题目内容

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

In the US and Britain, the slogan around colleges was “Save water. Shower with a friend.” Now, Wuhan University has come up with another system for the campus bathhouse. It charges students for the amount of time in a shower. Before entering the bathhouse, students pay for the amount of time they want in the shower with cash or their student ID card. The clock starts ticking the minute the tape is turned on. It pauses when a button is pressed for soap. An integrated circuit (IC) card reader at each tap shows the time. No money, no water. The benefits of the new system can be seen with the old system, which charged 1 Yuan for each person regardless of time in the shower. The university used about 320 tons of water daily under the old system, but only 160 tons now.

Many students use the new system but opinions on it are divided. Some students say it is bad because bathing had become a sort of race. Many people using it for the first time are not sure how long they need to shower. Some might be embarrassed if their time is up and they’re still covered in soap. They have to ask the bathhouse worker to help them buy extra time.

“It’s a flaw in the system that you can not buy extra time on the ID card,” said Ren, a freshman in Wuhan University. The university is also considering some students’ suggestions that they be allowed to pay after they’ve finished the shower. Not surprisingly, some are complaining about losing the hour shower. But many students say the move helps them develop a water-saving sense.

Without the time limits, most students tended to shower for 30 to an hour in the bathhouse.

Some even used the hot water to wash their clothes. “In my experience, 10—20 minutes is enough,” said Dai Zhihua, a third-year student who usually takes 8 minutes.

A similar system has been installed in other universities. Shanghai Normal University introduced it at its Fengxiang Campus in September. The bathing fee there is 0.2 Yuan per minute. One male student responded by setting a record with a two-minute shower.

1.According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?

A. Students buy the time of their showers.

B. The clock times the student’s bathing except when the bather pauses for soap.

C. If money runs out, there will be no water.

D. Having finished bathing, the student has to pay for it.

2.The underline word “flaw” (Paragraph 3) most probably means __________.

A. fault B. advantage

C. pity D. perfection

3.Since the new system has performed, __________ of water can be saved.

A. a quarter B. one third

C. one half D．two thirds

4.It can be inferred from the passage that __________.

A. the new operation can raise students’ environmental awareness

B. the new operation can solve the water crisis

C. a similar operation has been set in other universities

D. the university has saved a lot of water by using the new system

5.In which column can you find this passage?

A. Culture. B. Society.

C. Campus Life. D. Lifestyle.

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1.I like this job not because of the high salary but because it can let me make full use of my a_______.

2.After being d________ to make a big fortune, the young man left for the large city.

3.As is m_____ above, our global is becoming warmer, and as a result, the sea level is rising.

4.It is generally agreed that taking regular exercise is ________ (有益) to our health.

5.Our work was ________ (打断)because of the power cut.

短文改错

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。作文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏子符号（∧）并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1.每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

The first day we go to high school, our head teacher told us the news which we needed to take the military training. We were all shocking at the news, because of it was so hot outside. How terribly it was! The next day, we met our training instructor, who were young and handsome. He was strict, but humorous, telling him jokes when we rested. At night, he asked us to sing military songs. We even competed with other teams. The days of the military trainings were beautiful ,and we found a training was not that hard. We became stronger and made friends to our military instructor.

书面表达

假定你是光明中学的李华，最近你市发现了一处唐文化遗址，是否应当开发？同学们展开了激烈的讨论，请你根据讨论情况用英语给China daily写一篇报道，并发表自己的看法。

注意：1.词数100左右；

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

3.开头已为你写好，不计入总词数。

参考词汇：开发：explore 旅游业：tourism

Dear Editor,

I’m LiHua, a student from GuangMing Middle School.

Yours,

LiHua

People have been painting pictures for at least 30,000 years. The earliest pictures were painted by people who hunted animals. They used to paint pictures of the animals they wanted to catch and kill. Pictures of this kind have been found on the walls of caves in France and Spain. No one knows why they were painted there. Perhaps the painter thought that their pictures would help them to catch these animals. Or perhaps human beings have always wanted to tell stories in pictures.

About 5,000 years ago, the Egyptians and other people in the Near East began to use pictures as a kind of writing. They drew simple pictures or signs to represent things and ideas, and also to represent the sounds of their language. The signs these people used became a kind of alphabet(字母表).

The Egyptians used to record information and to tell stories by putting picture-writing and pictures together. When an important person died, scenes and stories from his life were painted and carved on the walls of the place where he was buried. Some of these pictures are like modern comic-strip (连环漫画) stories. It has been said that Egypt is the home of the comic strip. But, for the Egyptians, pictures still had magic power. So they did not try to make their way of writing simple. The ordinary people could not understand it.

