Ⅰ.GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY Complete each of the following 15 sentences with the most likely answer. Blacken the letter corresponding to your choice on the answer sheet.
1. Only when the war was over in 1953 ______ to get back to work.
2. The government has decided to increase ______ for civil servants.
A.salaries
B.fees
C.wages
D.earnings
A B C D
A
[考点] 本题主要考查的知识点为salaries。 根据语境可排除B(服务费、咨询费)和C(按日、按周、按钟点领取的工资和报酬)。而A、D两项都有“工资”之意,二者的实质差别可以从它们的英文释义中区分。salaries: money that employees receive for doing their job, especially professional employees or people working in an office, usually paid every month. earnings: the money that you earn for the work that you do. 由此可判断答案为A。
3. It gradually ______ me that much of what they had said was far from the truth.
A.dawned to
B.dawned on
C.came to
D.came on
A B C D
B
[考点] 本题主要考查的知识点为dawn on (upon)。 dawn on (upon) 意为“开始明白,醒悟”;come on 意为“开始”;come to 意为“达到”;dawn to无此搭配,根据题意应选B。
4. Nowadays many parents feel guilty ______ spending little time with their children.
A.with
B.at
C.about
D.for
A B C D
C
[考点] 本题主要考查的知识点为feel guilty about doing sth。 feel guilty about doing sth 意为“对做某事感到内疚的,自责的”。with, at, for 均不能与guilty构成搭配。根据题意故选C。
5. A dedicated nurse is always ready to ______ patients' needs.
A.attend to
B.attend in
C.care with
D.care on
A B C D
A
[考点] 本题主要考查的知识点为attend to。 attend to 意为“照料,关怀”,符合题意。
6. Would you ______ me a favour and keep an eye on my house while I am away?
A.give
B.offer
C.do
D.make
A B C D
C
[考点] 本题主要考查的知识点为同定句型。 “Would you do me a favour...?”是一个固定句型,意为“劳你的驾……?”
7. How do the two products compare in terms ______ quality and reliability?
A.of
B.as
C.with
D.about
A B C D
A
[考点] 本题主要考查的知识点为in terms of。 in terms of为固定搭配,意为“至于,关于,从……观点来看”。B、C、D三项均不能与in terms构成搭配。根据题意故选A。
8. I wish I ______ to repair my computer myself. I only made it worse.
9. His friends are looking forward to ______ him as soon as possible.
A.be seen
B.have seen
C.see
D.seeing
A B C D
D
[考点] 本题主要考查的知识点为look forward to doing sth。 look forward to后跟v-ing形式。
10. Homing pigeon is useful as a ______ carrier because when taken from home, it will return at the first opportunity.
A.meaning
B.information
C.message
D.content
A B C D
C
[考点] 本题主要考查的知识点为message。 根据题意可知空格处应是指“消息,信息”携带者。故排除A项、D项。information和message的区别单从汉语释义中无法分辨,可以从它们的英文释义来着手、information: knowledge in the form of facts. message: a spoken or written piece of information passed from one person to the other. 这样很容易就能判断应选C。
11. Although he refused to act on my suggestion, he had to admit that ______ what I said.
14. —What were they talking about? —I'm sorry. I haven't got ______ slightest idea.
