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单选题—Mum, summer holiday is coming. I wonder ______.—How about Qinling Wildlife Park?A
where can we goB
where we can goC
how we can goD
how can we go正确答案：C解析：句意：—妈妈，暑假就要到了。我想知道我们可以去哪里玩。—去秦岭野生动物园怎么样？本题考查宾语从句。宾语从句中要用陈述语序，故A和D要排除；再结合答语可知此处问的是地点而不是方式，故答案为B。
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Text 2 A century ago,the immigrants from across the Atlantic included settlers and sojourners.Along with the many folks looking to make a permanent home in the United States came those who had no intention to stay,and 7million people arrived while about 2 million departed.About a quarter of all Italian immigrants,for example,eventually returned to Italy for good.They even had an affectionate nickname,“uccelli di passaggio,”birds of passage.Today,we are much more rigid about immigrants.We divide newcomers into two categories:legal or illegal,good or bad.We hail them as Americans in the making,or brand them as aliens to be kicked out.That framework has contributed mightily to our broken immigration system and the long political paralysis over how to fix it.We don't need more categories,but we need to change the way we think about categories.We need to look beyond strict definitions of legal and illegal.To start,we can recognize the new birds of passage,those living and thriving in the gray areas.We might then begin to solve our immigration challenges.Crop pickers,violinists,construction workers,entrepreneurs,engineers,home healthcare aides and physicists are among today's birds of passage.They are energetic participants in a global economy driven by the flow of work,money and ideas.They prefer to come and go as opportunity calls them.They can manage to have a job in one place and a family in another.With or without permission,they straddle laws,jurisdictions and identities with ease.We need them to imagine the United States as a place where they can be productive for a while without committing themselves to staying forever.We need them to feel that home can be both here and there and that they can belong to two nations honorably.Accommodating this new world of people in motion will require new attitudes on both sides of the immigration battle.Looking beyond the culture war logic of right or wrong means opening up the middle ground and understanding that managing immigration today requires multiple paths and multiple outcomes,including some that are not easy to accomplish legally in the existing system.
It is implied in paragraph 2 that the current immigration system in the US_____A.needs new immigrant categories
B.has loosened control over immigrants
C.should be adopted to meet challenges
D.has been fixed via political means答案：C解析：推理题【命题思路】推理题考查的不仅是对文章信息的理解，更考查了对全文主题的了解。因此需要准确定位，并根据段落中心甚至全文中心来最终得出答案。【直击答案】根据题干定位到第二段。由最后一句话We might then begin to solve our immigration challenges（然后也许我们就能开始面对移民挑战了）可以判断出，本段第四句至第六句的we need to…和we can….是我们可以面对这个挑战的前提，即我们应该如何去迎接这些挑战。故C项为正确答案。【排除干扰】A、B、D三个选项都错在混淆原文信息，虽然句式或者信息与原文中很相似或者重合，但是选项中却改写了其中的某些成分。A项“need categories”与第二段第四句We don't need more categories表达意思相反。B项“loosen control”与本段第五句We need to look beyond strict definitions of legal and illegal的strict（严格的）相反。D项“political means”（政治手段），与原文中第五句话We need to look beyond strict definitions of legal and illegal不一致。
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Text 2 A century ago,the immigrants from across the Atlantic included settlers and sojourners.Along with the many folks looking to make a permanent home in the United States came those who had no intention to stay,and 7million people arrived while about 2 million departed.About a quarter of all Italian immigrants,for example,eventually returned to Italy for good.They even had an affectionate nickname,“uccelli di passaggio,”birds of passage.Today,we are much more rigid about immigrants.We divide newcomers into two categories:legal or illegal,good or bad.We hail them as Americans in the making,or brand them as aliens to be kicked out.That framework has contributed mightily to our broken immigration system and the long political paralysis over how to fix it.We don't need more categories,but we need to change the way we think about categories.We need to look beyond strict definitions of legal and illegal.To start,we can recognize the new birds of passage,those living and thriving in the gray areas.We might then begin to solve our immigration challenges.Crop pickers,violinists,construction workers,entrepreneurs,engineers,home healthcare aides and physicists are among today's birds of passage.They are energetic participants in a global economy driven by the flow of work,money and ideas.They prefer to come and go as opportunity calls them.They can manage to have a job in one place and a family in another.With or without permission,they straddle laws,jurisdictions and identities with ease.We need them to imagine the United States as a place where they can be productive for a while without committing themselves to staying forever.We need them to feel that home can be both here and there and that they can belong to two nations honorably.Accommodating this new world of people in motion will require new attitudes on both sides of the immigration battle.Looking beyond the culture war logic of right or wrong means opening up the middle ground and understanding that managing immigration today requires multiple paths and multiple outcomes,including some that are not easy to accomplish legally in the existing system.
