限时训练四.doc

限时训练（四）

第二部分: 英语知识运用 (共两节, 满分35分)
第一节：单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
请认真阅读下面各题, 从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。
21. The World Expo is like ________ great stage for people to contact ________ rest of the world.
A. a; 不填 B. the; 不填 C. a; the D. the; the
22. In terms of the knowledge of science, few students in our class can really ________ Christopher.
A. suit B. compare C. win D. match
23. Shortly after the big fire in Shanghai on November 15, the police took immediate action to ________ the cause of the fire.
A. look up B. look on C. look into D. look out
24. There ________ a trend that 3D films will become more popular ever since the film Avatar was shown.
A. has arisen B. arose C. is arising D. will arise
25. —It is reported in the weather forecast that there will be a sharp drop in temperature this afternoon.
—Well, I’ll have to take a thick overcoat ________.
A. in need B. in case C. in control D. in return
26. The parents rushed to the hospital ________ they heard that their son was injured.
A. at the moment B. for the moment C. the moment D. in the moment
27. The discovery of Cao Cao’s tomb, ________ was made in Anyang, Henan province, has received much attention.
A. what B. where C. that D. which
28. Only when ________ fail in the exam, ________ realize it’s necessary to study hard.
A. you; will you B. do you; will you C. you; you will D. do you; you will
29. When ________ a job, you should show your experience and skills.
A. applying to B. applied to C. applying for D. applied for
30. The teacher will give the award to ________ finishes the work first.
A. whomever B. who C. what D. whoever
31. —What a pity! There is only one doll left in this store.
—Then, Dad, I am not going to buy ________, and let’s visit ________ store.
A. it; another B. the one; other C. one; another D. it; the other
32. —Tommy, it’s you! How are you?
—Hi, Tina! Actually, I ________ you if you hadn’t called my name.
A. would not recognize B. would not have recognized
C. might not recognize D. need not have recognized
33. According to the newspaper, the truck turned upside down, ________ two women and a child.
A. killing B. to kill C. killed D. be killed
34. When it comes to work, it is not what you are but what you do ________ matters.
A. it B. what C. that D. which
35. —To be honest, I am not satisfied with my present job, so I am planning to find another one.
—Well, you know what people say. ________. Anyhow, the present situation is terrible.
A. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
B. There is no smoke without fire
C. Many hands make light work
D. A light heart lives long
第二节: 完形填空 (共20小题；每小题1分, 满分20分)
请认真阅读下面短文, 从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。
One winter morning, I bought a copy of The New York World and turned its pages until I got The Help Wanted Unskilled section. A small advertisement held my 36 . It read, “Easy job. Good wages. No experience 37 .” It sounded like the job I was 38 . Easy job. Good Wages. Those four words 39 now and then in my brain as I was traveling to the address indicated in the 40 . Easy job. Good wages. Easy job. Good Wages. Easy...
When I got to the place, I saw a series of large 41 half filled with water. Out of them stuck the necks of many bottles of various 42 and shapes. There were a number of workers sitting on small wooden benches 43 these basins. All had their 44 in the water of the basin, the left hand holding a 45 and the thumb nail（指甲）of the right hand 46 the labels（标签）on it.
I sat down on a 47 beside one of the basins and started to work on one bottle. As the minutes went by, I noticed that the 48 of the water started to 49 from my hand to my body. But 50 still, the thumb of my right hand was 51 by the minute into a full-blown tomato-colored finger. A numb（麻木）pain began to be felt 52 from my right thumb. Then I began to feel as if the pain was coming from a finger bigger than all my body. After three hours of this, I told the manager I’d 53 . He figured that I had 54 69 cents at 23 cents an hour.
With the money, I left the working place. “Easy job. Good wages...” came to my brain again. Looking at my hands, I 55 myself, “Can easy job get good wages?” I will remember this experience forever.