A./
B.the
C.a
D.an
A B C D
B
[考点] 本题主要考查的知识点为冠词的用法。 定冠词the修饰最高级slightest。
15. The woman carrying babies, come in first, ______?
A.will you
B.will they
C.don't they
D.don't you
A B C D
A
[考点] 本题主要考查的知识点为反意疑问句。 祈使句的反意疑问句用“will you?”。
Ⅱ.CLOZE Fill in each of the 15 blanks in the passage with the most likely answer. Blacken the letter corresponding to your choice on the answer sheet. It was always thought that Treasure Island was the product of Robert Louis Stevenson's imagination. 1 , recent research has found the true story of this exciting work. Stevenson, a Scotsman, had lived 2 for many years. In 1881 he returned to Scotland for a holiday. With him were his American wife Fanny and his son Lloyd. Each morning Stevenson would take them out for a long walk over the hills. They had been 3 this for several days before the weather suddenly took a turn for the worse. Kept indoors by the heavy rain, Lloyd felt the days 4 . To keep the boy happy, Robert asked the boy to do some drawing. One morning, the boy came to Robert with a beautiful map of an island. Robert 5 that the boy had drawn a large cross in the middle of 6 . "What's that?" he asked. "That's the 7 treasure," said the boy. Robert suddenly 8 something of an adventure story in the boy's picture, While the rain was pouring, Robert sat down by the fire to write a story. He would make the 9 a twelve-year-old boy, just like Lloyd. But who would be the pirate (海盗) ? Robert had a good friend named Henley, who walked around with the 10 of a wooden leg. Robert had always wanted to 11 such a man in a story. 12 Long John Silver, the pirate with a wooden leg, was 13 . So, thanks to a 14 September in Scotland, a friend with a wooden leg, and the imagination of a twelve-year-old boy, we have one of the greatest 15 stories in the English language.
Ⅲ.PARAPHRASING Choose the closest paraphrased version after each of the following sentences or the italicized part. Blacken the letter corresponding to your choice on the answer sheet.
1. We are slaves to nothing but the clock.
A.We try to keep the clock correct.
B.We follow our time schedule closely.
C.We never have enough time to work.
D.We work for everything except the clock.
A B C D
B
[解析] 句意:我们只受时钟的支配。
2. Once you turn over a new leaf, you can't expect to change completely right away.
A....you read a book from the first page...
B....you change your ways for the better...
C....you pick a fresh leaf from a tree...
D....you start doing something...
A B C D
B
[解析] 句意:一旦重新开始,你不要指望马上完全改变。
3. It usually takes a trip home to bring one back to reality.
A.Usually one has to pay a visit to his home country before he knows that his home country is not as perfect as he imagines.
B.Usually one has to take a trip away from home before he knows that his home country is not as perfect as he imagines.
C.Usually one has to pay a visit to his home country before he knows his home country is really more comfortable to live in than the country he is now living in.
D.Usually one has to take a trip away from home before he knows his home country is really more comfortable to live in than the country he is now living in.
5. When the steam engine came, handloom weaving naturally declined.
A.The emergence of steam engine naturally Stimulated the development of handloom weaving.
B.The emergence of steam engine naturally caused the improvement of handloom weaving.
C.The emergence of steam engine naturally caused the weakening of handloom weaving.
D.The emergence of steam engine naturally caused the reform of handloom weaving.
A B C D
C
[解析] 句意:蒸汽机的出现,自然使得手工机织业衰退。
6. People were only shapes in dense, gray fog of dust and ash.
A.The dusty air made people barely visible.
B.The air was too polluted for people to breathe.
C.People hardly stayed in shape in such dirty air.
D.People were almost buried in thick dust and ash.
A B C D
A
[解析] 句意:在灰蒙蒙、迷雾般的尘埃之中,人们只能显出身影。
7. It would not be difficult to compile a list of such surprises that would fill the next fifty pages, but I will content myself with suggesting the first few that occur to me.
A....I feel satisfied with the first few examples in my mind.
B....I am surprised with the number of suggestions I can give.
C....the first few examples are the best ones that satisfy my curiosity.
D....the first few surprises coming to me would be enough as examples.
A B C D
D
[解析] 句意:列出50页的奇观并不困难,然而仅举出最先出现在我脑海里的几例就足以说明问题。
8. If I love you, I can see you as a separate person, with your own values and thoughts and feelings, and I do not insist that you surrender your identity and conform to an image of what I expect you to be for me.
A....I don't want you to lose hope and then blame me for it.
B....I won't force you to be independent and you can rely on me.
C....I don't expect you to follow my step and become similar to me.
D....I won't push you to lose yourself and become what I like you to be.
9. The audiences were small, and even if Rudolf had been really first-rate, they would not have been very demonstrative.
A....they would not have demonstrated much interest.
B....they would not have done anything for him.
C....they would not have responded warmly.
D....they would not have told him anything.
A B C D
C
[解析] 句意:听众不多,即便鲁道夫真是一位一流的演奏家,他们也不会表露多高的热情。
10. Far-reaching as many of them [Edison's inventions] have been in their effect upon modern civilization, the total effect of Edison's career surpasses the sum of all of them.
A.One can never evaluate Edison's great inventions high enough.
