单项选择
1. Shelley has worked hard for the examination, so she is sure of passing it at her first ______.
A. practice B. risk
C. attempt
D. art
2. He had ______ to become the first to climb Everest without oxygen tanks and in the end, he made it.
A. managed
B. attempted
C. succeeded
D. predicted
3. —How about your trip to Italy？
—Oh, ______ the fine weather, we enjoyed ourselves indeed.
A. but for
B. thanks to
C. in spite of
D. because of
4. By the end of 2007, about half a million people had flooded into the city, ______ up around 10 percent of its total population.
A. make
B. made
C. making
D. to be made
5. He hurried to the station, only ______ that the train had left.
A. to find
B. finding
C. found
D. to have found
答案与解析
1. C
句意：谢莉努力准备这次考试，所以她相信这次考试她能一次通过。at one’s first attempt“某人第一次尝试”。
2. B
句意：他试图成为第一个不需要氧气瓶就可以爬上珠穆朗玛峰的人，最后他成功了。此处考查attempt to do sth.“试图做某事”。
3. B
句意：“你们的意大利之行怎么样？”“哦，多亏了天气好，我们的确玩得很开心。”thanks to“幸亏，多亏”；but for“要不是，若不是”；in spite of“尽管”；because of“因为”。
4. C
句意：到2007年底，大约50万人涌入城市，占城市总人口的大约10%左右。现在分词短语作结果状语，表示必然的结果。
5. A
句意：他匆匆忙忙赶到火车站，结果发现火车已经开走了。动词不定式作结果状语，表示出乎意料的结果。
题组2
单项选择
1. At the end of the meeting, it was announced that an agreement ______.
A. has been reached
B. had been reached
C. has reached
D. had reached
2. There have been several new events ______ to the program for the 2008 Olympic Games.
A. add
B. to add
C. adding
D. added
3. Try not to start every sentence with “the”. ______ the beginnings of your sentences.
A. Vary
B. Decorate
C. Form
D. Describe
4. All the people ______ at the party were his supporters.
A. present
B. thankful
C. interested
D. important
5. Although the teacher did not mention any names, everybody knew who he was ______.
A. attending to
B. turning to
C. referring to
D. talking to
6. ______ everybody knows about it, I don’t want to talk any more.
A. For
B. Even
C. Since
D. However
答案与解析
1. B
announce已用了过去时态，所以reach这一动作就是过去的过去，故用过去完成时态；根据句意，应为被动语态，故选B。
2. D
根据题意“新的项目被增加”，应用过去分词表示被动。故选D。
3. A
考查词汇。vary“使多样化”；decorate“装饰”；form“形成”；describe“描述”。由语境可知选A。
4. A
present表示“在场的，出席的”，作后置定语。故选A。
5. C
后半句句意为“每个人都知道他指的是谁”。refer to“提到；指……而言”，其他选项不合句意。故选C。
6. C
句意为“既然大家都知道了，我不想再说了”。故选C。
题组1
单项填空
1. He is ______ tall ______ short. He is medium height.
A. either; or
B. neither; nor
C. both; and
D. neither; or
2. The composition ______ any more.
A. need not to be corrected
B. doesn’t need to be corrected
C. doesn’t need be corrected
D. need not correct
3. Computers are often used to deal with information and ______ each other around the world by the Internet.
A. communicate to
B. communicate with
C. communication with
D. communication to
4. Those ______ private cars argue that waiting for buses wastes much time.
A. in favour with buying
B. in favour of buy
C. in favour of buying
D. by favour of buy
5. On the whole , I’m ______ the proposal.
A. in spite of
B. in favour of
C. regardless of
D. despite of
6. The Chief Executive is now ______ the people.
A. in favour of
B. in spite of
C. in favour with
D. despite of
7. —Why are you late again?
—______.
A. I slept in
B. I will go to school
C. Nothing
D. That’s all right
8. —The price has been decided on.
—Good. ______ the price is decided on, we can discuss the packaging.
A. Because of
B. For
C. Now that
D. If
9. —______ you weren’t there, I left a message.
—Thank you.
