英语试题21

英语试题21

第一部分（略）

第二部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分40分）

第一节 单项选择题（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 21. The spokesman of the government has announced that the UFO approaching the city has been identified as being a satellite. A. violently

B. definitely

C. specially

D. properly

22. We can’t tell you the results of the survey until we have looked at all the_____. A. data A. declare

B. directions C. instructions D. standards B. believe

C. advocate

D. announce

23. Those who mercy killing say the terminally ill should not have to suffer. 24. I know you’re new in the job, but me and you’ll be all right. A. stick to B. stick with A. accomplishes A. devotion

C. stick out D. stick around

C. accommodates D. achieves

D. burden

25. Dust ____ in a room if we do not clean the room regularly.

B. accumulates B. privilege

26. We should look up to him as a shining example of to duty. C. responsibility

27. — You seemed to be impressed by his skill.

— Not exactly so. It was his courage his skill that really impressed me. A. rather than B. as well as A. lit up A. decreased

B. fixed up B. retired

C. but also D. together with

D. turned up D. declined

28. It was funny to see that the dog’s eyes immediately at the sight of its owner. C. did up C. left

29. Offered the position of chairman, Smith , preferring to keep his current job. 30. — If we take a plane, we’ll of course have arrived in London by the next weekend.

— Don’t be too sure, we should the weather factor. What shall we do if it is foggy ? A. look for

第二节 根据括号内的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子。（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

31. It’s no wonder that you are scolded; you were out enjoying yourself when you ___________ (应该学习). (ought)

32. _______(虽然他聪明)，he doesn’t put his heart into his research. (as)

33.The students are working very hard ________________________ (不辜负) their parents’ expectations. (live)

34. According to my father, movies, such as the one you talked about yesterday, _________

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B. allow for C. prepare for D. use for

___________________________(不值得一看). (worth)

35. With rich natural resources, the people ___________________________ (我曾经在他们的村子教书) are now living a happy life. (whose; once)

36. It is reported in the local newspaper that the accident __________________ (导致) the death of 40

passengers. (result)

37. My parents (同意我做一份兼职工作)，but I shouldn’t miss my

studies.(approve)

38. In recent years travel companies have succeeded in selling us the idea that （我们旅行得越远„„越好）our holiday will be. (far)

39.（考虑到你的健康） , you’d better not go hiking. (consideration) 40.The patients with AIDS (正受到了很好的照顾)in this hospital. (attend )

第三节 完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。

It’s hard being an astronaut’s son. I 41 , everybody expects you to be special or 42 , and I’m just an average student, and I’m average, too, when it 43 basketball, football, soccer, and baseball.

I often wonder 44 my father ever had a son like me. I mean he’s so 45 and so good at everything. So I used to dream about doing something spectacular(不平常的) to 46 my father and make him 47 me.

In one class, my teacher 48 a Father’s Day essay contest for us and the winners’ essays would be read in front of all the parents and students. After school I walked home, 49 my father, who I would write about in my essay.

He sat with me in the 50 when I was a little kid and had a nightmare. He 51 me with a new puppy at my eighth birthday party. He sat and tried to 52 death to me when Grandpa Bob died. To me, he wasn’t a world-famous astronaut, just my dad. I wrote about all these 53 in my essay.

One of our neighbors said, “I 54 you’ll win the contest, David. You're the only one in town who could write about being the son of an astronaut.” I 55 .

I hadn’t shown anyone the essay, but now I almost hoped I wouldn’t win. I didn’t want to win just 56 my father was an astronaut.

I won the second prize. When I finished reading my essay, the 57 applauded. I saw my father blowing his nose. I went back to my seat.

Dad nodded to me, 58 his throat, and put his hand on my shoulder. “Son, this is the 59 moment of my life,” he said.