B.One needs to understand Edison's inventions to appreciate his career.
C.Edison's inventions are his most outstanding contributions to human life.
D.Edison's influence upon human society is much greater than his inventions.
Ⅳ.READING COMPREHENSION Read the two passages and choose the most likely answer to each of the questions. Blacken the letter corresponding to your choice on the answer sheet.
Passage 1 On January 13, 1982, a severe storm hit Washington, D. C. The temperature fell to the mid-teens. Driving snow made it hard to see. Flights out of Washington's National Airport were delayed while snowplows cleared the runways. Air Florida Flight 90, with its 79 passengers, was no exception. It was originally scheduled to depart at 2:15 P.M. Clearing the runways, however, took over an hour. At 3:37, the pilot was finally allowed to move the plane into position for takeoff, but 15 other planes were lined up ahead of it. Another 20 minutes went by before Flight 90 could roll out onto the runway. While Flight 90 was waiting for the runways to be plowed, the ice that had formed on its wings was removed. But new ice began to form immediately. As the pilot waited for the 15 other planes to take off, the ice grew heavier. Ice buildup on a plane's wings is dangerous. It makes the plane heavier and disturbs the normal flow of air over the wings. Despite the fresh layer of ice, Flight 90 roared down the runway when its turn came at 3:59 P.M. As the jet took off, it trembled violently. Something was wrong. It was not gaining altitude as it should. One of the passengers, who was also a pilot, said, "We're not going to make it." Meanwhile, traffic on the Fourteenth Street Bridge over the Potomac River was heavy. It was rush hour, and the workers who lived outside the city were headed home. Suddenly the blue, green, and white form of an Air Florida 727 appeared out of the clouds. Flight 90 was going down, and it was heading straight for the crowded bridge. The motorists on the bridge could do nothing but watch in horror as the airplane fell from the sky and smashed across the road. Several cars were badly hit. Four motorists were killed before the plane plunged into the icy Potomac. Rescue workers arrived on the scene instantly. Their searchlights revealed a frightening sight. Many of the passengers could be seen still strapped in their seats at the bottom of the river. Only six passengers survived the accident. They clung to a piece of' the tail section that was above water. One of the survivors was a balding man with a large mustache. He seemed to be more alert and less severely injured than any of the others. Speed was essential if the six people were to be saved. A person can survive only a few minutes in such cold water. The rescue was made difficult by the fact that there was only room barely enough for one helicopter to get between the Fourteenth Street Bridge and another bridge nearby. A helicopter arrived and quickly lowered its lifeline and flotation ring (救生圈) to the balding man. He grabbed it, but instead of using it himself, he passed it on to one of the other passengers. As that person was lifted out of the freezing water, the balding man fought to keep his grip on the tail section. His body temperature was dropping, and his strength was going. When the rescue helicopter returned, the lifeline was again dropped to him. People on the bank watched in amazement as the man once again passed the lifeline on to someone else. For the second time, he gave up the chance so that another person could be saved. Ten minutes later, the three other passengers had been taken safely to the shore. Only the balding man was left in the river. But when the helicopter returned, he was gone. He had been in the icy water too long. For several days, the selfless man was known simply as "the man in the water". No one knew who he was. But when the passenger list was compared with the description of the man, it was determined that he was Arland Williams, a 46-year-old bank examiner from Atlanta, Georgia. When Arland Williams boarded Flight 90, he was an ordinary person on an ordinary flight. There was nothing special about him. But at 4:01 P.M. on a stormy January day, when his plane crashed, Williams chose to risk his life to save the lives of others. "The man in the water" became a national hero.
1. What delayed Air Florida Flight 90 from taking off earlier?
A.The runways had to be cleared of Snow.
B.The plane had to be refueled.
C.The plane needed some engine repair.
D.The wings of the plane had to be cleared of ice.
