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第一卷(选择题, 共90分)

第一部分 英语知识运用(共两节, 满分40分)

第一节  单项填空(共10小题;每小题1分, 满分10分)

从A, B, C, D四个选项中, 选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

1. In recent years _____air pollution is becoming _____ concern for many cities in China.

A. the; /   B. a; /    C. /; /       D. /; a

2. The scenery in the northwest, with its rolling mountains and grassland, is quite different from   _____ of the capital city, Chengdu.

A. that   B. one     C. the one      D. it

3. Cheng Daoming, the famous Chinese actor played the main part in the film “Coming Home”, and his acting skills always _____ the expectation of his fans.

A. put up with    B. end up with     C. live up to     D. add up to

4. This is the first time I _____ to Chengdu and I am truly impressed by the life style of people here.

A. come       B. am coming      C. have come       D. had come

5. They reached the train station, _____, only _____ that the train had just left.

A. exhaustedly; learned         B. exhausted; to learn

C. exhausting; learning          D. exhaustingly; to learn

6. It’s impossible to live without failure _____ you live so carefully that you might as well not have lived.

A. unless      B. until        C. though       D. because

7. How close parents are to their children _____ an influence on the character of the child.

A have       B. has        C. having       D. to have

8. Despite the fact that his scores were good, they were hardly as excellent as a student with his intelligence _____.

A. achieved     B. had achieved     C. would achieve      D. should have achieved

9. You will be paid well to write an article recording a situation _____ you find yourself extremely embarrassed because of different culture.

A. that     B. which      C. what  D. where

10. —Do you think French team has got a chance to win in this year’s World Cup?

—_____.  It has fallen quite behind in recent years, I think.

A. Of course       B. It depends      C. Don’t mention it     D. By no means

第二节  完形填空 (共20小题;每题1.5分, 满分30分)

阅读下面短文, 掌握其大意, 然后从11—30各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中, 选出最佳答案。

A land free from destruction(破坏), plus wealth, natural resources, and labor supply—all these were important  11  in helping England to become the center for the Industrial Revolution.  12  they were not enough. Something  13  was needed to start the industrial process. That “something special” was men— 14  individuals who could invent machines, find new  15  of power, and establish business organizations to reshape(改造) society. The men who  16  the machines of the Industrial Revolution  17  from many backgrounds and many occupations. Many of them were  18   inventors than scientists. A man who is a  19  scientist is primarily interested in doing his research     20 . He is not necessarily working  21  that his findings can be used. An inventor or one interested in applied science is  22  trying to make something that has an actual  23 . He may try to solve a problem by using the theories  24  science or by experimenting through trial and error. Regardless of his method, he is working to obtain a  25  result: the construction of a harvesting machine, the burning of a light bulb, or one of  26  other objectives. Most of the people who  27  the machines of the Industrial Revolution were inventors, not trained scientists. A few were both scientists and inventors. Of course, we need to agree even those who had  28  or no training in science might not have made their inventions  29  ground work had not been laid by scientists years  30 .

11. A. cases   B. reasons   C. factors   D. situations

12. A. But   B. And    C. Besides  D. Even

13. A. else   B. near    C. extra   D. similar

14. A. generating  B. effective   C. motivating  D. creative

15. A. origins   B. sources   C. bases   D. discoveries

16. A. employed  B. created   C. operated  D. controlled

17. A. came   B. arrived    C. stemmed  D. appeared

18. A. less   B. better    C. more   D. worse

19. A. true   B. practical    C. pure   D. clever

20. A. happily   B. occasionally  C. unwillingly  D. accurately

21. A. now   B. and    C. all   D. so

22. A. seldom   B. sometimes   C. usually  D. never

23. A. plan   B. use    C. idea   D. means

24. A. of    B. with    C. to    D. as

25. A. single   B. only    C. specialized  D. specific

26. A. few   B. those    C. many   D. all

27. A. proposed  B. developed   C. supplied  D. offered

28. A. little   B. much    C. some   D. any

29. A. as    B. if     C. because  D. while

30. A. ago   B. past    C. ahead   D. before

第二部分 阅读理解 (共25小题, 满分50分)

第一节(共20小题;每小题2分, 满分40分)

阅读下列短文, 从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

The slavery drama “12 Years a Slave” won the Academy Award for best picture on Sunday, making history as the first movie from a black director to win the film industry’s highest honor in 86 years of the Oscars. Can anyone tell me your ideas about this movie? —Great Martin

“12 Years a Slave is a surprisingly underwhelming movie. It is more of a string of pictures about several heartless and evil white men(and women) who are just mean without the motivation of running a plantation on their minds. There is very little character development and most of the film relies on what the audience already knows and feels about slavery. “ —Gemini Jeff

‘‘Never have I been stunned into an emotional silence after watching a film in the theater. I’ve come out of films before thinking, ‘My god, that was unbelievable’, like when I saw The Lord of the Rings for the first time, but this film just hits you on another level entirely. You sit there after it’s over, wondering if what you’ve just experienced is real. The day after, you feel the same. “

—Paul Johnson

“This movie is just an average movie about slavery. Are you kidding me, segregation movies are a dime a dozen and this movie beat out Gravity for Golden Globes? Gravity has never been done before. 12 Years a Slave I watched once and will never watch again. I watched Gravity 5 times and still love it. ’’ —Emma Smith

“This movie was realistic and engaging at every second. Even the dramatic pauses were worthwhile and definitely not a waste of time. The script inferred and hinted at events rather than just plain saying them, and that was genius. Outstanding photography, amazing special effects and the acting is top notch. There were a few people that walked out during some scenes. What a shame!”