It was the proudest moment of my life, too. Maybe I’ll never be a great hero or win a Nobel Prize, but just then, it was 60 just to be my father’s son. 41. A. mean 42. A. strange

B. say

C. know

D. believe

D. formal

B. honest

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C. perfect

43. A. refers to 44. A. why 45. A. normal 46. A. shock 47. A. proud of 48. A. reported 49. A. caring about 50. A. silence 51. A. pleased 52. A. describe 53. A. experiments memories

54. A. wish 55. A. smiled 56. A. because 57. A. parents 58. A. cleaned 59. A. best 60. A. natural

B. relates with B. how B. funny B. influence B. interested in B. announced

C. talks about C. whether C. special C. attract C. satisfied with C. claimed C. horror C. declare

D. comes to D. when D. unique D. impress D. ashamed of D. warned D. dark D. encouraged D. remark

D.

B. worrying about B. threat B. astonished B. explain

C. thinking about D. complaining about C. supported

B. incidents B. guess B. nodded B. audience

B. if

B. blew B. proudest B. ambitious

C. details

C. bet C. doubted C. while C. students C. cleared

C. finest C. important

D. promise D. shrugged D. as D. teachers D. opened D. greatest D. enough

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题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，并在答题卡

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A four-year-old boy has become pen pals with Britain’s Queen Elizabeth. Tom Stancombe started exchanging letters with the queen after he set free a balloon, carrying his name and address, at a school party and it landed in the grounds of Windsor Castle.

The queen spotted the balloon and asked her personal assistant, Angela Kelly, to write a letter on her behalf.

She wrote, “The queen was delighted to find that your balloon had traveled all the way to the gardens at Windsor Castle.”

Tom, who proudly put the letter on his wall, wrote back to say that his great, great grandfather, the artist Petrus Johannes Arundzen, had been commissioned (正式委托) to copy Dutch masters’ on display at Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace.

Angela at once replied that she would contact the Royal Collection to find out what had happened to the art works. She kept her word and two weeks later wrote to Tom to tell him what had happened to the etchings, explaining they now form part of the print collection in the Print Library. Angela then asked a favor of Tom, writing, “Would you be able to ask your Mummy and Daddy for me if they know anything more about your great, great grandfather. Royal Collection would love to know more about him.”

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上将该项涂黑。

Along with his parents, Tom wrote back to fill in all the gaps about Petrus Johannes Arundzen. Although Tom’s parents don’t think there will be any more letters exchanged between the pair, they were touched that she had taken time to contact them.

Tom’s father said, “I don’t expect we’ll get another one, but I think it’s incredible they bothered replying at all.”

61．Windsor Castle is ________.

A. a playing ground. C. a post office. A. photos.

B. the queen’s home. D. a rose garden. C. postcards.

D. paintings.

62．“etchings” in Paragraph 5 means ________.

B. cartoons.

63．Tom’s parents ________.

A. feel very much shocked about the letters and refuse to answer them B. try to deal with the friendship naturally but refuse to do anything about it C. don’t take the matter very seriously

D. don’t think this friendship will last long but somehow feel good ．Which would be the best title for the text?

A．A Boy’s Good Luck

B．Tom’s Special Balloon

D．Four-year-old Boy Becomes the Queen’s Pen Pal B

OBERLIN, Kansas (AP) — A postcard featuring a color drawing of Santa Claus and a young girl was mailed in 1914, but its journey was much slower than Christmas. It has just arrived in northwest Kansas recently.

The Christmas card was dated December 23, 1914, and mailed to Ethel Martin of Oberlin, apparently from her cousins in Alma, Nebraska.

“It’s a mystery where it spent most of the last century,” Oberlin Postmaster Steve Schultz said. “It’s surprising that it never got thrown away,” he said. “How someone has found it, I don’t know.”

Ethel Martin has passed away, but Schultz said the post office wanted to get the card to a relative. That’s how the 93-year-old relic ended up with Bernice Martin, Ethel’s, sister-in-law. She said she believed the card had been found somewhere in Illinois.

“That’s all we know,” she said. “But it is kind of curious. We’d like to know how it got down there.”