A. Why
B. If
C. So
D. As
答案与解析
1. B
根据后一句句意“他是中等个”，可排除C、D两项（D项搭配不对）。either…or要么……，要么……；neither…nor既不……，也不……。根据句意选择B项。
2. B
need可以作实义动词，也可以作情态动词。本选项中的need是实义动词，前面应加助动词。句意：这篇作文再也不需要改动了。
3. B
分析句子成分，可知空格处的词和deal with是并列成分，所以空格处也应该是动词，排除C、D两项。根据句意选择B项。句意：电脑经常用来处理信息，供世界各地的人通过互联网彼此交流。
4. C
in favour with意思是“受到……宠爱”。后面接人；in favour of 意思是“赞成”，后接人或事物，如果接动词须加-ing； by favour of意思是“烦请……便交”，of后面接人。根据句意选择C项。句意：赞成买私家车的人争论说，等公共汽车浪费很多时间。
5. B
in spite of“尽管”；in favour of“赞成，同意，
支持”；regardless of“不管，不顾”；despite of
“尽管”。句意：总的来说，我赞成这个提议。
6. C
in favour of“赞成，同意”；in spite of“尽管”；in favour with“受到……宠爱”；despite of “尽管”。句意：现在行政首长受到市民的爱戴。
7. A
问句询问迟到的原因，答语应该是告诉对方，故选择A项。句意：“你怎么又迟到了？”“我睡过头了。”
8. C
because of后不接句子，for用在句中，根据前一句句意 “价格已经商定”，不存在条件if，故选择C项。句意：“价格已经商定。”“好，既然价格已定，我们可以讨论一下包装问题。”
9. D
根据后一句句意“谢谢”，可知感谢对方应该是有原因的。故选择D项。句意：“因为你不在那里，我留了个口信。”“谢谢。”
完形填空
Nasreddin was a poor man, so he tried to grow __1__ he could in his own garden, so that he would not have to buy so many in the market.
One evening he heard a noise in his garden and looked out of the window. A white ox had got into the garden and __2__ his vegetables. Nasreddin at once took his stick, ran out and chased the ox, but he was too old to catch it. When he got back to his garden, he found that the ox had ruined most of his precious vegetables.
__3__, while he __4__ in the street near his house, he saw a cart with two white oxen which looked very much like the one that __5__ his vegetables. He was carrying his stick with him, __6__ he at once began to beat the two oxen with it. As neither of them looked more like the ox that had eaten his vegetables than the other, he beat both of them equally hard.
The owner of the ox and cart was drinking coffee in a __7__ coffee-house. When he saw __8__ Nasreddin was doing __9__ his animals, he ran out and shouted, “What are you doing? What have those poor animals done to you for you to beat them like that?”
“You keep out this!” Nasreddin shouted back, “This is a matter between me and one of these two oxen. He knows very well __10__ I am beating him!”
1. A. so many vegetables
B. many vegetables
C. as many as vegetables
D. as many vegetables as
2. A. was eating B. ate
C. had eaten
D. has eaten
3. A. Next day
B. Next morning
C. Last morning
D. The next morning
4. A. walks
B. waked
C. was walking D. walking
5. A. ruined
B. had eaten C. ate
D. had ruin
6. A. so
B. and
C. but
D. or
7. A. beside
B. nearby
C. near
D. near by
8. A. that
B. which
C. why
D. what
9. A. for
B. to
C. with
D. on
10.A. reason
B. when
C. why
D. because
名师点评
这是一个笑话，贫农Nasreddin在街上碰到两头牛，搞不清是哪一头毁坏了他家的菜园，于是用棒子将两头牛一起抽打，牛主人制止时，他却强词夺理，无理取闹。
答案简析
1．D。习惯用语as many as possible 意为“尽可能多的”合乎文意，为正确选项。
2．A。过去进行时强调过去正在进行的动作，根据文意Nasreddin看到牛正在吃蔬菜，故选 was eating 。
3．D。指过去某一天的第一天或第二天早上、晚上，应用the next day/morning/evening。 故应选The next morning 。
4．C。在从句动作进行的过程中，主句动作发生了，这时从句常用进行时态，故选择was walking 。
5．B。牛吃蔬菜是贫农上街之前的事，文章本身讲的是过去的故事，指过去的过去应用过去完成时，故选had eaten。
6．A。从句子意思看，空白处前后构成因果关系，故选择so。
7．B。形容词nearby一般作定语，表示“不远的，附近的”，合乎文意，为正确选项。
8．D。这里需要一个引导词，引导saw的宾语从句，同时在句子里作do的宾语，故选 what。
9．B。do sth. to sb.结构中to后面常接动作的对象。
10．C。牛主人问及Nasreddin打牛的原因，这里需要一个引导词引导 knew的宾语从句，且在从句中作状语，根据上文可知这里应填 why。
B
BEIJING--Alarmed by the overreaching ambitions of many Chinese provinces to grow at all costs, China’s top economic chief is calling on officials to calm down and spare a thought for the environment．
Zhang Ping, who heads China’s National Development and Reform Commission, the central economic planning agency, said only five or six of China’s 30 provinces are targeting annual economic growth of 8 percent or 9 percent．
The remaining provinces are aiming for growth rates of more than 10 percent this year, with some wanting to double economic output in the coming five years．
“China has a planned energy supply of about 4 billion cubic tons of coal equivalent（等量的）for the next five years, and this is not enough to meet demands for economic growth to double,” he was quoted as saying on the news portal Sina．Com．
Beijing is increasingly concerned with the ambitions of Chinese provinces across the country to chase high growth despite the central government’s urgent request for a more moderate and sustainable（可持续的）pace of expansion．
