第一部分:英语知识运用(共两节, 满分45分)
第一节:单项填空(共15小题,每小题1分,满分15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
1.The hotel is going to employ an assistant with ______ knowledge of French and ______ experience of management.
A.不填;an
B.the;the
C.a;an
D.a;不填
.All of us were so excited at the news ______ we would be sent abroad to study for two years ______ we jumped with joy.
A.what;what
B.that;that
C.that;what
D.what;that
.S.—What a beautiful day!
—Yes,it's ________ that I'd like to take a walk.
A.such nice weather
B.so a nice weather
C.such a nice weather
D.so nice weather.A.He hurried to the airport with his friends only ______ that all the film stars they liked best had been picked up by their company.
A.to tell
B.to be told
C.telling
D.told
.Emily is easy to be ______ as she's the only one of the women who is wearing evening dress.
A.realised
B.respect
C.recognised
D.refused
.N.The manager was absent because of illness;______,the meeting was put off until tomorrow.
A.as a result
B.what's worse
C.in other words
D.by the wayHave you got any idea for the summer vacation?
— I don’t mind where to go ________ there’s sun, sea and beach.
A. as if
B. now that
C. as long as
D. for fear that
11. After recovering from his illness, he was advised to __________ gardening as a hobby.
A. take up
B. take off
C. take down
D. take away
12. ---You seemed to be very surprised at the news that he won.
----Not exactly. It was his courage ______ his skill _____ really struck me.
A. more than, which
B. other than, that
C. rather than, that
D. less than, which
13.In some parts of Chinawinds ______ electricity instead of coal.
A.are used to producing
B.get used to produce
C.used to producing
D.are used to produce
.The house ______ Mr. Green's family for 50 years will be pulled down next week.
A.belonged to
B.belonging to
C.to belong to
D.belongs to
.完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
I’I was in the countryside, playing golf when we got the call that a plane had
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the World Trade Centre. We checked out of the hotel immediately and started
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our way downtown. When I got home, I called the rescue center and they told me to come
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and get on the
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list.
The next morning I went down to the
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at about 5 A. M., and four hours later I
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the call to come down to West Street. I called my wife and told her not to
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me, and that I would stay in
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with her. I took the subway. It stopped at West Fourth Street, so I had to
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the rest of the way.
And somewhere in there I became
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when I went into something I
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. I once worked there in 1966 for the
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of the World Trade Centre. On halfway on September 12, I was frightened to see the World Trade Centre was a huge pile, maybe ten
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tall. And it was burning. I started to ask
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in which my crane might be
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a whistle blew suddenly warning us of some danger. I saw people running away and I really didn’t know what to do. So I did the same, too. It was as if they had
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the bulls go in Spain and we were running through the street. People falling down, people
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them up as they came by, and carrying them, just to get them out of the way, because something was extremely
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. I didn’t even look back. We stopped running when we got to the Battery Tunnel, and I caught my
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and said, “Oh, my God, I’m going to die.”
Then I 35
a little bit, thinking about what we should do next. As we started again we knocked into a fire chief officer and we asked, “What can we do to help you?”
16.A.noticed B.reached C.hit D.passed
17.A.finding B.making C.getting D.losing
18.A.away B.near C.in D.down
19.A.volunteer B.soldier C.police D.fireman
20.A.company B.hotel C.center D.home
21.A.answered B.made C.heard D.received
22.A.be curious about B.forget about C.laugh at D.worry about
23.A.peace B.touch C.connection D.relation
24.A.walk B.complete C.cancel D.smooth
25.A.delighted B.frightened C.embarrassed D.interested
26.A.built B.met C.designed D.had
27.A.construction B.plan C.destruction D.use
28.A.miles B.centimeters C.stories D.floors
29.A.means B.numbers C.position D.directions
30.A.as B.why C.when D.because
31.A.driven B.let C.asked D.enjoyed
32.A.pushing B.giving C.looking D.picking
33.A.dangerous B.urgent C.efficient D.important
34.A.view B.sight C.breath D.sense
35.A.put down B.settled down C.knocked down D.let down
第二部分:阅读理解(共20小题,每题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和D)中,选出最佳选项。
A
Food prices have risen sharply over the past few years. The good news is that the rate of increase has slowed. The bad news is that prices will not go down anytime soon.