“The card was placed inside another envelope with a modern postage stamp for the trip to Oberlin — the one cent postage of the early 20th century wouldn’t have covered it,” Martin said.

“We don’t know much about it,” she said. “But wherever they kept it, it was in perfect shape.” 65. was supposed to have received the postcard.

A. Bernice Martin.

B. Ethel Martin.

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C．A Story at Windsor Castle

C. Santa C1aus. D. Steve Sehultz.

66．What seems quite mysterious is that ________.

A. how it was sent to a relative

B. the postcard was still in shape

C. where the old postcard was kept A. the Christmas card.

D. the card was in a modern envelope B. an ancient cultural relic in Illinois. D. a house passed down by Ethel Martin.

67．“the 93-year-old relic” refers to ________.

C. an envelope with modern postage. A. A Special Christmas Card B. Too Late Christmas Greetings C. The Story of a Christmas Card

D. A Christmas Card Arrives Almost a Century Late

C

London,（UPT via Xinhua）— Peter Scott, a 51-year-old printer from northern England, has been given his second of two “piggy -back” hearts after removing of his own heart, the Hare filed Hospital said last week.

The hospital near London, which is specially good at heart operation, said Scott was in a satisfactory condition.

Doctors first linked Scott’s heart with the heart of a 13-year-old girl in a “piggy -back” transplant to make up his own heart a week before, the hospital director David Blythe said.

Both beat well in step for four days until half - solid blood formed in a man - made valve （瓣膜）fixed in Scott’s own heart last year, Blythe said.

MOSCOW（Agencies via Xinhua）—A Russian Ilyushin62 airliner left for West Africa suddenly fell down shortly after take-off here, killing everyone on board.

It is not known how many passengers the 182-seat aircraft was carrying when it went downward quickly to the ground just 10 kilometres from Sheremetyevo Airport.But west African newspapers said the plane, which was heading for Sierra Leone, was about half full.

An official from Moscow’s Botkin Institute Hospital said, “No one could have been still alive in the accident. ”

“The accident was so serious, so horrible, that we did not need to give medical attention to anyone.”

West African officials have complained that the Russian government failed to inform them of the air accident, in which many Africans may have been killed.

Stavanger, Norway, March 28（AFP）—At least 28 oil workers died and 69 were missing today after the overturning of the 10, 000 ton Norwegian “Floating Hotel” Alexander Kiellan, in strong winds last night.

Another 128 workers have reportedly been rescued from the icy, storm- thrown North Sea waters midway between northeast England and Denmark in continuing search operations by British and Norwegian helicopters, planes and ships.

The disaster, called “the worst in our recent history” by Norwegian Premier Odvar Nordli, struck late yesterday when the four - level platform, used as a rest area for workers in the North Seas Ekofisk Oil Field, overturned in a storm after one of its five huge legs gave way for unknown reasons. Yet the

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68．The best title of the passage would be ________.

quality of construction was the last, Ken Harris, Chief Engineer said.

In Stavanger, Prime Minister Nordli thanked neighboring countries, with England heading the list, for their aid and in the rescue effort.

The Ekofick field has the heaviest oil platforms of all of shore sites in the world, with 1, 850 oil workers on them, including three other rest platforms. 69．From the first news we can know . A. it was Scott’s heart that saved a 13-year-old girl’s life B. Scott’s heart would be transplanted to a girl

C. to make up Scott’s heart, the first step was to link his heart with the girl’s heart D. Scott’s man-made valve was removed

70．How many persons were killed in the air accident near Sheremtyevo Airport? A. About 90. B. About 180. C. About 60. D. About 120.

71．One of the legs of the four- level platform in the North Seas Elofisk Oil Field broke. Why? A. Because of very strong winds.

B. Because the“ Floating Hotel”was turned over. C. Because the quality of construction was bad. D. The report doesn’t mention.

72．What do you learn from the news reports?

A. In the rescue effort for the Norwegian oil workers, England led some other countries. B. Soon after the air accident doctors in Botkin Institute Hospital gave aids to the injured

passengers.