By the year 1,000 BC, people who lived in the area around the Mediterranean Sea had developed a simpler system of writing. The signs they used were very easy to write, and there were fewer of them than in the Egyptian system. This was because each sign, or letter, represented only one sound in their language. The Greeks developed this system and formed the letter of the Greek alphabet. The Romans copied the idea, and Roman alphabet is now used all over the world.

These days, we can write down a story, or record information, without using pictures. But we still need pictures of all kinds: drawings, photographs, signs and diagrams. We find them everywhere: in books and newspapers, in the street, and on the walls of the places where we live and work. Pictures help us to understand and remember things more easily, and they can make a story much more interesting.

1.Ancient people in France and Spain painted pictures on walls of caves probably because ______.

A. they loved animals

B. they enjoyed seeing pictures

C. they preferred painting pictures to telling stories

D. they thought pictures helpful

2.The Greek alphabet was simpler than the Egyptian system for all the following reasons EXCEPT that ______.

A. the former was easy to write

B. there were fewer signs in the former

C. the former was easy to pronounce

D. each sign stood for only one sound

3.In the last paragraph, the author thinks that pictures ______.

A. should be made easy to understand

B. are of much use in our life

C. should be made interesting

D. are disappearing from our life

4.The possible title of this article may be ______.

A. Pictures and Writing

B. The Best Way of Writing

C. Home of the Comic-Strip Stories

D. The Earliest Language in the World

阅读理解。

Regarded as one of the English language’s most gifted poets, John Keats wrote poetry that concentrated on imagery, human nature, and philosophy. Although Keats didn’t receive much formal literary education, his own studies and passion brought him much success. Additionally, his own life situation influenced his poetry greatly.

Growing up as a young boy in London in a lower middle-class family, the young John didn’t attend a private school, but went to a public one. His teachers and his family’s friends regarded him as an optimistic boy who favored playing and fighting much more than minding his studies. After his father’s death in the early 1800s, followed by his mother’s passing due to tuberculosis (肺结核), he began viewing life differently. He wanted to escape the world and did so by reading anything he could get his hands on.

At around the age of 16, the teenage John Keats began studying under a surgeon so that he too might become a doctor. However, his literary appetite had taken too much of his fancy, especially with his addiction to the poetry of Ehmund Spenser. He was able to have his first full poem published in the Examiner in 1816, entitled O Solitude! If I Must With Thee Dwell. Within two months in 1817, Keats had written an entire volume of poetry, but was sharply criticized by a magazine. However, the negative response didn’t stop his pursuit of rhythm (韵律).

John Keats’ next work was Endymion, which was published in May 1818. The story involves a shepherd who falls in love with the moon goddess and leads him on an adventure of one boy’s hope to overcome the limitations of being human. Following Engymion, however, he tried something more narrative-based and wrote Isabella. During this time, John Keats began seeing his limitations in poetry due to his own limit in life experiences. He would have to have the “knowledge” associated with his poems. His next work was Hyperion that would attempt to combine all that he learned. However, a bout (发作) with tuberculosis while visiting Italy would keep him from his work and eventually take his life in 1821.

1.John Keats’ attitude towards life changed because of _________.

A. his early education from school

B. the deaths of his parents

C. Edmund Spenser’s poetry

D. the criticism of a magazine

2.What is the common thing between John Keats and his mother?

A. They read many books.

B. They had a bad childhood

C. They died of the same disease.

D. They showed strong interest in poetry

3.What do we know from the passage?

A. Keats received little education at school.

B. Keats once had a chance of becoming a doctor.

C. In 1816 Keats spent two months writing a poem.

D. Endymion was about a real love story.

4.While pursuing his dream of becoming a poet at first, John Keats was __________.

A. determined B. experienced

C. knowledgeable D. impatient

5.What can we infer from the passage?

A. Keats’ family must have been very poor when he was young.

B. Edmund Spenser was the greatest poet in Keats’ time.

C. It is likely that Keats rewrote his poem Isabella.

D. The poem Hyperion wasn’t completed by Keats.

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。

One day I was riding on a crowded bus downtown to go to work when it rained suddenly. The windows of the bus were soon _________ and we couldn’t see the outside. Everyone was in low spirits. I was sitting next to a man in a business suit an d I paid little attention _________ we both got off at the same stop and walked to the same news-stand(报刊亭) to get a morning _________ .

The man _________ the stand was obviously having a bad day. He was _________ and unsmil-ing as we bought our papers, which only _________ more gloom (郁闷) to my day. The business-man _________ my eyes and smiled brightly, _________ the news-stand owner for the paper and for being open on such a morning to _________ we were able to get our papers.

As we went away, I asked this man why he was so _________ to the newsman when he didn’t respond to his _________ of thanks and friendliness. The businessman smiled at me and said, “Why would I let someone else _________ what I say and what I feel?”

