D
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Tourists and animal lovers hoping to see a bear in Sequoia National Park this fall probably stand a better chance of spotting one in this tiny town at the park’s entrance. Three Rivers is crawling with hungry bears driven down from the mountains by drought in search of food to fatten up for winter. Everyone seems to have photos of the creatures on their phones.
There's no doubt a bear invasion is going on in this town of 2 ,200 that is home to a mix of park employees,businessmen, artists and so on. It is also a place for retirement for Hollywood types that include Anjelica Huston and William Shatner. Most seem delighted by the visiting black bears.
The four-year drought has destroyed the berry crop in the Sierra Nevada and led to fewer flcwws (橡子)，forcing the bears into the valleys carved by the branches of the Kaweah River that give this town its name.
Bears have climbed on roofs for acoms and one was found exploring a bathroom under restoration in a house.A bear tore apart the outer walls of a resident's pump house and a music studio to get at acoms.
The Kaweah Commonwealth reported that bears have been slaughtered,but game wardens (野生動物保把區(qū)的管理員) said it was a lie because of a lack of evidence,such as names of suspects,vehicle descriptions and dead bears. The account,however,has caused conflict between nature lovers and those who think it's unbelievable. I'm upset and sad,and I just question,‘Why?”，said Kathleen McCleary. “I don't see any reason to shoot them."
13. Bears have come down from the mountains because.
A. the park doesn't feed them
B. they want to seek for water
C. they lack food resources there
D. they need a warm place for winter
14. What does the underlined word ^slaughtered^ in the last paragraph probably mean?
A. Defeated. B. Limited.
G. Raised. D. Killed.
15. The author writes the text mainly to .
A. show where to find bears
B. call on people to protect bears
C. introduce a bear invasion in a town
D. explain how to solve the problem of bears
16. The text probably comes from.
A. a lesson plan B. a news report
C. a tourist guidebook D. a geography textbook
D篇
加州的一個小鎮(zhèn)有熊出沒,原來是受干旱影響，山上的熊下山來找食物了。
13. C.細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段中的Three Rivers is crawling with hungry bears 以及第三段中的 The four-year drought has destroyed the berry crop in the Sierra Nevada and led to fewer acoms 可知，熊下山是因為山上缺少食物。
14. D.詞義猜測題。根據(jù)最后一段中的a lie; a lack of evidence; dead bears提示可知，該詞意為“殺戮”。
15. C.寫作目的題。根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容可知，作者旨在介紹加州一個小鎮(zhèn)有熊出沒的故事。
16. B.推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章中介紹加州的一個小鎮(zhèn)有熊出沒可知，本文可能出自一篇新聞報道。
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B
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If you want another reason why residents of New York City have one of the highest costs of living in the U.S., compare babysitting(當臨時保姆) wages with those of people who live in Colorado. According to UrbanSitter’s 2014 Childcare Rate Survey of nine large city areas,the average babysitting wage paid in New York City is $15. 34 per hour while in Denver it's $10. 84 per hour.
Lauren Jimeson from New York City pays her babysitters about $20 an hour. She has three children aged 4 , 3 and an infant(嬰兒)， but she usually does not ask a babysitter to watch all three at the same time.
Jimeson said she was surprised at how low the rates can be in another city during a recent family trip to Florida. aThey found a babysitter based on a friend's recommendation. They only paid around $8 or $10 per hour. My husband and I looked at each other and said ‘Oh,my gosh’ because we pay double that for our kids,” Jimeson said.
Lyz Lenz,blogger (博主) and write behind LyzLenz.com,said she pays her babysitters S8 to $10 an hour in Iowa. Lenz,31, has two children. One is 3 years old and the other is 10 months old. “It's pretty ridiculous since they are in the 9th and 10th grade and not
professionals,” Lenz said of the babysitters. “But we pay the going rate,and more for the babysitters we love,to keep them coming to us. When I was in high school I got paid just $5 an hour for three kids.”