C. Peter Scott was still in danger because half - solid blood formed.

D. The plat forms of North Seas Elko fish Oil Field are the heaviest in the world.

D

Australian scientists are trying to give kangaroo-style stomachs to cattle and sheep in order to cut the greenhouse gases they send out, which is thought to be responsible for global warming.

Thanks to special bacteria in their stomachs, kangaroo flatulence (肠胃气胀) contains no methane (甲烷) and scientists want to transfer that bacteria to cattle and sheep who produce large quantities of the harmful gas.

While the usual image of greenhouse gas pollution is a billowing smokestack (烟囱) pushing out carbon dioxide, farm animals’ passing wind contribute a surprisingly high percentage of total emissions (排放物) in some countries.

“Fourteen percent of emissions from all sources in Australia is from enteric methane from cattle and sheep,” said Athol Klieve, a senior research scientist with the Queensland state government. “And if you look at another country such as New Zealand, which has got a much higher agricultural base, they’re actually up around 50 percent,” he said.

Researchers say the bacteria also makes the digestive process much more efficient and could potentially save millions of dollars in feed costs for farmers.

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But it will take researchers at least three years to isolate (分离) the bacteria, before they can even start to develop a way of transferring it to cattle and sheep.

Another group of scientists, meanwhile, has suggested Australians should farm fewer cattle and sheep and just eat more kangaroos. And about 20 percent of health-conscious Australians are believed to eat the national symbol already.

“It’s low in fat, it’s got high protein levels and it’s very clean in the sense that basically it’s the free-range (放养的) animal,” said Peter Ampt of the University of New South Wales’s institute of environmental studies.

73． Scientists intend to put bacteria into cattle and sheep ________.

A. to prevent them from sending out harmful gases B. to help Australian farmers to earn more money C. so that they can protect Australian ecosystem D. so that they can make full use of special bacteria 74． Athol Klieve seems to believe that ________.

A. cattle and sheep produce more carbon dioxide B. less cattle and sheep are raised in New Zealand C. farm animals are to blame for greenhouse gases D. New Zealand has the most animals in the world 75．The main idea of the text is to ________.

A. discuss a better way to protect the each C. illustrate the possible solutions to pollution A. it is rich in protein

B. warn farmers of the danger of animal waste D. present a recent study on global warming B. is low in fat

76．The advantages Peter Ampt lists about kangaroos don’t include ________.

C. it is cheaper than beef

D. it is cleaner than sheep E

The kids at Shute Country School in Devon are surprisingly quiet when it’s time to go home in the afternoon. Instead of the unusual shouting and running you can hear them asking each other, “are the lights all off?”, “Shall we check the tap in case they are dripping?”, “How many paper towels did we use today?”

But it’s not unusual here. The kids have declared a war on waste.

“We’ve never made the children to anything,” explains Liz Templar, the school’s head teacher. “they came up with all the ideas themselves. They are doing this because they want to.”

If you take a look around the school you won’t see anything thrown away unnecessarily. Everything is collected and reused, or sent to be recycled.

Shute School started its green revolution two years ago. They looked carefully at every part of school life－from the teaching to the cleaning. They looked at the way stationery was used－especially photocopying, the way cleaning was carried out, and how food was used－and wasted!

Even parents were looked at: how many children came in each car? Did they use unleaded petrol? Could they bring more children in fewer cars?

High on the list was the waste of paper. Next came unfriendly cleaning products. Paper towels were replaced with recycled paper. But the hardest thing for the kids was when they found out how

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much rubbish was created by the chocolate, crisps and other snacks eaten at lunch time. Of their own record, the children gave them up. Now they bring apples and home-made snacks.

The school has its own garden where they grow vegetables and flowers so that they can learn about the environment. They also use this area for their recycling store－large containers to collect aluminum, bottles, paper and fabric.

Even the school’s play area is made from recycled things.

Since the children started, the school’s heating and lighting bills have fallen obviously and the number of rubbish bags has gone down from seven a week to two or three.

