新起点英语热身演练（三）

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一、完形填空（共15 小题，每小题1 分，满分15 分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

A restaurant in Baltimore received an e-mail request for a special dish on aThursday afternoon in March. The sender didn’t 1 want the food itself. Hesaid that he was writing for his mother who loved the （西兰花） dish madeby the restaurant. He went on to 2 that she was badly ill and stayed at herhome in Vermont and that he was hoping to 3 the （菜谱） to make itfor her at home.

Steve Chu， the restaurant’s owner， read the letter and quickly repliedwith a（n） 4 .“Thanks for reaching out，”he wrote.“We’d like to meet youin Vermont and make it 5 for her.”

Brandon Jones， the son， was 6 and wrote back， “You do know that it isVermont that we’re talking about， right？ It’s a six-hour drive.”

“No problem. You tell us the date， time and 7 and we’ll be there.”

The day after receiving Brandon’s e-mail， Steve 8 a small kitchen in thebed of his truck， filled his truck with broccoli and all things necessary and thendrove to Vermont.

As soon as he 9 at the parking lot， he got to work. After cooking and box鄄ing everything up， he knocked on his 10 door.

“Go ahead and answer，”Brandon told his mother.

As soon as she opened the door， Brandon’s mother couldn’t believe her eyes—or 11 .

For the past six years， every time she visited Baltimore， she would go tothe 12 and she wouldn’t forget the 13 smell of the dish.

“It was an honor to help make the family’s wishes come true，”Chu says.“There was a lot of good 14 in doing this.”

Brandon Jones was very happy that his mother was able to enjoy her favoritebroccoli with a（n） 15 of excellent kindness one more time.

“My mom cried later， and so did I，”Brandon says.“I’ll carry that memory withme always.”

（ ）1. A. seriously B. actually C. simply D. usually

（ ）2. A. argue B. suggest C. explain D. complain

（ ）3. A. get B. invent C. sell D. write

（ ）4. A. nod B. smile C. offer D. joke

（ ）5. A. fresh B. cheap C. delicious D. necessary

（ ）6. A. satisfied B. interested C. excited D. shocked

（ ）7. A. name B. price C. smell D. address

（ ）8. A. set up B. took up C. turned up D. picked up

（ ）9. A. looked B. stopped C. shouted D. pointed

（ ）10. A. cook’s B. friend’s C. partner’s D. customer’s

（ ）11. A. ears B. luck C. nose D. heart

（ ）12. A. market B. hospital C. meeting D. restaurant

（ ）13. A. strange B. stupid C. terrible D. amazing

（ ）14. A. money B. space C. energy D. work

（ ）15. A. order B. direction C. instruction D. information

二、阅读理解，共15 小题（每小题2 分，满分30 分）

阅读下面三篇材料，从每题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项

A

AI Helps Finish Famous （交响乐）

A special team of musicians and computer scientistsused AI to try to complete Beethoven’s unfinished 10thSymphony. They wanted to come as close as possible toproducing the symphony that Beethoven meant to write. Theteam turned every piece of music that Beethoven ever wroteinto a form the computer could understand so that the AIcould look for patterns in the way Beethoven wrote.

3D-printed （雕像）

Michelangelo’s sculpture of has a “twin”. Ateam of scientists and artists have created the most completecopy ever. Their first step was to create a special 3D（扫描仪）. Next， they used a huge 3D printer to3D-print large sections of the sculpture. Once the pieceswere put together， artists worked on perfecting every smallplace of it.____________

A band called the Flaming Lips tried something different：putting everyone at the concert in plastic （气泡）. The band used 100 plastic bubbles large enough tohold 1 to 3 people. Each bubble came with a water bottle，a towel， a small fan， and a speaker to make sure the musiccould be heard clearly. The members of the band rolledover the crowd during the concert.

（ ）16. All the news above has something to do with _______.

A. science B. education C. arts D. nature

（ ）17. The 10th Symphony is _______.

A. completed by Beethoven himself

B. the result of both human and AI

C. the same as what Beethoven wanted to write

D. more famous than Beethoven’s other 9 symphonies

（ ）18. The copy of the sculpture _______.

A. is to take the place of the real one

B. cost much money and effort

C. was created in three main steps

D. can be perfected by a scanner

（ ）19. What would be the best heading for the third news？

A. New Use of Plastics

B. Enjoying Music in the Bubbles

C. 100 Bubbles in a Concert

D. Flaming Lips’s Most Famous Concert

（ ）20. It’s TRUE about the concert that _______.

A. people in the bubbles felt sick

B. the bubbles could not move

C. singers were also in the bubbles

D. the bubbles helped save water and electricity

B

One morning I noticed a woman sitting alone at the bus stop. She seemed not tohurry to work. She wasn’t going anywhere as well. Was she waiting for the bus？ Didmall buses come this early when the stores wouldn’t be open for hours？ As I droveby， I heard a voice saying，“Give her a bottle of water.”