Queen Victoria was monarch of Great Britain from 1837 until her death in 1901. This period is often called the Victorian Age.

Queen Victoria was a stern and serious woman. One reason she was so serious was that she had suffered a  great loss. When she was twenty years old, she married a German prince named Albert. Victoria and Albert were deeply in love, and their marriage was extremely happy. In 1861, after they had been married for twenty-one years, Albert died, leaving Queen Victoria heartbroken. For the rest of her life, the lonely Victoria mourned his loss. It was customary in those days for a widow to dress in black for a short time after the death of her husband. But Queen Victoria dressed in black for forty years. And for forty years, as another sigh of her grief, she wrote her letters white paper edged in black.

Even before Prince Albert died, Queen Victoria was known as a very serious woman. She had a strong sense of duty and worked very hard at all her tasks. In her diary she wrote, “I love to be employed; I hate to be idle.” She never forgot that she was Britain’s queen and always acted with great dignity. Victoria had high ideals and moral standards that sometimes made her seem stuffy. She was also very sure of herself. She always thought that she was right, and she expected everyone to agree with her.

Which of the following statements about Queen Victoria  is NOT true?

She had great confidence in herself.

She ruled Great Britain for sixty-four years.

She enjoyed her marriage to a German prince.

She became a serious woman after her beloved husband died.

Queen Victoria wrote her letters on white paper edged in black because______

she was a very serious woman.

black was her favorite color.

that was one way to show her feeling of sadness.

it was a custom among monarchs of Great Britain.

All of the following characteristics except ______ can be used to properly describe Queen Victoria.

A. moral       B. lonely      C. workaholic( 工作狂)   D. compromising (妥协)

第Ⅱ卷(非选择题,共50分)

第一节 任务型阅读 (共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分)

请认真阅读下列短文,并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。

注意:每个空格只填1个单词。请将答案写在答题纸上相应题号的横线上

When Carla Fisher and her husband announced plans to travel the globe with their young daughters for a year, some friends called them crazy.

    Seven years later, with wonderful memories and a book documenting their world travel, the Fishers now seem like global trailblazers (先驱者).

    “It’s really encouraging to hear that many other people want to educate their kids in that manner,” said Fisher.

Some parents are trying to raise knowledgeable and open-minded “world citizens”. Others want to give their children the skills they’ll need to compete globally.

“There is a huge amount of interest in spending time abroad at all stages of life and increasingly, as a family with children,” said Maya Frost, author of “The New Global Student…”. She knows American families in every corner of the globe who have made that choice.

    “There’s so much more to education than school,” said Tessa Hill, who recently returned to her Houston-area home, after driving her family across North and Central America and Europe in a motor home for 13 months. “World travel is an education in people, cultures, language, travel skills, street smarts and in how lucky we are to live in the United States.”

    When Hill and her husband began considering extended global travel, their middle child, Charles, 13, was surprised. “My first reaction was ‘well, are we really going to do this?’” Charles said. “But it did sound like great fun.”

    Charles said missing his friends was the hardest part. He stayed in touch via e-mail and made some new friends along the way, playing soccer with kids in France and learning about rugby from youths in Ireland.

“I’d definitely recommend this to other kids,” Charles said. “It was such a great opportunity to see different countries and learn geography a different way.”

To make re-entry smoother, most school officials prefer that families work out an educational plan before they leave town.

“It sounds out-of-date, but it really opens up your mind and your eyes to the world,” said Robbin Goodman, 17, a senior student who spent his junior year skateboarding across Beijing, China, when he wasn’t studying Chinese history and other core subjects.

Had he not already taken a school-sponsored spring break trip with his mom to China in 2007, Robbin said he probably would not have been able to convince his parents to let him go alone for a year. “I knew I would learn Chinese and all that, but my goal was to have a great time,” Robbin said. 

“The biggest problem for those seriously considering going abroad is dealing with those who are against the idea,” said Frost.

“They gain the ability to take risks and to have confidence in themselves,” said Liz Pearlstein, founder of a global education consulting firm. “When we came home from London, my daughter, who had been painfully shy before we left, said ‘Mom, now I know there’s nothing I can’t do.’”

