一、单项填空
1.______ big fire broke out in my neighbor’s house last night,and it took the firefighters about an hour to put out ______ fire.
A.The;a B.A;the
C.The;the
D.A;a
解析:考查冠词。第一个空泛指“一场火灾”;而第二个空是特指上文已提及的火灾,所以答案为B项。句意:昨夜我的邻居家里发生了一场火灾,消防员花了大概一个小时才将它扑灭。
答案:B
2.Ashley,______such cases,is sure instantly to come up with a brilliant idea.
A.experiencing
B.having experienced
C.to experience
D.experienced
解析:考查非谓语动词作状语的用法。由后半句的“一定能想出一个出色的办法”可以看出,那个年轻人一定经历过类似的情况。所以要用分词的完成式,强调动作的结果。
答案:B
3.I wonder ______ of you is ______ such an accident.
A.who;to be blamed on
B.whom;blaming to
C.which;to blame for
D.who;to be blamed for
解析:表示给定范围内的人,问“谁”时用which;be to blame for“因……而受到责备”。
答案:C
4.He is said ______ by a famous university,for which he has worked hard for three years.
A.being admitted
B.to being admitted
C.to be admitted
D.to have been admitted
解析:考查sb.is said to do结构。动词admit发生在主句的谓语动词之前,因此D项符合。
答案:D
5.—I’m sorry to have interrupted you.Please go on.
—Then,where was I?
—Oh.You ______ you didn’t adapt to the way that the people lived there.
A.were saying
B.had said
C.said
D.had been saying
解析:考查时态。对方问的是刚才被打断的时刻谈的是什么话题,所以说话人回答的是刚才对方正在说的内容,因此用过去进行时。
答案:A
6.I think he must have a dictionary you need,______ he?
A.mustn’t
B.doesn’t
C.don’t
D.hasn’t
解析:考查反意疑问句的构成。情态动词表示推测时,其后的反义疑问句没有表示过去的时间状语时,由动词决定,动词have是行为动词,由主语he可知用doesn’t。
答案:B
7.One of the requirements for a fire is that the material ______ to its burning temperature.
A.is heated
B.will be heated
C.be heated
D.could be heated
解析:考查虚拟语气。that引导的从句作requirements的表语从句,因此要用虚拟语气“(should)+动词原形”,should可以省略。
答案:C
8.We’ll continue to learn by ourselves when we have graduated.We must ______ learn how to study in the university now.
A.in all
B.after all
C.above all
D.at all
解析:考查介词短语辨析。above all表示“首先,最重要地”。句意:我们毕业后将继续自学,但最重要地是现在要学会在大学里如何学习。
答案:C
10.The boy who had been seriously injured in the mudrock flow was so well looked after in the hospital that he could ______ get out of bed without help.
A.nearly
B.merely
C.barely
D.hardly
解析:考查副词辨析。句意:在泥石流中受伤的那个男孩在医院里得到了如此好的照顾以至于他几乎不需要别人帮助就能下床了。nearly“几乎”;can hardly和can barely都表示“几乎不能”,表示否定,不合题意;merely“仅仅”。
答案:A
11.Is there a bookshop around ______ I can buy an EnglishChinese dictionary?
A.which
B.where
C.that
D.what
解析:where引导的是定语从句,修饰先行词bookshop,around在此处是副词“这附近”。
答案:B
12.In no country ______ Britain,as is often said,______ experience four seasons in a day.
A.rather than;can one
B.rather than;one can
C.other than;one can
D.other than;can one
解析:other than“除了”;rather than“而不是”;in no country位于句首,句子要部分倒装。句意:据说除了英国外,再也没有哪个国家能在同一天内体验到四季。
答案:D
13.______ we have some sympathy for them,we don’t think they are right to do so.
A.If
B.While
C.When
D.As
解析:考查连词的用法。句意:虽然我们有些同情他们,可是我们认为他们这么做不对。此处的while表示“虽然,尽管”,用来引导让步状语从句。
答案:B
14.—Will you go to Qingdao for a holiday?
—If your brother does,______.
A.so do I
B.so I do
C.so will I
D.so am I
解析:考查so引导的倒装句。if从句中用的一般现在时,主句中要用一般将来时,因此选C项。答语句意:如果你兄弟去,我就去。
答案:C
15.—Thanks for your MP5.I’ll return it to you as soon as possible.
—______.I’ve got a new one from my uncle.
A.Nothing serious
B.No hurry
C.With pleasure
D.Nothing much
解析:考查交际用语。由“I’ve got a new one from my uncle.”一句可知,前一句应该用“No hurry.”。答语句意:不用着急。我从我叔叔那里拿来了一个新的。
答案:B
二、阅读理解
A
Living organisms must feed so that they can grow and remain healthy,including the biggest organisms on Earth,plants.They need to feed but they do not feed in the same way as animals.They do not have a mouth or a digestive system and they do not move much to find or catch their food.
