Loading... Please wait...第一部分： 英语知识运用（共两节， 满分45分）
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。
1.—— Hi, Mary, how are you getting on ?
—— ______________.
A. No well, I’m afraid
B. Good, how are you then?
C. Very well, thanks, and you?
D. Quite good, what about you?
2. Some fruits ______ well in warm dry climates.
A. raise B. grow C. keep D. plant
3. —— Are you going to the football game ?
—— No, the tickets are ________ for me.
A. too much high B. so much expensive
C. far too expensive D. highly expensive
4. ——Why haven’t you asked her to come here?
——She _______ an important experiment when I found her and she _____ it.
A. had done ; didn’t finish
B. was doing ; hasn’t finished
C. did ; wouldn’t finish
D. hadn’t finished
5. Many great men have risen from poverty — Lincoln and Edison, _______.
A. instead B. for example
C. and so on D. such as
6. Reading is to the mind ______ food is to the body.
A. that B. which C. of which D. what
7. He came here without friends or ______and made his fortune.
A. possessions B. possession C. wealths D. good
8. —— What about the person?
—— Seldom in all my life _____ such a _______ person.
A. I met; determining
B. I have met; determining
C. did I meet; determined
D. have I met; determined
9. _______ for two miles, the car broke down.
A. I drove my car
B. Having run
C. To have driven
D. Having driven
10. How many men does your uncle _____ for him?
A. have worked
B. have to work
C. have working
D. have been working
11. Michael never dreamt of ______ for him to be sent abroad very soon.
A. being a chance
B. there’s a chance
C. there to be a chance
D. there being a chance
12. —— There are ______ such books here.
—— I only need ______ these books on this shelf.
A. eight dozens ; one dozen
B. eight dozens of ; one dozen of
C. eight dozen ; one dozen
D. dozens of ; one dozen of
13. If you _____your promise, the results will be sure to satisfy you.
A. carry out B. carry on C. keep on D. keep out
14. In science fiction we read of flying saucers travel through _____ space, so people want to have ______ better knowledge of the universe.
A. the ; a B. / ; / C. the ; / D. / ; a
15. The boss said to the secretary, “If you work well, you ______ have a rise.”
A. must B. ought C. would D. shall
第二节 完形填空 （共20小题； 每小题1.5分，满分30分）
About once a month I have to go to Degford for my work. One day I went into a hotel there to have something to 16 . The waiter 17 my coat and put it in a small room.
About an hour later I was 18 to go. The waiter 19 my coat to me. 20 something fell out of the pocket onto the floor. It was a small white box. Then I took a good look at the 21 . “Oh, you’ve Brought someone 22 coat,” I said to the waiter. “It looks very much like mine, 23 it is quite new, and this isn’t my box, either.” “Oh, then I 24 someone has taken you coat and left this,” said the waiter, “This kind of thing 25 sometimes.”
I opened the box. There was a beautiful gold ring in it. So I went 26 to the police station.
“ 27 lost a ring?” I asked. “Yes,” said a policeman. “A young man who came in this morning lost a ring. He lost it in London.” He 28 the young man. A few minutes later, the man arrived. “Yes, this is my ring,” he said, “How can I 29 you, sir? You see, I paid a lot of money for this ring and 30 I lost it on the train!”
After I told him the 31 of the coat, he said, “You haven’t been on the train. I haven’t been in the hotel. So how did my ring 32 in the coat?”
“Did 33 sit or stand next to you on the train?” asked the policeman.
“Yes,” said the young man, “But I don’t remember his face.”
“You may remember this coat,” said the policeman, “Was it like this one?”
“Yes, it was,” said the young man. “But my friend here 34 the thief.”
The policeman laughed. “ 35 ,” he said, “The thief on the train stole your ring, and like our friend here, he went into the hotel to get some food. Only he didn’t take the right coat away with him.”
