1、 阅读下列短文, 从给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中, 选出最佳选项。 体裁:记叙文 话题:关爱动物 时间:7分钟 My husband and I had just opened up a pet sitting business earlier that year.Our customers had slowly risen from three to thirty a month.We were busy through those hot summer months,driving between visits.Our services were strictly held
2、at the pet owner's home.It was almost too busy for the two of us,but we were making good money! We asked pet owners new to our services to phone two weeks ahead so we had enough time to meet the owners and pets at their homes and make any following meeting before the owner leaves. One day,we decid
3、ed to take on a new customer just two days before they would leave.We met the family,filled in a form,and spent some time with their dog,Hercules.He playfully jumped on us and touched our hands and arms using his tongue.The family laughed as he did this,showing us that he was very loving. Two days
4、later I appeared at the house,alone.I came up to Hercules and said hello happily.I filled up his water bowl and cleaned any messes he made.Meanwhile,he was so lovely sitting beside.I thought this would be the good picture to send to the owners,a usual service.After the light and “click” sound went o
5、ff,Hercules rushed at me.I didn't know what had just happened until I noticed the drops of blood.I ran out and did the only thing—calling my husband. Then I went to neighbors for help.My husband arrived after ten minutes.The helpful neighbor and my husband led Hercules back into his pen(圈).Then my
6、 husband and I took off to the hospital. I must have looked like I was shot when I walked into the hospital.The nurses quickly moved me to a room.I asked the doctor in a weak but playful manner,“Am I going to die?” He replied,“Finally.” 【语篇导读】 本文是一篇记叙文。作者和她丈夫从事给别人看护宠物的工作,工作格外繁忙。有一次,作者外出照看宠物却发生了意外。
7、 1.According to the text,the author's work was ______. A.tiring and dangerous B.easy and free C.well paid D.done outdoors 解析 细节理解题。依据文章第一段的最终两句可知,作者和她丈夫的工作主要是在客户家里进行的,他们格外劳碌,但是酬劳是很高的。故选C项。 答案 C 2.What did the author often do during her work? A.Cleaning the clients' house. B.Walking the p
8、ets outside. C.Bringing the pets to her own house. D.Taking a photo of pets to the owners. 解析 细节理解题。依据第四段第五句“I thought this would be the good picture to send to the owners,a usual service.”可知,D项正确。 答案 D 3.It can be inferred from the text that the author was attacked because ______. A.Hercules
9、feared the sound and flash B.the author attacked Hercules first C.Hercules was very hungry then D.the author treated Hercules badly 解析 推理推断题。依据第四段倒数第三句和倒数其次句可知,在作者拍照的时候,随着相机发出闪光和咔嚓声后,Hercules攻击了作者。由此可推知,Hercules可怕相机的闪光灯和咔嚓声。 答案 A 4.The doctor's answer gave us a sense of ______. A.anger B.hu
10、mor C.carelessness D.patience 解析 推理推断题。依据文章最终一段,作者问医生“我要死了吗?”,医生的回答是“最终会的”可知,作者这次是没有生命危急的,而医生的回答给读者一种幽默感。 答案 B 阅读理解。 Job sharing refers to the situation in which two people divide the responsibility of one fulltime job. The two people willingly act as parttime workers, enough hours betw
11、een them to fulfill the duties of a fulltime worker. If they each work half the job, for example, they each receive 50 percent of the job's wages,its holidays and its other benefits. Job sharing differs from conventional(常规的) parttime work in that it occurs mainly in the more highly skilled and p
12、rofessional areas, which require higher levels of responsibility and employee commitment. Job sharing should not be confused with the term work sharing,which refers to increasing the number of jobs by reducing the number of hours of each existing job, thus offering more positions to the growing num
13、ber of unemployed people. Job sharing, by contrast, is not designed to address unemployment problems; its focus, rather, is to provide wellpaid work for skilled workers and professionals who want more free time for other activities. As would be expected, most job sharers are women. A survey carde
14、d out in 1988 by Britain's Equal Opportunities Commission showed that 78 percent of sharers were female, the majority of whom were between 20 and 40 years of age. Subsequent studies have come up with similar results. Many of these women were reentering the job market after having had children,but t
15、hey chose not to seek parttime work because it would have meant lower status. Job sharing also offered an acceptable shift back into fulltime work after a long absence. The necessity of close cooperation when sharing a job with another person makes the actual work quite different from conventiona
