一、单项选择(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)。
( ) 1. __________Hong Kong is often regard as ____________ international centre for business, finance and tourism.
A.不填; an
B. An; 不填
C. The; 不填
D. 不填; the ( ) 2. Washing State was named ____________ one of the greatest American presidents.
A.in favor of
B. in need of
C. in search of
D. in honor of
( ) 3. We all ___________ him and regard him as a hero.
A.look up
B. look up to
C. look down
D. look down to
( ) 4. There is a great evidence _____________ that music activities engage different parts of the brain.
A.indicate
B. indicating
C. to be indicating
D. to indicate ( ) 5. I want to put the photo ____________ I can see it every day, because it can remind me of the happy days ____________ I spent in the countryside.
A.in which; when
B. where; when
C. in which; which
D. where; which
( ) 6. To finish the task on time, the constructors kept working ___________ the heavy rain.
A.because of
B. regardless of
C. in memory of
D. in defence of ( ) 7. Don’t complain ___________ your teachers ___________ doing too much homework, because they want you to be the best.
A.to; to
B. to; about
C. about; to
D. about; about
( ) 8. This is the problem that we all should ___________.
A.pay attention o it
B. attract our attention
C. pay attention to
D. attract our attention to it
( ) 9. You can wear casual clothes at the party. After all, this is not a(n) _________ occasion.
A.normal
B. formal
C. common
D. ordinary
( ) 10. My parents’ words had a great __________ on me. I decided to make every ________
to learn English well.
A.effect; effort
B. effect; effect
C. effort; effect
D. effort; effort
( ) 11. Experts believe that language learning is a process ___________ skills are more important than grammar rules.
A.whose
B. when
C. of which
D. in which
( ) 12. The worker earned little money a month, so he had to ___________ only fast noodles.
A.exist on
B. exist in
C. lie in
D. lie on
( ) 13. I wonder how many years ago ____________.
A.did your father retire
B. your father retired
C. has your father retired
D. your father has retired
( ) 14. The young couple will have to rent a house, for their newly bought one ___________.
A.is being decorated
B. was decorated
C. will decorate
D. had decorated
( ) 15. We should consider the students’ request that the school library ________ more books
_________ popular science.
A.provide; on
B. provides; about
C. should provide; with
D. provides ; on
二、完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)。
阅读下面短文, 掌握其大意, 然后从16-35各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中, 选出最佳选项。
My name is Alice and I’m an equestrian ( 马术骑师). For a long time, horses have been my thing. I was a part of a sport that is ___16___ to the general population. I didn’t need the world to understand my ___17___. I loved it for myself and that’s all I needed.
I started ___18___ at a farm when I was 8 years old. I went every Friday afternoon after school and spent hours ___19___ horses and having lessons. When I was 10, I ___20___ taking part in horse shows but not before I could ___21___ care for my own horse and put ___22___ every piece of my equipment (用具). From the day that I started riding, I was ___23___ that my horse comes before all else. No matter how hot, cold, tired, or ___24___ I was, I had a horse to ___25___ and that’s just how it ___26___.
Once I started high school I went to a more competitive farm in my area where I had to
___27___ as a working student every day after school to be able to ___28___ my pricey habit.
___29___ never once in my entire junior career crossed my mind. Working hard to do what I love was all I knew. It was never as ___30___ as putting on my uniform (制服) and showing up to practice.
After I turned 18 and my ___31___ career ended, I went off to school as an amateur (业余运动员) where I now ride on the Syracuse English Equestrian team.
My biggest ___32___ have all been “horse” related. I love hearing my name get announced (宣布) for first place. Riding wasn’t just my sport; it was my ___33___. My trainers are like second moms to me. The girls that I grew up riding with are my best ___34___. I can’t imagine my world without ___35___ and the people they have brought into it.
三、阅读理解(共20个小题; 每小题2.5分, 满分50分)
阅读下列短文, 从所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
There are many idioms in English. An idiom is a phrase that we can’t understand from the meaning of each word. The following are some of them.
As the crow flies
When a bird flies from place to place, it takes the most direct route. But when people drive, they have to follow roads and often go farther. When people give a distance “as the crow flies”, they mean the shortest distance between the two points, not the distance you would have to travel by following roads.
As Dan and his mum drove along the river, they could see the beach on the opposite side, Dan asked “How far is it to the beach?”
“It’s only about a quarter of a mile as the crow flies” his mother said.
Blow hot and cold
In one of Aesop’s Fables, a man blow on his fingers to warm them up and then blow on his soup to cool it down. In both cases, the man is opening his mouth, but what comes out is different. If a person says one thing and later says the opposite, we say that the person is blowing hot and cold.
“Is Felicia going to try out for the soccer team this year?” Stacy asked.
“I don’t know,” Tricia replied. “ Last week she was saying yes,but this week she’s saying no. She’s really blowing hot and cold.”
