Every four years, millions of people gather in summer (watch) soccer games. This year, the World Cup kicked off on June 14 in Russia.
Specially prepared for the most exciting sporting event, Live It Up, the official World Cup song, was released on May 25. (perform) by US artists Nicky Jam, Will Smith, and Albanian singer Era Istref, the song has a line that goes, "One life, live it up, because we got one life."
With a great melody(旋律)and attractive lyrics, the song stands for "the (excite), the celebration and the unity people all over the world would share during the 2018 World Cup". In fact, the relationship between soccer and music (grow) stronger and stronger since the first official World Cup song came out in 1966. As a newspaper The Telegraph said, "Listening to inspiring music encourages people to take more risks."
One of the greatest soccer (coach), Giovanni Trapattoni, even believes that listening to music can teach players great lessons. "It is the intervals(中间休息), speed, and rhythm help you learn the logical skills you need to read a game." he said.
（actual）, the right music can make all the difference. As Colombian musician Juanes said, soccer and music have a lot common. "You need your feet for soccer and you need words for music, but they make us think of one and same thing— passion."
Chopsticks, or kuaizi in Chinese, (be) a pair of small equal- length sticks, usually made of wood, ( use) for eating Asian food It is believed the first chopsticks (develop) over 5,000 years ago in China. The (early) evidence of a pair of chopsticks made out of bronze was excavated (出土) from the Ruins of Yin near Anyang, Henan province，dating back to roughly 1,200 BC.
Chopsticks play, important role in Chinese food culture. Chinese chopsticks are usually 9 to 10 inches long and rectangular with a blunt (钝的) end. They are round on the eating end symbolizes heaven, and the other end is square which symbolizes earth. This is because(maintain) an adequate food supply is the greatest concern between heaven and earth.
There is an old Chinese custom making chopsticks part of a girl's dowry, since the (pronounce) of kuaizi is similar to the words for "quick" and "son".
Chopsticks are (frequent) used in daily life. They have become more than a kind of tableware and have established a set of etiquette (礼仪) and customs their own.
童年的经历使他对贫穷刻骨铭心。
古代埃及的法老期望他们的后代使他们复活。
当他长大时，他明白了为什么他有必要不时地去看望父母。
只要那座旧房子状况良好，我们就买下它。
我们企图说服他跟我们一起，但是白费力气。
Salt plays an important role in our daily diet. Even a small reduction(减少) in salt in the diet can be a big help to the heart. A new study used a computer model to predict -how just three grams less a day would affect heart disease in the United States.
The result: Thirteen percent fewer heart attacks. Eight percent fewer strokes（中风）. Four percent fewer deaths. Eleven percent fewer new cases of heart disease. And two hundred forty billion dollars in health care savings. Researchers found it could prevent one hundred thousand heart attacks and ninety-two thousand deaths every year．
The study is in the New England Journal of Medicine. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo at the University of California San Francisco was the lead author. She says people would not even notice a difference in taste with three grams, or one-half teaspoon, less salt per day. The team also included researchers at Stanford and Columbia University.
Each gram of salt contains four hundred milligrams of sodiu(钠), which is how foods may list their salt content．
The government says the average American man eats ten grams of salt a day. The American Heart Association advises no more than three grams for healthy people. It says salt in the American diet has increased fifty percent since the nineteen seventies, while blood pressures have also risen. Less salt can mean a lower blood pressure.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is leading an effort called the National Salt Reduction Initiative. The idea is to put pressure on food companies and restaurants. Critics call it government interference(干预).
Mayor Bloomberg has already succeeded in other areas, like requiring fast food places in the city to list calorie information. Now a study by the Seattle Children's Research Institute shows that the calorie information on the menu can influence what parents order for their children. Ninety-nine parents of three to six year olds took part. Half had calories between the two groups for foods that the parents would have chosen for themselves. McDonald's menus clearly showing how many calories were in each food. Parents given the counts chose an average of one hundred two fewer calories when asked what they would order for their children. Yet there was no difference in calories between the two groups for foods that the parents would have chosen for themselves.
Study leader Pooja Tandon says even small calorie reductions on a regular basis can prevent weight gain over time. The study was published in the journal Pediatrics.
— Well, free access is just an added _____ and the real attraction lies in its local-flavor food.
Anyone with an eye on the employment situation knew the assessment about economic recovery ________ (be) just around the corner was correct.
Be aware of those who use the truth to deceive(欺骗)．When someone tells you something that is__1__,but leaves out important information that should be__2__,he can create a false impression.
For example, someone might say, “I just__3__a hundred dollars on the lottery.It was great.I took that dollar ticket back to the store and__4__it in for one hundred dollars! ”
This guy is a winner,__5__?Maybe, maybe not.We then discover that he bought two hundred__6__,and only one was a winner.He's really a big__7__!
He didn't say anything that was__8__,but he deliberately left out some important__9__.That's called a half－truth.Half－truths are not technically__10__,but they are just as not__11__.
