期末复习模拟(Gu).doc

期末复习模拟
第一节 单项填空（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15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. _______ Oscar winners are usually American films and actors but 2009 has seen _______ more international taste to the ceremony.
A. The; a B. /; the C. The; the D. The; /
22. — I have just received another message, telling me I have won a big prize.
— Don’t jump on it. You _______.
A. should be cheated B. are being cheated C. are cheating D. must have cheated
23. — My father is away _______ Beijing again.
— Really? Is he there on business or on holiday？
A. above B. from C. in D. through
24. — Why, I’ve told Joe millions of times to leave his dirty shoes outside.
— Come on, calm down. ______, you know.
A. Old habits die hard B. Bad news travels fast
C. A word to the wise is enough D. A miss is as good as a mile
25. Three criminals were caught and asked to aid in the _______.
A. interview B. investigation C. question D. request
26. — When did you go to bed last night?
— I _______ the questions until I couldn't keep my eyes open any longer.
A. thought B. examined C. reminded D. discussed
27. He now lives away from his parents and misses them ______ enjoy his exciting life at the university.
A. too much to B. enough to C. very much to D. much so as to
28. — Do you think he would have given you a hand in your time of financial difficulty?
— He _______ if he had known about it. We are very good friends.
A. must have B. can’t have C. wouldn’t have D. should have
29. — Why do you look so sad?
— Nobody listened to me though I _______ a brave idea at the meeting.
A. came out with B. put out C. brought in D. went through
30. — When is he willing to lend somebody some money?
— Only when ______ hard enough.
A. to press B. pressing C. pressed D. presses
31. When buying insurance, one must be sure of whom exactly the insurance covers and _______.
A. where B. how C. which D. what
32. After children leave home for university, it’s usually the parents that ______ their children, not
on the other way round.
A. link B. associate C. contact D. touch
33. How could you have criticized me in the presence of my students? That was ______ embarrassing.
A. way of B. lots of C. lack of D. sort of
34.— What impressed you most during your stay in the UK?
— The way of their museums _________.
A. to be built B. are operated C. displayed D. being run
35. A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the same today that it always ______, and it will never change.
A. is B. was C. had been D. would be
第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的（A、B、C和D）四个选项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
God's Coffee
A group of class friends, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon 36 into complaints about stress in work and life.
Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the 37 and returned with a large pot of coffee and a couple of 38 — porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some 39 looking, some expensive, some delicate — telling them to 40 themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in 41 , the professor said: “If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, 42 behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to 43 only the best for yourselves, that is the 44 of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself 45 no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. 46 all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you 47 went for the best cups... And then you began 48 each other's cups. Now consider this: Life is the 49 ; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life, and the type of cup we have does not 50 , nor change the quality of life we 51 . Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we 52 to enjoy the coffee God has 53 us. God brews the coffee, not the cups... Enjoy your coffee! ”
The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just 54 the best of everything.
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the 55 to God.
36. A. stopped B. looked C. grew D. turned
37. A. living-room B. waiting-room C. bedroom D. kitchen
38. A. cups B. pans C. bowls D. bottles
39. A. plain B. clean C. ugly D. fine
40. A. devote B. help C. dedicate D. enjoy
41. A. stomach B. hand C. mind D. mouth
42. A. falling B. leaving C. hiding D. keeping
43. A. hope B. wish C. need D. want
44. A. source B. resource C. energy D. reason
45. A. adapts B. puts C. adds D. applies
46. A. As B. What C. That D. Which
47. A. consciously B. cheerfully C. deliberately D. bravely
48. A. looking B. glaring C. eyeing D. glancing
49. A. tea B. water C. wine D. coffee
50. A. sign B. mean C. define D. signal
51. A. spend B. live C. hate D. love
52. A. fail B. succeed C. tend D. manage
53. A. shown B. taken C. sent D. provided
54. A. keep B. take C. make D. hold
55. A. complex B. remains C. rest D. complaints
第三部分：阅读理解（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的（A、B、C和D）四个选项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
At the Times Square in New York, a white-haired old woman was seen pacing up and down the square day in and day out. Some people took her to be stretching her limbs for want of a better thing to do while others thought she was wandering about without a home to turn to until the story behind it was disclosed in the press. It turned out that she was watching and studying with close intent the pedestrians going to and fro at the square in search of someone who looked worried and was apparently in need of help.
At the sight of a small kid running aimlessly about all on his own, she would come up and say, “Is it that you can’t find your way home, my child? Do you need my help?” Seeing a dispirited girl, gloomy with worry, she would step up and tenderly ask, “Baby, is there something upsetting you? Share with me what’s weighing on your mind. I might be of some help to you.” In the case of a heavy-hearted, sad old folk, she would be the first to greet him and say, “My dear old fellow, what’s troubling you? Do you need my advice?” Among those she has rescued are young men and young women who, having been out of work for too long, were attempting to commit suicide in despair. She also brought to their homes school children who stayed away from their homes as well as mentally-disabled old folks who got lost and couldn’t find their way home. She rescued kidnapped(被绑架的) girls on their first visit to New York and even persuaded desperate criminals to turn themselves in.
A man, once bent on taking his own life in depression, is now a department manager of an international corporation. In recalling what happened on that occasion, the man said, “At her loving care and concern I couldn’t help throwing myself into her arms and bursting into tears; she was Mother or Grandmother to me.” At her advice and encouragement, he restored confidence in himself.