Also,the rate of global agricultural production is slowing. Yet it needs to increase 60% over the next 40 years to feed a growing world population.
These are among the findings from the OECDFAO(the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development & the Food and Agriculture Organization)Agricultural Outlook(展望)2017-2021.
FAO DirectorGeneral Jose Graziano da Silva spoke at a news conference in Rome when the report was released. Mr.Da Silva said that,not surprisingly,the world's poorest people will feel the greatest effects of higher prices.
“For the millions and millions of extremely poor people,the effects of high food prices are clear—they might have to change their diets,usually to ones with poorer nutrition quality,”he said.
In middleincome countries,people are gaining weight as they eat fewer fruits and vegetables and more of the cheaper but less nutritious foods.
The report also shows that farmers in poorer countries will be leading efforts to feed an expected 9,000,000,000 people by 2050.The outlook predicts that farmers in Latin America,the Caribbean and subSaharan Africa will drive agricultural production in the future.
Angel Gurria,SecretaryGeneral of the OECD,said:“We can feed 9,000,000,000 people by 2050 on this planet. But we have to organize ourselves better.” But there are plenty of challenges.Onefourth of all agricultural land is damaged. Many countries face water shortages(短缺).And experts believe climate change is driving increasingly unusual weather patterns.
The report says farmers need to use more growing methods that can't cause damage to the environment.At the same time,it says governments should end economically harmful supports and spend more money to increase agricultural production.Mr.Gurria says rich and poor nations need to treat agriculture more like a business.
“In many cases,agriculture is related in people's minds to the poorest. It's related to aid. It's related to very poor living conditions,etc. We have got to shake that image away,”he said.
36.Why are people gaining weight in countries with average incomes?
A.They eat more food.
B.They eat less nutritious foods.
C.They eat cheaper fruits.
D.They eat cheaper vegetables.
37.It can be inferred from the text that poorer countries ______.
A.are damaging a great part of their agricultural landB.will play a great role in feeding the growing world population
C.are spending lots of money increasing agricultural productionD.will not be so seriously affected by food prices as rich nations
3.What can be done to deal with the slow agricultural production?
A.Improving the growing methods.
B.Finding more agricultural land.
C.Preventing governments' involvement.
D.Improving farmers' living conditions.
.Which of the following might Angel Gurria agree with?
A.Agriculture means difficulty and sadness.
B.Food prices will go down in the near future.
C.It's almost impossible to feed 9,000,000,000 people by 2050.
D.Both rich and poor countries should take agriculture seriously.
B
Imagine going to sleep then waking up speaking another language.It may sound impossible,but it's actually happened.The phenomenon(现象)of being able to suddenly speak another language is known as“Xenoglossia”,from the Greek words“xenos”(foreigner)and“glossa”(language).
It once happened to a 13yearold girl from Croatia.After being unconscious(不省人事的)because of a disease for 24 hours in 2010,she woke up speaking fluent German.The girl,who came from the town of Knin in the south of Croatia,was studying German at school but she'd only started recently.Her parents said that she'd been reading German books and watching German TV at home,but that she wasn't fluent in the language.However,since waking up,she's been able to communicate“perfectly”in German.What's really strange is that she's now unable to speak Croat,her mother language.Doctors at Split's KB Hospital have asked some experts to examine the girl as they try to find out what caused the change.Dr Mijo Milas said,“In earlier times this would have been considered as a miracle(奇迹);we prefer to think that there must be an explanation—it's just that we haven't found it yet.”
In 2007,Matej Kus from Czech became unconscious after a motorbike accident.On waking up 45 minutes later,he could speak fluent English.Matej was only 18 years old at the time,and had just started studying the language and so was at a low level.Peter Waite,Kus's teammate said,“I couldn't believe what I was hearing.It was really clear English.It was unbelievable to hear him talk in unbroken English.”Unluckily,Matej's new language skills didn't last.Two days later,when he recovered fully from the accident,he'd completely forgotten his English.
