文科英语试题及答案.doc

马鞍山市第二中学2007年文科实验班招生

英语素质测试题

注意事项：
1．先将自己的姓名、准考证号用钢笔或圆珠笔填写在答题卷的相应位置上。考试结束后，应将试卷和答题卷一并交回。
2．本试题总分共120分，答题时间共120分钟，请掌握好时间。
3．所有选择题的答案都必须从四个选项中选择一个答案，选对给分；不答、错答或多选，均不给分。
4．所有答案用钢笔或圆珠笔写在答题卷上，注意字迹清楚，卷面整洁。

一、 单项选择 (每小题1分,共20分)
1. — What did you think of ________ monitor?
— I didn’t care for her at first, but after ______ time I got to like her.
A. the; a B. /; the C. the; the D. /; a
2. Some of the rice came from China. How about ________?
A. the others B. another C. the rest D. the other
3. — What did you say?
— So you _____ to me.
A. won’t listen B. weren’t listening
C. didn’t listen D. haven’t listened
4. Let’s get through the task quickly. ______ seems to be little time left now.
A. There B. It C. That D. Here
5. — Are there any English magazines for us students in the reading-room?
— There are only a few, ________.
A. if any B. if there C. if some D. if has
6. — I have a favor to ask of you.
— ________.
A. Ask, please B. It’s a pleasure C. Help yourself D. Go ahead
7. — The weather is too hot _______ October this year.
— It was still ________ when I came here two years ago.
A. for; hotter B. for; cooler C. in; hotter D. in; cooler
8. — Among the pencil-boxes, which one do you prefer?
— ________ will do.
A. All B. Any C. Every D. Both
9. _______ the lights off, we could not go on with the work.
A. With B. Until C. As D. Because
10. The young pigeons which I bought _____ two months ago are able to fly _____ now.
A. cheaply; high B. cheaply; highly
C. cheap; highly D. cheap; high
11. I am sure the Olympic Games will be successfully held in 2008 in China, _______?
A. Shall we B. won’t they C. aren’t I D. won’t it
12. — There is a knock at the door.
— ______?
A. Who can it be B. Who is that C. Who is he D. Do you think who he is
13. If we work with a strong will, we can overcome any difficulty, _____ great it is.
A. how B. what C. however D. whatever
14. Susan as well as her classmates ________ against the program.
A. are warned B. are warning C. is warned D. is warning
15. When do you think ________ visit her uncle?
A. she was going B. she will go to C. will she go D. will she go to
16. — Have you seen my shoes, Sue?
— Yes, Dad. They are under the bed.
— ______.
A. So they are B. It’s right C. They are so D. Yes, thank you
17. — Excuse me. Do you have a minute?
— Sure. _______?
A. What’s on B. What is it C. What’s up D. Where is it
18. For nearly two hours we waited for the decision, only _____ to come again the next day.
A. to be told B. to tell C. telling D. being told
19. — How long did you do these written exercises?
— ______.
A. So long as I stayed up B. Since supper time
C. Before it struck 12 D. Until 12 o’clock
20. — I can’t find Mr. Smith. Where did you meet him this morning?
— It was in the hotel _______ he stayed.
A. where B. that C. which D. the one

二、 完形填空 (每小题1分，共20分)
阅读下列短文,从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

Years ago, if a teenager had some problems in her life, she might go home and write in her diary. Now, a teenager with 21 problems might go onto the Internet and write about them in a blog(博客). In many ways, a diary and a blog are very 22 . So, what 23 blogging different from writing in a traditional diary?
The biggest difference is that blogging is much more 24 than a diary. Usually, a teenager treats her diary like a book full of 25 that she does not want to 26 .
It's interesting that someone who writes in a blog 27 a diary will probably write nearly the same information.
I have a little sister, and sometimes I go online to read her 28 . She writes about things like waking up early for swimming practice and not studying enough for her chemistry test. 29 I was her age, I wrote about the same things, but 30 in my diary. Then, after I had finished writing, I would hide my diary in a secret place because I was 31 that my sister might read it!
The biggest 32 with blogging is that anyone can read what you write. If I was 33 with a friend during high school and wrote something mean about her in my diary, she would never know. 34 , if my sister ever wrote something bad about a friend, that friend 35 read her blog and get angry.
There are also 36 to blogging, of course. If I was feeling sad one day and wrote in my diary “Nobody cares about me”, 37 would know about it. However, if my sister wrote the same sentence in her blog, her best friends would 38 respond (回应) and tell her how much they 39 her. Blogs help people 40 in contact with their friends and to hear what the people around them are doing.
21. A. the same B. trouble C. difficult D. daily
22. A. familiar B. special C. similar D. different
23. A. takes B. shows C. has D. makes
24. A. attractive B. public C. important D. quick
25. A. thoughts B. puzzles C. ideas D. secrets
26. A. talk B. share C. publish D. solve
27. A. instead of B. as well as C. but D. in spite of
28. A. blog B. diary C. report D. web
29. A. Although B. Since C. When D. Because
30. A. only B. already C. still D. never
31. A. angry B. concerned C. glad D. worried
32. A. problem B. doubt C. trouble D. mistake
33. A. happy B. playing C. angry D. fighting
34. A. Besides B. However C. Therefore D. Then
35. A. should B. need C. must D. might
36. A. reasons B. disadvantages C. faults D. advantages
37. A. everyone B. no one C. anyone D. someone
38. A. happily B. especially C. quickly D. fast
39. A. like B. miss C. need D. help
40. A. lose B. stay C. get D. find

