Lessons 1 & 2检测题

Lessons 1 & 2检测题

第二部分：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。

21. I absolutely __________ milk chocolate, in other words I like it very much.

A. adapt B. adore C. admit D. admire

22. None of us expected the manager to __________ when we were having a secret meeting.

A. turn up B. turn to C. turn around D. turn away

23. When he was criticized, Jack claimed that it was outside his __________ of responsibility.

A. range B. dimension C. field D. distance

24. After a number of __________ attempts to climb the mountain, we had to return to the camp.

A. empty B. virtual C. blank D. vain

25. Tomorrow morning she will __________ her friend to the airport and see him off.

A. acknowledge B. accomplish C. accompany D. accommodate

26. My father __________ smoke, but now he doesn’t.

A. would B. was used to C. didn’t use to D. used to

27. A number of rare animals have __________ in the past fifty years.

A. died of B. died out C. died from D. died away

28. What you say is always not _________ with what you do.

A. same B. similar C. continuous D. consistent

29. Our company has a(n) __________ to equal pay and opportunities.

A. compensation B. authority C. appointment D. commitment

30. She had been exhausted but felt __________ after a meal and a rest.

A. discouraged B. scared C. refreshed D. tired

31. I drew a line __________ the page from left to right.

A. across B. in C. to D. through

32. Margaret Hungerford is considered __________ a great novelist.

A. to be B. being C. be D. been

33. Among her Christmas presents was __________ electric toys from her mother.

A. a pair of B. a set of C. a piece of D. a loaf of

34. For safety’s sake, don’t drive __________ 30 kilometers per hour in the city.

A. less than B. more than C. better than D. worse than

35. — How do you like Texas so far?

— __________.

A. It’s a pleasure

B. I can’t afford to do much

C. I’ll probably just stay at home

D. It’s really different from what I expected

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36-55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

One day at the day-care center (日间托儿站) I watched a mother attempt to pick up her daughter. The girl wanted to go to McDonald’s. The mother replied, “Susie, not tonight. Maybe we can go tomorrow.” Susie 36 dropped to the floor, kicking and screaming, “I want to ...”

Her mother tried to 37 Susie’s tantrum (发脾气). Finally her mother 38. I was surprised that we could have almost anything we wanted by throwing a tantrum.

That day my mother picked me up early because we were going to a department store to do the shopping for 39 Day. I was 40 to see a toy telephone. Looking lovingly up at my 41, I asked, “Can I have that telephone?”

She replied, “Baby, not now, 42 if you are a good girl, maybe Santa Claus will 43 you.” “But Mama, I want that telephone 44,” I said. My mother’s eyes narrowed and her hand tightened on mine. “Becky, you 45 have that telephone today, but if you 46 you can have a spanking (打屁股).”

We were standing in the long 47, and I knew it was now or never. So I lay down

on the ground and 48 screaming, “I want that telephone.” Tired Christmas shoppers looked as my mother calmly said, “Becky, you’d better 49 by the count of three or else. One ... Two ... Three.”

But I was 50 in full tantrum. Then she lay down beside me 51 and began screaming, “I want a new car; I want some jewelry; I want ...” 52, I stood up.

“Mama, stop. Mama, get up,” I 53 pleaded (恳求).

She stood up. The others waiting in line began to laugh and pat my mother on her back. The next thirty minutes was pure 54 for me. Then one parent said to me with a smile, “I bet you’ll never 55 that again.”

