完形填空

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, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A senior monk and a junior monk were traveling together. One day, they came to a ________ with a strong current. As the monks were ________ to cross the river, they saw a very young and beautiful woman. She asked if they could help her ________ to the other side.

The two monks glanced at one another because they had ________ not to have physical contact with women.

Then, without a word, the older monk ________ the woman, carried her across the river, ________ her gently on the other side, and carried on his journey.

The younger monk couldn’t believe ________ had just happened. After rejoining his companion, he was ________ , and several hours passed without a word between them.

________, the younger monk couldn’t contain himself any longer, and asked, “As monks, we are not permitted to have body contact with a woman; how could you then ________ that woman?”

The________ monk looked at him and replied, “Brother, I set her down on the other side of the river, why are you________ carrying her?”

This simple Zen story has a beautiful message about living in the ________ moment. How often do we carry around past ________ , holding onto dislikes when the only person we are really ________ is ourselves?

We all ________ times in life when other people say things or ________ in a way that does harm to us. We can ________ to think carefully over past actions or events, but it will finally weigh us down and use up our energy.

Instead, we can choose to let go of what doesn’t serve us anymore and ________ on the present moment. Until we can find a level of peace and ________ in the present circumstances of our lives, we will never be content, because “now” is all we will ever have.

1.A. river B. hole C. bank D. sea

2.A. hoping B. preparing C. complaining D. taking

3.A. fly B. jump C. cross D. dive

4.A. analyzed B. answered C. protected D. promised

5.A. picked up B. walked away C. threw over D. turned down

6.A. passed B. directed C. placed D. fixed

7.A. which B. where C. how D. what

8.A. sad B. speechless C. nervous D. afraid

9.A. Originally B. Hesitantly C. Madly D. Finally

10.A. carry B. fetch C. ship D. point

11.A. strange B. senior C. cute D. quiet

12.A. just B. ever C. still D. always

13.A. past B. permanent C. complex D. present

14.A. happiness B. pain C. disease D. performance

15.A. touching B. enjoying C. changing D. hurting

16.A. go through B. get through C. go for D. get up

17.A. type B. behave C. involve D. settle

18.A. pretend B. refuse C. choose D. hesitate

19.A. concentrate B. depend C. put D. move

20.A. kindness B. surprise C. happiness D. impression

短文改错

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的短文。短文中共有10处错误，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：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下画一横线，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

It was raining hardly outside, that made it difficult for me to go home for lunch. Just as I was wondering what I should eat at noon, I saw a familiar figure passed by our classroom. I rushed out and it was my mother, who is already in the fifties, that brought me lunch, in spite the heavy rain. In China, many parents make great sacrifices for our children. But what had the children done in return？All too often, most children just take it for granted that their parents should serve for them unconditionally. My dear mum or dad, thank you very much for bringing me up. How shall I do for you?

书面表达

最近你的学校的英文报刊Growth在征稿,话题是 “父母是不是最好的老师”。同学们有人认为是，也有人认为不是。请你根据下表写一篇稿件并简要发表你的观点。

注意：1．词数100左右；

2．稿件的开头已给出，不计入总词数；

3. 可适当发挥，使行文连贯。

4．参考词汇：溺爱：spoil

The students in our school hold different opinions on whether our parents are our best teachers.

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The Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England, is the best place in Europe for discovering dinosaur bones. Dinosaur Farm Museum was established in 1993. Since then, the museum has introduced the study of old bones to many more people.

What we offer

Visitors can enjoy our displays, or watch us cleaning dinosaur bones and other fossils found on the island’s beaches.

The museum has a variety of different fossils, many of them never displayed to the public before. As more are discovered all the time, you can be sure of seeing something new each time you visit.

We have a free Fossil Identification Service, so you can bring in any fossils you have and find out what they are. In addition, we have a reasonably-priced Museum Shop, where you can buy a souvenir of your visit. You could also bring a picnic and relax in our special picnic area.

Activities

Fossil hunts are organized from the museum and run all year round. Groups of up to 25 are guided on a local beach where they can search for fossils. All these hunts are fully licensed and insured, and guides can help to identify any fossils found and point out things of interest.