三、 阅读理解（每小题2分，共30分）
A) 阅读下列短文，从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
A shopkeeper was sent a telegram informing him that his ticket won in the sweepstake (跑马彩票). He happened to be home having heart trouble, and his wife opened the message. Fearing that the sudden news might cause a fatal（致命的）shock to her husband, she asked the family doctor to dinner and requested him to pass the good news with tact(机智). After dinner the doctor drew his patient to one side.
“How is your business?” the doctor began.
“It could be better. I could make a few hundred pounds,” said the shopkeeper.
“Well,” smiled the doctor, “You have a sweepstake ticket. What would you do if you won 1,000 pounds?”
“Nobody ever wins,” the man answered with a sigh. “But if I won, I would send my family to the seashore, and pay off my debts.
“Suppose you win 50,000 pounds?”
“I would buy this house and a villa (别墅) in the country.”
“What would you do if you won 100,000 pounds?”
The man looked up. “Doctor,” he said seriously, “I swear I would send you half of it.”
The doctor gasped, opened his mouth and dropped down, dead.
41. ________ won 100,000 pounds in the sweepstake.
A. The family doctor B. The shopkeeper’s wife
C. The shopkeeper D. The doctor’s wife
42. The wife invited his family doctor to dinner because ________.
A. she wanted to tell him a piece of good news
B. she wanted him to tell the good news to her husband in a clever way
C. he was a good friend of her family
D. the doctor would tell her family a piece of good news
43. From this story we can see that ________.
A. the shopkeeper was not rich
B. the shopkeeper’s wife was in poor health
C. the doctor was in good health
D. the doctor was very lucky
44. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to this passage?
A. The doctor himself had heart trouble.
B. The shopkeeper did not go on well with his business.
C. The shopkeeper’s family lived a happy life.
D. The shopkeeper’s words caused the doctor’s death.
45. The writer wrote this passage mainly to ________.
A. tell us a funny story B. tell us money will do harm to us
C. tell us the doctor’s luck D. show us the sadness of the doctor
B
Long bus rides are like television shows. They have a beginning, a middle, and an end with commercials (商业广告)thrown in every three or four minutes. The commercials are unavoidable. They happen whether you want them or not. Every couple of minutes a billboard glides by outside the bus window. "Buy Super Clean Toothpaste." "Drink Good Wet Root Beer." "Fill up with Pacific Gas." Only if you sleep, which is equal to turning the television set off, are you spared the unending cry of "You Need It! Buy It Now!".
The beginning of the ride is comfortable and somewhat exciting, even if you’ve traveled that way before. Usually some things have changed, new houses, new buildings, sometimes even a new road. The bus driver has a style of driving and it’s interesting to try to figure it out in the first hour or so. If the driver is particularly reckless（鲁莽的）or daring, the ride can be as thrilling（惊心动魄的）as a suspense(悬疑) story. Will the driver pass the truck in time? Will the driver move into the right-hand or the left-hand lane? After a while, of course, the excitement dies down. Sleeping for a while helps pass the middle hours of the ride. Food always makes bus rides more interesting. But you’ve got to be careful of what kind of food you eat. Too much salty food can make you very thirsty between stops.
The end of the ride is somewhat like the beginning. You know it will soon be over and there’s a kind of expectation and excitement in that. The seat of course, has become harder as the hours have passed. By now you’ve sat with your legs crossed, with your hands in your lap, with your hands on the armrests or even with your hands crossed behind your head. The end comes just as no more ways to sit.
46. According to the passage, what do the passengers usually see when they are on a long bus trip?
A. Buses on the road. B. Things on television.
C. Advertisements on the billboards. D. Salesmen.
47. The writer of this passage would probably prefer _______.
A. bus drivers who aren’t reckless B. driving alone
C. a television set on the bus D. no billboards along the road
48. The writer feels long bus rides are like TV shows because _______.
A. the commercials both on TV shows and on billboards along the road are interesting
B. they both have a beginning, a middle, and an end, with commercials in between
C. the drivers are always reckless on TV shows just as they are on buses