The most appropriate title for this text would be____A.Come and go:big mistake
B.Living and thriving:great risk
C.With or without:great risk
D.Legal or illegal:big mistake答案：D解析：主旨题【命题思路】本题主要考查考生对文章结构，乃至文章内容的理解掌握情况。考生在处理类似题型时，应切记主旨题的正确选项应与文章论述的主题和关键词符合。【直击答案】通读全文后发现legal和illegal为高频词汇。第二段第二句We divide newcomers into two categories:legal or illegal,good or bad，同时作者认为We need to look beyond strict definitions of legal and illegal这说明了从合法和不合法角度对于移民的分类是错误的。最后一段最后一句再次重申including some that are not easy to accomplish legally in the existing system。综上可知D项为正确答案。【排除干扰】A项Come and go:big mistake是说短暂移民者的移动是个错误，偏离了文章主旨。B和C项说的是risk（风险），文中并未提及风险，因而错误。
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Text 3 Scientists have found that although we are prone to snap overreactions,if we take a moment and think about how we are likely to react,we can reduce or even eliminate the negative effects of our quick,hardwired responses.Snap decisions can be important defense mechanisms;if we are judging whether someone is dangerous,our brains and bodies are hardwired to react very quickly,within milliseconds.But we need more time to assess other factors.To accurately tell whether someone is sociable,studies show,we need at least a minute,preferably five.It takes a while to judge complex aspects of personality,like neuroticism or openmindedness.But snap decisions in reaction to rapid stimuli aren't exclusive to the interpersonal realm.Psychologists at the University of Toronto found that viewing a fastfood logo for just a few milliseconds primes us to read 20 percent faster,even though reading has little to do with eating.We unconsciously associate fast food with speed and impatience and carry those impulses into whatever else we're doing.Subjects exposed to fastfood flashes also tend to think a musical piece lasts too long.Yet we can reverse such influences.If we know we will overreact to consumer products or housing options when we see a happy face（one reason good sales representatives and real estate agents are always smiling）,we can take a moment before buying.If we know female job screeners are more likely to reject attractive female applicants,we can help screeners understand their biases—or hire outside screeners.John Gottman,the marriage expert,explains that we quickly“thin slice”information reliably only after we ground such snap reactions in“thick sliced”longterm study.When Dr.Gottman really wants to assess whether a couple will stay together,he invites them to his island retreat for a much longer evaluation;two days,not two seconds.Our ability to mute our hardwired reactions by pausing is what differentiates us from animals:doges can think about the future only intermittently or for a few minutes.But historically we have spent about 12 percent of our days contemplating the longer term.Although technology might change the way we react,it hasn't changed our nature.We still have the imaginative capacity to rise above temptation and reverse the highspeed trend.
To reverse the negative influences of snap decisions,we should_____A.trust our first impression
B.do as people usually do
C.think before we act
D.ask for expert advice答案：C解析：细节题【命题思路】本题主要考查考生对于段落具体信息的把握和理解，了解要扭转快速决定带来的影响，我们应采取的措施，并且能够识别出选项信息和原文信息的关键词发生的同义替换，排除偷换概念以及无中生有等的干扰选项。【直击答案】根据题干关键词“reverse the negative influences”定位到第四段。第四段主要通过两个例子：“consumer products or housing options”和“female job screeners”，说明我们应该怎样克服负面影响。即可说明我们应该在行动之前先思考来消除负面影响，因此选择答案C项。【排除干扰】A项“相信我们的第一印象”；B项“按照人们通常所做的去做”；D项“寻求专业建议”均属于无中生有，故排除。
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__succeed in everything we do.A.Only by working hard can we
B.By only working hard we can
C.Only we can by working hard
D.Only by working hard we can答案：A解析：“only+状语”置于句首时，句子倒装。
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When we write, we must write as（）as we can.A、carefulB、carefullyC、more carefulD、more carefully正确答案:B
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单选题—Can we please get a new air conditioner for our bedroom? — ______ —Can’t you see that it’s not working right?A
Do you have to repair it?B
It is not very hot in this season.C
I also think we should buy a new one.D
What’s wrong with the one we have now?正确答案：B解析：由空格后面的回答“你没看到现在的这个不能用了吗”可知空格处应该是在询问他们现在的这个存在什么问题。