We then _________ to go to our own work places. To this day, I still don’t know who that businessman was, or where he worked. _________ , I know nothing about him. He appeared briefly in my life and disappeared just as _________ . But I’ve never forgotten the words he said and his _________ which seemed like a ray of light on a gloomy day.

That was a good 25 years _________ , but the effect this had on my life has lasted. I have learnt that we cannot control people and _________ we are in, but we can always control our _________ to them. That is, it is within our control and our _________ to make such positive decisions and thus to make a positive difference.

1.A. closedB. cleanedC. brokenD. covered

2.A. afterB. untilC. sinceD. unless

3.A. coffeeB. suitC. callD. pa per

4.A. runningB. watchingC. holdingD. closing

5.A. nervousB. happyC. rudeD. excited

6.A. providedB. returnedC. addedD. experienced

7.A. caughtB. sensedC. noticedD. understood

8.A. askingB. praisingC. remindingD. thanking

9.A. make clearB. make sureC. make outD. make up

10.A. helpfulB. seriousC. pleasantD. rude

11.A. conversationB. expressionC. explanationD. impression

12.A. controlB. understandC. explainD. correct

13.A. attemptedB. decidedC. guidedD. separated

14.A. ThankfullyB. ActuallyC. LuckilyD. Usually

15.A. gently B. regularlyC. quicklyD. quietly

16.A. humorB. smileC. businessD. help

17.A. agoB. beforeC. laterD. after

18.A. solutionsB. locationsC. situationsD. possibilities

19.A. reactionB. temperC. wordsD.weakness

20.A. energyB. secretC. hobbyD. power

阅读理解。

For Kim LeBlanc, knowing that her son Tyler’s organs, eyes and other tissues have given life or healing to others is helping her cope with the loss of her child, who was struck by a truck in Guelph on May 31.

Tyler was believed to have been texting a friend when he stepped onto a high-traffic road against the green light and was struck by the truck. Then he was sent to a Hamilton hospital. Surgery was performed to ease the pressure in his brain, but .the family was told he would not recover.

“With all of his injuries, I just prayed all night for a miracle. And I was granted a miracle, but not in the way I’d expected,” says LeBlanc, her voice choked by emotion.

The family decided to donate Tyler’s organs, a choice she believes her kind and considerate son would have made on his own. It’s also a choice that transplant programs wish would be made more often, because the need for donor organs is far more than the supply worldwide. More than 1,500 people in Ontario are on the waiting list for life-saving organs, and one dies every day because an organ has not become available in time. Across Canada, the gap between donations and the need for organs continues to widen. At the end of 2010, more than 4,400 Canadians were on the waiting list for donor organs, including 3,362 needing a kidney. That year, 229 died before the organs they needed became available.

LeBlanc recalls the morning when her son was taken off life support and his organs were removed. Despite living what she calls a parent’s absolute worst nightmare, LeBlanc says she has got the strength to bear such an unbearable loss. “He’s still there. He’s still living. And he’s still breathing. And he’s brought so much joy to families,” she says. “He’s my hero. He really is my hero.”

1.Tyler was struck by the truck mainly because________.

A. he broke the traffic rule

B. he was talking with his friends

C. the truck ignored him

D. the truck ran at a high speed

2.The figures in paragraph 4 show that ________.

A. more people begin to donate their organs

B. more people are dying during organ transplant operations

C. many people don’t know how to donate their organs

D. many people are in great need of organ transplant worldwide

3.It is implied in the last paragraph that ________.

A. LeBlanc was desperate about Tyler’s death

B. LeBlanc will never forget Tyler’s contribution

C. LeBlanc felt relieved with Tyler’s organ donated

D. LeBlanc has never thought that Tyler will be a hero

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The first person to arrive was Tony Garcia from Colombia, closely 1._________ by Julia Smith from Britain. After I met them and then introduced them to each other, I was very surprised. Tony 2.________ Julia, touched her shoulder and kissed her on3.________cheek! She stepped back 4.________ surprised and put up her hands, as if in 5._________. I guessed that there was probably a 6.________ misunderstanding. Then Akira Nagata from Japan came in smiling, together with George Cook from Canada. As they were introduced, George reached his hand out to the Japanese student. Just at that moment, however, Akira bowed7._________ his nose touched George’s8.________ hand. They both apologized－ another 9.________ mistake!

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The theme park you are probably most familiar with is Disneyland. It can be found in several parts of the world. It will bring you into a 10._________ world and make your dreams come true, 11._________ you are travelling through space, visiting a pirate ship or meeting your favourite fairy tale or Disney cartoon character. As you wander around the 12.________ amusement park, you may see Snow White or Mickey Mouse in a parade or on the street. Of course Disneyland also has many exciting rides, from giant 13._________ship to terrifying free-fall drops. With all these 14._________, no wonder tourism is increasing 15.________ there is a Disneyland. If you want to have fun and more than fun, come to Disneyland!

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