Break the ice
Nowadays people use the phrase to refer to ending an awkward silence by beginning a conversation.
It was the first day of summer camp. The four girls began to make their beds in silence. None of the girls knew each other, and no one knew what to say. Finally, one of them broke the ice by saying “ Hey, where’s everybody from?”
Bury the hatchet
In native American culture, when two nations agreed to end their war, they buried the hatchet. So to bury the hatchet is to make peace with someone else.
Colin could not excuse his sister for breaking his tennis racket. Finally, his sister said, “Colin, can’t we bury the hatchet?”
36.What does “as the crow flies” mean?
A. In the smoothest way
B. By plane
C. In a straight line
D. At top speed.
37. “Blow hot and cold” can be used to talk about someone’s ____________.
A. poor health
B. bad manner
C. communication skills
D. changing attitudes
38. When the four girls were making their beds in silence, they probably felt ____________.
A. shy
B. disappointed
C. excited
D. curious
39. It can be inferred that Colin’s sister hoped that Colin would ____________.
A. buy a new tennis racket
B. forgive her mistake
C. stay away from her
D. make an apology to her
40. Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?
A. It’s difficult to understand the meaning of an idiom by each word.
B. What Felicia thought was different from what he said
C. Dan and his mother need drive a quarter of a mile to the beach.
D. “Bury the hatchet” is an idiom from Aesop’s Fables.
B
A couple from Miami, Bill and Simone Butler, spent sixty-six days in a life-raft (救生艇) in the seas of Central America after their boat sank.
Twenty-one days after they left Panama in their boat, Simony, they met some whales(鲸鱼). “They started to hit the side of the boat,” said Bill, “and then suddenly we heard water.” Two minutes later, the boat was sinking. They jumped into the life-raft and watched the boat go under the water.
For twenty days they had tins of food, biscuits, and bottles of water. They also had a fishing-line and a machine to make salt water into drinking water — two things which saved their lives. They caught eight to ten fish a day and ate them raw (生的). Then the line broke. “So we had no more fish
until something very strange happened. Some sharks(鲨鱼) came to feed, and the fish under the raft were afraid and came to the surface. I caught them with my hands.”
About twenty ships passed them, but no one saw them. After fifty days at sea their life-raft was beginning to break up. Then suddenly it was all over. A fishing boat saw them and picked them up. They couldn’t stand up. So the captain carried them onto his boat and took them to Costa Rica. Their two months at sea was over.
41. Bill and Simone were traveling__________ when they met some whales.
A. in a life-raft
B. in Miami
C. in Simony
D. in Panama
42. The whales hit the side of the boat, and then ___________.
A. they brought in a lot of water
B. they broke the side of the boat
C. they pulled the boat
D. they went under the water
43. After their boat sank, the couple___________.
A. jumped into the life-raft
B. heard water
C. watched the boat go under water
D. stayed in the life-raft
44. During their days at sea, ___________ saved their lives.
A. tins of food and bottles of water
B. a fishing-line and a machine
C. whales and sharks
D. Twenty passing ships
45. When they saw the fishing boat which later picked them up, ___________.
A. they were too excited to stand up
B. they couldn’t wait to climb onto the boat
C. their life-raft was beginning to break up
D. they knew their two months at sea would be over
C
Believe it or not, optical illusion(错觉) can cut highway crashes.
Japan is a case in point. It has reduced automobile crashes on some roads by nearly 75 percent using a simple optical illusion. But stripes, called chevrons(人字形), painted on the roads make drivers think that they are driving faster than they really are, and thus drivers slow down.
Now the American Automobile Association Foundation for Traffic Safety in Washington D.C. is planning to repeat Japan's success. Starting next year, the foundation will paint chevrons and other
patterns of stripes on selected roads around the country to test how well the patterns reduce highway crashes.
Excessive (too great) speed plays a major role in as much as one fifth of all fatal traffic accidents, according to the foundation. To help reduce those accidents, the foundation will conduct its tests in areas where speed-related hazards (danger) are the greatest curves, exit slopes, traffic circles, and bridges.
Some studies suggest that straight, horizontal bars painted across roads can initially cut the average speed of drivers in half. However, traffic often returns to full speed within months as drivers become used to seeing the painted bars.
Chevrons, scientists say, not only give drivers the impression that they are driving faster than they really are but also make a lane appear to be narrower. The result is a longer lasting reduction in highway speed and the number of traffic accidents.
46. The passage mainly discusses ____________.
A. a new way of highway speed control
B. a new method of training drive
C.a new pattern for painting highways
D. a new type of optical illusion
47.On roads painted with chevrons, drivers tend to feel that ____________.
A. they should avoid speed-related dangers.
B. they are driving in the wrong lane
C. they should slow down their speed
D. they are reaching the speed limit
https://www.doczj.com/doc/183277024.html,pared to horizontal bars, the advantage of chevrons is that ____________.