A B C D
A
[考点] 细节理解题。 根据第一段第三、四句可知应选A。
2. Flight 90 crashed into the Potomac River ______.
3. The rescue was made more difficult because there ______.
A.weren't enough rescue workers
B.were no rescue boats available
C.was only enough room for one rescue helicopter
D.was hardly any room for a rescue helicopter
A B C D
C
[考点] 细节理解题。 根据第六段最后一句可知应选C。
4. Arland Williams died because he ______.
A.had suffered head injuries in the crash
B.had been in the icy water too long
C.did not know how to swim
D.wanted to become a hero
A B C D
B
[考点] 事实细节题。 根据倒数第三段最后一句可知应选B。
5. Which of the following best states the main idea of the selection?
A.Arland Williams became a hero when he died after saving all the survivors.
B.Arland Williams died in the icy Potomac River after the plane he was on crashed on takeoff.
C.A bank examiner from Georgia became a hero because he had put the lives of others ahead of his own.
D.Arland Williams became a hero because he successfully saved five passengers.
A B C D
C
[考点] 主旨大意题。 通读全文后可知C为最佳选项。
Passage 2 During the years of the Depression (经济危机) in a small southeastern Idaho community, I used to stop by Brother Miller's roadside stand for farm-fresh produce as the season made it available. Food and money were still extremely scarce and bartering was used, extensively. One particular day Brother Miller was bagging some early potatoes for me. I noticed a small boy, delicate of bone and feature, ragged but clean, hungrily looking at a basket of freshly picked green peas. I paid for my potatoes but was also drawn to the display of fresh green peas. I couldn't help overhearing the conversation between Brother Miller and the ragged boy next to me. "Hello Barry, how are you today?" "Hello, Mr. Miller. Fine, thank ya. Just admiring them peas, sure look good." "They are good, Barry. How's your Ma?" "Fine. Getting stronger all of the time." "Good. Anything I can help you with?" "No, Sir. Just admiring them peas." "Would you like to take some home?" "No, Sir. Got nothing to pay for 'em with." "Well, what have you to trade me for some of those peas?" "All I've got is my prize marble here." "Is that right? Let me see it." "Here'tis. She's great!" "I can see that. Hmm, only thing is this one is blue and I sort of go for red. Do you have a red one like this at home?" "Not exactly...but, almost." "Tell you what. Take this sack of peas home with you and next trip this way let me look at that red marble." "Sure will. Thanks, Mr. Miller." Mrs. Miller, who had been standing nearby, came over to help me. With a smile she said, "There are two other boys like him in our community, all three are in very poor circumstances. Jim just loves to bargain with them for peas, apples, tomatoes or whatever. When they come back with their red marbles, and they always do, he decides he doesn't like red after all and he sends them home with a bag of produce for a green marble or an orange one, perhaps." I left the stand, smiling to myself, impressed with this man. A short time later I moved to Utah, but I never forgot the story of this man, the boys and their bartering. Several years went by, each more rapid than the previous one. Just recently I had occasion to visit some old friends in that Idaho community and while I was there I learned that Brother Miller had died. They were having his viewing (追思会) that evening and knowing my friends wanted to go, I agreed to accompany them. Upon our arrival at the mortuary (殡仪馆) we fell into line to meet the relatives of the deceased and to offer whatever words of comfort we could. Ahead of us in line were three young men. One was in an army uniform and the other two wore nice haircuts, dark suits and white shirts...very professional looking. They approached Mrs. Miller, standing there smiling and calm. Each of the young men hugged her, kissed her on the cheek, spoke briefly with her and moved on to the coffin. Her misty light blue eyes followed them as, one by one, each young man stopped briefly and placed his own warm hand over the cold pale hand in the coffin. Each left the mortuary, awkwardly, wiping his eyes. Our turn came to meet Mrs. Miller. I told her who I was and mentioned the story she had told me about the marbles. Eyes glistening, she took my hand and led me to the coffin. "Those three young men, that just left, were the boys I told you about. They just told me how they were grateful for the things Jim 'traded' them. Now, at last, when Jim could not change his mind about color or size...they came to pay their debt. We've never had a great deal of the wealth of this world," she confided, "but, right now, Jim would consider himself the richest man in Idaho." With loving gentleness she lifted the lifeless fingers of her deceased husband. Resting underneath were three, magnificently shiny, red marbles.