Here are the average hourly babysitting wages in some of the cities that UrbanSitter.com analyzed:
New York City Area： $15. 34 for one child; $16. 76 for two; $18. 74 for three.
San Francisco Area: $14. 99 for one child; $17. 68 for two; $19. 46 for three.
Washingtofi, D.C. — Baltimore Area: $13. 83 for one child; $15. 27 for two; $16. 95 for three.
Greater Boston Area: $13. 64 for one child; $15. 66 for two; $16.77 for three.
5. What surprised Jimeson during a recent family trip to Florida?
A. That it was easy to find a babysitter there.
B. That babysitters were so ridiculous there.
C. That babysitters didn’t mind their wages.
D. That babysitters charged such a low price.
6. Lenz pays more for some babysitters at times to.
A. ask them to do more things
B. prevent them from quitting
C. help them become professionals
D. keep up with the babysitters’ demands
7. Which of the following has the highest babysitting costs for three kids?
A. San Francisco Area. .
B. New York City Area.
C. Greater Boston Area.
D. Washington,D.C. — Baltimore Area.
8. What is the text mainly about?
A. Ways to find babysitters in the U.S.
B. Costs of living in the countyside.
G. Some comments on babysitting.
D. Babysitting wages in the U.S.
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C
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The American Dream has been described as "a dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyoneThis dream became reality once in the United States,but are Americans today enjoying the standard of living that their parents and grandparents enjoyed in the post-war years?
After the Second World War,many Americans became richer and their living standards increased as the economy grew. From 1945 to 1973,incomes increased by about 3% per year. From the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s,incomes rose very slowly,but then they increased sharply for five years between 1995 and 2000. Overall,incomes have been rising by less and less each year and now the annual increase is almost nothing.
Job security and unemployment also play a role in the standard of living. Nowadays,factories and offices are closing,so jobs are less secure. Unemployment,too,is higher than it was in the past. The number of people without a job in the 1950s fell to around 2. 5%, but now this figure stands at around 9. 5%.
Another measure of the standard of living is the health of the population. Life expectancy is an important measurement of the health in a country. Life expectancy has increased from 68 years old in 1950 to 78 today,but the United States is now behind Germany and the United Kingdom (80) , France (81) and Japan (82) . One reason for this problem with life expectancy in the United States is obesity,because this has an effect on the general health of the population. In the United States,35% of adults are obese now,compared wilh 10% in 1950. This increase is due to the consumption of fast food.
Of course,most Americans own more things than in the post-war years such as TVs and phones. However,some economists would argue that the standard of living cannot be rising if people are becoming less healthy,or if they cannot afford to retire. It seems that although we think we have a better standard of living,this may not be the real picture.
9. According to the text,which of the following is a measurement of the health in a country?
A. Obesity rate. B. Life expectancy.
C. The food people eat. D. The exercise people do.
10. How does the author probably feel about the standard of living in America today?
A. Hopeful. B. Surprised.
C. Dissatisfied. D. Uninterested.
11. The author introduces American people's living standards mainly by.
A. listing figures and making comparisons
B. following the order of importance
C. following the order of space
D. giving definitions
12. Which of the following shows the structure of the text?
CP: Central Point P: Point
Sp: Sub-point (次要點) C: Conclusion
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D
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Skydive Greene County
Come out and let us teach you how to skydive today!
We sit in Xenia,Ohio,just outside of the greater Dayton-Miami Valley area and are within a driving distance of many large cities,including Cincinnati,Columbus,Cleveland,Richmond, Indianapolis，and Indiana.
Situated on a private airport,Skydive Greene County offers a large landing area. For our main airships,we have two Twin Turbine Westwinds that carry 12 skydivers to jump altitude. We also have another two as (增援) for our Westwinds.
If this is your first-time skydiving,come out and meet our experienced staff. Our skydiving school first requires tandem skydiving. Under the direct guidance of an instructor,you will fly to a jump altitude of 11 ,500 feet,experience free fall,and then the amazing flight by parachute back to earth all for only $165.