Following this old woman, many aged New Yorkers organized themselves as voluntary rescuers under the slogan(标语): “Approach strangers and talk with them!” Up till now, more and more retirees have joined this group, whose job is, as that old lady does, to seek someone in need of help among the crowds with eyes that have seen the changes of life. As soon as they found one, they would come up and talk with him.
“Approach strangers and talk with them!” Let’s offer a heart-to-heart talk to those helpless in hope of avoiding some regrets, creating a brighter future and changing a might-have-been outcome.
56. As the text suggests, the old woman is ______.
A. a white-haired person in want of a better thing to do
B. a homeless person wandering about aimlessly
C. a kind-hearted person ready to offer help to others passing by
D. a desperate criminal on her first visit to New York
57. The underlined sentence in the second paragraph can be explained as ______.
A. what is your mind made of B. what is bothering you
C. what is your mind weight D. what is the size of your mind
58. From the passage we can know that the old woman would probably ______ when she was pacing up and down the Times Square.
A. ignore a small child running aimlessly about alone
B. encourage a dispirited girl to step towards her
C. help young people out of work for too long to commit suicide
D. greet and care for those heavy-hearted sad old people
59. The most suitable title for this passage could be ______.
A. Approach Strangers and Talk with Them B. A White-haired Old Woman
C. Mother or Grandmother to a Manager D. At the Times Square
B
Advice to “sleep on it” could be well founded, scientists say. After a good night’s sleep a problem that seemed impossible to solve the night before can often appear easier, although no evidence has proved this by now. But researchers at the University of Luebek in Germany have designed an experiment that shows a good night’s sleep can improve insight(洞察力) and problem-solving. “If you have some newly acquired memories in your brain, sleep acts on these memories, restructures(重构) them, so that after sleep the insight into a problem which you could not solve before increases,” said Dr. Jan Born, a neuroscientist, at the university. To test the theory, they taught volunteers two simple rules to help them put a string of numbers into a new order. There was also a third, hidden rule, which could help them increase their speed in solving the problem. The researchers divided the volunteers into two groups, half were allowed to sleep after the training while the remainders were forced to stay awake. Born and his team noticed that the group that had slept after the training were twice as likely to figure out the third rule as the other group. “Sleep helped,” Born said in a telephone interview. “The important thing is that you have to have a memory representation in your brain of the problem you want to solve and then you sleep, so it can act on the problem.” But Born admitted that he and his team don’t know how restructuring of memories occurs or what governs it. Pierre Marquette and Pierre Ruby of the University of Liege in Belgium said the experimental evidence supports the suggestions that sleep can promote creative thinking. Although the role of sleep in human creativity will still be a mystery, the research gives people good reason to fully respect their periods of sleep, they added.
60. The underlined phrase “sleep on it” in the first line probably means ______.
      A. to put something aside to be solved until the next day   
B. to get as much sleep as possible
C. to go on sleeping without being disturbed       
D. to sleep till you get up the next morning
61. Jan Born and his team carried out the experiment through ______.
    A. comparison        B. interview                C. survey              D. imagination
62. It can be inferred from the passage that ______.
A. people should sleep so long as they have time   
B. sleep is the only way to solve hard problems
C. people have various periods of sleep          
D. people know how sleep restructures memories
63. What would be the best title for the passage?
    A. How Sleep Works  B. Sleep Helps Solve Problems   
C. No Evidence, But Well Founded D. Born’s Discovery On Sleep
C
Three passions（激情）, simple but extraordinarily strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me here and there, in a wayward(随意的) course, over a great ocean of suffering, reaching to the very edge of despair.
I have sought love, first, because it brings great joy — so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness，in which one trembling consciousness looks over the edge of the world into the cold lifeless abyss(深渊). I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen the prefiguring vision of the heavens that saints（圣人） and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what — at last — I have found.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to understand the Pythagorean(毕达哥拉斯的) power by which number holds control of flexibility. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Cries of pain resound in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a ridiculous image of what human life should be. I long to reduce and lighten this evil, but I cannot, and I, too, suffer.
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.
64. From the second paragraph, we can know the author seeks love because ______.
A. it brings him great joy rather than loneliness
B. it enables him to see the saints and poets of the past
C. it not only brings him great joy, relieves him from loneliness but can make him prefigure the heavens
D. it can make him eager to learn more knowledge
65. According to the passage, the author will probably show pity for ______.
A. people in poverty B. children in rich families
C. cheerful old people D. cruel employers
66. The whole passage suggests that the author’s attitude towards life is ______.
A. negative B. positive C. confident D. irresponsible
D
The news of the great fight at Waterloo was published in the Gazette. After the statement of the victory came the list of the wounded and killed. George’s name among the latter was a terrible shock to the Osborne family and its chief. The old father was weighed down by his deep sorrow, but whatever his feelings of guilt and regret for the past, the stern（stubborn and strict）old man never mentioned his son’s name.
About three weeks later a letter was sent on to him by Dobbin, now promoted to major. It was George’s farewell to his father, written at dawn on the day of the battle.
The poor boy’s letter did not say much. He was too proud to show his feelings. He only wished his father goodbye, and begged for his help for his wife, and it might be the child, whom he left behind. He spoke regr