题目内容
The only ____ of the plan is that it costs too much.
A. drawback B. mistakes C. fault D. shortcoming
I was very disappointed not to be able to go to the jazz concert last Friday. The announcement in the paper said that you could buy tickets at the theater box office in Richland Hills any day between 10:00 and 4:00. Since I work from 9 o’clock to 5:30, the only time I could go to the theater was during my 45-minute lunch break. Unfortunately, the theater is on the other side of the town, and the bus service between my office and Richland Hills is not very good. But if you are lucky, you can make the round trip in 45 minutes. Last Monday, I stood at the bus stop for fifteen minutes waiting for a bus. By the time I saw one come around the corner, there was not enough time left to make the trip—so I gave up and went back to the office. The same thing happened on Tuesday, and again on Wednesday. On Thursday, my luck changed, I got on a bus right away and arrived at the theatre in exactly twenty minutes. When I got there, however, I found a long line of people at the box office. I heard one man say he had been waiting in line for over an hour. Realizing I would not have enough time to wait in line, I caught the next bus and headed back across the town. By Friday I realized my only hope was to make the trip by taxi. It was expensive, but I felt it would be worth hearing the concert. The trip by taxi only took 10 minutes, but it felt like an hour to me. When I got to the theatre, I was relieved to see that nobody was waiting in line. The reason, I quickly discovered, was that they had already sold all the tickets.
【小题1】The writer is probably ______.
| A．worker | B．a college teacher |
| C．manager of a company | D．a clerk |
| A．from his friends | B．from one of his colleagues |
| C．over the radio | D．from the newspaper |
| A．any day before work hours | B．both before and after work hours |
| C．only during lunch time | D．on Saturday and Sunday |
| A．surprised | B．pleased | C．puzzled | D．sorry |
| A．a good concert |
| B．someone enjoying a good concert |
| C．someone trying to buy concert tickets for his friends |
| D．someone’s disappointment at not being able to go to the concert |
第四部分： 书面表达（共两节， 满分35分）
第一节 填空 （ 共10小题；每小题1分， 满分10分）
阅读短文，根据所读内容在文后76--85的空格里填上适当的单词或短语， 并将答案转写到答题卡上。注意：每空不超过3个单词。
In many English homes four meals are served; they are breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner. These are the meals that are served in the homes of people who are well to do.
Breakfast may be served any time for seven to nine. It consist of porridge, bacon and eggs (boiled or fried), butter toast or bread-and-butter with marmalade (酸果酱). Instead of bacon and eggs, fish may be served. Either tea or coffee is drunk at breakfast.
Lunch comes at about one o’clock. It generally consists of cold meat (left over from yesterday’s dinner), potatoes, and salad. After that there is bread or biscuits and cheese. Most people drink water at lunchtime; some drink beer or wine. It is not the custom to drink the spirits (烈性酒) like whisky or brandy even wealthy homes in the middle of the day.
Afternoon tea, taken between four and five, is the most informal meal of the day. If you are a friend of the family you may drop in for tea without an invitation or telling them that you are coming. Each person has a cup and saucer, a spoon and a small plate for bread-and-butter and cake. By the way, do not help yourself to cake first; bread-and-butter first, and then cake if there is any. Another piece of advice: do not put more than one piece of bread or cake on your plate at the same time.
Dinner is the most substantial (丰盛的) meal of the day and is a very formal meal. Many people even wear special clothes for dinner, so if you are asked out of dinner you must find out whether you are expected to wear a dinner suit; for you would feel very embarrassed if, when you go there, you were the only person in ordinary clothes. Dinner is generally served at about half past seven. All the members of the family sit down together and are on their best behavior. The head of the family sits at one end of the table; his wife sits at the other. If there is a guest, he generally sits in the place of honor, which is at the right of lady of the house. If there are several guests the most important is asked to sit there. During the meal conservation is carried on, you should try to get into the conversation with the person on your right or left, but you should not try to talk to someone who is a long way from you.
Title: 76._______________________
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77. ___________ |
79. _____________ |
Food |
Drinks |
Notes |
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Breakfast |
7 to 9 a.m. |
Porridge, bacon & eggs, etc |
83. ________________ |
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Lunch |
80. _____________ |
Cold meat, potatoes, salad, bread, biscuits & cheese |
84. ________________
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Afternoon tea |
4 to 5 p.m. |
82. ______________________ |
tea |
85. __________ |
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78. ___________ |
81. _____________ |
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Most formal |
Everybody has one of those days when everything goes wrong. This is what happened to Harry.
He got up one morning very late because he had forgotten to wind up his alarm clock（闹钟）. He tried to shave（刮脸）quickly and cut himself. When he got dressed he got blood all over his clean shirt, so he had to find another one. The only other shirt that was clean needed ironing（熨）, so he ironed it. While he was ironing it, there was a knock at the door. It was the man to read the electricity meter（表）. He showed him where the meter was, said good-bye and found that the iron had burnt a hole in his shirt. So he had to wear the one with the blood on it after all. By this time it was very late, so he decided he couldn’t go to work by bus. He telephoned for a taxi to take him to work. The taxi arrived and Harry got in and began to read the newspaper.
In another part of the town, a man had killed a woman with a knife and was seen to run away in a taxi. When Harry’s taxi stopped outside his office, a policeman happened to be standing there. He saw the blood on Harry’s shirt, and took him to the police station. He was kept till 3 o’clock in the afternoon before the police were sure that he was not the man they wanted. When he finally arrived at the office at about four, his boss took a look at him and told him to go away and find another job.
1.Harry had __________.
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A．a lucky day |
B．an unlucky day |
C．a busy day |
D．a good day |
2.Put the following sentences into correct order according to the passage.
a. The man who read the electricity meter came.
b. Harry ironed his shirt.
c. Harry got blood all over his clean shirt.
d. There was a knock at the door.
e. Harry wore the shirt with blood on it.
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A．a, b, c, d, e |
B．b, a, d, c, e |
C．b, a, c, d, e |
D．c, b, d, a, e |
3.Why did Harry wear the shirt with blood on it?
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A．The iron had burnt a hole in his clean shirt. |
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B．The only other needed ironing. |
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C．He had only one shirt. |
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D．He cut himself and got blood all over his shirt. |
4.Harry was taken to the police station because __________.
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A．his taxi stopped outside his office and a policeman happened to be there |
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B．there was blood on his shirt and he was in a taxi |
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C．a man killed a woman with a knife |
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D．the murderer（杀人犯）was seen to run a away in a taxi |
5. His boss told him to go away and find another job because __________.
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A．he had been kept by the police |
B．there was blood on his shirt |
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C．he was late for work |
D．he had killed a woman |