Everywhere in Shute School there are bright posters asking everyone to take their rubbish home, to save energy and to keep the green flag flying.

77．Which of the following best describes the writer’s idea? A．The pupils at Shute school are fighting against pollution. B．The pupils at Shute school are learning to save things. C．The pupils at Shute school have declared a war on waste. D．The pupils at Shute school have found a way to recycle waste things.

78．Children at Shute Country Primary School bring apples and home-made snacks to in school in

order to ______________. A．create less rubbish B．save money C．obey the school rules D．keep their promise

79．We can infer from the text that “green revolution” means ____________. A．beautifying schoolyard B．actions against waste C．planting green plants D．throwing away waste 80．We learn from the text that the children’s behavior ___________.

A．has brought argument C．is against by their parents

B．is forced by their head teacher. D．has saved the school’s expenses

第四部分：书面表达（满分25分） 第二节：书面表达（满分25分）

假如你叫李华，暑假期间要去英国Embassy English Language School (EELS) 进行短期学习。以下是英方学校寄给你的课程安排选择表。请你仔细阅读课程表，按要求给校方回一封信。

Schedule for EELS Summer English Courses English Courses six-week course Four-week course Total Hours of Study 120 60 Total Hours of Part-time Job 48 No Job but Tour Instead Date July 1－August 15 July1－August 1 Please include the following: 1. Your choice and possible reasons; 2. Your present English level; 3. Specific language skill you want to improve; 4. Other personal requirements. 注意：1．信的开头已为你写好；

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2．词数：100左右。 Dear Sir,

Thank you for your offer of inviting me to the summer English course in your school.

Yours, Li Hua

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答案

21. B22.A。23.C 24.B 25.B26.A27.A28.A 29.D 30.B 31.ought to have studied 32. Clever as he is 33. in order to/so as to live up to 34. are not worth seeing 35. in whose village I once taught/whose village I once taught in 36. resulted in 37.approve me of having a part-time job 38. the farther/further we travel, the better 39.Taking your health into consideration 40. are being well attended to

有一个当宇航员的父亲，生活并不是容易的，人们都期盼你与众不同。在一次作文比赛中作者却不是写当宇航员的父亲，而是写一个生活中的父亲，父亲为此感到自豪。 41．A。用mean来解释前一句的意思。

42．C。perfect杰出的，完美的。此句意为“每个人都认为你应该与众不同或者完美”。 43．D。when it comes to说到，谈到，为固定搭配。注意这里it为形式主语。 44．B。句意：我有时候会想父亲怎么会有我这样的儿子呢。 45．C。句意：父亲是如此的特别，擅长任何事。 46．D。impress给人以深刻印象。

47．A。句意：希望能够做出特别的事情来给父亲留下印象，并让他以我为骄傲。

48．B。announce宣布。此处意为：老师向我们宣布了一件事即让我们写关于父亲的作文。 49．C。放学回家的时候，作者想着父亲的一切，决定写什么。 50．D。dark对应nightmare。

51．A。作者八岁生日时，父亲买回小狗，作者感到惊喜。 52．B。作者父亲向他解释死亡是怎么一回事。 53．D。此空上面四句话都属于作者的回忆。

54。C。bet打赌。邻居确信作者会得奖，因为他是唯一一个可以写宇航员父亲的人。 55．D。shrug耸肩，表示不置可否或不同意。 56．A。作者不想因为自己父亲是宇航员才获奖。 57．B。当我读完文章，下面的观众都为我鼓掌。