Due to the popularity of these hunts, all trips must be booked by a personal visit to Dinosaur Farm Museum.

Did you know…?

The BBC programme “Live from Dinosaur Island” was filmed along the coast here, and Dinosaur Farm Museum was the base for the television crew.

Find out more

Check out our website at www.isleofwight/dinosaurfarm to learn in detail how we dig for dinosaurs. You can also read about the many different kinds of dinosaurs which lived in this area, which was connected to Europe 120 million years ago.

1.According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?

A. The Isle of Wight is the best place in the world for discovering dinosaur bones.

B. There is a special picnic area for vistors.

C. The museum has a variety of different fossils which have been displayed to the public before.

D. Vistors can also find many different kinds of dinosaurs that live there.

2.One can book a fossil hunt ______.

A. through a BBC program

B. through the museum’s website

C. by making a call to the museum

D. by visiting the museum personally

3.Which of the following is free of charge at the museum?

A. Food for a picnic.

B. Attending fossil hunts.

C. A souvenir of the museum.

D. Having fossils identified.

4.The passage is most probably taken from ______.

A. a conference interview

B. a travel magazine

C. a history book

D. a science fiction

I turned 16 on Friday, but the Driver’s License Office in my small hometown was only open on Tuesday, so I had to wait through that extremely long weekend and an endless Monday before going in for my examination.

I came to the Driver’s License Office half an hour earlier that Tuesday morning, pacing back and forth on the worn porch waiting for the office to open at eight. I reviewed the driver’s manual for the hundredth time. I was ready. I knew the manual backward and forward; I had made an “A” in my driver’s training course, and I was a genius behind the wheel.

Finally, the door opened and a weary-looking man in a brown uniform let me in.

“Let me guess. You want to take the driver’s test.” his voice was not enthusiastic.

“Yes!” I answered in excitement.

“Ok, fill this out, and if you pass we’ll go for a drive.”

I grabbed the test and rushed to the desk where I filled it out in record time. A quick check showed that my paper was perfect.

“Let’s get in the car.” He tossed me a set of keys, and I slid behind the wheel. Everything was going smoothly as we pulled out of the empty parking lot. I signaled a right hand turn, and we were on a deserted street. This was going to be easy.

“Turn left and go up Young Blood Hill,” he ordered. My hometown is in the mountains, and Young Blood Hill was almost vertical (垂直的). As I eased up the steep hill and came to a stop at the top, I heard the car’s engine die. My heart sank. I would have to start it again without rolling back down the hill. I swallowed hard and turned the key; as I moved my foot from the brake, the car began to roll. I suppose I could have rolled all the way back to the bottom except for one thing. There was something behind me which stopped my roll with a rough shake and crash of glass—a police car.

The policeman wrote me a ticket as I looked over the damage, and the man from the Driver’s License Office slid behind the wheel. I waited until we had parked before I asked how long a person had to wait before taking the test again.

1.What time does “that Tuesday morning” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A. The morning when he made an “A” in his driver’s training course.

B. The morning when he knew the driver’s manual perfectly well.

C. The Tuesday morning right before his 16th birthday.

D. The first Tuesday morning immediately after his 16th birthday.

2.Why didn’t the car roll back to the bottom?

A. It hit a police car.

B. The engine died.

C. The writer braked it hard.

D. The man from the Driver’s License Office helped make it stop.

3.From the underlined sentence “I grabbed the test and rushed to the desk where I filled it out in record time”, we can know that ______ .

A. the writer didn’t like the man from the Driver’s License Office.

B. the writer was excited and eager to go for the driver’s test.

C. time for the test was tight.

D. the test paper was very easy.

4.What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A. The man from the Driver’s License Office got a ticket.

B. The policeman drove the car away after the accident.

C. The writer failed the driving test.

D. The writer didn’t want to take the driving test again.

When you're surfing the Internet on your laptop from your dorm or home, do you know your personal details are being gathered secretly? And would you be surprised to know the information may be sold cheaply to advertisers and marketers?

According to an investigation by The Wall Street Journal, all it takes is a tiny file in a computer－a single code consisting of a long series of numbers and letters－to record the computer user's age, gender, location, favorite movies and hobbies.

