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1、 And may your roads always lead you home again !21. Why did the author hardly feel bored when he was young? A. He could watch TV all day. B. He could have fun in nature. C. He had many friends to play with. D. He used to explore the old dirt road.22. What does the underlined word “something” in Para

2、graph 3 probably refer to? A. Doubt. B. Hope. C. Fear. D. Courage.23. How did the author feel when he was exploring the dirt road? A. He was contradictory in mind. B. He was unconscious of danger ahead. C. He was worried to be trapped in the woods. D. He was afraid of being scolded by his parents.24

3、. What may be the best title for the passage? A. Every Effort Is Worthwhile B. All Roads Lead Home C. Be Determined in Your Life D. Be Brave to AdventureB A day in the life of 18-year-old David Lanster is full of typical teenage stuff: school, baseball practice and homework. And then he starts cooki

4、ng. “Some nights Im up until 1:00 a.m. making pies, or even later if were cooking beef,” said the student at Ransom Everglades High School in Florida, US. For the past year, Lanster and Kelly Moran, his classmate, have been hosting fancy dinner parties at Lansters parents home. Their meals have 17 c

5、ourses and are all made by them. Their guests used to give them gifts to thank them until the pair decided to do something nice for charity（慈善）.“We got some really great Miami Heat tickets, a nice watch, and many kitchen gadgets（小器具）,” Lanster said. “But we wanted to make this something positive for

6、 people other than US.”Lanster and Moran focused on Common Threads, a charity that aims to teach kids in poor communities to cook and make healthy eating choices. The young cooks ask their guests to give however much they want as payment for their meals. It all goes to Common Threads because Lanster

7、s parents cover their food costs. After their last 12-person event, Lanster and Moran gave $1,600 to the charity.Now, theyre taking their show out of the kitchen and on the road. They have started to organize private dinner parties with a similar model: the host pays for the ingredients, and the gue

8、sts make a donation to a charity of their choice.Without formal training, Lanster said he had been interested in cooking since he helped his mom in the kitchen when he was very young. He learned how to cook by reading cookbooks and watching TV programs. Outside the kitchen, the two are busy preparin

9、g their college applications. Neither of them is sure what they will do in the future, but theyve promised their parents that they will leave professional cooking alone until they finish school.25. How is Lansters life different from other teenagers lives?A. He plans to become a professional chef. B

10、. He plays baseball every day after school. C. He goes to a cooking school in his spare time. D. He holds dinner parties after a normal school day.26. What will Lanster and Moran usually do after a private dinner party? A. Receive thank-you cards from the guests. B. Visit the poor children at Common

11、 Threads. C. Ask the guests to donate money to the charity. D. Cover the food costs with the money collected.27. Which of the following words can best describe Lanster and Moran? A. Ambitious. B. Generous. C. Creative. D. Optimistic.C The hit movie Notting Hill（诺丁山）begins with a famous scene. Hugh G

12、rant bumps into Julia Roberts and spills orange juice all over her. After the collision, Grant repeatedly says, “Im so sorry. Im so sorry.” His actions in this scene are very British. If Roberts character were from Britain, then she would probably apologize repeatedly as well even if the crash were

13、not her fault. But this doesnt happen in the movie, as Roberts is from the US. A report in The Telegraph once said that three quarters of British people apologize when they bump into someone in the street regardless of whether they are responsible or not. In fact, Britons use “sorry” in many situati

14、ons. For example, if they mishear someone, they say “Sorry?” The person they are talking to will also apologize by replying, “No, I am sorry!” This can go on for up to five minutes as they compete over who is the most sorry.Why are Britons so sorry? Mark Tyrell, a psychology writer in the UK, thinks

15、 that their apologetic tendencies are rooted in British class system. “We say sorry because historically the new middle class in Britain had to apologize for not being the working class, but also for not really being the upper class.” Another theory is that they apologize to avoid conflicts. For exa

16、mple, if they bump into someone, he might get angry. To avoid this, they instantly say “Sorry!”True manners are about being considerate, and todays constant use of apologizing shows that we are perhaps not as thoughtful as we once were. The word “sorry” has lost some of its meaning. Do you see my po

17、int? Sorry, it might just be a British thing.28. Why does the author mention a scene in the movie Notting Hill at the beginning? A. To give an example of British modesty. B. To introduce different ways of saying sorry. C. To show what kind of men are considered gentlemen in the UK. D. To draw our at

18、tention to when and how British people say sorry.29. Which of the following statements might Mark Tyrell agree with? A. People should not apologize if they are not responsible. B. Americans care less about manners than British people do. C. That British people apologize so much is linked to the clas

19、s system. D. British people care too much about which social class they are from.30. What can be inferred from the passage? A. Its unnecessary for British people to be so polite. B. The overuse of apologizing shows Britons are truly sincere. C. People should not stick to the traditional use of the w

20、ord “sorry”. D. Using “sorry” more doesnt necessarily mean people are more polite.31. What is the authors purpose in writing this passage? A. To explore the best way of saying sorry. B. To explain why Britons overuse the word “sorry”. C. To show how saying sorry has changed over time. D. To suggest

21、many British people lack traditional manners.D Imagine youre standing in line to buy a snack at a store. You step up to the counter and the cashier scans your food. Next, you have to pay. But instead of scanning a QR Code（二维码）with your smart phone, you just hold out your hand so the cashier can scan

22、 your fingerprint. Or, a camera scans your face, your eyes or even your ear.Now, this type of technology might not be far away. As technology companies move away from the traditional password, biometric（生物特征识别的）security, which includes fingerprint, face and voice ID, is becoming increasingly popular

23、. In 2013, Apple introduced the iPhone 5s, one of the first smart phones with a fingerprint scanner. Since then, using ones fingerprint to unlock a phone and make mobile payments has become commonplace, bringing convenience to our lives. And since 2016, Samsung has featured eye-scanning technology i

24、n its top smart phones, while Apples new iPhone X can even scan a users face. But despite its popularity, experts warn that biometrics might not be as secure as we imagine. “Biometrics is ideally good in practice, not so much,” said John Michener, a biometrics expert. When introducing the new iPhone

25、s face ID feature, Phil Schiller, Apples senior vice-president, said, “The chance that a random person in the population could look at your iPhone X and unlock it with their face is about one in a million.” But its already been done. In a video posted on a community website Reddit, two brothers show

26、ed how they were each able to unlock the same iPhone X using their own face. And they arent even twins. “We may expect too much from biometrics,” Anil Jain, a computer science professor at Michigan State University, told CBS News. “No security systems are perfect.” Earlier last year, Jain found a way to trick biomet