1. In Paragraph 1, "bartering" probably means ______.
2. From the conversation between Brother Miller and the small boy, we can learn that ______.
A.the boy had good skills at bargaining
B.the boy was a great collector of marbles
C.Brother Miller had a very peculiar interest in marbles
D.Brother Miller knew the conditions of the boy's family
A B C D
D
[考点] 推理判断题。 从对话中Mr. Miller问候了小男孩Barry以及他妈妈,可知Mr. Miller知道小男孩的家庭情况;从“what have you to trade me for some of those peas?”可看出Mr. Miller只是想让小男孩用什么东西把peas换去,而不是对marble有兴趣;小男孩也并非marble收集者。故选D。
3. Brother Miller impressed the narrator most as a man who was very ______.
4. Looking back on the bargains Brother Miller had with them, the three young men knew very well that he changed his mind about marbles all the time so that ______.
A.they could learn how to be successful in business
B.they could keep on with their hobby of collection
C.he could offer them something free without hurting their sell-esteem
D.he could keep the boys coming to visit his stand and to buy something
5. In this story, "the three red marbles" in Brother Miller's hand are actually a symbol of ______.
A.honesty
B.responsibility
C.devotion
D.appreciation
A B C D
D
[考点] 推理判断题。 联系上下文我们可知,“the three red marble”是象征性的东西,表达了三个男孩对Mr. Miller的感激。故选D。
PART TWO
Ⅴ.WORD DERIVATION Complete each of the following sentences with a (compound) word derived from the one(s} given in brackets. Write your words on the answer sheet.
1. It must have taken years before he put on all that ______ fat. (disgust)
disgusting
2. The famous ______ from the hero's last speech "I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." will live forever in his people's hearts. (quote)
quotation/quote
3. If you ______ the used things, such as bottles or sheets of paper, you process them so that they can be used again. (cycle)
recycle
4. Do you think a person's clothes are a reflection of his ______? (personal)
personality
5. There is a lot of evidence that television influences ______ in a manner of lifestyle, and popularity of fashion. (behave)
behavior
6. There's increased enviromnental ______ and recognition that a bicycle is a healthy, fun way to get around. (aware)
awareness
7. ______ is not a goal; it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. (enjoy)
Enjoyment
8. Naive children are likely to be ______ by people's appearance. (lead)
misled
9. Our favourite restaurant was full, so we had to go ______. (where, else)
elsewhere
10. People are impressed by the fact that he can ______ faces he has seen for only once. (memory)
memorize
Ⅵ.SENTENCE TRANSLATION Turn the following sentences into English and write your sentences on the answer sheet.
1. 他重重地跌了一跤,摔断了腿,大概得休学三个月。
He had a bad fall and broke his leg. As a result. he would have to be away from school for about three months.
2. 如果你继续关注已经长大成人的孩子,你很可能会成为他们的累赘。
If you continue to be interested in your grown-up children, you are likely to become a burden to them.
3. 儿女们不明白,市场上蔬菜如此便宜,老人干嘛还自找麻烦,花力气自己种菜。
The old man's children don't understand why he takes (so much) trouble to grow vegetables since they are so cheap on the market.
4. 为了人们健康地生活,我们要控制噪声污染。
In order to make people live healthily. we need to control noise pollution.
5. 在应聘工作时,应聘者应积极参与谈话,但不应喧宾夺主。
In a job interview, the interviewee should actively participate, but not take over the conversation.
Ⅶ.WRITING Write a composition on the answer sheet in about 150 words, basing yourself on one of the texts you have learned.
1. Topic: How did Cliff Evans' death affect Jean E. Mizer, one of his teachers and the writer of "Cipher in the Snow"? The following points should be covered: (1)What she was asked to do after Cliff Evans' death. (2)What she found about Cliff Evans. (3)What resolution she made.
The day Cliff Evans died, Jean E. Mizer was to go and inform his family of the news. to close his file and write his obituary for the school paper. In the course, she found Cliff's stepfather didn't like the boy, and that he was a quiet and lonely boy at home. At school, from the third grade on, he made poor grades. and his teachers believed that he was a slow learner and uncooperative student. Besides, Cliff was never involved in school activities, and he had no friends. Mizer realized that Cliff had been a lonely and unhappy boy who had nothing to live for and had given up striving for anything. She also concluded that school had made what he was. Throughout Cliff's funeral Mizer felt sad. Then and there, she made up her mind that she would never allow a single student of hers to think himself/herself into a failure as Cliff had done.