1. They should make use of their spare time to taste these wonderful works carefully.
2. A farmer told us how to pick oranges.
3. The class teacher had us clean the classroom yesterday.
4. We do sincerely hope that your health will improve soon.
5. I feel it our duty to serve the people heart and soul.
6. What you said just now didn’t make me happy.
7. We must get together again some day.
8. If I am not busy tomorrow, I will play football with you.
9. The question is that no one knows the location of the new hospital.
10. There is a table in the room.
2 . The number of trees larger than two feet across has declined by 50 percent on more than 46, 000 square miles of California forests, the new study finds. No area was spared or unaffected, from the foggy northern coast to the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the San Gabriels above Los Angeles. In the Sierra high country, the number of big trees has fallen by more than 55 percent; in parts of southern California the decline was nearly 75 percent.
What is the second paragraph mainly about?
| A．The seriousness of big-tree loss in California. |
| B．The increasing variety of California big trees. |
| C．The distribution of big trees in California forests. |
| D．The influence of farming on big trees in California. |
3 . Aside from being beautiful and promoting growth, the team observed that due to these lights, they needed to use 50 percent less pesticides (杀虫剂) on the crop. This is because this specific recipe of lights activated the defense system of the plants. And as it works on all crops, not just leeks, Roosegaarde foresees a way to reduce the use of pesticides on many other plants. And his project will soon be touring 40 countries, and sending its dancing lights across the world.
Why are less pesticides needed on the crop with the lights alongside?
| A．The lights make it more resistant to pests. |
| B．The lights kill off most of the pests on it. |
| C．The lights are too bright for pests to tolerate. |
| D．The lights are equipped with a defense system. |
4 . Some parents will buy any high-tech toy because they think it will help their child, but researchers said puzzles help children with math-related skills.
The researchers analyzed video recordings of 53 child-parent pairs during every-day activities at home and found children who play with puzzles between 26 and 46 months of age have better spatial skills when assessed at 54 months of age.
The findings were published in the journal Developmental Science.
What is the text mainly about?
| A．A mathematical method. | B．A scientific study. | C．A woman psychologist. | D．A teaching program. |
5 . In the past few years, an increasing number of people and organisations have begun coming up with plans to counter this trend. A couple of years ago, film-maker David Bond realised that his children, then aged five and three, were attached to screens to the point where he was able to say "chocolate" into his three-year-old son's ear without getting a response. He realised that something needed to change, and, being a London media type, appointed himself "marketing director for Nature". He documented his journey as he set about treating nature as a brand to be marketed to young people. The result was Project Wild Thing, a film which charts the birth of the Wild Network a group of organisations with the common goal of getting children out into nature.
Which of the following can replace the underlined word "charts" in paragraph 2
| A．records | B．predicts |
| C．delays | D．confirms |
6 . After more than a year, the two bears returned to the wild. “Not a lot of agencies have the funding to do this kind of work. We hope to leave the state of Washington with better bear management than when we arrived,” said Rich Beausoleil, WDFW biologist. “We’ve found our public here in Washington appreciate that we go the extra miles and give these orphaned bears a second shot at life.”
What is the public’s attitude to freeing the two orphaned bears?
| A．Unclear. | B．Doubtful. | C．Intolerant. | D．Favorable. |
7 . Jennifer Mauer has needed more willpower than the typical college student to pursue her goal of earning a nursing degree. That willpower bore fruit when Jennifer graduated from University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and became the first in her large family to earn a bachelor’s degree.
What can we learn from Jennifer’s story?
| A．Time is money. |
| B．Love breaks down barriers. |
| C．Hard work pays off. |
| D．Education is the key to success. |
1. Hearing what he said, everybody laughed.
2. Most students in my class like playing chess.
3. His being late made the teacher very angry.
4. The book lying on the desk is on American history.
5. To finish the task on time is impossible.
6. There are many kinds of TV sets on sale in that store.
7. The red flags waved in the wind.
8. Mr. White will give us a talk next week.
9. This bed seems hard.
10. How interesting the film is!
9 . Still, 55 percent of Australians have a landline phone at home and only just over a quarter (29%) rely only on their smartphones according to a survey (调查). Of those Australians who still have a landline, a third concede that it’s not really necessary and they’re keeping it as a security blanket — 19 percent say they never use it while a further 13 percent keep it in case of emergencies. I think my home falls into that category.
What does the underlined word “concede” in paragraph 3 mean?
| A．Admit. | B．Argue. |
| C．Remember. | D．Remark. |
10 . It’s possible that interstellar space explorers could come across problems communicating with previous and subsequent arrivals, as their spoken language has changed in isolation along the way.
Regarding the issue, two American scholars, Andrew McKenzie and Jeffrey Punske, co-authored the article “Language Development During Interstellar Travel”. What has been discussed in the article is the concept of language change over time. They wrote that given more time, new grammatical forms can completely replace current ones.
What is the text mainly about?
| A．Why space travelers change their language. |
| B．How language is changed in the future time. |
| C．The language issue during interstellar travel. |
| D．New concepts of language created in a spaceship. |