58．C。父亲清了一下喉咙。说明父亲借此掩饰自己的激动。

59．B。这是作者父亲一生中最自豪的时刻，文章最后一段首句也有暗示。

60．D。虽然不能成为英雄或获得诺贝尔奖，但此时能作为父亲的儿子就足够了。

一个4岁的小男孩Tom放飞了带有自己姓名和地址的气球，碰巧气球落在了女王的花园里。这样就有了Tom与伊丽莎白女王之间的“忘年交”。

61．B。推理判断题。根据前三段的内容可知，Windsor Castle是女王的住所。

62．D。词义猜测题。由第四段可知，Tom在与女王的信中谈到他的先祖艺术家PetrusJohannes

Arundzen曾经受委托复制在温莎城堡和白金汉宫展出的荷兰大师的作品，因此第五段中Angela在回信中向Tom介绍了他先祖作品的情况，故etchings指上文中谈到的“the art works”。

63．D。推理判断题。根据文章的最后两段可知，Tom的父母对女王和汤姆之间的交往并不看

好，但是女王给Tom回信的做法让他们感到非常意外和温暖。

．D。标题概括题。全文讲述了四岁的Tom与英国伊丽莎白女王成为笔友的经过、通信的内

容以及Tom的父母对此事的评论。D项的陈述与文章的大意一致。 一张日期为1914年的圣诞贺卡最近寄到了美国的堪萨斯州。本应该收到贺卡的人是Ethel Martin，由于她早已去世，她的嫂子Bernice Martin最后收到了这张迟到几乎一个世纪的贺卡。人们感到疑惑的是为什么这张贺卡竞能历经近一个世纪的沧桑而幸存。 65．B。推理判断题。从第二段内容可知，这张1914年的圣诞贺卡是要寄给Oberlin的Ethel Martin。 66．C。推理判断题。根据第三、四段内容可知，上个世纪这张贺卡究竟在哪里被保管、如何

被人发现的，仍是一个不解之谜。

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67．A。判断指代题。在第五段中“the 93-year-old relic”显然指上文谈到的“1914年寄出的那张圣

诞贺卡”。 68．D。标题归纳题。全文讲述的是一张1914年的圣诞贺卡最近被送达美国的堪萨斯州的故事。

D项概括了文章的主旨大意。 69．C

70．A 提示：共182个座位，half full故大约90人。 71．D 提示：文中只说平台翻了没有说明原因。

72．A 提示：倒数第二段中的总理感谢邻国把英国放在首位说明英国的贡献最大。

科研人员发现：在澳大利亚牛、羊排放的甲烷占温室气体排放总量的14％，而在农业发达的新西兰，这一比例则高达约50％。为了减少导致全球变暖的温室气体的排放量，澳大利亚科学家目前正在研究将牛、羊的胃变成袋鼠式的胃，使其放的屁中不合有甲烷。另一组科学家建议澳大利亚人应少养牛、羊，多吃袋鼠肉。

73．A。细节理解题。根据第一、二段可知，澳大利亚科学家目前正试图将牛、羊的胃变成袋

鼠式的胃，从而阻止有害气体甲烷的排放。

74．C。推理判断题。根据第四、五段中Atbol Klieve的陈述可知，在澳大利亚，牛、羊排放的

甲烷占温室气体排放总量的14％；而在农业更为发达的新西兰，这一比例则高达约50%。因此，动物排放的气体也是造成温室效应的罪魁祸首。

75．D。主旨大意题。本文客观地介绍了澳大利亚科学家目前正在进行的一项科学研究，包括：

研究的对象、研究的意义、面临的挑战和解决问题的办法等。 76．C。推理判断题。根据文章最后一段的内容可知，Peter Ampt列举的食用袋鼠肉的原因包括：

袋鼠肉脂肪含量低；蛋白质含量高；由于是放养的动物，因而也非常卫生。

77-80CABD 作文Dear Sir,

Thank you for your offer of inviting me to the summer English course in your school. As for my choice between the two courses, I prefer the four-week course for 60 hours of study. Because this would allow me more time to do some traveling and make a few new friends too.

Of all the subjects I’m learning at school, I like English best. I have been learning English for 6 years but my spoken English remains poor. So I hope to take this chance to improve it. If possible, I’d like to stay with a family for a couple of days so that I can know some customs in England. I believe I will have a wonderful time this summer.

Yours truly, Li Hua

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