5. As a writer, you have fifteen seconds, sometimes less，to convince your readers to stay put while you ______ your pearls of knowledge and wisdom into the fertile soils of their mind.
13. ______ announcing his retirement, Mr. Kinsley has been busy trying to train his replacement.
A.Because
B.Once
C.Since
D.While
A B C D
C
[考点] 考查连词。 [解析] 根据前一个分句内容(宣布退休)和后一分句内容(忙于培训他的接班人)，“since”(自……以来)最恰当。“since announcing his retirement”在意思上相当于“since he announced his retirement”，前者使用现在分词来表达，后者使用从句来表达。
14. Should there be any requests for schedule changes, please notify us ______.
15. Traditionally, ______ in New England on Thanksgiving Day.
A.when served is sweet cider
B.when sweet cider is served
C.is served sweet cider
D.sweet cider is served
A B C D
D
[考点] 考查句子结构。 [解析] 句意：传统上，感恩节时，甜苹果酒在新英格兰是被供应的。分析句子成分可知，in New England为地点状语，on Thanksgiving Day为时间状语，故横线处应填句子主干：主语、谓语和宾语。本句话的主语为sweet cider，系动词为is，表语为served，D项符合题意，故本题选D。A、B两项以when开头，when引导时间状语从句，不能作句子主干，故排除。C项为部分倒装结构，本句不需要用部分倒装结构，故排除。
16. The automobile parts we requested for our customer got here on ______.
A.authority
B.condition
C.schedule
D.appointment
A B C D
C
[考点] 考查名词辨析。 [解析] 句子的主干为“the automobile parts got here”(汽车零部件到达此地)，显然“on ______”修饰“got”。分别代入备选答案，可以看出“on schedule”(按照预定时间，准时)最恰当。
17. The newly installed alarm system, which is directly connected to the police, will go off if the correct security code is not entered ______ 60 seconds of touching the keypad.
A.only
B.under
C.within
D.directly
A B C D
C
[解析] 备选答案为副词和介词。首先应分析句子结构，判断横线处应填入介词还是副词。乍一看横线处应填入副词修饰被动结构“is not entered”，实际上if从句是被动语态，“______ 60 seconds of touching the keypad”应作状语。因此横线处应填入介词，从而构成介宾短语作状语。
18. John is a bit nervous because he will give a speech ______ the board members this afternoon.
A.by
B.on
C.to
D.during
A B C D
C
[考点] 考查介词。 [解析] 横线后是演讲的对象。“give a speech to...”意为“给……做演讲”，故本题选C。
19. Of the many radio stations in the city, FM 109 is considered to play the ______ listening music.
A.easy
B.easiest
C.more easily
D.most easily
A B C D
B
[解析] 横线前有定冠同the，而且句中已限定了范围“of the many...”(在本市众多电台里)，故本题选最高级。
20. The new, expensive software was purchased to help keep better ______ of the clients we have here at our company.
二、阅读理解 It's no surprise that Jennifer Senior's insightful, provocative magazine cover story, "I love My Children, I Hate My Life," is arousing much chatter—nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling, life-enriching experience. Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition. Even though the day-to-day experience of raising kids can be soul-crushingly hard, Senior writes that "the very things that in the moment dampen our moods can later be sources of intense gratification and delight." The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week. There are also stories about newly adoptive—and newly single—mom Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual "Jennifer Aniston is pregnant" news. Practically every week features at least one celebrity morn, or mon-to-be, smiling on the newsstands. In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation, is it any wonder that admitting you regret having children is equivalent to admitting you support kitten-killing? It doesn't seem quite fair, then, to compare the regrets of parents to the regrets of the childless. Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn't have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives. Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like US Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic, especially when the parents are single mothers like Bullock. According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all. No shock there, considering how much work it is to raise a kid without a partner to lean on; yet to hear Sandra and Britney tell it, raising a kid on their "own" (read: with round-the-clock help) is a piece of cake. It's hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous: most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut. But it's interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren't in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting"the Rachel" might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.
