12. She brought his American baby girl with him, and a life-style ______ American ways.
A.colored with
B.flavored with
C.together with
D.flavored on
A B C D
B
[解析] flavor sth. with sth.意为“加味于,给……调味”;together with意为“连同,和”,只用作连词;color不与with连用,flavor不与on连用。本题意为“她带回来了他随身带着的美国女婴,还带回了美国式的生活方式。”本句有and连接前后两个句子,故填空处应该填谓语动词,只能填B。
13. I doubt if it is ______ for you to read that book.
A.worth
B.worthy
C.worthwhile
D.valuable
A B C D
C
[解析] be worth doing.意为“值得做某事”,be worth sth意为“有某种价值”;be worthy of sth./to be done意为“做某事是值得的”,若用worthy,本题应该为I doubt if the book is worthy to be read; worthwhile意为“值得的,值得花时间、钱、精力的”,常用“it is worthwhile doing sth./to do sth.”表示“干……是值得的”。
14. I thought it ______ a cooking stove.
A.better taking
B.better I took
C.better my taking
D.better to take
A B C D
D
[解析] 本题中thought后接不定式的复合结构,主要是thought to be,也用thought to do,有时也带it作其形式宾语,真正的宾语是to take a cooking stove。本题意为“我认为带厨灶更好。”
15. He gave away several ______ of old newspapers and magazines.
Ⅱ.CLOZE Fill in each of the 15 blanks in the passage with the most likely answer. Most worthwhile careers require some kind of specialized training. Ideally, therefore, the choice of an 1 should be made even before the choice of a curriculum in high school. Actually, however, most people make several job choices during their working lives, partly because of economic and industrial changes and partly to improve their positions. The "one perfect job" does not exist. Young people should, therefore, enter into a broad flexible training program that will 2 them for a field of work rather than for a single 3 . Unfortunately, man young people have to make career plans without benefit of help from a 4 vocational counselor or psychologist. Knowing little about the occupational world, or themselves for that matter, they choose their life work on a hit-or-miss 5 Some drift from job to job. Others 6 to work in which they are unhappy and for which they are not fitted. One common mistake is choosing an occupation for 7 real or imagined prestige. Too many high-school students—or their parents for them choose the professional field, 8 both the relatively small proportion of workers in the professions and the extremely high educational and personal 9 . The imagined or real prestige of a profession or a "white-collar" job is no good reason for choosing it as a life's work. 10 , these occupations are not always well paid. Since a large proportion of jobs are in mechanical and manual work, the 11 of young people should give serious 12 to these fields. Before making an occupational choice, a person should have a general idea of what he wants 13 life and how hard he is willing to work to get it. Some people desire social prestige, others intellectual satisfaction. Some want security while others are willing to take 14 for financial gain. Each occupational choice has its demands as well as its 15 .
6. He (Trevor) had been very much attracted by Hughie at first, it must be admitted, entirely on account of his personal charm.
A.Trevor admitted that at first he liked Hughie merely because he was handsome, kind-hearted, sincere and intelligent.
B.It was true that at first Trevor was attached to Hughie simply because he was nice to look at, and delightful to talk to.
C.Hughie admitted that at first he was drawn to Trevor for his personal strengths, not for his success as a popular artist.
D.At first Hughie and Trevor thought that it was their charming personalities that brought them together.
A B C D
B
[解析] 原句意思为:他(特弗雷)起初被休吉深深吸引,必须承认的是完全被他的个人魅力所吸引。A项中like(喜欢)和原句的had been attracted(被吸引)意义上是有差别。B.起初特弗雷被休吉吸引仅仅是因为他长得英俊,跟他聊天很愉快。C项中“休吉被特弗雷吸引”与原句不符。D项中“是他们俩的迷人气质互相吸引了对方”与原句不符。
7. If disappointed, though, she [my mother] wasted no energy on self-pity. She would make me make something of myself whether I wanted to or not.
A.Dissatisfied as she was, she remained as determined as before.
B.Faced with discouragements, she never lost her energetic spirits.
C.Nothing could let her down even though no one sympathized with her.
D.There was enough self-confidence in her to deal with disappointments.
A B C D
A
[解析] 译文:但是,尽管她会失望,她却并没有把精力浪费在自我抱怨上。不管我愿不愿意,她都要促使我成才。这里if disappointed,though,she wasted no energy on self—pity指“但是,尽管她会失望,她却并没有把精力浪费在自我抱怨上”。A项指“尽管她不满意,她仍然和以前一样坚定”;B项指“面对失败,她从没失去精力”;C项指“尽管没有人同情她,但是没有什么能让她倒下”;D项指“她很自信不会让自己失望”。可见,A项最符合题意。
8. It seems, nowadays, a matter of universal desire that poverty should be abolished.
A.Nowadays the world is confronting with the serious problem of poverty.