A. it can keep drivers awake
B. it will have a longer effect on drivers
C. can cut road accidents in half
D. will look more attractive
49.The American Automobile Association Foundation for Traffic Safety plans to____________.
A. try out the Japanese method in certain areas
B. change the road signs across the country
C. replace straight, horizontal bars with chevrons
D. repeat the Japanese road patterns
50. What of the following is true about straight, horizontal bars painted across roads?
A. They are suitable only on broad roads.
B. They are falling out of use in the United States.
C. They cannot be used successfully to traffic circles.
D. They are ignored in a long period of time.
D
Sherlock Holmes is considered by many people as the greatest detective in fictional literature. He is, in fact, more famous than his own creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In the popular series of stories, Holmes is described as “tall and lean, pope-smoking, always in his cape and speaks in a splendid manner”. Doyle gave Holmes’ address as 221-B Baker Street, London, and to this day some visitors to London still go to Baker Street to search for 221-B. Of course, there never was really any such address. Holmes’ flat was supposed to be shared by the lovable, but sometimes clumsy Doctor Watson who went around with Holmes trying to solve crimes before Holmes did. Poor Dr Watson lost out to Holmes every time.
Doyle gave Holmes a masterly skill of deduction---the ability to come up with interesting conclusion from the simplest clues found at the scene of a crime. Doyle said that the description of Holmes was modeled on one of his lecturers at Edinburgh University where he studied medicine. That man was Dr Joseph Bell. Sherlock Holmes first appeared in Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet published in 1887. Holmes was so loved by all that when his author killed him off in one of his stories, readers wrote in anger to complain. They refused to allow Holmes to die! Holmes was brought back to “life” and appeared in further stories.
The stories of Sherlock Holmes have been reprinted many times ever since then. Today we can watch Holmes at work on cinema and television screens as well as on stage.
51. Sherlock Holmes was ____________.
A.the greatest detective who ever lived
B.Dr Joseph Bell
C.Arthur Conan Doyle
D.only a character made up by Arthur Conan Dolye
52. Dr Watson was ____________.
A. tall and learn
B. lovable but always clumsy
C. lovable but sometimes clumsy
D. lovable and never clumsy
53. Holmes was supposed to have lived ____________.
A. with Dr Watson
B. with Dr Joseph Bell
C. with the greatest detective
D. with Doyle
54. Doyle made up the description of Holmes____________.
A. from his own imagination
B. based on a famous London doctor
C. based on Dr Joseph Bell at Edinburgh University
D. based on a model of Holmes
55. Doyle’s readers were angry when he ____________.
A. could not write any more stories of Holmes.
B. killed Dr Watson off in his stories.
C. became more famous than Holmes.
D. put Holmes to death in one of his stories.
四、阅读表达(共10小题, 每小题1分, 满分10分)
No matter what you do in a company, it’s important for you to get along well with your boss. Your relationship with your boss is probably the most important one you have at work. Why? Having a healthy relationship with your boss usually means you’re more satisfied with the work you do and have less stress. Your boss can be a key supporter in helping you achieve your long-term goals. He or she knows your company’s goals and knows what the company looks for in future managers and leaders. Here are some tips to keep the relationship healthy.
Show respect. Your boss is responsible for your work and the work of your colleagues. That can a significant burden. Try to look at things from your boss’s view. Try to treat him or her with
respect.
Don’t be afraid of your boss. Some bosses can be very serious, but remember, your boss needs you. Your performance is often the key to the success of your boss.
Do your best. Try to live up to the performance expectations set for your job. In doing your best, you’ll gain greater satisfaction from your work, earn the trust of your boss and help the organization achieve its goals.
Don’t try to hide problems. Can you find the problem when you meet the problem? If you can’t and the problem becomes serious, let your boss know as soon as possible. Offer solutions and ask for additional advice. Don’t let your boss find out about the problem from someone else.
Manage your anger. Blowing up in front of your boss solves nothing, but suggests clearly that you can’t control your emotions. This doesn’t mean you have to sit and keep silent when you’re angry. But learn how to communicate your anger. If anger management is difficult for you, sign up for a course to help you deal with it.
56. What is mainly discussed in the passage? (No more than 10 words.)
_____________________________________________________________________________ 57. What is the benefit of keeping a healthy relationship with your boss? (No more than 20 words.)
_____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ 58. What should you do when you meet the problem according to the passage? (No more than 15
words.)
_____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ 59. Please explain the underlined phrase “blowing up” in English. (No more than 5 words.)
_____________________________________________________________________________
60. How will you get along with your boss if you work in a company? (No more than 25 words.)
_____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________五、书面表达(满分25分)
假定你是李华, 你的英国笔友Bob最近给你发来邮件, 说想了解一下中国的元宵节。请你用英语给他回一封邮件, 简要介绍该节日, 包括庆祝的时间、意义、活动及典型食物等。
注意：(1) 词数不少于100;
(2)可以适当增加细节, 以使行文连贯。
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