1. Jennifer Senior suggests in her article that raising a child can bring ______.
A.temporary delight
B.enjoyment in progress
C.happiness in retrospect
D.lasting reward
A B C D
C
[解析] 细节题。根据题干定位在文章第一段最后一句，Jennifer Senior在此句话中指出，正是那些当时压抑我们的琐事，日后却成为满足和欢乐的源泉。要注意此句话中的“later”，而C项中“in retrospect”，意为“回顾往事，回想”，符合题意。A、D两项根据第一段中的“moment-to-moment joy”和“intense gratification and delight”的字面含义，设置了一对相反的干扰项；B项属于反向干扰项。
2. We learn from Paragraph 2 that ______.
A.celebrity morns are a permanent source for gossip
B.single mothers with babies deserve greater attention
4. According to Paragraph 4, the message conveyed by celebrity magazines is ______.
A.soothing
B.ambiguous
C.compensatory
D.misleading
A B C D
D
[解析] 细节题。根据题干定位在文章第四段，首句就讲到这些名人杂志所传达的形象“the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like US weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic”。其大意：《美国周刊》《人物》这样的杂志所提供的名人父母的形象非常不切实际。原文中使用了“hugely unrealistic”，由此可见，名人杂志中传达的信息和现实相悖，具有误导性，故D项为正确答案。其他三项均脱离文意。
5. Which of the following can be inferred from the last paragraph? ______
A.Having children contributes little to the glamour of celebrity morns.
B.Celebrity morns have influenced our attitude towards child rearing.
C.Having children intensifies our dissatisfaction with life.
D.We sometimes neglect the happiness from child rearing.
O'Plerou Grebet is a 22-year-old graphic design student in Ivory Coast. Everywhere he looks, he sees signs of Western influence—from the glass skyscrapers and malls lining the streets in his home city of Abidjan to the way his peers spoke and dressed. "We are living like we're Western people," he says. "It's like we are not proud of our own culture." That even 6 the symbols he texts to friends using the messaging apps on his phone. So he used his design skills to create digital stickers that depict what he thinks is missing from 7 keyboard culture: symbols of history, and daily life in Ivory Coast and neighboring countries. In 2018, he released a free pack of over 360 stickers in a mobile app called "Zouzoukwa", which means "image" in the local Bété language. 8 on Android and iPhone, it now has over 120,000 downloads. People can use the stickers on their phones like emoji. The icons reflect life and culture in Ivory Coast and the surrounding region. They include traditional masks, African 9 like the djembe drum (a goblet-shaped hand drum) and people clad in a variety of prints, fabrics and clothing that reflect regional 10 . There are also everyday objects: cans of soda, cubes of bouillon (a key ingredient in many African dishes) and popular types of chips and candy.
If you've ever taken a personality test, you may have been eager to review the results. Maybe you're a Helper or Achiever on the Enneagram chart. Or perhaps, like me, you're an INTP on Myers-Briggs. While these tests can be fun to take—who doesn't love to learn about themselves?—they could also hold you back, says psychologist Hardy. "We like to develop theories to explain things, but people are not easy to categorize; we're not like fruit and vegetables." Tests can also feel comforting as they can give you a sense of identity. "Your personality is how you consistently act and behave," says Hardy. "Personality tests promote the misconception that personality is innate and unchanging," he says. "They look at your past to predict your future, and that can be sad for someone who wants to grow or change." Ask yourself if you're the same person you were 10 years ago. Hardy argues that most of us would say "No." "You probably don't hate who you were in the past. But you've probably gone through a lot, and you see things differently. You may have different habits, patterns, choices, and priorities." he says. It's healthy to view your former person as a different self. "When you view your future self as a different person, you can make intentional decisions for that person in the present." says Hardy. If you hold onto a label that a personality test provides, you may seek to cling to and defend it, says Hardy. "You're not as flexible if you seek to confirm your label," he says. "This leads you to believe your future self will be exactly the same as you are today, which is an impediment to growth." Thus, different views on personality tests are more recommended. "If something negative, like a trauma, happened to you, it's easy to be defined by that former experience," says Hardy. A negative experience can shape identity, and you need to reframe those meanings from the past. "It's best to view the past as positive," says Hardy. "Even something negative could be viewed as the best thing that could have happened to you if you frame it correctly." It can help to talk about negative experiences. "You can gain a clear picture of the event and start to see it differently," says Hardy. "You can choose better meanings for the past and reconstruct the memory based on who you are in the present." "You can't make intentional decisions in the present without context of the future," says Hardy. "One reason people fail to clarify their future is because they spend way more time remembering their past. Imagination is more important than knowledge." Preferences in the present that aren't in the best interest of your future self can be a detriment. "Don't hold onto your current identity," says Hardy. "A growth mindset is saying, 'This is who I am. This is who I want to be.' And that takes courage."