36. A. carefully B. immediately C. lightly D. hardly

37. A. express B. feel C. shake D. stop

38. A. gave in B. turned up C. moved on D. walked away

39. A. Mother’s B. Children’s C. Christmas D. Women’s

40. A. patient B. excited C. nervous D. confused

41. A. mother B. father C. brother D. sister

42. A. but B. for C. therefore D. so

43. A. scold B. hate C. refuse D. help

44. A. next time later

45. A. shouldn’t 46. A. lie 47. A. line 48. A. learned 49. A. look up 50. A. never 51. A. on the bench 52. A. Pleased 53. A. tearfully 54. A. luck 55. A. lose B. next week B. needn’t B. laugh B. street B. forgot B. call up B. still B. in the sofa B. Satisfied B. happily B. misery B. win C. right now D. sooner or

C. daren’t D. can’t

C. scream D. smile

C. train D. yard

C. began D. imagined

C. give up D. get up

C. ever D. even

C. on the bed D. on the floor

C. Shocked D. Encouraged

C. honestly D. politely

C. ability D. air

C. believe D. try

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

A

In a world where image is everything, people are always looking for ways to make themselves look cool, and here are some of the ways they do it.

The first thing people do to try to improve their image is to buy a sports car or a sports bike, because some people see these things as status symbols.

Some people also think the way they dress will make them seem cool, so they buy the latest fashions, hoping that others will think they are cool because they are at the cutting edge of (处于……的最前沿) fashion.

Many people will listen to the new big hits (成功的歌曲), thinking that knowing what is new and popular in music will make them appear cool to others.

In recent years many people have decided that if you want to look cool, you have to belong to a gym. The people in the gym who are there just to have a good body shape in order to look cool are always easy to spot.

In fact, coolness isn’t about what you listen to, wear or ride. It is about who you are as a person. Usually if you talk to someone who is considered cool, they aren’t trying to be cool; they just do things that interest them and don’t care

what others think. Being cool is about living life to its fullest, and in doing this you will find others with the same interests and these people will think of you as cool.

So the key to being cool is to make friends with people who enjoy the same things you enjoy and in doing so you will find that as your self-image increases, your need to be cool decreases, and then you will be cool.

56. According to the passage, many people think that the following will make them look cool EXCEPT _____.

A. their dressing B. their high social status

C. their knowledge D. their body shapes

57. In the author’s opinion, _____.

A. driving a sports car is cool

B. people who are cool live a rich and colorful life

C. people who are cool care about what others think of them

D. coolness comes from within

58. According to the author, in order to be cool, you _____.

A. should make friends with as many people as possible

B. must have enough money to buy fashionable things

C. should make every effort to help others

D. should make friends with people who have the same interests as you

59. The whole passage is mainly about _____.

A. ways to look cool

B. the benefits of regular exercise

C. how to make friends

D. ways to lead an interesting life

B

“You’re wrong!” “Be quiet!” “Stop it!” “I hate you!”

When you are fighting with someone in your family, it’s hard to figure out what to do. Here are some tips on family fighting.

If you’re upset or angry, try to keep cool. Sometimes, the more you show

your anger, the more the person you’re fighting with wants to annoy you. Try coming up with an idea that can solve your conflict or problem so it doesn’t happen again.

If you feel like you’re so angry that you could burst, go to your room and punch (用拳猛击) your pillow, go out and run a lap around the block, or find a place outside to play baseball. Or just find a quiet place and relax. Count to 10 and breathe slowly and deeply. When you’re calm, try talking things out with the person you’re arguing with. You’ll probably feel much better and more in control than you did before.

Even if you’re angry at someone in your family, you should never push or kick. You could really hurt or injure the person, besides causing him or her to get angrier and the argument to get even worse. If someone physically hurts you, it’s important to tell a parent. It’s also important to tell an adult you trust if your parents ever hurt you.

If you think your family needs to work on this, you could call a family meeting to talk about it. Sometimes, your parents may ask everyone to visit a family counselor (顾问) to talk about the problems and get advice from a professional on how to deal with the fighting in your family. It’s not always easy to stop families from fighting, but by working together, it can be done.

60. The first paragraph is perhaps _____.

A. a few lines from a film

B. quarrels between a parent and a child

C. quarrels between family members

D. quarrels between classmates

61. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a way to control your anger at someone in your family?

