1. It is reported that ______ adopted children want to know who their natural parents are.
A.the most
B.most of
C.most
D.the most of
A B C D
C
[解析] 本题主要考查的知识点为most的用法。 [要点透析] A、B、D三个选项中的most都是代词,而most作代词时前面不加定冠词,而且most如果与of连用,most of后面所接名词的前面要加定冠词,例如:most of the students(学生中的大多数),所以A、B、D都不选;C项most是形容词,意思是“大多数的”,most adopted children的意思是“大多数被收养的孩子”。
2. Tom's jacket looked just the same as Jack's, but it cost ______ his.
Passage 1 Robert Fredy was general manager of a large hotel in Ashbury Park, New Jersey. One cold day two years ago when he stopped his car at a traffic light, Stephen Pearman, an out-of-work taxi and truck driver, walked up to Fredy's car hoping to earn some change by washing his windshield (挡风玻璃). Like many motorists who try to keep the beggars off, Fredy turned on the wipers to show he wasn't interested. Pearman put his head close to the window. "Come on, mister. Give me a chance. I need a job. " he said. Something in Stephen Pearman's voice moved Robert Fredy. In the seconds before traffic started moving again, Fredy handed Pearman a business card and told him to call if he was serious. "My friends told me he was just pulling my leg," said P.earman. "But I said, 'No, he's a businessman. I need to give it a shot. '" Two days later, 29-year-old Pearman appeared in the manager's office of the big hotel. Fredy gave him a job and housing and lent him pocket money while training him. Today, Pearman works full time setting up the hotel's dining halls for business meetings. In the past two years, he has found a flat, married and repaid Fredy's loans (贷款). "Mr. Fredy gave me a second chance," says Pearman. "And I took advantage of it. I could have just come here a while, eaten up and left. But there is no future in washing windshields. " Ordinarily, Fredy keeps away from the street people. "But Pearman seemed so honest and open, asking for a chance rather than just money," Fredy says. "I don't hand my business card to just anybody. But I'm glad I did in this case. "
1. When Pearman offered to wash the windshield for Fredy, ______.
A.Fredy took him as a beggar
B.Pearman was told to do it later
C.Fredy gladly agreed to let him do it
D.Pearman knew Fredy was a kind man
A B C D
A
[解析] 事实细节题。 [要点透析] 文章第一段最后一句“Like many motorists who try to keep the beggars off...”表明,福瑞德先生认为皮尔曼是一个乞丐。
2. When Fredy told Pearman to call if he was serious, he meant if ______.
A.Pearman was really hardworking
B.Pearman was really looking for a job
C.Pearman's conditions were truly serious
D.Pearman was really interested in washing windshields
A B C D
B
[解析] 推理判断题。 [要点透析] 从文章的最后一段“...asking for a chance rather than just money...”可知,他要求的是工作机会,而不是钱。所以福瑞德想给他一次机会,要是皮尔曼真的想找份工作的话。
3. What did Pearman mean by saying "he's a businessman" (Para. 3)?
A.Fredy knew where he could get a job.
B.Fredy meant what he had said.
C.Fredy had enough money to help the poor.
D.Businessmen always handed others their cards.
A B C D
B
[解析] 句意理解题。 [要点透析] 皮尔曼的朋友们都认为他可能被福瑞德戏弄了,可是皮尔曼不这样认为。而且后面的事实证明,他是正确的,所以本句的含义是:福瑞德说话算数(Fredy meant what he had said.)。
4. What has become of Pearman now?
A.He is in charge of Fredy's loans.
B.He is still washing car windshields.
C.He is a fulltime employee at the hotel.
D.He organizes dinner parties for the hotel.
A B C D
C
[解析] 事实细节题。 [要点透析] 从文章第五段“...Pearman works full time setting up the hotel's dining halls for business meetings.”表明,皮尔曼现在成为大酒店的一名正式员工,专门为商务会议布置宴会厅。
Passage 2 Next time a customer comes to your office, offer him a cup of coffee. And when you're doing your holiday shopping online, make sure you're holding a large glass of iced tea. The physical sensation(感觉) of warmth encourages emotional warmth, while a cold drink in hand prevents you from making unwise decisions—those are the practical lesson being drawn from recent research by psychologist JohnA. Bargh. Psychologists have known that one person's perception(感知)of another's "warmth" is a powerful determiner in social relationships. Judging someone to be either "warm" or "cold" is a primary consideration, even trumping evidence that a "cold" person may be more capable. Much of this is rooted in very early childhood experiences, Bargh argues, when babies' conceptual sense of the world around them is shaped by physical sensations, particularly warmth and coldness. Classic studies by Harry Harlow, published in 1958, showed monkeys preferred to stay close to a cloth" mother" rather than one made of wire, even when the wire "mother" carried a food bottle. Harlow's work and later studies have led psychologists to stress the need for warm physical contact from caregivers to help young children grow into healthy adults with normal social skills. Feelings of "warmth" and "coldness" in social judgments appear to be universal. Although no worldwide study has been done, Bargh says that describing people as "warm" or "cold" is common to many cultures, and studies have found those perceptions influence judgment in dozens of countries. To test the relationship between physical and psychological warmth, Bargh conducted an experiment which involved 41 college students. A research assistant who was unaware of the study's hypotheses (假设), handed the students either a hot cup of coffee, or a cold drink, to hold while the researcher filled out a short information form. The drink was then handed back. After that, the students were asked to rate the personality of "Person A" based on a particular description. Those who had briefly held the warm drink regarded Person A as warmer than those who had held the iced drink. "We are grounded in our physical experiences even when we think abstractly," says Bargh.
