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2、。第一部分 （共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）1It_ have been Tom that parked the car here, as he is the only one with a car.AmayBcanCmustDshould2_ the students from their endless homework the school has decided to take a series of measures.AFreedBTo freeCFreeingDHaving freed3My son turned to bookstores and libraries s
3、eeking information about the book recommended by his professor, but _ none.Awould findBhad foundCfoundDhas been finding4Lets go and have dinner this evening._. Have you come out first in the exam?AThanks a lot. BWhy not?CWhat for? DYes, Id like to.5Before you hand in your final report, _ there are n
4、o spelling mistakes.Amake sureBto make sureCmade sureDmaking sure6She said her _ is enough to support her in later years and that her only hope is that her son can visit regularly. After all she had not much time left.ApensionBbenefitCallowanceDbonus7I prefer a school _teachers have to work as a tea
5、m, instead of fighting against each other.AwhereBthatCasDwhen8 Do you know _ the meeting room earlier? She had a headache.A why Ann left B why did Ann leaveC why Ann will leave D why will Ann leave9The health of garden plants depends on the soil _ -the proper balance of mineral pieces, organic matte
6、r, air and water.Aconstruction BconservationCcorporation Dcomposition.10What impressed me most about the movie were the _ filmed in New York.AsceneryBscenesCsightsDviews11If we use the new recycling method, a large number of trees .Aare savedBwill saveCwill be savedDhave saved12_ the oil under the s
7、ea, the company has raised ample funds to develop petroleum exploration equipment.AExploiting BHaving exploitedCTo exploit DExploited13By doing so, you can _ more information and details about the topic, and better understand it.Akeep up withBdo away withChave access toDget down to14In 2012, Sun Yan
8、g became the first Chinese man _ an Olympic gold medal in swimming.AwinningBto winChaving wonDbeing won15Please dont make so loud noiseThe news of the volcanic eruption in Indonesia _and I want to listenAis broadcastBis being broadcastChas been broadcastDhad been broadcast16He worked in a car factor
9、y for four years, _ he founded his own company in his hometown.Aafter whichBafter whenCafter thatDafter it17I forgot to register for the courses. Im one day late and most of the classes are full. What shall I do?_ You cant do anything about that.ATake your time.BPoor you!CSo what?DNo way!18Working h
10、ard is not a _ of great success, but it is among the essential requirements.AsignBsignalCguaranteeDmark19The scientist does not study nature _ it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it.AuntilBbecauseCthoughDunless20The doctors treatment has worked marvels: the patient has
11、completelyArepeatedBreturnedCrecoveredDreminded第二部分 阅读理解（满分40分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。21（6分）Have you ever had a troubling problem that has left you wondering where to turn for help?Eve Hobsbawm is a life adviser. She offers advice to people struggling with all kinds of problems, from relat
12、ionship difficulties to what to cook for dinner. She does this through a website inviting people to email her with their problems. Theres nothing unusual about that, except for the fact that Eve is only eight years old.This junior trouble-shooter, who also goes by the name Miss Evie Mouse lives in L
13、ondon with her parents. Not only is Miss Mouse willing to lend an ear to her clients, she will also offer them a helping hand, for a fee of course. She charges between 10p for advice on little, everyday worries and 1 for more complicated problems. Her areas of expert knowledge, if not of experience,
14、 are problems about love, life and work-life balance.A problem shared is a problem halved, but Eve cant always help. A note on the site states that she cant answer questions like Does space ever end? and she wont solve schoolwork-related problems, especially not maths.She explained to the Guardian n
15、ewspaper that she was inspired to set up the company by her father who runs a tech start-up. Eve said, As soon as I saw his business and understood the kinds of things businesses do, I thought thats what Im going to do.But since setting up her company in December she has been so overwhelmed with mes
16、sages that she has had to take a step back. There has been a lot of sudden interest in my site, which is nice, she says, but I need to do my homework too, so I wont be solving any more problems for a bit.1、Eve Hobsbawm is an unusual adviser because she_.Aasks for fees for her adviceBis just a pupil
17、at primary schoolCis an expert in work-life balanceDanswers questions on the Internet2、What is peoples attitude towards Eves website?AInterested BDisapprovingCDoubtful DUnconcerned3、Which of the following can best describe Eve?AShe has a lot of experience in life.BShe is very popular among students.