A. Going out to play a sport.

B. Finding a quiet place to calm down.

C. Calling a family meeting.

D. Having a talk with a close friend.

62. When someone injures you in a family fighting, you should _____.

A. fight back

B. call the police for help

C. run away as soon as possible

D. ask an adult for advice

63. From the passage, we can infer that _____.

A. you should stay out for several days after a family fighting

B. it takes efforts to deal with family fighting

C. many teachers are giving students advice on how to deal with violence at home

D. family members should avoid living together for a long time

C

Although musicians had been recording fiddle tunes (known as Old Time Music at that time) in the southern Appalachians for several years, it wasn’t until August 1, 1927 in Bristol, Tennessee that country music really began. There, on that day, Ralph Peer signed Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family to recording contracts for Victor Records.

Known as the “Father of Country Music”, James Charles Rodgers was born in Meridian, Mississippi on September 8, 17. Always in ill health, he became a railroad worker, until ill health caught up with him and he was forced to seek a less hard occupation. An amateur （业余的） entertainer for many years, he became a serious performer in 1925, appearing in Johnson City, Tennessee and other places.

In 1926, Rodgers and Carrie, his wife of 6 years, moved to Asheville, North Carolina, and organized the Jimmie Rodgers’ Entertainers, a hillbilly band having Jack Pierce (guitar), Jack Grant (mandolin / banjo), Claude Grant (banjo), and Rodgers himself (banjo).

Upon hearing that Ralph Peer of Victor Records was setting up a portable recording studio in Bristol, on the Virginia-Tennessee border, the Entertainers headed in that direction. But due to a dispute within their ranks, Rodgers eventually recorded as a solo artist, selecting a romantic ballad （民歌）, “The Soldier’s Sweetheart”and a lullaby （摇篮曲）, “Sleep, Baby, Sleep” as his first offerings. Rodgers, who died in 1933, never appeared on any major radio show or even played the Grand Ole Opry during his lifetime. But he, Fred Rose, and Hank Williams were the first persons to be elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1961, which shows his importance in the history of country music.

. In this passage, the author tries to tell us something about _____.

A． Fred Rose and Hank Williams

B． Ralph Peer and Victor Records

C． the Jimmie Rodgers’ Entertainers

D． James Charles Rodgers and country music

65． What is “Victor Records”?

A． A hillbilly band.

B． A disk.

C． A record company.

D． A record.

66． We can infer from this passage that _____.

A． James Charles Rodgers is considered as the “Father of Country Music”

B． James Charles Rodgers was better known in the field of country music after his death

C． There was no country music before 1927

D． American country music is less popular at present

67． Which of the underlined words in the text is NOT an instrument?

A． Solo. B． Mandolin. C． Banjo. D． Fiddle.

D

Facial attractiveness and smell give us quite different messages about how to select mates, new research has shown. Previous research on smell suggests that humans prefer smells from potential partners who are genetically (遗传方面) dissimilar. But new research in which women valued the facial attractiveness of men suggests the exact opposite. So sight and smell appear to be giving quite different messages about which partners to choose.

The new research investigated possible links between mate preference and the major histocompatibility (组织相溶性) complex (MHC) — the gene, unique to each individual, which helps our body to distinguish native from alien cells.

The theory is that humans avoid the dangers of inbreeding (近亲繁殖), and maximise the chances of having genetically fitter children, by selecting partners who have a vastly different MHC from their own.

Subtle effects

Smell experiments in humans have broadly given the same message, showing that body smell is more appealing in people with vastly differing MHC. But a new research in which women rated the attractiveness of men’s faces has opposed the trend, showing that women preferred faces of men with similar MHC.

Craig Roberts of the University of Liverpool and his colleagues investigated 92 women and 75 men, and recorded differences in their MHC by analysing DNA from blood samples. Then each woman was asked to rate photographs of six men,

three with similar MHC and three with different MHC.

The results showed that the women preferred men with similar MHC. The preference applied both to long and short relationships, but was strongest for potential long term relationships.

