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。

I wouldn't have picked up that dusty card without seeing those big words: DON'T FORGET. I was _________ . Don't forget what? Under the words were three numbered items. l. Snow peas. 2. Shakespeare. 3. Sadira Kirmani. What was my name doing on someone's list?

Yesterday was my first day here. Since our teacher Mrs. Allison_________ me, nobody except the boy with _________ spoke to me and asked if he could have my cake at lunch. I tried to _________attention to the lessons, but my mind went blank. Snow peas, Shakespeare, and me? “Sadira.” I _________when Mrs. Allison called my name. “It's time to line up for _________.” As I moved through the line, I heard a girl with braces（背带） ask, “What's that?”, _________ at a pan. “Snow peas,” the lady answered. “I'll try some snow peas,” the boy behind me _________ . Snow peas! Number l on the list.

After lunch, Mrs. Allison _________ that it was “poem time.” The boy who'd asked for snow peas stood up. “OK, Wyatt.” Mrs. Allison nodded. “To be or not to be…” Wyatt began. When he _________, Mrs. Allison added, “Shakespeare wrote sonnets(十四行诗), a special kind of _________ .” Shakespeare? Number 2 on the list. I started to feel upset, _________ what would happen next.

After school, I sat alone on the bus. It was quite a while before I _________Wyatt. He smiled in a _________way, saying “I wanted to talk to you. I almost forgot.” “Forgot what'?” “You're Number 3 on my list.” So now I _________what was going on. “My mom's _________ . I'm supposed to try three new things every day.” continued Wyatt.

That night, I made my own_________ . l. Try the spinach quiche. 2. Offer my _________to the boy with glasses. 3. Say _________ to the girl with braces. Then I smiled before adding one more _________ : Thank Wyatt.

1.A. terrified B. curious C. grateful D. pleased

2.A. introduced B. encouraged C. helped D. spied

3.A. rags B. glasses C. pearl D. baggage

4.A. bring B. carry C. rely D. pay

5.A. shouted B. wandered C. jumped D. stared

6.A. class B. quiz C. lunch D. scenery

7.A. glaring B. pointing C. cheering D. mixing

8.A. worked out B. blocked out C. put out D. shouted out

9.A. confirmed B. announced C. chatted D. sought

10.A. finished B. managed C. crashed D. floated

11.A. phrase B. passage C. poem D. novel

12.A. expecting B. wondering C. screaming D. existing

13.A. crashed B. bowed C. apologized D. spotted

14.A. friendly B. amazed C. exhausted D. rude

15.A. brought up B. watch out C. found out D. caught sight of

16.A. idea B. tradition C. fault D. religion

17.A. cake B. scene C. poem D. list

18.A. card B. peas C. dessert D. buffet

19.A. thanks B. sorry C. goodbye D. hello

20.A. topic B. person C. item D. system

请根据课文背诵，在横线上填入所缺内容，要求与原文一模一样，否则该小题不得分。每个空只能填入一词，并将答案写在答题卡的相应位置。

1.--May we ask what you’re doing in this country and what your plans are? --Well, I can’t say that I have any plans. I’m hoping to find work. As a matter of fact, I landed in Britain _____ ______.

2.--And it was the ship that brought you to England. –Yes. The fact is that I earned my passage by working as an unpaid hand, which______ ______ my appearance. I went to the American embassy to seek help, but…(the brothers smile at each other.)

3.It exploded loudly with fire and rock. They were ______ ______ to produce carbon dioxide, nitrogen, water vapour and other gases, which were to make the earth’s atmosphere.

4.Water had also appeared on other planets like Mars but, _______the earth, it had disappeared later. It was not immediately obvious that water was to be fundamental to the development of life.

5.Because of the Great Lakes, they learned, Canada has more fresh water than______ ______________ in the world. In fact, it has one-third of the world’s total fresh water, and much of it is in the Great Lakes.

单词拼写，请根据汉语提示或单词的首字母，写出符合语境的单词，每个空只能填一个词。并将正确答案写到答题卡的相应位置。注意在答题卡上作答时，要写出完整的单词形式。

1.It is reported that there will be a ________（猛烈）storm tomorrow morning.