No one knows exactly how many American families are choosing the global education path, but global education consultants say a growing number of parents are traveling for a year or more with their children.

Title: A real global 1.    ▲    : traveling abroad with kids for a year

Travelers’ experiences and feelings

Carla Fisher

● Courage is needed to take the 2.    ▲     travel for there are different voices.

● It is encouraging to hear more parents make such a similar

3.    ▲    .

Tessa Hill and Charles

● World travel can help people learn more about cultures, languages and travel skills, etc.

● Charles made new friends along his way and 4.    ▲     his friends back home.

Robbin Goodman

● One-year 5.    ▲     in China alone can serve the purpose of having a good time.

Liz Pearlstein

● World travel 6.    ▲     kids to take risks and builds up confidence in themselves.

Opinions and suggestions

Maya Frost

● There is an 7.    ▲     number of family traveling abroad with kids. Parents should take it into consideration how to deal with the opposite idea.

School officials

● Parents had better help kids work out educational plans to make it  8.    ▲     for them to return to school.

9.    ▲   

Generally, more families in the USA 10.    ▲     to travel abroad with kids for a year or more.

第二节:完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)

阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从16-35各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。

第二节:完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)

阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从16-35各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。

It was 4 o’clock in the morning, when I received the phone call.

    “This is the emergency room calling and your son was just   16   in with severe burns on his face, neck and arms. We have called for a(n)   17   and are going to fly him to the burn unit in Seattle.” Seattle was 350 miles from his college, so we knew immediately this was   18  .

    The doctor described the   19  , which caused the burns. At 6 a.m, our son and his friends decided to barbecue hamburgers in the courtyard of their apartment. When they   20   the charcoal(木炭), it burst into flames because they had sprayed too much gasoline(petrol). The flames    21   my son’s shirt tail and shot from his waist to well over his head.

  22  , one of the boys was quick-minded, grasped my son, and   23   him on the grass. While it saved his life, it was not in   24   to save him from severe burns and the terrible scars(伤疤).

    After he   25   from the treatments, the doctors told him they would not do plastic surgery(整容)for 6 months   26   it takes that long for the skin to stop shrinking and wrinkling. So, he had to return to college with scars typical of severe burns.

    When I was a child, my mother told my sister, who had a 10-inch very   27   scar on her arm, “Nancy, if you ignore the scar, other people will ignore it. It does not mean they will not   28   it, but it means it will not matter to them if it doesn’t matter to you.”

    I   29   this wisdom on to my son. He took my advice to   30   and returned to school with his head held high--- glad he was alive.

    By the end of the six-month waiting period, he decided that the scars did not   31  , so he made the   32   to give up any plastic surgery we all have “scars” that we believe   33   people to keep away from us. And we spend a lot of time thinking that if only we looked differently, or dressed differently, people would like us better.

     But you see, people will only judge you by your looks, or your clothes, if you are judging yourself by these same   34   standards. Put your imperfections out of your mind and concentrate on what you value   35    yourself, and your beauty will shine through.

16. A. brought         B. given                C. turned               D. showed

17. A. doctor          B. hospital       C. aircraft               D. ambulance

18. A. serious          B. terrible       C. dangerous            D. important

19. A. event           B. process       C. reason               D. accident

20. A. got             B. lit            C. burned            D. moved

21. A. took            B. held               C. caught           D. attracted

22. A. Fortunately       B. Surprisingly   C. Happily              D. Slowly

23. A. pushed          B. threw          C. dropped             D. rolled

24. A. shape            B. place         C. fact                 D. time

25. A. benefited         B. recovered      C. suffered              D. relaxed

26. A. if                    B. while                C. because              D. although

27. A. normal        B. violent               C. obvious              D. popular

28. A. mention         B notice         C. 1augh               D. hide

29. A. sent            B. kept          C. handed                   D. passed

30. A. heart            B. life           C. practice              D. considerate

31. A. grow          B. matter         C. exist                D. appear

32. A. mistake         B. effort          C. decision            D. request

33. A. invite           B. cause          C. allow              D. remind

34. A. false          B. strict          C. moral              D. general

35. A by              B. over           C. beyond           D. within

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