—April

31. The main purpose of Great Martin’s writing is _____.

A. to give a brief introduction of the movie

B. to share his own opinions with others

C. to invite answers to his question

D. to explain why he asks the question

32. The underlined word “stunned’’ in the third paragraph probably means _____.

A. puzzled   B. shocked   C. disappointed   D. concerned

33. Among the four speakers, who made positive comments on the movie?

A. Gemini Jeff and Paul Johnson   B. Paul Johnson and Emma Smith

C. Gemini Jeff and Emma Smith   D. Paul Johnson and April

34. Which of the following best states Paul Johnson’s ideas about l2 Years a Slave?

A. It leaves little room for character development.

B. It reaches the height of The Lord of the Rings.

C. It doesn’t deserve such high praise.

D. It amazes the audience with its special effects.

B

One morning, however, I found its bed empty. My doll was gone! I cried for it. Mum wept and told me that the poor little thing had been sent to a hospital. It had a fever. For several days, I heard Mum and Dad whispering such words as “hopeless”, “pitiful”, and “dying”, which sounded ominous.

“Though Christmas is coming, don’t expect any presents this year.” Dad said, pointing at the socks I hung in the living room. I’d never seen him cry before.

The phone rang early on Christmas morning. Dad jumped out of bed to answer it. From my bedroom I heard him say. “ What? He’s all right?” He hung up and shouted upstairs, “The hospital said we canould bring Richard home! “

“Thank god!” I heard Mum cry.

From the window upstairs, I watched my parents rush out to the car. I had never seen them so happy. And I was also full of joy. What a wonderful day! My baby doll would be home. I ran downstairs. My socks still hung there flat. But I knew they were not empty: they were filled with love!

35. What happened to the author on September 11, 1958?

A. He got a baby brother.    B. He got a Christmas gift.

C. He became four years old.   D. He received a doll.

36.What does the underlined word “ominous” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A. Impossible.     B. Boring.        C. Difficult.   D. Fearful.

37. Which word can best describe the feeling of the father when Christmas was coming?

A. Excitement.     B. Happiness.     C. Sadness.   D. Disappointment.

38. What is the passage mainly about?

A. A sad Christmas day.    B. Life with a lovely baby.

C. A special Christmas gift.   D. Memories of a happy family.

C

Franz Kafka wrote that “a book must be the ax (斧子) for the frozen sea inside us.” I once shared this sentence with a class of seventh graders, and it didn’t seem to require any explanation.

We’d just finished John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men. When we read the end together out loud in class, my toughest boy, a star basketball player, wept a little, and so did I. “Are you crying?” one girl asked, as she got out of her chair to take a closer look. “I am,” I told her, “and the funny thing is that I’ve read it many times.”

But they understood. When George shoots Lennie, the tragedy is that we realize it is always going to happen. In my 14 years of teaching in a New York city public middle school, I’ve taught kids with imprisoned parents, abusive parents, irresponsible parents; kids who are parents themselves; kids who are homeless; kids who grew up in violent neighborhoods. They understand, more than I ever will, the novel’s terrible logic— the giving way of dreams to fate (命运).

For the last seven years, I have worked as a reading enrichment teacher, reading classic works of literature with small groups of students from grades six to eight. I originally proposed this idea to my headmaster after learning that a former excellent student of mine had transferred out of a selective high school— one that often attracts the literary-minded children of Manhattan’s upper classes— into a less competitive setting. The daughter of immigrants, with a father in prison, she perhaps felt uncomfortable with her new classmates. I thought additional “cultural capital” could help students like her develop better in high school, where they would unavoidably meet, perhaps for the first time, students who came from homes lined with bookshelves, whose parents had earned Ph. D.’s.

Along with Of Mice and Men, my groups read: Sounder, The Red Pony, Lord of the Flies, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. The students didn’t always read from the expected point of view. About The Red Pony, one student said, “It’s about being a man; it’s about manliness.” I had never before seen the parallels between Scarface and Macbeth, nor had I heard Lady Macbeth’s soliloquies (独白) read as raps (说唱), but both made sense; the interpretations were playful, but serious. Once introduced to Steinbeck’s writing, one boy went on to read The Grapes of Wrath and told me repeatedly how amazing it was that “all these people hate each other, and they’re all white.” His historical view was broadening, his sense of his own country deepening. Year after year, former students visited and told me how prepared they had felt in their first year in college as a result of the classes.

Year after year, however, we are increasing the number of practice tests. We are trying to teach students to read increasingly complex texts, not for emotional punch (碰撞) but for text complexity. Yet, we cannot enrich (充实) the minds of our students by testing them on texts that ignore their hearts. We are teaching them that words do not amaze but confuse. We may succeed in raising test scores, but we will fail to teach them that reading can be transformative and that it belongs to them.

39. The underlined words in Paragraph 1 probably mean that a book helps to _____.

A. realize our dreams          B. give support to our life

C. smooth away difficulties     D. awake our emotions

40. Why were the students able to understand the novel Of Mice and Men?

A. Because they spent much time reading it.

B. Because they had read the novel before.

C. Because they came from a public school.

D. Because they had similar life experiences.

41. The girl left the selective high school possibly because_____.

A. she was a literary-minded girl       B. her parents were immigrants

C. she couldn’t fit in with her class     D. her father was then in prison

42. To the author’s surprise, the students read the novels_____.

A. creatively    B. passively     C. repeatedly    D. carelessly