16、l oneposition jobs. However,to ensure a greater chance that the partnership will succeed, each person needs to know the strengths, weaknesses and preferences of his or her partner before applying for a position. Moreover, there must be a fair division of both routine tasks and interesting ones. In
17、sum, for a position to be jobshared well, the two individuals must be well matched and must treat each other as equals. 本文叙述了“job sharing”这一新的工作形式的特征及其要求。 9.In what way is work sharing different from job sharing? A. Work sharing requires more working hours. B. Work sharing is aimed at creating
18、more jobs. C. Work sharing provides a more satisfactory salary. D. Work sharing depends on the employer's decision. 答案:B。事实细节题。由第3段首句中的“work sharing, which refers to increasing the number of jobs...”可知which引导的定语从句修饰work sharing,由此推出答案。 10.According to Paragraph 4, young mothers preferred job sha
19、ring to conventional parttime work mainy because ________. A. they sought higher social status B. they were over ideal working ages C. they had difficulty finding fulltime jobs D. they had to take care of both work and family 答案:A。推理推断题。由第4段倒数第2句可推知这些年轻妇女们选择job sharing这一工作形式是为了寻求更高的社会地位。故选A。
20、 11.In job sharing the partners should ________. A. enjoy equal social status B. have similar work experience C. keep in touch with each other D. know each other very well 答案:D。事实细节题。由尾段后半段的内容可知D项正确。 12.The main purpose of the passage is to________. A. describe job sharin
21、g in general B. discuss how to provide more jobs C. recommend job sharing to women D. compare job sharing with work sharing 答案:A。主旨大意题。总览全文可知本文旨在大体上描述“job sharing” 这一工作形式。故选A。 阅读理解。 You are busy filling out the application form for a position you really need;let's assume you once actually
22、completed a couple of years of college work or even that you completed your degree. Isn't it tempting to lie just a little, to claim on the form that your diploma (文凭) represents a Harvard degree? Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University? More and more people are turni
23、ng to an utter deception (哄骗)like this to land their first job or to move ahead in their careers. For personnel officers, like most Americans, value degress from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a dipl
24、oma from a wellknown university. Registrars(学籍管理员)at most wellknown colleges say that they deal with dishonest claims like these at the rate of about one per week. Personnel officers do check up on degrees listed on application forms. It turns out that when an applicant is lying, most colleges ar
25、e unwilling to accuse the applicant directly. One Ivy League school refers to them as “special cases”. One wellknown West Coast school, in perhaps the most delicate phrase of all, says these claims are made by “no such people”. To avoid complete lies,some job seekers claim that they “attended” or
26、were associated with”a college or university. After careful checking, a personnel officer may discover that “attending” means being dismissed after one semester. It may be that “being associated with” a college means that the job seeker visited his younger brother for a football weekend. One school
27、 that keeps records of false claims says that the practice dates back at least to the turn of the century—that's when they began keeping records, anyhow. If you don't want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are companies that will sell you a fake diploma. One company, with offices in New York
28、and on the West Coast, will put your name on a diploma from any number of nonexistent colleges. The price begins at around twenty dollars for a diploma from “Smoot State University”. The prices increase rapidly for a degree from the “University of Purdue”. As there is no Smoot State and the real sch
29、ool in Indiana is properly called Purdue University, the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper. 由于人事部门的官员们更看重名校学历,因此人们经常为谋求一份好工作和职位而造假。 13.The writer mainly wants to tell us that ________. A. college degrees can now be purchased easily B. nowadays it is very hard for people to find job
30、s C. lying about college degrees is becoming a widespread problem D. employers are no longer interested in applicants' actual performances 答案:C。主旨大意题。总览文章可知C项为本文主旨。 14.As used in the first line of the second paragraph,the word “utter” means ________. A. thorough B. careful C. imcompl