18、CShe has a natural talent for business.DShe is warm-hearted and ready to help.4、Where is the passage most likely to have been taken from?AA book review. BA speech.CAn advertisement. DA news report.22（8分）Half an hour into a cooking competition at Green Street Academy, Tyana Givens, 15, dipped a plast
19、ic spoon into a pot with tomatoes, bell peppers, onions, garlic and mushrooms over a burner in a science classroom. She and the two other students, Kalimah Ball and Maya Smith, were making meat sauce.The girls had spent the past five weeks learning how to grow their own produce using food computers-
20、tabletop greenhouses controlled by computer programs-at Green Street Academy, a charter school in Baltimore. The course, which weaved together lessons on programming, food systems and agriculture, ended with an “Iron Chef”-style cooking contest.With the help of instructor Melanie Shimano, the girls
21、finished their contest successfully using the food they planted in tabletop greenhouses. The tabletop greenhouses can control temperature, light and water inside using the computer code that the students wrote by themselves. Shimano, a 26-year-old entrepreneur, piloted(试行)the course as part of Green
22、 Street Academys junior biotechnology class in the spring and will expand the program to other schools in the fall.“Technology is not something that a lot of teachers have a lot of resources for all the time, but its something thats not difficult to do with a relatively low amount of funding,” Shima
23、no said. “Baltimore is a center for startups and food, so kind of fostering that culture of being into technology and into design and seeing all the pieces fit together is really cool.”While her course is unique to Baltimore, its part of a broader program born at the Massachusetts Institute of Techn
24、ologys Media Lab called the Open Agriculture Initiative, or OpenAg, which aims to create inventive, sustainable food systems through open-source technology. In addition to 10 full-time staff and researchers, OpenAg is primarily an online community of about 1,400 educators, growers, chefs and retaile
25、rs in 47 countries, according to Hildreth England, OpenAgs assistant director.“The interest level across the board generally comes from folks who are concerned about food systems and concerned about the environment, and its usually a combination of the two,” England said.1、Whats special about the co
26、urse taken by Tyana Givens?AIts a cooking courseBIt involves several subjectsCIt is intended for a contestDIt is controlled by tabletop greenhouses.2、Why did the students have to write computer codes to grow food?ATo win a cooking contestBTo finish homeworkCTo create a greenhouseDTo control the grow
27、ing conditions3、Whats Shimanos opinion about technology education?AIt calls of teachers with many resourcesBIt calls for a lot of moneyCIt is supposed to combine skills togetherDIt can only be carried out in big cities.4、What can be learned about the Open Agriculture Initiative?AIt is participated b
28、y full-time. M. I. T researchers as well as people from different walk of lifeBIt will help create a better education systemCIt only covers the USADIt focuses on food and catering industry.23（8分）Supermarket shelves are filled with plant-based alternatives to cow milk, including soy, nut, and coconut
29、 milk. These products are popular with consumers who cannot drink cows milk for health reasons, as well as with those concerned about animal welfare and environmental sustainability. While the dairy-free（非乳制的）options work well with cereal or in coffee, they fail miserably when it comes to making mil
30、k-based products like cheese or yogurt. However, these shortcomings may soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a new company in California, which has figured out how to create animal-free milk in a laboratory!Perumal Gandhi and Ryan Pandya founded the company in 2014 after becoming increasingly anno
31、yed with the lack of cows milk-free alternatives, particularly for cheese. For Gandhi, who stopped consuming animal products five years earlier due to environmental and animal welfare concerns, the motivation to create a better alternative stemmed from his love of cheesy pizza. Pandya was spurred in
32、to taking action after being forced to eat some “really bad” dairy-free cream cheese on his sandwichThe two MIT biomedical engineering scientists decided to join forces to create a more realistic alternative to dairy-based products. In their university lab, the pair spent nine months first isolating