11. What does the second paragraph talk about? ______
A.What a personality test is.
B.Why people like personality tests.
C.People's personality is more complicated than the test result.
D.Personality tests promote the misconception of one's personality.
A B C D
B
[解析] 推断题。题干：第二段在谈论什么?此题无法仅凭题干和选项得出答案，需理解段意并推断作者的写作意图。 第二段第一句引用了哈迪的话“We like to develop theories to explain things, bul people are not easy to categoriz；we're not like fruit and vegetables(我们喜欢通过发展理论去解释事物，但人类并不像水果和蔬菜那样容易归类)”，而人格测试是系统的人格分类工具，为人们认识自我提供了理论支撑。因此下句解释了人们喜欢做人格测试的原因“Tests can also feel comforting as they can give you a sense of identity(测试也能使人感到安慰，因为测试能给你一种认同感)”。故B项“为什么人们喜欢人格测试”符合题意。 A项“什么是人格测试”，第二段没有给出人格测试的定义，排除；C项的“人的人格比测试结果更复杂”、D项的“人格测试会助长对人格的误解”在第二段中没有提及，故排除。 综上所述，本题选B。
12. What does the underlined words "different views" mean in the passage? ______
A.Personalities are defined.
B.A fixed perspective.
C.Personalities are always changing.
D.A growth mindset.
A B C D
D
[解析] 含义题。题干：文中画线的词“different views”是什么意思?此类题目需重点理解画线词上下文来猜测含义。 根据different views所在句的上句“This leads you to believe your future self will be exactly the same as you are today, which is an impediment to growth(这会让你相信未来的自己会和今天的你一模一样，这是成长的一个障碍)”可知，如果总是坚持当下的人格测试所给予的标签，这种定式思维会阻碍未来的发展。由different views所在句“Thus, different views on personality tests are more recommended(因此，更推荐用不同的观点看待性格测试)”可推测出，比起对测试结果的定式认知，文章更强调用动态、发展的心态看待人格测试，因此D项的“一个成长的思维模式”为正确答案。 A项，“人格被定义”，文中没有提及；B项，“固定的观点”，与原文不符；C项，“人格总是在变化”过于绝对，故π除A、B、C。 综上所述，本题选D。
13. What does the underlined word "detriment" mean in the passage? ______
A.Damage.
B.Default.
C.Concession.
D.Release.
A B C D
A
[解析] 含义题。题干：文中画线的单词“detriment”是什么意思? 根据画线词定位至文章最后一段。该段提到“Preferences in the present that aren't in the best interest of your future self can be a detriment. 'Don't hold onto your current identity,' says Hardy(现在的喜好如果与未来自己的最佳利益不相符，就会成为一种伤害。‘不要拘泥于你现在的身份，’哈迪说)”，再结合前文内容可知，文章一直在强调不要被人格测试的结果束缚，否则它将会成为人们成长的阻碍。由此可知，detriment指的是对未来成长不利。 damage“损害，伤害”，default“违约”，concesstion“让步，特许(权)”，release“释放，发布，发行”。四个选项中，只有damage与detriment的意思相近。 综上所述，本题选A。
14. Which of the following advice is not mentioned in the passage? ______
A.Sharing miserable past experiences with others.
B.Refraining your view of the past.
C.Imagining the person you want to be in the future.
D.Actively developing new habits, patterns and properties.