We still don't know exactly what happened to the two people.Perhaps scientists will discover something new and exciting.But until then,keep studying!
4.According to the passage,what is“Xenoglossia”?
A.That someone becomes unconscious.
B.That someone speaks a new language in a sudden.
C.That someone doesn't like his mother language. D.That someone is able to speak Greek suddenly.
.What does the underlined word “It” in Para.3 probably refer to?
A.Having accidents.
B.Speaking fluent German.
C.The phenomenon of Xenoglossia.
D.Being unable to speak.
4.We can learn from Paragraph 3 that the girl from Croatia ______.
A.wanted to know what caused her change
B.believed she had a talent for language
C.didn't study German for a long time
D.didn't like learning German
"Indeed," George Washington wrote in his diary in 1785, "some kind of fly, or bug, had begun to eat the leaves before I left home." But the father of America was not the father of bug. When Washington wrote that, Englishmen hade been referring to insects as bugs for more than a century, and Americans had already created lightning-bug(萤火虫). But the English were soon to stop using the bugs in their language, leaving it to the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The American bug could also be a person, referring to someone who was crazy about a particular activity. Although fan became the usual term, sports fans used to be called racing bugs, baseball bugs, and the like.
Or the bug could be a small machine or object, for example, a bug-shaped car. The bug could also be a burglar alarm, from which comes the expression to bug, that is, "to install (安装) an alarm". Now it means a small piece of equipment that people use for listening secretly to others' conversation. Since the 1840s, to bug has long meant "to cheat", and since the 1940s it has been annoying.
We also know the bug as a flaw in a computer program or other design. That meaning dates back to the time of Thomas Edison. In 1878 he explained bugs as "little problems and difficulties" that required months of study and labor to overcome in developing a successful product. In 1889 it was recorded that Edison "had been up the two previous nights discovering 'a bug' in his invented record player."
44. We learn from Paragraph 1 that __________________.
A. Americans had difficulty in learning to use the word bug
B. George Washington was the first person to call an insect a bug
C. the word bug was still popularly used in English in the nineteenth century
D. both Englishman and Americans used the word bug in the eighteenth century
45. What does the word "flaw" in the last paragraph probably mean?
A. Fault.
B. Finding.
C. Origin.
D. Explanation.
46. The passage is mainly concerned with__________________.
A. the misunderstanding of the word bug
B. the development of the word bug
C. the public views of the word bug
D. the special characteristics of the word bug
D
The common cold is the world's most widespread illness, which is plagues(疫病) that flesh receives.
The most widespread mistake of all is that colds are caused by cold. They are not. They are caused by viruses(病毒) passing on from person to person. You catch a cold by coming into contact, directly or indirectly, with someone who already has one. If cold causes colds, it would be reasonable to expect the Eskimos to suffer from them forever. But they do not. And in isolated Arctic regions explorers have reported being free from colds until coming into contact again with infected people from the outside world by way of packages and mail dropped from airplanes.
During the First World War soldiers who spent long periods in the trenches(战壕), cold and wet, showed no increased tendency to catch colds.
In the Second World War prisoners at the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp(奥斯维辛集中营), naked and starving, were astonished to find that they seldom had colds.
At the Common Cold Research Unit in England, volunteers took part in Experiments in which they gave themselves to the discomforts of being cold and wet for long stretches of time. After taking hot baths, they put on bathing suits, allowed themselves to be with cold water, and then stood about dripping wet in drafty room. Some wore wet socks all day while others exercised in the rain until close to exhaustion. Not one of the volunteers came down with a cold unless a cold virus was actually dropped in his nose.
If, then, cold and wet have nothing to do with catching colds, why are they more frequent in the winter? Despite the most pains—taking research, no one has yet found the answer. One explanation offered by scientists is that people tend to stay together indoors more in cold weather than at other times, and this makes it easier for cold viruses to be passed on.
No one has yet found a cure for the cold. There are drugs and pain suppressors(止痛片) such as aspirin, but all they do is to relieve the symptoms(症状).