Plants are made of three things.Water is the most important part.Often more than 90% of the plant is made of water.If we dry a plant out by removing all of its water content,we can find out what is left over.Two things are found in the solid parts of plants:minerals and organic matter.We can separate these two parts if we burn the dried plant until only the ashes are left.If we analyze these ashes we find that they are made of the minerals that the plant needs to grow.The part that burns away is called organic matter.
It is true that plants need a lot of water to stay healthy and plants are mostly made of water.A pumpkin,for example,is 94% water.If we do not water plants they will wilt and eventually they will die.Most of the water we give to a plant does not stay in its body.The water passes through the plant and evaporates(蒸发)into the air.
Plants absorb most of their water through their roots.The roots of a plant can be very extensive(广泛的),as much as 50 kilometers of roots can be found in one square meter of soil.A single wheat plant has a total of 70 km of roots!
From the roots the water travels up the stem in very thin pipe,then moves towards the leaves.The water travelling through a plant with the things that the plant needs to grow is the blood of the plant.Eventually the water arrives in the leaf where it escapes into the air.
本文讲述了水对植物的重要性。
1.From the first paragraph,we can know______.
A.plants can only move a little
B.plants do not need to feed
C.plants can not get minerals by themselves
D.plants are the most developed organisms on Earth
解析:细节理解题。根据第一段They do not have a mouth or a digestive system and they do not move much to find or catch their food可知,植物不能移动很多去寻找或是捕食它们的食物,即可以移动一点点。
答案:A
2.What does the second paragraph mainly talk about?
A.What organic matter is.
B.Water is very important to a plant.
C.Why minerals exist in a plant.
D.What a plant is made of.
解析:段落大意题。第二段主要介绍了植物的三种成分:水、矿物质和有机物。
答案:D
3.What does the underlined word“wilt”in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
A.Be cut off.
B.Be broken.
C.Dry out.
D.Turn red.
解析:词义猜测题。根据上文It is true that plants need a lot of water to stay healthy and plants are mostly made of water可知,植物需要很多的水来保持健康,植物主要由水组成。再根据If we do not water plants they will...and eventually they will die可知,没有水,植物将会枯萎,最终死亡。由此可推知,画线词含义为“枯萎,干枯”。
答案:C
B
Anaconda
This South American creature appears in films or your nightmares.They have weighed over 230 kilograms.It is often regarded as the biggest snake in the world.It is clearly a totally different brand of snake type as it coils(缠绕)all over its target,increasing the pressure until eventually its victim dies.Its jaws are powered by muscle tissue that produces enough power for its more than 100 sharp teeth to pass through the thick skin of a crocodile.They don’t have poison.Sometimes they prefer to camouflage themselves so that they look like their surroundings and swiftly draw back when someone approaches.
Poisonous Frog
The Golden Poison Frog is protected by means of a strong poison.This very small frog,less than 55 mm in length,has enough poison to take down a couple of African Bull Elephants.This frog has been known to be a killer of men and women who’ve touched it.It is also confirmed that dogs have died by contacting a tissue on which a Golden Poison Frog had wandered!While the Golden Poison Frog might be the most harmful South American animal,it also has poison frog neighborhood friends.In intense colors,they absolutely look appealing to capture and touch,but humans should stay far away from them.
Piranha
Despite the fact that only a small number of many kinds of piranhas are thought to be dangerous to humans,the redbellied piranha is one of those.The myths show that a large group of piranhas can absolutely eat a herd of large animals crossing the river,leaving only bones.Piranhas live in the freshwater streams of South America,and they can smell blood from far away and launch attacks swiftly.It is reported that they are only dangerous to human beings if the water of the river becomes less or they are short of food.Take good care,though,in entering the waters.The piranha in reality is one of the most dangerous animals.
本文介绍了南美洲的三种最危险的动物。
5.What is special about the anaconda?
A.It kills its victim quickly with its poison.
B.It kills its victim with its strength.
C.It kills its victim with its sharp teeth.
D.It gets its victim trapped and frightens it.
解析:细节理解题。根据第一段...it coils all over its target,increasing the pressure until eventually its victim dies可知,答案为B项。
答案:B
6.The underlined word“camouflage”in Paragraph 1 is the closest in meaning to“______”.
A.move about to find food
B.eat all kinds of animals
C.make loud noise to threaten others
D.hide itself by using the environment
解析:词义猜测题。根据句中...so that they look like their surroundings and swiftly draw back...可推断,camouflage意为“伪装”,故答案为D项。
答案:D
7.The author mentioned the death of the dogs in Paragraph 2 to show that______.
A.the poison of the Golden Poison Frog is deadly
B.it had nothing to do with the Golden Poison Frog
C.no animals can survive the poison of the Golden Poison Frog
D.animals should keep away from the Golden Poison Frog
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