1、B. People in long lines are waiting for the bus.C. The woman will set off despite the traffic jam.D. The man will help the woman to pick up her son.4. A. The dress is on end-of-season sale.B. The woman does it out of her own choice.C. This invitation requires dressing formally.D. A wedding ceremony
2、welcomes individuality.5. A. The restaurant serves good food.B. The girl wants to eat in the school dining hall.C. The restaurant is too far away from their school.D. The quiet atmosphere when eating is the first choice.6. A. Only true friendship can last long.B. Letter writing is going out of style
3、.C. His former classmate just dropped him a line.D. She has lost contact with most of her old friends.7. A. He appreciates the security of the app. B. He finds it inconvenient to operate.C. Hes eager to recommend it to others. D. Hes willing to try it immediately.8. A. Attracting more people to thro
4、w coins. B. Sponsoring the needy people in Rome.C. Enabling the tourist to return to Rome. D. Proving the truth of a story on old customs.9. A. He looks happier lately. B. He manages his time well.C. Hes improved the way he looks. D. He follows directions more carefully now.10. A. She is not feeling
5、 very well today. B. She thinks the weather is pleasant.C. She has been working hard in the lab. D. She has been staying up quite late recently.Section B In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of the short passages
6、and the longer conversation. The short passages and the longer conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 throu
7、gh 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. The number of students involved.B. The supply of computers, tablets and smartphones.C. The Internet, teachers IT ability and students IT equipment.D. The Internet speed, educational TV programming and test security.12. A. 500. B. 1000. C. 1500. D. 150,
8、000.13. A. Educators complaints about the online platforms.B. Millions of teachers working for online platforms.C. The supply of computers, tablets and smartphones.D. An online educational scheme to help disadvantaged children.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. They co
9、ver as many as three countries.B. They contain four peaks over 8,000 meters.C. Everest is the tallest and easiest peak to climb.D. Everest is one peak with good technical support.15. A. Because the rate of successes to deaths is about 24 to one.B. Because there are more snow storms happening on aver
10、age.C. Because the mountain is of loose quality with natural disasters.D. Because the lack of oxygen makes breathing problem more seriously.16. A. The introduction to mountain climbing.B. The ways to overcome difficulties as mountaineers.C. The most challenging mountains to climb in the world.D. The
11、 relationship between taking breath and mountain height.Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.17. A. A famous photographer. B. Photographic technology in the 1800s.C. Photographic equipment used in the 1800s. D. A new museum about photography.18. A. Appearance. B. Character
12、. C. Social status. D. Role in history.19. A. Bright. B. Colorful. C. Black and white. D. Vague.20. A. Because she wanted to give John a surprise.B. Because she was unsure whether John liked such things.C. Because she was uncertain whether the tickets would be available.D. Because she didnt know the
13、 exact time for the opening of the exhibition.II. Grammar and Vocabulary After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use
14、one word that best fits each blank.Scientists say cure for baldness could be closeHelp may soon be at hand for those who are losing or have lost their hair. A team of Japanese scientists has discovered stem cells 21_ are vital in the hair regeneration process. This is promising news for the millions
15、 of people worldwide who suffer from baldness. A cure has escaped 22_ (understand) by scientists for decades, 23_ extensive research and significant investment in research. The scientists are now setting out on clinical research and laboratory trials. They hope to adapt the stem cells to finally cre
16、ate a therapy for hair loss. Baldness principally affects men. By the age of 35, around two-thirds of men will experience some degree of hair loss and by the age of 50, up to 85 per cent will experience significantly thinning hair.The scientists took fur cells from mice and cultured them in the lab.
17、 They shared an observation 24_ hair growth was a cyclical process within the follicle (毛囊). They analysed the stem cells and used 220 combinations of chemicals 25_ (make) the hair regrow naturally. Lead scientist Takashi Tsuji said, “Our culture system establishes a method for cyclical regeneration
18、 of hair follicles from hair follicle stem cells and will help make hair follicle regeneration therapy a reality in the near future.” He added, “Losing hair is not life-threatening, 26_ it negatively affects the quality of life.” Sam Baker, a 52-year-old bank worker, hopes the therapy 27_ work. He s
19、aid, “Having a full head of hair again will make me look ten years 28_ (young)”.It has to pass clinical trials 29_ this baldness cure becomes commercially available. So far, the researchers 30_ (demonstrate) stem cell therapy in preclinical lab tests. Tsuji said they were looking for outside collabo
20、rators to help develop clinical applications for the new hair growth technology. Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A. earth-bound B. repeatedly C. decay D. increasinglyE. redirect F. detecting G.
21、 complexity H. self-destructingI. exhibit J. protective K. atmosphereNew Effort To Clean Up Space Junk Reaches Orbit (轨道)A demonstration mission to test an idea to clean up space debris (碎片) was launched Monday morning local time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Known as ELSA-d, the missi
22、on will 31_ technology that could help capture space junk, the millions of pieces of orbital debris that float above Earth.The more than 8,000 metric tons of debris threaten the loss of services we rely on for 32_ life, including weather forecasting, telecommunications and GPS systems.The spacecraft
23、 works by attempting to -attach itself to dead satellites and pushing them toward Earth to burn up in the 33_.The mission, which will be run from the U.K., will carry out this catch and release process 34_ over the course of six months. The goal is to prove the servicer satellites ability to track d
24、own and remove with its target in varying levels of 35_.Space junk has been a growing problem for years as human-made objects such as old satellites and spacecraft parts build up in low Earth orbit until they 36_, deorbit, explode or crash with other objects, breaking into smaller pieces of waste.Ac
25、cording to a recent report by NASA, at least 26,000 of the millions of pieces of space junk are orbiting along at 17,500 mph, they could “destroy a satellite on impact”. More than 500,000 pieces are a “mission-ending threat” because of their ability to impact 37_ systems, fuel tanks and spacecraft c
26、abins.The development of other cleanup technologies has been in progress for years. In 2016, Japans space agency sent a 700-meter chain into space to try to slow down and 38_ space junk. In 2018, a device called RemoveDebris successfully cast a net around a copy satellite.The European Space Agency a
27、lso plans to send a(n) 39_ robot into orbit in 2025, which the organizations former director general has referred to as a space “vacuum cleaner”.These efforts could prove 40_ important as private space ventures like SpaceX continue to disorder low Earth orbit with a huge number of satellites.III. Re
28、ading Comprehension 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.It is understandable that the plan to raise the retirement age has sparked debates, because the move involves indivi
29、duals interests and delayed retirement has been on countries _41_ for a long time.The wider the debate is, the clearer the issues will be. The first misunderstanding is that the government is thinking over raising the retirement age to _42_ the so-called shortfall in pension funds. The fact is, there is no such thing as a nationwide shortfall in the pension funds, because the situation varies from region to region. So we need a _43_ pension system to ensure all region
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