33、 cow DNA then inserting it into yeast（酵母）. This genetic modification enabled the yeast to produce the necessary milk proteins. The final step of the process involved mixing the proteins with some plant nutrients and fats.The dairy-free milk not only tastes like the real thing but is also healthier,
34、has a longer shelf life and, most important of friendly. According to the companys website, when compared to conventional milk production, their process uses 65% less energy, creates 84%o less greenhouse gas emissions and requires 91% less land and an amazing 98% less water. Best of all since it con
35、tains real milk proteins, the product behaves like the cow-produced version, which means vegetarian consumers will no longer have to deal with soggy cheese on their sandwiches and pizzas.The company plans to bring their creation to market later this year and their first product will most likely be c
36、heese since there are already numerous good cows milk alternatives available to consumers.1、The underlined word “those” in paragraph 1 refers to _.Aalternatives BproductsCpeople Dreasons2、The company s founders were motivated to make the new product because of _.Atheir deep concern for the environme
37、ntBthe poor taste of dairy-free cheese presently availableCthe over-consumption of the dairy-based productsDtheir worry that farm animals were poorly treated3、What can be inferred from paragraph 4?ACow farming causes considerable environmental damage.BThe new products will taste better than dairy-ba
38、sed ones.CThe dairy-free products cannot be stored for a long time.DThe dairy-free milk will be more expensive than cows milk.4、Which of the following can be the best title for the text?AHealthier CheeseBNew Milk Saves PlanetCMaking Milk without CowsDFresher Milk，Better Future24（8分） People have grow
39、n taller over the last century, with South Korean women shooting up by more than 20cm on average, and Iranian men gaining 16.5cm. A global study looked at the average height of 18-year-olds in 200 countries 1914 and 2014. The results show that while Swedes were the tallest people in the world in 191
40、4, Dutch men have risen from l2th place to claim top spot with an average height of 182.5cm. Larvian women, meanwhile, rose from 28th place in 1914 to become the tallest in the world a century later, with an average height of 169.8cm. James Bentham, a co-author of the research says the global trend
41、is likely but once you average over whole populations, genetics plays a less key role, he added.But while height has increased around the world, the trend in many countries of north and sub-Saharan Africa causes concern, says Elio Riboli of Imperial College. While height increased in Uganda and Nige
42、r during the early 20th century, the trend has reversed in recent years, with height decreasing among 18-year-olds.One reason for these decreases in height is the economic situation in the 1980s, said Professor Alexander. The nutritional and health problems that followed the policy of structural adj
43、ustment, he says, led to many children and teenagers failing to reach their full potential in terms of height.Bentham believes the global trend of increasing height has important implications. How tall we are now is strongly influenced by the environment we grew up in, he said. If we give children t
44、he best possible start in life now, they will be healthier and more productive for decades to come.1、What can be learned from Paragraph I?AThe increase in womens height is much bigger than mens in the last century.BThe last century has seen a great increase in peoples height in most countries.CGenet
45、ics plays a key role in the increase of peoples height in the last century.DDutch and Swedes are ranked first and second in height in the world nowadays.2、The underlined word reversed in Paragraph 2 can be replaced by .Aslowed down.Bgone upwards.Cchanged to the contrary.Dcome to life again.3、Accordi
46、ng to the text,James Bentham suggests that .AThe economic situation of some countries should be improved.BEnvironment protection should be attached great importance to.CThe global trend of increasing height should be closely watched.DChildrens proper nutrition and healthcare should be guaranteed.25（
47、10分）The Island Rule is one of the best explanations scientists could give to the observable phenomenon that animals and humans have evolved (演变) depending on the resources available in their habitat (栖息地). Through time, scientists have noticed through fossil (化石) records that some large animals from mainland habitats have dwarf (矮小的) versions in bland habitats.A report from BBC described the existence of what scientis