The newspaper reports that Lotame Solutions Inc., a New York company, uses an advanced software called “beacon” to capture what people are typing on a website.

Lotame packages that data into profiles (个人资料) about individuals, only without their names, and sells the profiles to companies seeking customers. Batches of such data may be sold for a few dollars.

The Wall Street Journal survey discovered that spying on Internet users is one of the fastest?growing businesses on the World Wide Web.

The “cookie”－a tiny text file put on your PC by websites or marketing firms which might be used to remember your preferences for one site, or to track you across many sites is already old news. There are new and more complex tools such as “beacon” which scan in real time what people are doing on a webpage. These beacons instantly assess the Internet user's location, income, shopping interests and even medical conditions.

Millions of Internet users around the world also face unprecedented (空前的) threats. Private, sensitive, personal and business information is being gathered and sold without their knowledge.

Companies insist the information they gather is anonymous(匿名的) and the data is used harmlessly. But the technology has grown so powerful that even some of the biggest websites in the US don't know that they were installing intrusive files on visitors' computers. These include MSN.com and Yahoo.com.

Next time you visit a webpage and find an ad banner advertising something you've been planning to buy, don't be amazed that your computer can read your mind.

1.The purpose of the passage is to ______.

A. introduce a tiny file in a computer－a single code

B. show how your individual information was let out when you surf the Internet

C. show how to protect your privacy

D. introduce a sophisticated software called “beacon”

2.All of the following statements are not true EXCEPT ______.

A. Lotame sells the profiles about individuals to companies seeking customers with their age, gender, location, hobbies and names

B. spying on Internet users is the fastest?growing business on the World Wide Web

C. some of the biggest websites in the US know they were installing intrusive files on visitors' computers

D. a tiny file in a computer－a single code consisting of a long series of numbers and letters can record the user's information

3.What’s the writer’s attitude to the issue?

A. neutral B. optimistic C. worried D. indifferent

完形填空

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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

My father was a self-taught mandolin (曼陀铃) player. He was one of the best string ________ players in our town. He could not ________ music, but if he heard a tune a few times, he could play it.

Dad loved to play the mandolin for his ________ for he knew we enjoyed singing, and hearing him play. He was always there, ________ his time and efforts to making sure that his family had enough in their life. I had grown into a man and had children of my own ________ I realized how much he had sacrificed.

I joined the United States Air________ in January of 1962. Whenever I would come home ________ , I would ask Dad to play the mandolin. He could ________ your soul with the tones that came out of that old mandolin. He seemed to shine when he was playing. You could see his ________ in his ability to play so well for his family.

In 1950, our family moved to Maryland. While working at Todd Steel, he was ________ in an accident. On that particular day, Dad got the third index finger of his left hand ________ by the machine. ________ he didn’t lose enough of the finger where it would stop him picking up anything, it did ________ his ability to play the mandolin. After the accident, every time we asked him to play, he would make ________ for why he couldn’t play. Eventually, we could persuade him and he would say, “Okay. But I can’t hold down on the strings and play as well as before.” For the family it didn’t make any ________ .

In August of 1993, my father was discovered with lung cancer. He chose not to receive treatments so that he could live out the rest of his life ________ dignity. About a week before his death, we asked Dad if he would play the mandolin for us. He made excuses but said “okay”. He knew it would probably be the ________ time he would play for us. He tuned up the old mandolin and played a few ________ . When I looked around, there was not a ________ eye in the family. We saw before us a quiet man with an inner strength. Dad would never play the mandolin for us again. Dad was doing something he had done all his life, ________ . As sick as he was, he was still pleasing others. Dad surely could play that Mandolin!