1. According to Paragraph 1, a person's emotion may be affected by ______.
3. In Bargh's experiment,the students were asked to ______.
A.evaluate someone's personality
B.write down their hypotheses
C.fill out a personal information form
D.hold Coffee and cold drink alternatively
A B C D
A
[解析] 细节理解题。 [要点透析] 由文中倒数第二段中的“After that, the students were asked to rate the personality of 'Person A' based on a particular description.”可知选A。在试验中,学生被要求评价某人的性格。
4. We can infer from the passage that ______.
A.abstract thinking does not come from physical experiences
B.feelings of warmth and coldness are studied worldwide
A. 从下列单词中选择适当的词填空,每个词只能用一次。 moment than chest health lies find amount types more where relationship difference Fat on human body is distributed in two different ways. Some fat people have a large 1 and no waistline, looking rather like apples. Others are fatter below the waist, looking 2 like pears. Doctors in Cambridge, England, have been examining the 3 between health and fat distribution. They find that the pearshaped fat people have fewer problems 4 the appleshaped fat people. What seems to be most important is not how much fat you have but 5 you have it. The doctors measured the appleshaped women and pearshaped women with X-ray scanners. Human beings have two 6 of fat: one is outside fat, that is the fat below the skin, and the other is inside fat that 7 inside the body. Using the X-ray scanners, the doctors found that the "apples" have a large 8 of inside fat. If this inside fat is much more than outside fat, it will probably cause 9 problems such as obesity. The best treatment for obesity is to reduce the inside fat. But unfortunately diet treatment simply makes an apple-shaped person into a smaller apple and a pearshaped person into a smaller pear. At the 10 there is no effective way of reducing the inside fat.
[解析] 本题主要考查的知识点为固定搭配。 [要点透析] 现在针对减去内部脂肪没有一个有效的方法。at the moment此刻,现在。
B. 根据课文的内容在每个空白处填入一个恰当的词。 Two men walked slowly, one after the other, through the 1 water of a stream. All they could see 2 stones and earth. The stream ran cold over 3 feet. They had blanket packs on their backs. They had guns, but no 4 ; matches, hut no food. Suddenly the man who followed 5 over a stone. He hurt his foot badly and called:" Hey, Bill, I've hurt my foot. " Bill continued 6 on without looking back. The man was alone in the 7 land, but he was not lost. He knew the way to their camp, where he would 8 food and bullets. He struggled to his feet and limped on. Bill would be waiting for him there, and together they would go south to the Hudson Bay Company. He had not 9 for two days. Often he stopped to pick some small berries and put them into his mouth. The berries were 10 , and did not satisfy, but he knew he must eat them.
1.
shallow
2.
were
3.
their
4.
bullets
5.
fell
6.
straight
7.
empty
8.
find
9.
eaten
10.
tasteless
Ⅴ. 根据所学课文内容完成下列句子。
1. One day Hans went to ask a favor of the Prince of Denmark because ______.
he wanted to write plays in poetry and to act at the Royal Theater
2. From the story of "Night Watch" we can conclude that the young Marine was ______.
very kind-hearted
3. The writer of "Remembering Tracy Bill" and her husband David could not know where and to whom to send their thanks because ______.
information about donors was kept secret
4. One night, in a subway station, the writer of "Little Things Are Big" wanted to help a white lady with three children, but he didn't because ______.
he was afraid that the woman might be prejudiced against black people
5. According to the writer of "Happiness", long-term happiness is based on ______.
honesty, productive work, contribution and selfesteem
6. In the story of "The Joker", Henry's four brothers all ______.
made a success of their lives
7. Agent X managed to win Pappy's trust by ______.
playing the fiddle and talking with him about music
8. The first step in making a dictionary is ______.
to do huge amounts of reading
9. According to Dr. Applebaum, the cruelest lie of all on TV is ______.
when TV shows a lawyer defending someone innocent of a crime
10. Time is tricky because ______.
it is difficult to control and easy to waste
Ⅵ. 将下列句子译成英语。
1. 带张地图,以防在森林里迷路。
Take a map with you in case you get lost in the forest.
[解析] 本题主要考查的知识点为条件句和in case的用法。 [要点透析] in case意为“以防万一”。
2. 她第一次碰到他就一见钟情。
When she met him for the first time, she fell in love with him.
[解析] 本题主要考查的知识点为时间状语从句和fall in love with sb. 的用法。 [要点透析] fall in love with sb. 意为“爱上某人”。
3. 当我们听到这个消息后,不禁为他担心起来。
When we heard the news, we couldn't help worrying about him.
[解析] 本题主要考查的知识点为can't (couldn't) help doing sth. 的用法。 [要点透析] can't (couldn't) help doing sth. 意为“忍不住或无法抑制做某事”。
4. 他们的孩子由工厂托儿所照看。
Their children are taken care of by the factory's nursery.
[解析] 本题主要考查的知识点为被动语态和take care of的用法。 [要点透析] take care of意为“照顾,照料”。
5. 作为同学,你应该帮助他,而不应该嘲笑他。
Being a classmate, you should help him instead of laughing at him.