2.A second-grade wind makes the leaves move ________（轻微）.

3.The reason he gave for his absence from school was _________（难以置信）; he told a lie just now.

4.People say it is Canada’s most beautiful city, _________（包围）by mountains and the Pacific Ocean.

5.What i________ us most about the book was its vivid（生动的） language, which is unforgettable.

6.After three hours of waiting for the train, our________（耐心）was finally gone.

7.-- I think your wife doesn’t understand you. -- On the c________, she understands me very well.

8.They are p______ about how to react, that is, they don’t know what to do with the situation.

9.Spending too much time on the Internet is h______ to you.

10.They did all they could to save the old tree m______ at least 50 metres.

单句改错

下面句子中各有一个语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。请直接在答题卡上作答。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写上该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（﹨）划掉。

修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：每句仅有一处错误；修改仅限一词；格式不正确不给分。

1.It is good manner to speak in a low voice in public places.

2.I know that he was brought up by his grandparents and he was taught to be an honest man.

3.Large amounts of money is spent on the building of the pavement by the governor.

4.Even the extreme climate can’t prevent polar bears wander on the beach.

5.As for my experience last night, I was in a nightclub then and a fight between two young men broke in.

6.That I want to tell you is that the cat gave birth to 3 babies just now.

7.Another problem is if he can come at dawn.

8.I’ve got the message from Mr. Wang that what he has settled down in Canada.

9.Rather than took the aeroplane all the way, they flew to Vancouver and then went across Canada from west to east by train.

10.We were chatting about the beautiful scenery in the harbour while I caught sight of a large whale jumping out of water in the distance.

Well, parents, surprise! Lots of us are using Twitter and Facebook to thumb rides, and not just to school. It’s awkward to be refused when you call a friend and ask for a ride. But with Twitter, you just look for other people heading the same way.

It may sound risky, so many teens stay within their own social circles to find rides, and don’t branch out beyond friends when asking on Twitter just like me, but to some young people, especially those taking longer trips, stranger danger is less of a concern.

“I think the digital connection of young people is really key, because younger generations grew up sharing things on line, sharing files, photos, music, etc, so they’ve been very used to sharing,” said Juliet Schor, a sociology professor at Boston College.

The sharing economy got big during the recession (经济衰退), allowing people to access more goods, services using technology and even to share costs. And that technology, for me, is what the car was for my mom, a gateway to more freedom, like what my friend Earl says, “The symbol of freedom isn’t the car any more because there’s technology out there connecting you to a car.”

According to the researchers at the University of Michigan, 30 years ago, eight in ten American 18-year-olds had a driver’s license compared to six in ten today. So it’s not that surprising that on my 16th birthday I wasn’t rushing to get a license but an iPhone.

“Driving, for young people, does mean they have to disconnect from their technology, and that’s a negative. So if they could sit in the passage side and still be connected, that’s going to be a plus.” Schor continued.

To me, another plus is that ride sharing represents something, something much bigger than trying to save money. I see it as evidence that people still depend on each other. My generation shares their cars and apartments the way neighbors used to share cups of sugar. For the system to work, some of us still need our own cars. But until I get my own version of the silver Super Beetle, you can find me on Twitter.

1.The American teens like me, prefer to possess an iPhone as a birthday gift because _______.

A. it is most fashionable and cool

B. they are bored with driving cars

C. they are fond of being connected

D. it is much cheaper than a car

2.We can learn from the text that _______.

A. Twitter is a website for teens to make friends and achieve goals

B. ride sharing can be seen as a sign that people still count on each other

C. driving cars for teens means a plus and connecting with technology

D. having a car and cost-sharing symbolize more freedom for the author’s mother

3.Professor Juliet would agree that _______.

A. young people will sit waiting to be contacted by reading a passage

B. sharing economy is bound to be responsible for the recession

C. young people tend to share a car with strangers by means of Twitter

D. being connected via technology is important for young people

4.The best title for the passage is probably _______.