D. both traveling and watching TV are not exciting.
49. The writer thinks that the end of the ride is somewhat like the beginning because both are _______.
A. exciting B. comfortable C. tiring D. boring
50. What is the purpose of this passage?
A. To give the writer’s opinion about long bus journeys.
B. To try to advise you to take a long bus journey.
C. To explain how bus trips and television shows differ.
D. To describe the billboards along the road.
B) 阅读下面短文，根据第51至第55小题的具体要求，简要回答问题。
The north magnetic pole（磁极）is no longer a “resident” of Canada．It has moved across the Canadian Arctic and is now angling toward Siberia.
The north magnetic pole (where the Earth’s magnetic field is directed downward) is moving westward because of natural changes in the Earth’s magnetic field, a process that originates(源自) about 3, 000 kilometers below our feet, in the outer core (核心) of the planet. But scientists are now noticing that the magnetic pole has speed up its pace (步伐).
“Over the past century, the pole has been moving at an average speed of about 10 kilometers per year,” says Larry Newitt, head of Geomagnetic Research Center at Natural Resources Canada in Ottawa．Since the 1970s, this speed has increased to about 50 kilometers per year.
“Scientists are wondering why the speed is increasing,” says Newitt. One Hypothesis (假说) is connected with magnetic sudden jumps in the rate of change of the magnetic field．There have been three jumps in the past four decades, each one leading to an increase in speed. If the north magnetic pole continues at its present rate, it could reach Siberia by 2056.
“For most of recorded history, the pole has been a part of Canada, and now it’s not,” says Newitt. “It may be a shock to our mind, but other than that, it doesn’t have a great effect on most people’s existence.”
51. Find in the passage a word closest in meaning to the underlined word “angling”.
______________________________________________________________________________
52. What could happen to the north magnetic pole by the middle of the 21 century? (答题不超过10个单词)
______________________________________________________________________________
53. In which country does Siberia probably lie, China, Russia, England or Australia?
______________________________________________________________________________
54. What’s the Chinese for “It may be a shock to our mind, but other than that, it doesn’t have a great effect on most people’s existence.”?
______________________________________________________________________________
55. What is the main idea of the passage? (答题不超过10个单词)
______________________________________________________________________________
四、 书面表达 （共四部分,满分50分）
A) 完成句子 (每空0.5分,满分10分)
请根据汉语完成下列各句,每空填一个单词。
56. 他情绪不佳，宁愿外出散步而不愿呆在家里。
As in a bad ________, he ________ ________ go out for a walk ________stay at home.
57. 坐船游览漓江真是太妙了。
It’s great ________ to ________ ________ boat ________ on the Li River.
58. 将有许多方法供你选择。
There will be many different ways ________ ________ to ________ ________.
59. 人们相信老虎已经面临灭绝的危险。
It’s ________ that the tiger ________ ________ the danger of ________ out.
60. 他过去常常很晚才下班回家。
He ________ ________return home late ________ ________.

B) 根据首字母填空 (每小题1分,满分10分)
Mr. Brown was manager (经理) of an office in London. He lived in the country and came up to work by train. He usually walked from the s 61 to his office u 62 it was raining, because it gave him some exercise. One morning he was walking along the street w 63 a stranger stopped him and said to him, "You may not remember me, sir, but seven years ago I came to London w 64 a penny in my pockets. I s 65 you in the street and asked you to lend me some money, a 66 you gave me five pounds, because you said that you were ready to take a chance s 67 as to give a man start on the r 68 to success. Mr. Brown thought for a few minutes and then said, "Yes, I r 69 you. Go on with your story."
"Well," answered the stranger, "are you still w 70 to take a chance?"
C) 短文改错 (每小题1分,满分10分)
此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标题号的每一行做出判断：
如无错误，在该行右边的横线上划√；如有错误(每行只有一个错误)，则按下列情况改正：
此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。
此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号^，在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。
此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。
Tom found in a newspaper that it was easy find 71. ________
works in the south of England, so he got 72. ________
on a train who was going to London. He 73. ________