36. A. eyes B. attention C. decision D. tongue
37. A. necessary B. forgettable C. practical D. obvious
38. A. running after B. looking for C. heading for D. looking after
39. A. lived B. moved C. flashed D. attacked
40. A. letter B. sign C. advertisement D. post
41. A. baskets B. bowls C. pots D. basins
42. A. weights B. sizes C. qualities D. depths
43. A. In B. Above C. Under D. Around
44. A. arms B. hands C. legs D. feet
45. A. knife B. cloth C. bottle D. brush
46. A. painting B. showing C. touching D. removing
47. A. chair B. bench C. stone D. sofa
48. A. smell B. coldness C. color D. steam
49. A. spread B. recover C. recycle D. cover
50. A. worse B. better C. more D. easier
51. A. going B. researching C. growing D. running
52. A. now and then B. here and there C. one by one D. little by little
53. A. adapt B. argue C. bargain D. quit
54. A. taken B. offered C. earned D. created
55. A. forgave B. asked C. found D. hated
第三部分: 阅读理解 (共15小题; 每小题2分, 满分30分)
请认真阅读下列短文, 从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。
A
The most frightening words in the English language are “Our computer is down.” You hear it more and more when you are on business. The other day I was at the airport waiting for a ticket to Washington and the girl in the ticket office said, “I’m sorry, I can’t sell you a ticket. Our computer is down.”
　　“If your computer is down, just write me out a ticket.”
　　“I can’t write you out a ticket. The computer is the only one allowed to do so.”
　　I looked down on the computer and every passenger was just standing there drinking coffee and staring at the black screen. Then I asked her, “What do all you people do?”
　　“We give the computer the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us or not.”
　　“So when it goes down, you go down with it.”
　　“That’s good, sir.”
　　“How long will the computer be down?” I wanted to know.
　　“I have no idea. Sometimes it’s down for 10 minutes, sometimes for two hours. There’s no way we can find out without asking the computer, and since it’s down it won’t answer us.”
　　After the girl told me they had no backup（备用）computer, I said, “Let’s forget the computer. What about your planes? They’re still flying, aren’t they?”
　　“I couldn’t tell without asking the computer.”
　　“Maybe I could just go to the gate and ask the pilot if he’s flying to Washington, ” I suggested.
　　“I wouldn’t know what gate to send you to. Even if the pilot was going to Washington, he couldn’t take you if you didn’t have a ticket.”
　　“Is there any other airline flying to Washington within the next few hours?”
　　“I wouldn’t know, ” she said, pointing at the dark screen. “Only ‘IT’ knows.”
　　By this time there were quite a few people standing in lines. The word soon spread to other travelers that the computer was down. Some people went white, some people started to cry and still others kicked their luggage.
56. What could the girl in the ticket office do for the passengers without asking the computer?
A. She could sell a ticket. B. She could write out a ticket.
C. She could answer all the passengers’ questions. D. She could do nothing.
57. Why do you think they had not a backup computer?
A. Because it will break down easily. B. Because it was not very useful.
C. Because it was not advanced enough. D. It is not mentioned in the text.
58. The last paragraph suggests that ________.
A. a modern computer won’t be down B. computers can take the place of humans
C. sometimes a computer may bring suffering to people D. there will be great changes in computers
59. The best title for the article is ________.
A. When the Computer Is Down B. The Girl at the Airport
C. The Computer of the Airport D. Asking the Computer
B
NOTICE
CLEAN AND GREEN WEEK
The Social Studies Society and Library Club are working together to organize Clean and Green Week activities to encourage recycling.
k.&s~5*u
(A) BEST INVENTION COMPETITION
The competition is divided into two parts: Individual and Team. Each team should be made up of three members. The inventions must be made out of small or used materials.
PRIZES
k.&s~5*u
Individual
Team k.&s~5*u
First prize
Second prize
Third prize
$ 50 book voucher（代金券）
$ 30 book voucher
$ 20 book voucherk.&s~5*u
$ 180 book voucher
$ 120 book voucher
$ 90 book voucher
You can get the application forms from the library during opening hours.
Deadline for the submission（提交）of inventions: 31 January 2011.
Please call us at 792-4868 for further information.
(B) RECYCLE TO SAVE OUR EARTH EXHIBITION CUM VIDEO SCREENING
An exhibition on recycling is now on in the library.
Videos on the subject will also be screened. k.&s~5*u
Please turn to the library notice board for the timetable of the screening dates and time.
