20. It's my first trip to Beijing, and I'm going to get ______ out of it.
A.most
B.the most
C.more
D.the more
A B C D
B
[解析] 本题主要考查的知识点为get the most out of sth. 。 [要点透析] 句意:这是我第一次去北京,我打算好好利用这次的机会。get the most out of sth. 充分利用……的机会,符合题意。
Ⅱ. 认真阅读下面两篇短文,每篇短文后有五个问题。根据短文的内容从四个选项中选择一个最佳答案。
Passage 1 A mile or so before they reached Oxford, they stopped the car on top of a hill from which they could see the whole of the city spread out before them. The spires and the domes, the college walls and towers looked as peaceful as when they were first built, hundreds of years ago. When they drove down, over the River Thames and into the city centre, they found it was not so peaceful after all! The main streets were packed with traffic: cars, lorries, coaches full of tourists and the bicycles which the students use to get about. But as soon as they had managed to park the car and get away from the roaring traffic, they discovered a completely different world. Narrow cobbled streets which had hardly changed since the Middle Ages ran between the high college wails of grey or yellow stone. Inside the great double gates of each college they found quiet squares of grass, surrounded by the chapel, the library, the dining-hall and the rooms where the students and teachers live. Many colleges had the most beautiful gardens where one could sit and read, talk, work or dream. Most of the students, or undergraduates, wore informal clothes: sports coats, or pullovers, and slacks. But some of them were wearing their black gowns. George explained that they had to wear these when going to lectures or to their weekly meeting with their tutor, or teacher. Tom and Anne were very surprised to see a few young men dressed in formal black suits, with ties, gowns and scholars' caps. Anne asked whatever they were doing, wearing evening dress in the morning! George laughed and said that this was the official dress for taking examinations, many of which were held in June. In one college, they visited the dining-hall. It was enormous with a high roof held up by great wooden beams with windows of stained glass as in a church, and long heavy tables and benches. At one end was the "High Table", which is usually reserved for the Head of the college and the teachers. It really was high, raised on a wooden platform above the level of the rest of the hall. An undergraduate may sit at the High Table once on the day when he has passed all his examinations, takes his degrees and becomes a graduate.
1. They stopped the car on top of a hill because ______.
A.the spires and domes looked peaceful
B.they wanted to see Oxford
C.they wanted to take a rest
D.the old college walls looked different
A B C D
B
[解析] 事实细节题。 [要点透析] 从第一段第一句“A mile or so before they reached Oxford, they stopped the car on top of a hill from which they could see the whole city spread out before them.”可知,他们将车停在一座山顶上是为了看牛津大学全景。
2. Before they got away from the roaring traffic, they ______.
A.succeeded in parking their car
B.found a car park
C.tried to park their car
D.failed to park their car
A B C D
A
[解析] 推理判断题。 [要点透析] 从第二段第三句“But as soon as they had managed to park the car and get away from the roaring traffic...”可知,A符合题意,故选A。
3. Most of the undergraduates were wearing ______.
A.suits, caps and gowns
B.black gowns
C.sweaters or sports jackets
D.vests and slacks
A B C D
C
[解析] 事实细节题。 [要点透析] 从第三段首句“Most of the students, or undergraduates, wore informal clothes: sports coats, or pullovers, and slacks.”可知,大部分学生穿着运动装、毛衣和便裤,故选C。
4. George told Tom and Anne students wore black gowns ______.
A.only when they were on their way to lectures
B.when meeting with their tutor once a week
C.on their way to the library
D.when they were in the chapel
A B C D
B
[解析] 事实细节题。 [要点透析] 从第三段第三句“George explained that they had to wear these when going to lectures or to their weekly meeting with their tutor, or teacher.”可知,B符合题意,故选B。