Years of rapid economic growth has taken a toll on China’s environment, with Beijing trying to remove some of the damage now．It has an annual growth target of 7 percent for the next five years, well down from last year’s 10 percent．
Zhang said Beijing has asked local governments to take into account the supply of “energy, environment, water and land” to set more reasonable growth targets．
35．Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A．Many Chinese provinces are alarmed by Beijing．
B．Zhang Ping is an expert and economic chief from www. Sina.Com．
C．The supply of the coal in China is not sufficient(足够的) for the next five years．
D．Few Chinese provinces are aiming for economic growth rates of less than 10%．
36．The underlined phrase “taken a toll on” in the sixth paragraph means “_________”．
A．looked forward to
B．paid attention to
C．caused damage to
D．attached importance to
37．The general idea of the whole passage can be that ________．
A．China’s economy is developing
B．China’s top chief places more emphasis on the environment
C．all Chinese provinces should slow down their economic growth rates
D．economic high growth should go hand in hand with environmental protection
38．What could be the best title for the news?
A．Economic Development
B．Energy Supply
C．Sustainable Development
D．Environment protection
参考答案35—38 DCDC
C
What should you think about when trying to find your career? You are probably better at some school subjects than others. These may show strengths that you can use in your work. A boy who is good at mathematics can use that in an engineering career. A girl who spells well and likes English may be good at office work. So it is important to know the subjects you do well in at school. On the other hand, you may not have any specially strong subjects but your records show a general satisfactory standard. Although not all subjects can be used directly in a job, they may have indirect value. A knowledge of history is not required for most jobs but if history is one of your good subjects you will have learned to remember facts and details. This is an ability that can be useful in many jobs.
Your school may have taught you skills, such as typing or technical drawing, which you can use in your work. You may be good at metalwork or cookery and look for a job where you can improve these skills. If you have had a part-time job on Saturdays or in the summer, think what you gained from it. If nothing else, you may have learned how to get to work on time, to follow instructions and to get on with older workers. You may have learned to give correct change in a shop, for example. Just as important, you may become interested in a particular industry or career you see from the inside in a part-time job.
Facing your weak points is also part of knowing yourself. You may be all thumbs when you handle tools; perhaps you are a poor speller or cannot add up a column of figures. It is better to face any weakness than to pretend they do not exist. Your school record, for instance, may not be too good, yet it is an important part of your background. You should not be apologetic(认错的) about it but instead recognize that you will have a chance of a fresh start at work.
39．What is the passage mainly about?
A．The importance of working hard at school.
B．Choosing a career according to one’s strengths.
C．How to face one’s weakness.D．The value of school work.
40. The writer thinks that a student to have a part-time job is probably ___.
A. a good way to find out his weak pointsB. one of the best ways of earning extra money
C. of great use for his work in the future
D. a waste of time he could have spent on study
41．From the passage we learn that if a student’s school performance is not good, he ___________.
A．should pay more attention to learning skills and developing abilities
B．will be regretful about his bad results
C．may also do well in his future work
D．should restart his study in school
42．From the last paragraph we know one should _________.
A．make full use of one’s own weak pointsB．study harder for a new school record
C．apologize for one’s own school recordD．face one’s own weak points bravely
—42 BCCD
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