DO YOUR PART TO SAVE THE EARTH
START RECYCLING TODAY
Organizers: Library Club & Social Studies Society
60. If you want to know the screening dates, you can ________.
A. fill in the application form B. make a telephone call at 792-4868
C. go to the exhibition hall D. refer to the library notice board
61. What can we get from the notice?
A. Library Club is the only organizer of the exhibition.
B. The exhibition on recycling will be on in the library.
C. The students have to send their inventions before 31 January 2011.
D. The students can make their inventions from all kinds of materials.
62. What is the purpose of the activities?
A. To get more book vouchers. B. To invent more useful things.
C. To encourage students to recycle things. D. To make students’ life more colorful.
C
I entered high school after reading hundreds of books. But I was not a good reader. Merely bookish（书呆子气的）, I lacked a point of view when I read. Rather, I read in order to get a point of view. I searched books for good expressions and sayings, pieces of information, ideas, themes—anything to enrich my thought and make me feel educated. When one of my teachers suggested to his sleepy tenth-grade English class that a person could not have a “complicated idea” until he had read at least two thousand books, I heard the words without recognizing either its irony（嘲讽）or its very complicated truth. I merely determined to make a list of all the books I had ever read. Strict with myself, I included a book only once even if I might have read it several times. (After all, how could one read a book more than once?) And I included only those books over a hundred pages in length. (Could anything shorter be a book?)
There was yet another high school list I made. One day I came across a newspaper article about an English professor at a nearby state college. The article had a list of the “hundred most important books of Western Civilization. “More than anything else in my life,” the professor told the reporter with finality, “these books have made me all that I am.” That was the kind of words I couldn’t ignore. I kept the list for the several months it took me to read all of the titles. Most books, of course, I hardly understood. While reading Plato’s The Republic, for example, I needed to keep looking at the introduction of the book to remind myself what the text was about. However, with the special patience and superstition（迷信）of a schoolboy, I looked at every word of the text. And by the time I reached the last word, pleased, I persuaded myself that I had read The Republic, and seriously crossed Plato off my list.
63. On hearing the teacher’s suggestion of reading, the writer thought __________.
A. one must read as many books as possible 
B. a student should not have a complicated idea
C. it was impossible for one to read two thousand books
D. students ought to read every book more than once
64. While at high school, the writer __________.
A. had plans for reading                          B. learned to educate himself
C. only read books over 100 pages           D. read every book several times
65. The underlined phrase “with finality” probably means “__________”.
A. clearly                  B. firmly             C. sadly D. pleasantly
66. The writer’s purpose of mentioning The Republic is to __________.
A. explain why it was included in the list
B. argue why he looked at the introduction of the book
C. show that he read the books with patience though they were hard to understand
D. prove that he understood most of it because he had looked at every word
D
In department stores and closets all over the world, they are waiting. Their outward appearance seems rather appealing because they have a variety of styles, patterns, materials, and colors. But they are eventually the biggest deception（欺骗）that exists in the fashion industry today. What are they? They are high heels（高跟鞋）—a woman’s worst enemy (whether she knows it or not). Fashion has led women to believe that they are more beautiful or fashionable for wearing heels, but in reality, heels cause troubles. Women should fight the high heel industry by refusing to use or buy them in order to save the world from unnecessary physical and psychological suffering.
To be fair, it must be noted that there is a positive side to high heels. First, heels are excellent for aerating （给……通气）lawns（草坪）. Anyone who has ever worn heels on grass knows what I am talking about. A simple trip around the yard in a pair of those babies gets rid of all the need to call for a lawn care expert, and provides the perfect-sized holes to give any lawn oxygen without all the dirt lying around. Second, heels are quite useful for defending against oncoming enemies by threatening them with a pair of these sharp, deadly fashion items.
Regardless of such practical uses for heels, the fact remains that wearing high heels is harmful to one’s physical health. Talk to any podiatrist（足病医生）, and you will hear that most of their business comes from high-heel-wearing women. High heels are known to cause problems such as misshapen feet and torn toenails. The risk of serious back problems and twisted or broken ankles is three times higher for a high heel wearer than for a flat shoe wearer. Women wearing heels may get a heel caught in a narrow sidewalk gap and be thrown to the ground an