A. Twitter, an Awesome Website

B. Cars or iPhone

C. Teens Use Twitter to Thumb Rides

D. Cool Teens on the Go

One of India’s top engineering schools has restricted Internet access in its boarding houses, saying addiction to surfing, gaming and blogging was affecting students’ performance, making them lonely and even suicidal.

Authorities at the best Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Mumbai said students had stopped socializing and many were late for morning classes or slept through them. “Now, a student doesn’t even know who lives two doors away from him because he is so busy on the Internet,” said Prakash Gopalan, dean of Student Affairs. “The old dormitory culture of companionship and socializing among students is gone. This is not healthy in our opinion.”

IIT?Mumbai, with about 5,000 students, is one of the seven IITs across India which are considered to be among the finest engineering schools in the world. They are also a talent pool for global technology giants. But their hard courses, tough competition and lonely campus lifestyle have taken an effect on students. Depressive and dysfunctional lifestyles are known to be common among IIT students, and at least nine have committed suicide in the past five years. Students have unlimited free Internet access in their boarding houses to help them in their studies, but many also use it to surf, chat, download movies and music, blog and for gaming.

“Starting Monday, Internet access will be banned between 11 p.m. and 12:30 p.m. at IIT?Mumbai’s 13 boarding buildings to encourage students to sleep early and to try and force them out of their shells.” Gopalan said. But the move has not gone down well with students who say they hate their lives being regulated. “Now they will say we need to listen to a lullaby (摇篮曲) to go to sleep.” said Rajiv, an electronics student.

1.According to the text, the students addicted to the Internet in IIT-Mumbai are likely to ______.

A. perform well in studies

B. participate in social activities

C. know their classmates better

D. feel lonely and even suicidal

2.The underlined word “dysfunctional” in Paragraph 3 most probably means “______”.

A. unpopular B. meaningful C. abnormal D. exciting

3.What measures have been taken in IIT?Mumbai?

A. Students must go to bed before 11 p.m.

B. Students are forbidden to surf the Internet on campus.

C. Students have unlimited free Internet access in their dormitories.

D. Internet access is unavailable in deep night in boarding buildings.

4.We may infer from the last paragraph that ______.

A. all electronics students hate the banning order

B. some students complain about the banning order

C. there is no Internet access on the IIT campus ever since

D. more students prefer listening to music to surfing the Internet

Some 30,000 years ago, artists who lived in caves in Europe painted pictures of the animals around them: panthers, hyenas, rhinos, cave lions, mammoths and other creatures which have been extinct for a long time.

The artwork, more than a thousand drawings, is considered the oldest group of human cave drawings which have ever been discovered. They were preserved because the cave was sealed---closed off--for more or less 23,000 years.

Fast forward to December 18, 1994, a group of French cave scientists were exploring caves in southern France. Jean Marie Chauvet, who led the group then, describes the process of discovering the cave paintings. “At that time I was in the front, Eliette just walked behind me, Christian behind. Eliette said she saw two marks with red ochre(赭石) and she said, ‘They came here.’ And at this very moment everything began. The drawings and everything linked to the parietal art(壁画). That is where it started.”

Cave art expert Jean Clotttes reviewed the paintings. “I was amazed at the number of paintings there were and paintings of their quality and particularly in front of the panel of the horses.”

Scientific analysis confirmed the prehistoric date of the artwork. Studies showed the drawings were created tens of thousands of years ago, before human history was written. The United Nations’ cultural agency UNESCO lists the cave as a World Heritage Site. They say that the drawings form a remarkable expression of early human artistic creation of grand excellence and variety.

The Chauvet Cave has been named after the explorer who first entered it. However, its environment and drawings are too fragile to be visited by human beings. So the cave is closed, and only people there for scientific purposes can go inside and see the artwork.

However, French authorities asked experts to create an exact copy of the cave, called Pont d’Arc Cavern. The copy, which we also called replica, cost more than 59 million dollars to build. It opened at the end of April in France.

Pascal Terrasse is the president of the cavern. He says everyone will be able to experience the thrill of looking at drawings made by the first humans in Europe. He says the place is magic because it is done so well. Authorities say they think as many as 400,000 people will be allowed to visit Pont d’Arc Cavern every year.