16. A. do B. buy C. eat D. deal with
17. A. took B. found C. liked D. watched
18. A. anxious B. glad C. invited D. ready
19. A. showed B. returned C. brought D. dressed
20. A. Luckily B. Suddenly C. Obviously D. At once
21. A. ring B. box C. coat D. pocket
22. A. lost B. missed C. new D. else’s
23. A. but B. and C. instead D. for
24. A. know B. wonder C. suppose D. find
25. A. appears B. happens C. meets D. changes
26. A. around B. about C. ahead D. over
27. A. Has anyone B. Has she C. Who D. Have you
28. A. telephoned B. remembered C. wrote to D. knew
29. A. return B. thank C. find D. help
30. A. then B. so C. yet D. however
31. A. story B. price C. model D. size
32. A. come B. put C. set D. be
33. A. he B. the thief C. the waiter D. anyone
34. A. discovered B. isn’t C. has caught D. doesn’t know
35. A. I’m afraid not B. Yes C. No D. Surely
第二部分：阅读理解（共20小题； 每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）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。
(A)
Dear Mr. Perkins,
We would like to introduce ourselves. Our company was organized only two years ago, but we are one of the largest boat companies in California. As you know, your son has bought a boat from us recently, and I think you know how pleased be is with our product. Also, John Webb, one of your son's friends, has bought a boat from us and, we understand, is very happy with his boat. We are always happy to know that our customers are satisfied. We are writing to you now because, as you know, your son has decided to buy a larger boat, and we need your signature on the loan (贷款) papers. The loan application has already been signed by Danny. As you will see, there is one form to fill out, and there are three contracts to sign. Danny’s 26-foot boat was returned to our San Pedro Dock yesterday, and we are pleased to say that the new 36-foot “Challenger” will be delivered in two weeks from today. It is being inspected by our manager right now. The auto-pilot (自动领航仪) has already been installed by our mechanic. It looks as though everything will be ready in time for delivery. All we need are the signed contracts from you.
Thank you.
Tony Valention
36. The main aim of the letter Tony wrote to Mr. Perkins is to __________.
A. tell him to sign the contracts
B. thank him for buying a new boat
C. tell about something of his company
D. ask him to pay for his boat right away
37. The underlined word “contracts” means ________.
A. application forms from the buyers
B. letters sent by the sellers
C. formal agreements having the force of law
D. designs of a new product
38. From the passage we can see that the boat company __________.
A. isn’t an old one
B. is a world-famous one
C. is developing slowly
D. has to advise customers to buy its boats
(B)
There is no doubt about it. The best way to learn new words is to do it unconsciously. I don’t mean while you’re unconscious. I mean while you are unconscious of the fact that it is sinking in.
That is how I learnt the 30,000 words in my vocabulary by living in an English-speaking world, mother tongue. I just pick them up. But some of them may be misunderstood. Now, to misunderstand does not mean not to understand. To misunderstand is to understand but incorrectly.
The 5 % mislearnt of all the words we “know” will be the least frequently used words, as the more frequently used words are less likely to be mislearnt. Some of the misunderstandings may live with all our lives, without knowing that we got them wrong.
Many English teachers think that this natural method of learning words in one’s own mother tongue can be used for a second language learning. They teach their students how to play the Guessing Game. “There is no time to look up in your dictionaries all the new words you come across,” they will say. “You have to practise guessing what the word means from the context.”
This method of guessing in a second language learning does not work. It may succeed in many cases, but results in hundreds or thousands of wrongly-guessed meanings of words.
And what’s more, there are more separate meanings than there are words themselves. Our learners’ dictionaries usually have many meanings. A good dictionary is what makes self-learning possible.
Don’t guess! Look it up!
39. It is certain that the best way to learn new words is _____________.
A. to learn them by oneself
B. to learn by living in an English-speaking world and using them frequently
C. to guess them from the context
D. to get more separate meanings of each word
40. The underlined word “them” in Paragraph 2 refers to _________.
A. the 30,000 words B. English teachers
C. misunderstood words D. frequently used words
41. Which of the following is most likely NOT true?
A. Some of the words the writer knows must have been misunderstood.
B. Most of the 30,000 words the writer learned are frequently used ones.
C. How many words the writer got wrong are not known.
D. All the words the writer knows were learned by reading them.
42. It can be inferred that _________.
A. when somebody is conscious, he or she usually can’t learn new words by heart
B. we must use the words as often as possible in order to master them
C. it’s the best way to learn new words that one should only guess their meanings from the context
D. only dictionaries can help us learn language well