A B C D
D
[解析] 细节题。题干：文章没有提及以下哪项建议?题干没有明显关键词，需要结合选项关键词回文定位，并结合排除法选择正确答案。 根据A项关键词miserable past experiences定位至文章倒数第三段。该段首句提到谈论不好的经历会有所帮助(It can help to talk about negative experiences)。哈迪认为这让人们可以对事件有一个清晰的认识，并开始以不同的方式看待。由此可知A项的“与他人分享痛苦的过去”是对该段首句的同义表述，是建议。故排除A。 根据B项关键词Reframing定位至文章倒数第四段第二、三句“A negative experience can shape identity, and you need to reframe those meanings from the past. 'It's best to view the past as positive,'...(一次不好的经历会对你的性格造成影响，你需要从过去重新定义这些意义。‘最好是积极地看待过去，’……)”，由此可知，B项的“重塑你对过去的看法”是建议，故排除。 根据C项关键词Imagining定位至文章倒数第二段。该段讲到，如果不考虑未来的发展，人们就无法在当下做出有目的性的决策。人们无法理清未来的一个原因是他们花了更多的时间去回忆过去。想象力比知识更重要。由此可知，该段强调人们不能停留在过去，需要展望未来，并由此进行决策。故C项的“想象你未来想成为的人”是建议，故排除。 根据D项关键词habits，patterns and properties定位到文章第四段最后两句“But you've probably gone through a lot, and you see things differently. You may have different habits, patterns, choices, and priorities(但你可能已经经历了很多，你看待事物的方式也有所不同。你可能有不同的习惯、模式、选择和优先考虑的事情)”，由此可知，D项不是建议，是作者个人观点的阐述。 综上所述，本题选D。
15. Which of the following can be the best title of the passage? ______
A.The Result of Personality Tests Might Be Controversial
B.Why Personality Tests Could Hold You Back
C.Several Suggestions to Personality Tests
D.Personality Tests Could Derail Your Future Goals
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16. For whom is this advertisement most likely intended? ______
A.Newlyweds who are looking for a cozy place.
B.People who have financially established themselves.
C.Anyone who is looking for a bargain.
D.Families with many children.
A B C D
B
[解析] 第一篇文章是一则广告，主要是面向搜寻独特房产的顾客介绍高级地段的售房信息。
17. Who is John Connor? ______
A.An architect.
B.A real estate agent.
C.An artist.
D.A history professor.
A B C D
B
[解析] 广告的最后“for further information...”提到了咨询地点和咨询方法等信息，而且第二篇文章是一封向康纳咨询的邮件，因此可以推断出康纳是房地产经纪人。
18. According to the e-mail, which of the following places will most likely suit Ms. Brown the most? ______
19. What ls the main purpose of the e-mail? ______
A.To receive information about an art exhibition.
B.To set up an appointment.
C.To put her apartment on the market.
D.To reply to an inquiry she received from the man.
A B C D
B
[解析] 在书信和电子邮件中描述写信目的时常用“Could you please...”“Can you...”“I'd like to...”等。由此定位到邮件正文的第四句和第五句，意为“因此，我想尽快与你见面，一起去看看那个地方。你能告诉我你什么时候方便吗?”B项的“安排约见”符合题意。
20. What can be implied about Ms. Brown? ______
A.She is an artist.
B.She buys and sells properties.
C.She is interested in taking out an ad.
D.She coordinates seminars and conferences for a living.
A B C D
A
[解析] 布朗女士邮件中提到“I am seeking a residence that can accommodate an art studio and possibly hold private exhibitions for the work I do(我正在寻找一个能够实现艺术工作室和个人作品展览室功能的住宅)”，由此可见，她是一位艺术家。
，可以发现分子都为2，分母后项减前项的差依次为5，7，9，11，(13)，为奇数列，则下一个分母为35+13=48，应填
。
的等比数列，按此规律，应填入21+4.5=(25.5)。故本题选D。
中最大的是______。
，排除D项；
，排除B；比较
，根据差分法可得
，即
。最大的是
。
。可明显看出
最小，则
最大，即
最大。故本题选A。
，则x等于______。
，再次化简为
，解得x=0.25。
，设甲加工一个零件耗时为x分钟，由题意有
，解得x=36，甲、乙完成一个零件所用时间之比为效率的反比，即6:5，则乙完成一个零件耗时为
。故本题选C。
购买情况。当每种购买情况的ID号都有4个时，此时再有1个ID号，不管怎么购买，都至少有5个ID号购买的商品种类完全相同，则ID号数量至少是4×6+1=25(个)。故本题选B。
，接近四成，说法正确。
，最接近A。故本题选A。
。大于20%，小于30%。故本题选A。
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