31、ete D. spoken 答案:A。词义猜想题。由其次段第一句中的关键词deception(哄骗)及其后的解释“学历造假”,再结合文章主旨可推出A项正确。thorough彻底的。 15.Once finding applicants with false diplomas, most colleges would ________. A. keep the records of them B. drive them out of college C. avoid direct conflicts with them D. accuse them of such beha
32、viors 答案:C。推理推断题。由第三段中的“...most colleges are unwilling to accuse the applicant directly”.和下面给出的例子可推断出C项正确。 16.We can learn from the passage that ________. A. US employers value their job applicants with a degree from top universities B. University of Purdue and Purdue University are the same sc
33、hool C. people with fake diplomas can get their first jobs in US easily D. people pay the same price for a fake diploma from different universities 答案:A。事实细节题。由其次段其次句“For personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools.”可知A项正确。由尾段可知B、D错误;C项在文中没有信息支持。 【陕西省西安市第一中学
34、2022高考英语二模试题】 完型填空。阅读下面短文,从短文后各题的A,B,C,D四个选项中,选出适合填入对应空白处的 最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。 When I was 17,I read a quote that went something like:“If you live each day as if it were your last,someday you’11 most certainly be right.”It made a deep 26 on me.and since then, for the past 33 years,I have 27 in
35、the mirror every morning and asked myself:“If today were the last day of my life, 28 I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a 29 ,I know I need to change something. Remembering that I’ll be 30 soon is the most important tool I’
36、ve ever known to help me make the big 31 in life because almost everything falls away in the face of death, 32 only what is truly important About a year ago I was 33 with cancer. My doctor even advised me to go home and get my affairs 34 order,which is a doctor’s way of telling people to p
37、repare to die.I 35 with that diagnosis all day. 36 ,at last an advanced test showed that it was a very rare cancer that is 37 with surgery.I had the surgery and I’m fine now. 38 wants to die.Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there And yet death is the destinati
38、on we all 39 .No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be,because death is very likely the single best invention of 40 .It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to 41 for the new.Right now the new is you, but someday not too 42 from now,you will gradually become the old and
39、 be cleared away.Sorry to be so dramatic,but it is quite true. Your time is 43 ,so don’t waste it living someone else’s 1ife.Don’t be 44 by dogma(教条) —which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner 45 .And most i
40、mportantly,have the courage to follow your heart 【小题1】A. impression B. curse C. decision D. joke 【小题2】 A. seen B. looked C. found D. 1ost 【小题3】A. would B. should C. might D. could 【小题4】A. hurry B. 1ine
41、 C. moment D. row 【小题5】A. successful B. rich C. dead D. frustrated 【小题6】A. apologies B. fortune C. impressions D. choices 【小题7】A. proving B. leaving C. confirming D. telling 【小题8】A. diagnosed B. cured C. trea
42、ted D. round 【小题9】A. on B. for C. in D. at 【小题10】A. met B. got C. did D. 1ived 【小题11】A. However B. But C. Therefore D. So 【小题12】 A. incurable B. curable C. fatal D. changea
43、ble 【小题13】A. Anyone B. Someone C. No one D. Everyone 【小题14】A. want B. avoid C. share D. escape 【小题15】 A. destination B. 1ife C. science D. disease 【小题16】A. make up B. make for C. make our D. make wa
44、y 【小题17】A. distant B. short C. long D. away 【小题18】A. 1imited B. rare C. enough D. 1ost 【小题19】A. wasted B. cheated C. excited D. trapped 【小题20】A. voice B. love C. direction D. confusion 【答案】
45、 【小题1】A 【小题2】B 【小题3】A 【小题4】D 【小题5】C 【小题6】D 【小题7】B 【小题8】A 【小题9】C 【小题10】D 【小题11】A 【小题12】B 【小题13】C 【小题14】C 【小题15】B 【小题16】D 【小题17】C 【小题18】A 【小题19】D 【小题20】A 【小题8】考查动词辨析:A. Diagnosed诊断,B. Cured治愈, C. treated治疗, D. Found发觉,或许一年以前, 我被诊断出癌症,故选C diagnose 诊断。选A 【小题9】考查介词辨析:A. On在...上面,B.
46、for为了,C. in 在...里面,D. At在...地方,in order妥当的,有序的。医生劝我回家,支配后事,这是医生让病人等死的婉言。选C 【小题10】考查动词辨析:A. Met遇到,B. Got得到,C. Did做,D. 1ived生活,.live with接受或容忍某现象。此句意为诊断结果让我想了一成天。选D 【小题11】考查副词辨析:A. However然而,B. But但是, C. Therefore因此,D. So所以,依据at last an advanced test showed that it was a very rare cancer that is curable with surgery,可知表示转折,选A 【小题20】考查名词辨析:A. Voice声音,B. Love爱,C. Direction方向,D. Confusion困惑,依据And most importantly,have the courage to follow your heart.可知不要被其他人喧嚣的观点掩盖你真正的内心的声音。还有最重要的是, 你要有士气去听从你直觉和心灵的指示,故选A 考点:考查人生百味类完型填空