1.A. equipment B. musical C. instrument D. musician

2.A. copy B. see C. look at D. read

3.A. family B. employer C. friends D. audience

4.A. applying B. paying C. devoting D. attaching

5.A. since B. while C. before D. after

6.A. Force B. Energy C. Power D. Strength

7.A. on duty B.on leave C. on holiday D. on vacation

8.A. touch B. contact C. feel D. keep

9.A. proud B. praise C. please D. pride

10.A. took part B. participated C. joined D. involved

11.A. cut in B. cut off C. cut up D. cut out

12.A. Although B. If C. Whether D. Because

13.A. destroy B. affect C. effect D. injure

14.A. uses B. preparations C. impressions D. excuses

15.A. comment B. sense C. difference D. decision

16.A. at B. on C. with D. off

17.A. first B. latest C. last D. longest

18.A. bills B. notes C. symbols D. signs

19.A. wet B. dry C. cried D. crying

20.A. sponsoring B. giving C. distributing D. taking

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容 （不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

My wife is addicted to shopping on the Internet. 1. seems that she can’t control herself well, just clicking constantly with the mouse. Let me tell what happened last night.

It was the fourth time she 2. (shop) online for hours. I had already reminded her 3. (think) twice before buying anything, but my wife ignored what I said and replied

confidently, “With the New Year 4. (approach), preparation is necessary. Besides, I haven’t bought things on the Internet for a WHOLE week.” Hearing her words, I was really 5. (speech). In most cases, the things she bought aren’t good value for money. Maybe she just enjoys 6. process of buying online.

Nowadays, 7. the development of technology, online shopping is becoming more and more convenient. Those 8. stay at home can buy whatever they want. In the meanwhile, it causes a series of 9. (problem). One of them is more spending, because people are 10. (easy) attracted by the discount. So how to keep a good state of mind in front of temptation is an important lesson many people need to learn.

短文改错

下文中共有10处语言错误，在错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在其下面写上该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。

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11处起）不记分。

On a Friday night, a poor young artist was playing with his violin at a street corner with a large piece of paper on the ground. Before long, he was surrounding with people, who were all attracted by the word on that paper. It said, “Last night, a gentleman put an important thing into my hat with mistake. Please come to claim them soon.” Seeing this, people wondered why it could be. Some time later, a man came and take back his lottery which won a prize of ＄500,000. When asked why he didn’t keep it for himself, artist said, “While I don’t have much money, I live happy. However, if I lose honest, I won’t be happy forever.”

While watching the Olympics the other night, I came across an unbelievable sight. It was not a gold medal, or a world record broken, but a show of courage.

The event was swimming and started with only three men on the blocks. For one reason or another, two of them false started, so they were disqualified. That left only one to complete. It would have been difficult enough, not having anyone to race against, even though the time on the clock is important.

I watched the man dive off the block and knew right away that something was wrong. I’m not an expert swimmer, but I can tell a good dive from a poor one, and this was not exactly medal quality. When he resurfaced, it was evident that the man was not out for gold—his arms were waving in an attempt at freestyle. The crowd started to laugh. Clearly this man was not a medal competitor.

I listened to the crowd begin to laugh at this poor man who was clearly having a hard time. Finally he made his turn to start back. It was pitiful. He made a few desperate strokes and you could tell he was worn out.

But in those few awful strokes, the crowd had changed.

No longer were they laughing, but beginning to cheer. Some even began to stand and shout “Come on, you can do it!” and he did.

A clear minute past the average swimmer, this young man finally finished his race. The crowd went wild. You would have thought that he had won the gold, and should have. Even though he recorded one of the slowest times in Olympic history, this man gave more heart than any of the other competitors.

Just a short year ago, he had never even swum, let alone race. His country had been invited to Sydney.

In a competition where athletes remove their silver medals feeling they have somehow been cheated out of gold, or when they act so proudly in front of their competitors, it is nice to watch an underdog.

1.The crowd changed their attitudes because _______.

A. they felt sorry for the young man

B. they wanted to show their sympathy

C. they were moved by the young man

D. they meant to please the young man

2.From the passage we can learn that the young man _______.

A. made his turn to start back pitifully

B. was skillful in freestyle in the game

C. swam faster than the average swimmer

D. was not capable enough to win the medal

3.According to the passage, “it is nice to watch an underdog” probably means _______.

A. it’s amusing to watch a man with awful swimming skills

B. it’s amazing to watch an ordinary man challenging himself

C. it’s cheerful for athletes to act proudly before their competitors

D. it’s brave enough for some athletes to remove the silver medals

4.What’s the best title for the passage?

A. Go for it! B. Try again！

C. Compete for Gold! D. Break a Record!