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It's almost impossible to go through life without experiencing some kind of failure.People who do so probably live so cautiously that they go nowhere.Put simply,they’re not real living at all.But,the wonderful thing about failure is that it's entirely up to us to decide how to look at it.We can choose to see failure as"the end of the world,"or as proof of just how inadequate we are.Or,we can look at failure as the incredible learning experience that it often is.Every time we fail at something,we can choose to look for the lesson we're meant to learn.These lessons are very important;they're how we grow,and how we keep from making that same mistake again.Failures stop us only if we let them.Failure can also teach us things about ourselves that we would never have learned otherwise.For instance,failure can help you discover how strong a person you are.Failing at something can help you discover your truest friends,or help you find unexpected motivation to succeed.答案：解析：人的一生几乎不可能不经历某种失败。但是，失败的妙处就在于，完全由我们来决定如何看待它。我们可以选择将失败看作是“世界末日”。或者像以往一样，把它看作令人难以置信的学习经历。每当我们在某件事上失败时，我们会选择寻找应学习的教训。这些教训非常重要；他们教会我们如何成长，如何避免再次犯相同的错误。如果失败阻止我们前进，那么唯一的条件就是我们允许它的发生。失败还可以教会我们认识自己，那是我们在别处永远无法学习到的。例如，失败可以帮助你发现自己的能力。失败可以帮助你发现最真实的朋友，或者帮助你找到预料之外的成功动力。
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Even if we can’t reach an agreement, we should maintain our contact.正确答案：即使我们没有达成一致，我们应该保持联系。
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Text 3 Scientists have found that although we are prone to snap overreactions,if we take a moment and think about how we are likely to react,we can reduce or even eliminate the negative effects of our quick,hardwired responses.Snap decisions can be important defense mechanisms;if we are judging whether someone is dangerous,our brains and bodies are hardwired to react very quickly,within milliseconds.But we need more time to assess other factors.To accurately tell whether someone is sociable,studies show,we need at least a minute,preferably five.It takes a while to judge complex aspects of personality,like neuroticism or openmindedness.But snap decisions in reaction to rapid stimuli aren't exclusive to the interpersonal realm.Psychologists at the University of Toronto found that viewing a fastfood logo for just a few milliseconds primes us to read 20 percent faster,even though reading has little to do with eating.We unconsciously associate fast food with speed and impatience and carry those impulses into whatever else we're doing.Subjects exposed to fastfood flashes also tend to think a musical piece lasts too long.Yet we can reverse such influences.If we know we will overreact to consumer products or housing options when we see a happy face（one reason good sales representatives and real estate agents are always smiling）,we can take a moment before buying.If we know female job screeners are more likely to reject attractive female applicants,we can help screeners understand their biases—or hire outside screeners.John Gottman,the marriage expert,explains that we quickly“thin slice”information reliably only after we ground such snap reactions in“thick sliced”longterm study.When Dr.Gottman really wants to assess whether a couple will stay together,he invites them to his island retreat for a much longer evaluation;two days,not two seconds.Our ability to mute our hardwired reactions by pausing is what differentiates us from animals:doges can think about the future only intermittently or for a few minutes.But historically we have spent about 12 percent of our days contemplating the longer term.Although technology might change the way we react,it hasn't changed our nature.We still have the imaginative capacity to rise above temptation and reverse the highspeed trend.
Our reaction to a fastfood logo shows that snap decisions_____A.can be associative
B.are not unconscious
C.can be dangerous
D.are not impulsive答案：A解析：细节题【命题思路】本题主要考查考生对于段落具体信息的把握和理解，了解快速决定和快餐食物商标有何关系，并且能够识别出选项信息和原文信息的关键词发生的同义替换，排除偷换概念、无中生有等干扰选项。【直击答案】由题干的关键信息“fastfood logo”定位到第三段。第三段开头就提到，让人做出仓促决定的刺激因素不仅限于人际关系范围内。紧接着一句说人们对快餐商标的反应速度比一般阅读速度快作为例证。下一句阐述了原因：因为人们无意识地（unconsciously）将“快餐”与“速度”和“急躁”联系在一起，并将这些冲动付诸行动。A项说决定是有联系性的，正确，因为人们将“快餐”与“速度”、“急躁”联系起来。【排除干扰】B项说决定是“有意识的”，与原文表达“unconsciously”不符，故排除。C项说决定“是危险的”，错在张冠李戴，原文提及的“whether someone is dangerous，”对象是人而非快速决定，故排除。D项说决定是“不冲动的”，与原文意思相悖，故排除。