47. The writer offered _______ examples to support his argument.
A. 4
B. 5
C. 6
D. 3
48. Which of the following does not agree with the chosen passage?
A. The Eskimos do not suffer from colds all the time.
B. Colds are not caused by cold.
C. People suffer from colds just because they like to stay indoors.
D. A person may catch a cold by touching someone who already had one.
49. Arctic explorers may catch colds when ________.
A. they are working in the isolated Arctic regions
B. they are writing reports in terribly cold weather
C. they are free from work in the isolated Arctic regions
D. they are coming into touch again with the outside world
50. The passage mainly discusses ________.
A. the fallacy about the common cold
B. the experiments on the common cold
C. the reason and the way people catch colds
D. the continued spread of common colds
.七选五(共5小题;每小题2分,满分10分)
根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
It is easy for some people to learn a second language. However, others have difficulty in learning a new language. What can you do to help yourself learn a second language, such as English?____
1.Feel positive about learning English.____Be patient. You do not have to understand everything all at once. It is natural to make mistakes when you learn something new. We can learn from our mistakes. In other words, do not worry about making mistakes.
2.Practice your English. For example, write a diary every day. You will form a habit of writing it in English, and you will feel comfortable expressing your ideas in English.__53__ In addition, you must speak English every day. You can practice with your classmates outside class.
3.___You can write this in your journal. After each class, think about what you did. Did you answer a question correctly? Did you understand something the teacher explained? Perhaps the lesson was difficult, but you tried to understand it.
You must be positive about learning English and believe that you can do it. It is important to practice every day and make a record of your achievements.__55__
A.Go over the points you have learned.
B.Keep a record of your language learning.
C.Don't give up when you meet some difficulty.
D.If you believe that you can learn, you will learn.
E.Several weeks later, you will see that your writing is improving.
F.In these ways,you will enjoy learning English, and you will feel more confident in yourself.
G.There are several ways to make learning English a little easier and more interesting.
第II 卷第一节 短文改错(共10小题; 每小题1, 满分10分)
文中有10处语言错误, 每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加: 在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧), 并在其下写出该加的词。
删除: 把多余的词用斜线()划掉。
修改: 在错的词下划一横线, 并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:
1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2.只允许修改10处, 多者(从第11处起)不计分。Bill enjoyed shoot very much, but he was never good at it.One day his friend was named
Jack visited his house and saw a new target Bill had put several days ago in his garden.Jack
went nearer but saw a hole in the middle of the target.When jack asked who had shot at it,
Bill said he had.“How far away are you? Two feet?” But Bill said he was 50 yards away.
Then Bill’s wife explained Jack the hole.He said, “Bill went to a shop and bought a piece of wood.He put it in the garden and shot at it from 50 yard away, only to shoot a hole.Then he
drew a target round a hole.”
书面表达(满分25分)
假如你是李华。你的外籍教师Mr. Brown想让其五岁的儿子学
汉语,他你发来电子邮件,询问去你市那所学校学习更好。请根据以
下提示给他回一封邮件,推荐育英语言学校。
1.该校有20余年的对外汉语教学经验;
2.接受不同教育程度和背景的学生
3.教学内容丰富,授课方式生动灵活。
Dear Mr. Brown,
6-10 BCBAC
11-15
ACDBC
完形填空:16-20 CBDAC
21-25 DDBAB
26-30 AACDC
31-35 BDACB
阅读理解:36-39 BBAD
40-43BCCD
44-46 DAB
47-50 BCDA
七选五:GDEBF
改错答案:
作文范文:
Dear Mr. Brown,
I’m very glad to know that you want your 5-year-old son to learn Chinese. Here I’d like to introduce you a well-known language school in our city. Yu Ying Language School.
The language school, which has over twenty years of experience in teaching foreign students Chinese, accept students from all over the world, regardless of their educational level and background. The school curriculum includes Chinese culture, everyday communication, written and spoken Chinese. All the teachers there have developed a special method so that they can make their classes interesting and lively. Many foreign students can use Chinese freely when leaving school.
If you need to know anything else, do not hesitate to contact me.
Yours,
Li Hua