________ she became an artist may have been due to her father’s influence.A.Why
B.That
C.What
D.Whether
14.________, the thief hid himself under the bed without daring to make a sound.
A.Not caught
B.Not having caught
C.Not to be caught
D.Not being caught
15.— I prefer shutting myself in and listening to music all day on Sundays.
— That’s _______ I don’t agree. You should have a more active life.
A.where
B.how
C.when
D.what
16.________ think of their plan, no one can deny that they are bold and have much
imagination.
A.How we may
B.No matter how we may
C.Whatever we may
D.Though we may
17.The supermarket closed _______ we had time to get the last-minute food, which
added to our misery.
A.when
B.until
<
D.before
18.________ is known to us all is that the 2010 World Expo is taking place in Shanghai.
A.It
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B.What
C.As
D.Which
19.Charles Babbage is generally considered _______ the first computer.
< have invented
B.inventing
< invent
D.having invented
20.The life the businessman had long been used to _______ soon after the big failure
of this business.
A.changing
B.changed
C.change
D.changes
II.Vocabulary
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
Cats know their names
Cats are known for their indifference to humans：almost any owner will testify to how readily these animals ignore us when we call them. But a new study indicates ___21___ cats do recognize their own names —even if they walk away when they hear them.
Atsuko Saito, a behavioral scientist now at Sophia University in Tokyo, previously showed that cats c
an recognize their owner’s voice. In her latest study, which involved 78 cats from Japanese ___22___ and a “cat café,” she homed in on responses to their names.
Saito and her colleagues first had owners ___23___ say four words that sounded similar to their cats’ names until the animals got familiar with those words and stopped responding. Next the owners said the actual names, and the researchers looked at whether individual cats(when living among other cats) appeared able to ___24___ their monikers(绰号). The cats had more pronounced responses to their own names than to similar words or other cats’ names.
The researchers also had people unfamiliar to the cats speak the names. Although the felines’ responses were less ___25___ than when their owners called them, they still appeared to recognize their names.
“This new study clearly shows that many cats react to their own names when spoken by their owners,” says biologist John Bradshaw, who formerly studies human-animal ___26___ at the University of Bristol’s Anthrozoology Institute and was not involved in the work. But Bradshaw says he is less ___27___ cats can recognize their names when spoken by someone unfamiliar. “I think it’s entirely possible that some cats are able to generalize between one human voice and another, but I’d like to see more trials before I’d say that the evidence is ___28___,” he says.
Saito says the felines in the experiments probably “associated their names with some ___29___ or punishments,” and she thinks it is unlikely they understand that these sounds are attached to them as individuals. “There is no evidence that cats have the ability to recognize themselves, like us,” she explains. “So the recognition of their name is different from ours.”
Whether that could allow humans to train cats to respond to ___30___—as dogs readily do—is another matter. “Cats are just as good as dogs at learning,” Bradshaw says. “They are just not as keen to show their owners what they’ve learned.
III.Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
Instead of cruising in on a hoverboard, I rode my bike to the office today. The bicycle was invented in the 19th century. Instead of taking a pill for breakfast, I had a bacon roll, cooked using gas. Science fiction has __31__ to us.
Making predictions is tricky, especially about the future, as physicist Niels Bohr joked. In science fiction, you can’t escape that __32__, though. Since its birth in the 19th century, writers have __33__ imagined the things to come: devices that humankind will invent to make life easier. But in so many instances, those promises have not come to pass. The biggest __34__ are in travel --- jet packs, hoverboards and flying cars are yet to fill the skies. Air travel has become significantly cheaper and wide-reaching, but only using distinctly 20th-century technology: commercial aeroplanes are much the same as they were 50 years ago.
__35__ is what science fiction frequently delivers, but its arrival in the real world has been unpredictable. Domestic robots with a degree of intelligence are yet to __36__, though robotic vacuum cleaners are commercially available --- even if they are fairly hopeless. Video calls have now arrived --- sort of --- but conferencing on Skype is still dissatisfying. In mobiles, video call technology is now available, so when your dad rings to update you on his vegetable patch, he’ll be able to __37__ your look of boredom.
The truth is that we quickly __38__ the astonishment of invention; our wonderment is soon replaced with the feeling of nothing new. We should try to stay in that period of __39__. It is astonishing that the contents of every book ever written can be stored in a small box. Or that you can carry 10,000 al
bums on an object kept in your pocket. Or that almost all the information in the world can be accessed almost anywhere at any time. All these __40__ are dependent on the emergence of the microchip and its place in computers. Yet sci-fi didn’t __41__ the dominance of the computer in running our lives.
But the real area where __42__ far outstrips predictions is medicine. Sure, fiction would describe humans as ‘disease-free’ but without going into detail. “Disease-free” humans are still absent, but the progress made in __43__ life is breathtaking. With
relative ease, we can sequence anyone’s genome (基因组), giving a read-out entire genetic code. This means we can find out the underlying genetic cause of thousands of diseases in minutes.
Photosensitive implants now exist that can replace damaged cells in the retina (视网膜) and can thus __44__ sight to the blind. While the inventions of science fiction can show great ideas we’d like to happen, nothing __45__ the inventiveness of people in the real world.
31.A. turned B.lied C.objected D.talked
32.A. opportunity B.challenge C.imagination D. conflict
33.A. hesitantly B.critically C.temporarily D. tirelessly
34.A. disappointments B.advancements C.enjoyments D. experiments
35.A. Modernization B.Exploration C.Automation D. Transportation
36.A. materialize B.identify C.honour D.liberate
37.A. imagine B.feel C.see D.ignore
38.A. arouse B.discover C.forget D.evaluate
39.A. frustration B.amazement C.boredom D.limitation
40.A. modes B.worries C.potentials D.actions
41.A. predict B.overlook C.motivate D.prevent
42.A. quality B.obstacle C.passion D.reality
43.A. maintaining B.creating C.researching D. encountering
44.A. show B.lend C.restore D.label
45.A. guarantees B.overestimates C.releases D.outperforms
Section B
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
(A)
“It is surprising that people do not believe that there is imagination in science,” Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman once told an audience. Not only is that view apparently false, but “it is a very interesting kind of imagination, unlike that of the artist. The great difficulty is in trying to imagine something that you have never seen, that is consistent in every detail with what has already been seen, and that is different from
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