B.Nowadays it seems that a large number of people are still living in poverty.
C.Nowadays many people express their desire that they will not live in poverty.
D.Nowadays people all over the world seem to have a common wish that we should do away with poverty.
Ⅳ.READING COMPREHENSION Read the two passages and choose the most likely answer to each of the questions.
Passage 1 Increasingly, over the past ten years, people—especially young people—have become aware of the need to change their eating habits, because much of the food they eat, particularly processed foods, is not good for the health. Consequently, there has been a growing interest in natural foods, foods which do not contain chemical additives and which have not been affected by chemical fertilizers, widely used in farming today. Natural foods, for example, are vegetables, fruits and grains which have been grown in soil that is rich in organic matter. In simple terms, this means that the soil has been nourished by unused vegetable matter, which provides it with essential vitamins and minerals. This in itself is a natural process compared with the use of chemicals and fertilizers, the main purpose of which is to increase the amount—but not the quality-of foods grown in commercial farming areas. Natural foods also include animals which have been allowed to feed and move freely in healthy pastures. Compare this with what happens in the mass production of poultry: there are battery farms, for example, where thousands of chickens live crowded together in one building and are fed on food which is little better than rubbish. Chickens kept in this way are not only tasteless as food; they also produce eggs which lack important vitamins. There are other aspects of healthy eating which are now receiving increasing attention from experts on diet. It is significant that nowadays fibre is considered to be an important part of a healthy diet. In white bread, for example, the fibre has been removed. But it is present in unrefined flour and of course in vegetables. It is interesting to note that in countries where the national diet contains large quantities of unrefined flour and vegetables, certain diseases are comparatively rare. Hence the emphasis is placed on the eating of wholemeal bread and more vegetables by modern experts on "healthy eating".
1. Recently, some people are interested in natural foods because ______.
A.these foods are fresh and sweet
B.they want to change their eating habits
C.these foods do not contain chemical additives and have not been affected by chemical fertilizers
Passage 2 The term "satellite city" is used to describe the relationship between a large city and neighbouring smaller cities and towns that are economically dependent upon it. Satellite cities may be collection and distribution points in the commercial linkages of a trading metropolis (大城市), or they may be manufacturing or mining centers existing with one-industry economies as the creatures of some nearby center. This latter form is what is generally meant when one uses the term "satellite city". Taken in this sense, nineteenth-century Chicopee and Lowell, Massachusetts, were satellites of Boston. Both were mill towns created by Boston investors to serve the economy of that New England metropolis. Located on cheap land along water-power sites in the midst of a farming region that could supply enough labor, they were satellites in the fullest sense of the term. Pullman, Illinois, and Gary, Indiana, were likewise one-industry towns created in conjunction with the much broader economy of nearby Chicago. Such places, as Vera Schlakman and Stanley Buder have pointed out in their excellent urban biographies, had a one-dimensional quality, a paucity (缺乏,少量) of social vigor. These cities could not stand alone; they were in a sense colonies of a multifunctional mother city.
1. Which of the following is characteristic of a satellite city?
Ⅴ.WORD DERIVATION Complete each of the following sentences with a (compound) word derived from the one(s) given in brackets. Write your word on the answer sheet.
1. Mr. Brown is a(n) ______ pianist, and gives concerts all over the world. (accomplish)
Ⅵ.SENTENCE TRANSLATION Translate the following sentences into English.
1. 就质量而言,这是你现有资金能买到的最好的车了。
In terms of quality, this is the best car you can buy with the money you have.
2. 要不是太阳的热量,地球将是一个冰冻的星球。
The Earth would be a frozen ball if it were not for the heat of the Sun.
3. 我们应该把原子结构的最新发现让所有从事有关研究的人都能参阅。
We should let everyone engaged in the study have access to the latest discovery of atomic structure.
4. 我们对新搬来的邻居一无所知,只知道他毕业于清华大学。
We know nothing about our new neighbour, except that he graduated from Qinghua University.
5. 她在旅游途中对所见所闻做了大量的笔记。
During her travels she extensively noted down what she had seen and heard.
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: Why do so many parents indulge their children with too many material things?
In recent years, our life standard is becoming better and better. Someone usually said that the children now were more lucky than the children in the past because now their requirements can be well satisfied,especially for material things. Some parents think that they should give their children everything they want because they love them because some parents have had difficult days when they were young, they are glad to fulfil their children. In some cases, parents want their children to study hard and to be an excellent student. As a kind of encouragement, they give them the material things they want. As time passes, children form the habits of asking for material things as the condition of good grades. And then, it becomes a vicious circle—parents indulge their children with too many material things.