1.According to Jean Clottes’ words in Paragraph 4, the paintings in the cave were .

A. abstract B. superior C. creative D. inspiring

2.Which of the follow statements is TRUE about the Chauvet Cave?

A. It was closed off for more than 30,000 years.

B. It is thought to be the origin of modern parietal art.

C. The environment and artwork there are very easy to damage.

D. The majority of drawings there are about the extinct animals.

3.The purpose of creating Pndt d’Arc Cavern is to .

A. show admiration for the earliest artists in Europe

B. arouse visitors’ awareness of protecting ancient art

C. offer visitors chances to view the wonderful artwork

D. collect money for the perseverance of the Chauvet Cave

What does it mean to say that we live in a world of persuasion? It means that we live among competing interests. Your roommate’s need to study for an exam may take priority(优先)over pizza. Your instructor may have good reasons not to change your grade. And the object of your romantic interest may have other choices.

In such a world, persuasion is the art of getting others to give fair and favorable consideration to our point of view. When we persuade, we want to influence how others believe and behave. We may not always prevail — other points of view may be more persuasive, depending on the listener, the situation, and the merits of the case. But when we practice the art of persuasion, we try to ensure that our position receives the attention it deserves.

Some people, however, object to the very idea of persuasion. They may regard it as an unwelcome interruption into their lives. Just the opposite, we believe that persuasion is unavoidable — to live is to persuade. Persuasion may be ethical(合乎道义的) or unethical, selfless or selfish, inspiring or degrading. Persuaders may enlighten our minds or catch our vulnerability(弱点). Ethical persuasion, however, calls on sound reasoning and is sensitive to the feelings and needs of listeners. Such persuasion can help us apply the wisdom of the past to the decisions we now must make. Therefore, the most basic part of education is learning to resist the one kind of persuasion and to encourage and practice the other.

Beyond its personal importance to us, persuasion is necessary to society. The right to persuade and be persuaded is the bedrock of the American political system, guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution(美国宪法).

1.According to the passage, persuasion means ________.

A. changing others’ point of view

B. exercising power over other people

C. getting other people to consider your point of view

D. getting people to agree with you and do what you want

2.The underlined word in the second paragraph “prevail” means“________”.

A. win B. fail C. speak D. listen

3.The passage states that some people object to persuasion because they think it is ________.

A. a danger to society B. difficult to do well

C. unwelcome behavior D. never successful

4.The passage mainly discusses ________.

A. people’s different opinions towards persuasion

B. the reasons why people persuade

C. that persuasion is both good and bad

D. that persuasion is important and it is all around us

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。，选项中有两项为多余选项。

Everyone needs a break, and vacations are not meant for serious study. 1. The Spring Festival is coming up so this is the perfect time to discuss some great English language literature to take on a long train journey.

Before getting into the recommendations, you need to determine your English reading comprehension level. If you’re at the beginner level, there are two options: reading a children’s book or reading a book that you’ve read in Chinese translation. 2.If you’re at the intermediate level, popular books like pop fiction, mysteries and thrillers are good options. For advanced readers, classic works of literature or modern prize winners (Nobel, Pulitzer) are good options.

3. When I pick up a book I like, even though the first few chapters are really hard to get through, I would try to get accustomed to the language the author uses. Generally, after the first few chapters, things get a lot easier, especially if I get involved in the story.

Another great way to keep yourself motivated is to find a friend who’s interested in reading the same book. You can make goals that you both want to achieve. 4.

Some quick recommendations: Harry Potter, start with the first book and go on from there; the Narnia series; anything by US writer Michael Crichton; and if you like horror, US writer Stephen King is always unusual and fun. 5. Happy reading!

A. If you pick a book which is so challenging, it will be too stressful.

B. The most important thing is to pick a book that you’re really interested in.

C. You may also enjoy your reading when hanging out with your family.

D. You should just find a topic or author you’re interested in, and the rest will go from there.

E. You can also discuss plot lines or vocabulary issues with each other by SMS or e-mail.

F. Instead, they’re a great way to take a break and enjoy a good book.

G. This will help you get over any unfamiliar words or phrases, since you’re already familiar with the story.