Your tandem skydiving is the first step to becoming a licensed skydiver. The next step is our proven Static Line Course that will teach you everything you need to know about the sport of skydiving from exiting an aircraft to landing. We train beginners from the ground up and then continue to teach them throughout their skydiving,careers,with the final goal of becoming a national champion.
Fpr over 50 years we have been teaching skydivers and providing the skydiving community with continued education. We are Ohio's best Drop Zone which opened in 1961.
Skydive Greene County is a complete skydiving training school that will teach you all facts about the sport. You will receive world-class training and practice jumps to become a national competitor.
13. What does Paragraph 2 mainly tell us about Skydive Greene County?
A. Its traffic. B. Its location.
C. Its equipment. D. Its background.
14. The underlined part “tandem skydiving” in Paragraph 4 shows the skydiver.
A. should be knowledgeable
B. can first experience skydiving for free
C. has no chance to experience free fall at all
D. needs to be guided by an experienced instructor
15. What do we learn about the Static Line Course?
A. It charges $165 for each class.
B. It is taught by national champions.
C. It teaches everything about skydiving.
D. It has been taught for less than 50 years.
16. Skydive Greene County would attract those who want to .
A. become a pilot
B. be a skydiving trainer ,
C. set up a skydiving training school
D. win a national skydiving championship
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C
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Mathematical ability and musical ability may not seem to be connected on the surface,but people who have researched the subject and studied the brain say that they are. Research for my book Late-Talking Children drove home the point to me. Three quarters of the bright but speech-delayed children in the group I studied had a close relative who was an engineer,a ma.thematician or a scientist,and four fifths had a close relative who played a musical instrument. The children themselves usually took readily to mathematics and other analytical subjects or to music.
Black,white and Asian children in this group showed the same patterns. However,it is clear that blacks have been greatly overrepresented in the development of American popular music and greatly underrepresented in such fields as mathematics,science and engineering.
If the abilities required in analytical fields and in music are so closely related,how can there be this great discrepancy? One reason is that the development of mathematical and other such abilities requires years of formal schooling,while certain musical talents can be developed with little or no formal training,which has happened with a number of well-known black musicians.
It is precisely in those kinds of music where one can acquire great skills without formal training that blacks have excelled（擅長） in popular music rather than classical music,piano rather than violin,and blues rather than opera. This is readily understandable,given that most blacks,for most of American history,have not had either the money or the leisure for long years of formal study in music.
Blacks have not merely held their own in American popular music. They have played an extremely large role in the development of jazz,both traditional and modem. None of this presupposes any special (先天的) ability of blacks in music. On the contrary,it is perfectly consistent with blacks having no more such inborn ability than anyone else,but being limited to being able to express such ability in narrower channels than others who have had the money,the time and the formal education to spread out over a wider range of musie,as well as into mathematics,science and engineering.
9. What is the main idea of Paragraph 1 ?
A. More people are good at music than mathematics.
B. Most talented people are good at analytical subjects.
C. Mathematical ability and musical ability are connected.
D. Mathematical ability is more important than musical ability.
10. The underlined word “discrepancy” in Paragraph 3 probably means .
A. purpose B. difference
C. innate ability D. analytical ability
11. Blacks are extremely good at popular music because.
A. they lack formal training ^
B. they don't like classical music
C. they lack strong analytical ability
D. violin and opera are harder for them
12. Which of the following questions is the text mainly concerned with?
A. What kinds of music require formal training?
B. What contributions have black musicians made?
C. Can kids’ musical ability and mathematical ability be influenced by their relatives?
D. Why have blacks excelled in popular music in American history?
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My name is Mae Jemison. When I was a little girl,I was very 21 (interest) in space and science. I dreamed of 22 (travel) to outer space one day. However,it wasn’t a dream that could 23 (easy) come true back then. So when I told others about my dream,I was laughed 24 by them. But I believed that my dream 25 (come) true one day.
Though many people questioned my interest in science,I followed my passion. I went on to attend Stanford University to study engineering. But it was really hard for a woman to become 26 astronaut after I graduated from university. I became a doctor and then joined the Peace Corps to help provide health services for people in Africa.