5. An undergraduate may sit at the High Table on the day he ______.
A.receives his degrees
B.passes his exams
C.takes his exams
D.leaves school
A B C D
A
[解析] 事实细节题。 [要点透析] 从最后一段最后一句“An undergraduate may sit at the High Table once on the day when he has passed all his examinations, takes his degrees and becomes a graduate. ”可知,A符合题意,故选A。
Passage 2 Many years ago my student asked me the question," Mrs. Kindred, why do you teach?" Without taking time to reflect, I answered, " Because someday I might say something that might make a difference in someone's life. " Even though I was sincere, that wasn't a very good answer and my student didn't let it slide. "Let me get this straight," he said. "You went to college for four years so you could come here every day because you have the hope that someday you might say something that will influence someone?" He shook his head as if I were crazy and walked away looking confused. I'm one of those people who look back and wish they had said something smart or witty, or swift. Even though that particular student might no longer wonder why I teach, there are days when I wonder. On those days, I remind myself of the real reasons I teach. It's in my blood. My mother was my most influential teacher, and she was a 6th grade reading teacher until her death in 1990. She instilled(逐渐灌输)in me a love of reading and the knowledge that education opens doors. Teaching is a way to make a difference. If you throw a stone in a pond the ripples go on and on until they reach the shore. You can't have ripples without a "stone". Good teachers throw stones that make a positive difference, and that's what I strive to do. I genuinely love teenagers. I want to share with others what I know and what I have learned through the years. Life is full of ups and downs, and if I can help students avoid some potholes on the road of life, I want to do so. If they'll allow me to celebrate their victories with them, I want to do too. Teaching isn't for everyone, but I know I made the right career choice.
1. Why did the student continue to ask the question about the writer's being a teacher?
A. 从下列单词中选择适当的词填空,每个词只能用一次。 also bank borrow buy earn expensive increase keep loan probably statement still Where you save your money often depends on what you are saving it for. If you are saving money to 1 a CD or to go to a concert, then 2 you would keep it somewhere in your room. If you are saving money for something more 3 , like a mountain bike or a school trip, where would you save it? One place to save money is the 4 . Putting your money in a savings account will help your money 5 more money. If you put your money in a piggybank, in a year you'll 6 have the same amount of money you put in. However, if you put your money in a savings account, in a year, you'll have more money than you put in. Why? When you 7 your money in a bank, your money earns interest. Interest is the amount of money a bank pays you for using your money. The bank uses your money to 8 money to people and businesses. The bank will send you a statement several times a year. A bank 9 tells you how much money you have in your account. It 10 tells you how much interest you have earned. If you leave your money in the bank, you can watch it grow!
B. 根据课文的内容在每个空白处填入一个恰当的词。 This is true of the 1 of mankind. It is also true of mankind's spiritual resources. Most of these resources, both technical and spiritual, are 2 in books. When you have read a book, you have 3 to your human experience. Read Homer and your mind 4 a piece of Homer's mind. Through books you can acquire at least fragments of the mind and experience of Virgil, Dante, Shake—speare—the list is endless. For a great book is necessarily a gift; it 5 you a life you have not time to live yourself, and it takes you into a world you have not the time to travel in literal time. A 6 mind is one that 7 many such lives and many such worlds. If you are too much in a 8 , or too proud of your own limitations, to accept as a gift to your humanity some 9 of the minds of Aristotle or Einstein, then you are neither a developed human nor a useful 10 of a civilization.
1.
techniques
2.
stored
3.
added
4.
includes
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offers
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civilized
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contains
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hurry
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pieces
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citizen
Ⅴ. 根据所学课文内容完成下列句子。
1. When Andersen asked the prince to help him, the prince told him ______.
to learn a useful trade like shoemaking
2. The Marine didn't leave the old man who was not his father because ______.
the old man's son was not there but the old man-needed his son
3. In "Love of Life", the strange thing after the man was rescued was that ______.
he seemed to be afraid that there wasn't enough food on the ship
4. According to the author of "Happiness", many successful people feel miserable because they know they are contributing very little of real value and ______.
live in fear of being exposed as cheats
5. Sangstrom came to the druggist in order to buy ______.
a completely undetectable poison
6. Humor is highly prized in England because to an Englishman, a sense of humor is ______.
an attitude to life rather than the mere ability to laugh at jokes
7. Bob knew the man in police uniform must be the criminal because ______.
the real policemen were all in plain clothes
8. John Gardener has said that a society which praises its philosophers and looks down on its plumbers is in for trouble. "Neither ______ ," he warns.
its pipes nor its theories will hold water
9. Professor Kolb's question sheets surprised the writer because ______.
the ten questions were exactly the same ten questions that he had made up the day before
10. In "The Outside Chance" ,the sentence "When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers" means ______.
if you want something really badly, you'll probably get it, but you'll probably get it in a way you don't expect
Ⅵ. 将下列句子译成英语。
1. 中国的人口几乎是美国人口的五倍。
The population of China is almost five times as large as that of the United States.
[解析] 本题主要考查的知识点为倍数的表示方法。 [要点透析] A is+倍数+as+adj. +as+B意为“A是B的几倍”。
2. 你应该适当花一点时间休息。
You should spend a reasonable amount of time in relaxation.
It's unfair that poverty has deprived some children of the right to education/some children have been deprived of the right to education by poverty/because of poverty.