Untrustworthy candidates in__12__campaigns often use this tactic(手段).Let's say that during Governor Smith's last term, the state lost one million jobs and__13__three million jobs.Then she__14__another term.One of her opponents runs an ad__15__,“During Governor Smith's term, the state lost one million jobs! ”That's true.__16__,an honest statement would have been, “During Governor Smith's term, the state had a net gain of__17__million jobs.”
Advertisers will sometimes use half－truths.It's__18__the law to make false claims so they try to mislead you with the__19__.An ad might boast, “Nine out of ten doctors recommend Yucky Pills to cure nose pimples.”It__20__to mention that they only asked ten doctors and nine of them work for the Yucky Corporation.
This kind of deception happens too often.It's a sad fact of life: Lies are lies, and sometimes the truth can lie as well.
1．A.false B．true C．interesting D．boring
2．A.included B．contained C．ignored D．referred
3．A.lost B．found C．donated D．won
4．A.changed B．took C．turned D．made
5．A.right B．well C．really D．though
6．A.books B．papers C．tickets D．balls
7．A.winner B．loser C．fighter D．thinker
8．A.true B．real C．doubtful D．false
9．A.details B．information C．mistakes D．errors
10．A.stories B．truth C．messages D．lies
11．A.pleasant B．exciting C．honest D．clever
12．A.political B．commercial C．personal D．public
13．A.stopped B．found C．avoided D．gained
14．A.seeks B．gets C．achieves D．searches
15．A.writing B．telling C．saying D．speaking
16．A.Otherwise B．However C．Meanwhile D．Because
17．A.one B．two C．three D．four
18．A.for B．to C．against D．in
19．A.words B．facts C．data D．truth
20．A.fails B．tries C．manages D．plans
阅读下面短文并回答问题（请注意问题后的词数要求）。
{1}It’s said that exercise is important for our body because it helps us feel relaxed, full of energy and healthy. Similarly, reading is important for us, as it gives lots of advantages to a person and it’s like a source to feed our mind.
{2}Firstly, it can help us explore words that ___________: we can travel into the past. We can find out how people lived and how they dressed. We can also read about the future and science fiction books can offer us an interesting view on this matter. The world of books, magazines newspapers and so on offers us a large variety of areas we can explore and come to understand. It’s like a way of escaping from real life as it allows us to travel to places we might not ever get to in real life.
{3}Secondly, reading is cheap. It comforts, it distracts, it excites, and it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. When one enjoys reading a book he is strongly attracted by what he is reading and he hardly takes a break. He wants to finish it very rapidly because he is very cautious to find out what’ll happen till the end. That’s why he feels relaxed, excited and tries to somehow participate in the book’s action. Then, think of the knowledge one can obtain with reading: he’s be able to take part in dialogues on certain subjects. He’d feel proud of himself to give others some information they have no idea about.
{4}We can’t see everything on TV. Then, reading a book can offer more than the Internet, for example, even if it is time-consuming. That is why I believe books are a future, and a past I hope that the Internet won’t make people stop buying books.
76. What is the text mainly about? (no more than 6 words)
_________________________________________________________________
77. Complete the following statement with proper words. ( no more than 4 words)
If one is really fond of a book, he will ______ the book from which he couldn’t tear himself away.
78. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 2 with proper words. ( no more than 5 words)
_______________________________________________________________
79. What information can we get when reading books about the world in the past? ( no more than 8 words)
___________________________________________________________________
80. What does the underlined word “it” ( line5 , paragraph 2 ) probably refer to? ( within 10 words)___________________________________________________________________
Five-year-old Jocelyn was playing outside her grandmother's apartment building. Her mom, Jaimee, kept an eye on the 41 from a window.
At about 4 pm, Jocelyn walked around the comer of the building to get her bike and 42
"I took my eyes 43 her for five minutes, and she was gone," says Jaimee. "I knew something was 44 ," she adds, 45 when she saw that Jocelyn's bike was 46 there and found an old credit card her daughter had been playing with 47 near the bike. Jaimee called 911.
Policemen came soon, blocking off streets and 48 the neighborhood. Officers handed out a photo of the blond (金发) girl. Many people joined in.
Temar Boggs, 15, was with some friends helping his elderly neighbor when one searcher 49 them and asked if they'd seen the girl. 50 the boys, none of them had seen her. Temar was approached with a photo of Jocelyn. "I 51 that I was going to find her," he says. He borrowed a bike from a friend and sped away. The boy searched without a plan, 52 keeping a sharp eye out as he rode on.
Then Temar 53 a car driving down a side street and turning back, 54 the driver was unfamiliar with the neighborhood. He followed it.
The car pulled an 55 U-turn at the top of a hill -- a group of policemen had gathered there.
The car passed the boy as it circled back 56 the hill. Temar made eye contact (接触) with the man behind the wheel, and spied a tiny blond girl in the passenger seat. Temar 57 knew "it was her, for sure."
