成都七中2020高二英语上学期期末模拟考试试题 - 百度文库

27If you get a raise, youll _________ be expected to shoulder more

responsibility and work longer hours.

Ano doubt

Bno longer

Cno excuse

Dno chance

28As an old sailor, he has ____________ in most parts of the world in his

time. He must be interesting to listen to.

Aknocked over Bknocked about Dknocked off

C

knocked

out

29What field will you son go into after graduation from the university?

Im not quite certain, but he __________- a good software programmer.

Apromises

Bbecomes

Cmakes

Dproves

30Nowadays hospitals are quickly ________ the special needs of the local

people.

Apromises

Bbecomes

Cmakes

Dproves

31A few days before its anniversary, the school decided to have the buildings

_____ clean as well as elegant.

Alook

Bto look

Clooked

Dbeing looked

32She __________ be an equal to the famous model in some respects but she

does not like the profession.

Acould

Bshould

Cmust

Dmay

33All the people in that town, students or town folks, _______ the books,

records and magazines in our universitys library. They can even surf the internet there.

Aare allowed to Chave access to

Bare admitted to Dhave approach to

34Not until _________ did man accept that fact that all living things must die.

Adid many years pass

Bmany years past

Cmany years had passed Dmany years have passed

35You can enjoy __________ the full the drama performed by the famous actor. It is a real ____.

Ato; treat

Bat; appreciation

Cin; passion D/;

from

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Engagement, wedding, and birth of a baby are the three steps of a new family. The Danes special ways of doing these things inform their native culture.

People in other places of the world usually give their lovers a finger ring or a bundle of flowers as a gift of engagement. 36 in some areas of Denmark, it is still considered 37

for a young man to 38 his fiance with the wooden clappers once used to 39 clothes

40 in a stream. These clappers were engraved with love-poems, and 41 tradition, they ensured good fortune and happiness.

And their country weddings also show a tint of local convention(ͳ). Until recently, a Danish country wedding was an event which 42 all who lived in the surrounding 43 . Everyone was tacitly(Զ) invited to celebrate with the young couple. Preparations for the wedding lasted for many days but were made 44 , because to show happiness openly 45 arouse the anger and jealousy of evil spirits.

46 the wedding morning the couple met in the courtyard of the brides house. The relatives and friend presented themselves to the couple, bowed and placed gifts at their feet. Every gift was 47 by good wishes recited in prose(ɢ) or in verse; 48 modest the gift the more elaborate(µ) the wishes had to be. 49 who had neither the means to give 50

the imagination to make a speech were, as a sign of their goodwill, placed 51 guard over the presents and, in the evening, over the couples bed. 52 the conclusion of the ceremony a large jar of beer was taken to the courtyard. The hands of the betrothed(Ѷ) were joined over the jar and it was 53 into fragments(Ƭ). These pieces were picked 54 by the girls of marriageable age who were present, the girl with the largest 55 being destined to marry first. 36AHowever 37Aa luck 38Asend 39Astrike 40Ato wash

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This is the age of the quick action. We have instant satisfaction, fast food, speed reading, mobile phones; even the stress management books have titles like Stress Management in 60 Seconds.

Canadian Classics Professor Margaret Visser points out that the perception that we have no time is one of the most strict concepts of Western culture. Visser says that no time is used as an excuse and also as a spur(̼); it both stimulates us and forces us, just as a concept such as honour did for the ancient Greeks. According to Visser, the feeling that Westerners have no time is abstract, quantitative, amoral(ǵԵ), unarguable, bringing pressure on each person as an individual. At the same time, the no time excuse escapes censure by claiming to be a condition created entirely out of our good fortune.

Life offers so many pleasures, so many choices.

The fact that women now work outside the home has contributed to the no time trend. But more important, Visser says, is the fact that feeling rushed has become an important component(ɷ) of our economy. Marketing of time-saving products causes people to buy more and work longer. So we eat out or buy prepared food to save time. The fax-it-to-my-car technology only contributes to the constant hurry. In our rushed and exhausted state, even the obligation() to sit down to casual meal with family seems like a pressure. In comparison with the decision to act on a sudden whimz (һʱ) to consume a microwave mug of soup the act of eating together and not getting up from the table until everyone else has finished seems an incredibly time-consuming event. Being in ones own personal hurry in the

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