In Africa I never forgot my childhood dream. While I was working there,I contacted NASA and applied for their astronaut program. Luckily,I 27 (accept) into the space program. In 1992, I traveled into outer space on the Space Shuttle Endeavor. My dream finally came true.
Now I focus on inspiring children 28 (explore) , ask questions,try new ways of doing things,take chances,follow 29 (they) dreams and study science.Do you have a dream? 30 you do,don't give it up!
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二、完形填空(共20小題)
閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的四個選項(八、 B、C和D) 中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項。
How much physical activity do you do in a week? Are you getting enough 21 ? People who do regular activities have a lower risk of many diseases. Physical 'activity also 22 your mood and sleep quality. Today,we are much less 23 than in the past and,our office jobs are far less 24 than the heavy physical work our grandfathers used to do. In fact,many adults spend seven 25 or more on a chair each day.
This 26 of regular physical activity means that people bum fewer 路里) than in the past,so we need to do something extra to 27 all our energy. Some people think exercise can be 28 ,but it doesn't have to be. Team sports such as football can be cheap because all the players 29 the cost of the pitch. Joining a sports club is also a 30 way of getting exercise and can be very sociable,too.
Alternatively,if you don，t want to 31 any money at all,go for a run. The only 32 needed for this is a pair of sports shoes. 33,getting off the bus one stop early
and walking the 34 distance helps. When you stay at home,doing housework or gardening is a great way to get fit and you can enjoy the benefit of a 35 house and a nice garden,too!
36 adults should do two and a half hours’ exercise a week,you don，t have to do it all at one time. Split the 37 into ten-minute sessions! 38,if you do exercise for ten minutes before work,ten minutes during your lunch break and ten minutes after work,five days a week,you could achieve the target 39 !There are many ways of getting fit and we should all recognize the 40 of doing this — we will live longer and be more healthy.
21. A. sleep B. exercise C. food D. progress
22. A. improves B. reflects C. determines D. evaluates
23. A. healthy B. happy C. active D. attractive
24. A. practical B. physical C. busy D. competitive
25. A. seconds B. minutes C. quarters D. hours
26. A. fear B. experience C. lack D. encouragement
27. A. store B. supply C. need D. consume
28. A. expensive B. tiring C. necessary D. boring
29. A. check B. share C. calculate D. increase
30. A. clever B. common C. correct D. cheap
31. A. raise B. borrow G. spend D. earn
32. A. equipment B. method C. partner D. training
33. A. Strangely B. Familiarly C. Similarly D. Frequently
34. A. extra B. special C. safe D. equal
35. A. warm B. big C. tidy D. quiet
36. A. When B. Although C. Unless D. Because
37. A. effort B. energy C. money D. time
38. A. Thus B. However C. In short D. For example
39. A. easily B. suddenly C. carefully D. hardly
40. A. cost B. expectation C. value D. background
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David: Hi,Tony,I'm moving on Sunday. 1. (Could / Should) you help me?
Tony: I 2. (should / would) like to help you,but I have a bad back. I went to my doctor and he suggested me that I
3. (shouldn,t / can't) lift anything heavy for a while. 4. (Would /Can) I help you in any other way?
David: Yes. I need some boxes. 5. (Should/Would) you please help me find some?
Tony: Sure. I have to go shopping tomorrow. I 6. (can / should) pick up some at the supermarket.
David: Boxes 7. (can / will) be heavy.You,d better not lift them yourself.
Tony: Don’t worry. I’ 11 have someone put them in my car for me.
David: Thanks. I have another favour to ask.8. (May / lyíust) I borrow your car on Saturday?
Tony: I have to work on Saturday. Let me ask my brother. He has a car,too. He 9. (will / might) be able to let you use his car.
David: Thanks,rd appreciate it if you 10.(could / might) ask him. I 11. (must / shall) go now. I 12.(couldn’t / can't) go to class all last week. There's so much work to do.
Tony: I know what you mean. You 13.，(can’ t / must) be very tired.
David: Yes.
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