“Sweetheart, you look beautiful! Let’s take a picture so Mommy can see how special you look.” I took the picture and thanked God that I didn’t miss the opportunity to reaffirm(再肯定)what a perfect little angel he had given me.
21. When the author found the house was abnormally quite, ______.
A. he went on with his work B. he went to check on his daughter
C. he called his daughter to e over D. he knew his daughter must be behaving well 22. When he saw his daughter’s face, the author _______. A. thought she was so beautiful and lovely a girl B. no longer saw her as an angel
C. flew into an unfortable disappointment D. remembered the words he was scolded with
23. What does the underlined sentence “I had her cornered” mean? A. She had been in the corner of the room B. She had screamed out of fear
C. I had forced her into a position from which she couldn’t escape D. She had escaped from one corner to another
B
You may be familiar with the following famous people, but have you heard of their graduation speeches, in which they either share their unforgotten experiences or give you some great inspiration(启迪).
●Michael Dell, University of Texas at Austin
And now you've acplished something great and important here, and it's time for you to move on to what's next. And you must not let anything prevent you from taking those first steps. ... You must also mit to the adventure. Just have faith in the skills and the knowledge you've been blessed (赐予)with and go.
●J.K. Rowling, Harvard University
Half my lifetime ago ,I was striking an uneasy balance between my ambition and the expectation from my parents who were not rich...But what I feared most for myself at your age was not poverty(贫穷), but failure. The fact that you are graduating from Harvard suggests that you know little about failure, you might be driven by a fear of failure quite as much as a desire for success.
●Steve Jobs, Stanford University
Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith...Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what
you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking, and don't settle.
●Bill Gates, Harvard University
We need as many people as possible to have access to the advanced technology to lead to a revolution in what human beings can do for one another. They are making it possible not just for national governments, but for universities ,smaller organizations, and even individuals to see problems, see approaches and deal with the world's inequities（不公平）like hunger, poverty, and so on.
24.What Michael Dell said is to urge us to .
A. listen to our
heart B. pursue our dreams
C. follow others' example D. learn from our mistakes
25.What did J.K. Rowling fear most when she was studying in university?
A. Poverty. B. Hunger. C. Failure. D. Appearance. 26.Who wants to express \
A. Michael Dell. B. J.K. Rowling. C. Bill Gates. D. Steve Jobs. 27.What does Bill Gates suggest people do?
A. Make contributions to the environment. B. Take responsibility for their own behavior.
C. Make joint efforts to rid some global problems. D. Master as much advanced technology as possible.
C
Move over millennials(千禧一代), here es Generation Z, today’s youngest group.
Born in 1995 or later, a lot of Gen Z-ers are entering into adulthood and will soon join the workforce. People of Generation Z have grown up with the internet. Policy makers, sociologists, as well as employers and marketers, are trying their best to understand these young people. So, how should we pin down the Gen Z-ers?
Most people will agree that the single biggest difference between Gen Z and other generations is how connected they are. This is a group of people who were hooked up to social media as soon
as they were born. A recent Guardian article says that the average teenager in the UK has at least 150 followers on Instagram and spends around half an hour a day on Snapchat, an image messaging app. “We are the first true digital natives,” Hannah Payne, an 18-year-old UCLA student and lifestyle blogger. “I can almost create a document, edit it, post a photo on Instagram and talk on the phone at the same time, all from the user-friendly interface(界面) of my iPhone. The Guardian also notes that young people in the UK are being more active in politics. Voting is just one way of making one’s voice heard. Most of Generation Z are still too young to vote, says the Guardian. Instead of party politics, they focus more on single-topic issues such as feminism(男女平等)or climate change. And “much of the civil engagement and organizing they do takes place on social media rather than through traditional political structures,” according to the newspaper.
28. The underlined phrase “pin down” in the second paragraph can be replaced by ______. A. set an example to B. have an interest in C. give an explanation for D. make a decision on
29. The biggest difference between Generation Z and other generations lies in _________. A. how linked they are B. how enthusiastic they are
C. how they municate with each other
D. how many hours they spend on the Internet 30. What do Instagram and Snapchat have in mon? A. They are newly-created cellphones B. They are popular among millennials
C. They are online games invented by teenagers D. They are applications applauded by teenagers 31. What can we infer from the last paragraph? A. Generation Z have great interest in politics B. Most Gen Z-ers haven’t entered the political field C. Voting is the only way of making yourself noticed
D. Voting on social media is the same as voting through traditional ways
D
British English may have e first, but around the world, the American way of spelling is now far more popular.
A recent examination of the English language shows that publications now largely use the
American version swapping words like “centre” for “center” after the 1880s. To get data, researchers used Google’s Ngram Viewer to analyze the words found in all English-language publications from 1800 to 2000. Entering a word into the viewer will show how frequently it occurs within the massive corpus(语料库)of books around the world.
According to the data, this shift was further strengthened around World War I. Since then, English-language publications have preferred “gray” and “flavor” instead of “grey” and “flavour”. The American spelling has continued to grow over the years, with “liter” passing “liter” around 1900, and “center” being the more mon choice over “centre” in 1913. “1913 marked a turning point in British spelling, as the American alternative became more frequently used in literature,” the post explains, in regard to “center”. This was just a year before the beginning of World War I, which many views as a key period in America’s rise to superpower status.
Though this switched again between 1920s and the late 1930s, the American, spelling took over for good around 1940, during which time the spelling “airplane” shifted dramatically over “aeroplane”.
Ever since the middle of the 19 century, even the British Isles have slowly rejected the old spelling. The future is gray for British English. 32. Which of the following is true?
A. American spelling takes over all the time B. British people refuse to use American spelling C. All the media prefer American spelling
D. The change in spelling is more obvious around World War I 33. What’s the main idea of the second paragraph? A. The popularity of American spelling B. The examples of the change in spelling C. The history of English spelling
D. The reason for the change in English spelling 34. The passage is developed _______.
A. by space B. by time C. by process D. by logic 35. The passage is written to _____.
A. introduce the change of English spelling B. encourage the change in English spelling
C. pare the difference between American spelling and British spelling
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