The boy 58 fast after the car, but the driver kept moving, slowly winding his way through the neighborhood.
59 , the driver pulled the car to the street side a few hundred feet ahead of him and pushed open the passenger-side door. Jocelyn __60_ out of the car. The kidnapper (绑架者) sped away but was caught by the police the next day.
| 41. A. bike | B. building | C. policeman | D. girl |
| 42.A. disappeared | B. escaped | C. hid | D. left |
| 43. A. above | B. to | C. for | D. off |
| 44. A. dangerous | B. difficult | C. special | D. wrong |
| 45.A. unfortunately | B. especially | C. formally | D. probably |
| 46. A. also | B. even | C. still | D. yet |
| 47. A. abandoned | B. brought | C. enveloped | D. presented |
| 48. A. disturbing | B. entering | C. searching | D. exploring |
| 49. A. annoyed | B. approached | C. inspired | D. invited |
| 50. A. According to | B. As a result of | C. In spite of | D. Depending on |
| 51. A. felt | B. agreed | C. learned | D. proved |
| 52. A. hurriedly | B. carefully | C. properly | D. simply |
| 53. A. followed | B. passed | C. missed | D. spotted |
| 54. A. so that | B. even though | C. as if | D. in case |
| 55. A.sharp | B. major | C. awful | D. vast |
| 56. A. along | B. around | C. down | D. toward |
| 57. A. certainly | B.immediately | C. nearly | D. absolutely |
| 58. A. ran | B. drove | C. rode | D. circled |
| 59. A. Cautiously | B. Finally | C. Gradually | D. Wildly |
| 60. A. slipped | B. running | C. cycling | D. leaping |
Going shopping seems easy, but actually it takes a lot of learning, especially in America. In fact, many Americans who are not so well-off often shop at “sales” or at special stores that sell things at low prices, which you may find interesting. In America, the important rule of dressing is that one should change his or her clothes every day. For example, in an American college, neither professors nor students are seen in the same clothes two days in a row. So you may find it necessary to buy more clothes than you have in China. While you are shopping in the States, you will discover that prices range considerably from time to time. The purchase of used, second-hand clothing, furniture, or other household articles may be an excellent way of saving money. Most second-hand clothes are of pretty good quality. If you are going to settle down in the States and want some furniture, you may go to a “loan closet”, where furniture rents at low cost, or you may also go to a “furniture exchange” place in the community.
Sheets, blankets, and other bedclothes go on sale in most communities twice a year. Advertisements for “white sales” on bed linen, towels, etc., often appear in January, as well as in May, June or July. Once or twice every season, there will be “garage sales”, where you can get almost anything, from a yacht to a pair of shoes, at low prices. Prices at “discount stores” and “thrift shops” are also as low as you can imagine.
When shopping for food, you should look for special prices for various items that are put on sale weekly. To economize, it would be a good idea for you to plan the weekly menu according to what is on sale, including in it the meats, vegetables, fruits, etc. that can be bought at special prices that week.
Exchange and return policies vary from store to store. You should also keep in mind that exchange and return policies for sales items can be different from standard store policies, especially if the price of the items has been reduced. Ask the merchant about their exchange and return policies before making your purchase. Obtaining an exchange or a return without a store receipt is often difficult. So, to save yourself the headache, you’d better hold on to any paper or other proof of purchase.
66. People shopping in America will discover ________.
A. American goods are excellent B. most clothes come from China
C. prices vary much sometimes D. used clothes are of poor quality
67. A person who needs furniture can ________.
A. exchange their goods for furniture B. settle in a place that has furniture
C. get some free of charge D. rent some at low cost
68. At a “white sale”, one can buy ________.
A. almost anything B. meats, vegetables, fruits
C. bed linen, towels D. shoes at low prices
69. Garage sales are held ________.
A. once or twice every three months B. once or twice every year
C. from time to time D. in January, May, June or July
70. What does “any paper or other proof” in the last paragraph refer to?
A. The exchange and return policy. B. A store receipt.
C. A sales item. D. The standard store policy.
61. The plan to build another subway in our city has been ________ (批准) by the city government.
62. His rapid progress in English is quite ________ (给人留下深刻印象的) and the teacher often
praises him in class.
63. I had thought it was a terrible film. On the ________ (正相反), it was exciting.
64. My mother was ________ (怒目而视) at me without saying anything.
65. Without the teacher’s _________ (允许), you cannot enter this room.
66. How did he get away _________ (逃过惩罚) cheating in the exam?
67. Water had disappeared later in Mars, __________ (不像) the earth
68. __________ (好奇心) drove Wang Peng inside Yong Hui’s slimming restaurant.
69. It’s __________ (接近) four hundred kilometers northeast of Toronto.
70. I’m Henri, a student at the university __________ (附近的).
When ____about the possibility____ Justin was taken away by aliens, the detective who took charge of the case dismissed the idea.
A. asking; that B. asking; which C. being asked; which D. asked; that