Cultural advantages

Although the results appear to disagree with those applying to smell, Roberts and his colleagues offer an explanation to resolve the paradox (矛盾的事), based on the idea that friends and relatives — despite having similar MHC — can offer cultural and social advantages in child raising.

The team suggests that “filtering” (过滤) for mates takes place at two levels — the first based on facial likeness to select someone not too distantly related, and the second based on smell, essentially to avoid inbreeding.

68. Which of the following is NOT true about MHC?

A. It is a gene that exists in each human body.

B. It is a unique gene to everyone.

C. It is the gene that helps humans decide which partner is fittest.

D. It is the gene that helps us to distinguish native from alien cells.

69. The underlined word “maximise” in the 3rd paragraph probably means “_____”.

A. increase B. reduce C. ignore D. refuse

70. According to Roberts, a possible explanation for the paradox is that _____.

A. people can be classified by analysing DNA from blood samples

B. similar MHC can offer cultural and social advantages in raising children

C. people are tending to value culture advantages more than facial likeness

D. people with similar MHC can benefit their children with different cultures

71. Which would be the best title for this passage?

A. How to choose fittest mates

B. Women have different views of choosing mates from men

C. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

D. Beauty is in the nose of the beholder

E

There are other planets besides Earth in the sun’s family. The word planet means “wanderer”.

When the people of ancient times studied the sky, they gave names to the groups of stars they saw. They saw some “stars”, however, that did not stay in any group. These “stars” came to be called wanderers, or planets. Finally, people realized that these “stars” were not stars at all, but bodies, like Earth, that keep traveling around the sun. They seem to wander from star group to star group because of their journeys around the sun.

Planets look to people like stars, but they are really very different. Stars are very, very hot. They shine with their own light. Planets do not shine with their own light. They shine only because the sun is shining on them.

Moonlight, as most people know, is secondhand sunlight. The moon only reflects the light that shines on it from the sun. The light from planets is secondhand sunlight, too.

Of the other planets, only five can be seen with the naked eye (肉眼). People of ancient times knew of only five “wandering stars”. The other planets were not discovered until after telescopes were invented. The planets that are visible without a telescope are the Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. The others are Uranus and Neptune.

The planets keep traveling in their same orbits (轨道) around the sun century

after century. They do not stray（偏离） from their path because the sun is pulling them with so much force that they cannot escape. Scientists call the force gravity.

It would seem that if the sun is pulling the planets with so much force, the planets would fall into the sun. They do not because they are moving too fast. Each planet moves with a speed that just balances the pull of the sun. The outer planets move more slowly than those closer to the sun.

Many of the planets have moons (卫星) that travel around them as they travel around the sun. Earth has one moon. Mercury and Venus have none. Jupiter, in contrast, has twelve moons. Mars and Neptune have two. Uranus has five, and Saturn has nine.

72. Which of the following is the best title for this passage?

A. The secret universe

B. Planets in the sun’s family

C. Stars and planets

D. The meaning of planet

73. According to the passage, Jupiter _____.

A. has more moons than other planets

B. can’t be seen with the naked eye

C. has strayed from its path

D. will disappear within several years

74. Compared with a star, a planet _____.

A. changes its speed

B. doesn’t have light themselves

C. moves around the earth

D. is easier to fall into the sun

75. The passage suggests that studying the sky _____.

A. began with the invention of the telescope

B. has never stopped since long ago

C. is not so important as economic development

D. didn’t really interest people in the past

第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）

第一节：短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

I was walking along the street then a stranger stopped 76. ________________

me and asked me the way of a new restaurant. I told him 77. ________________

the route and direction careful. As soon as I finished, the 78. ________________

stranger thanked me and walked away. To our surprise, he went in 79. ____________

the wrong direction. Then I stopped him at once and told him the 80. ____________

right direction. Unexpectedly, he smiled and tell me the 81. ___________

truth which he didn’t really want to ask the way, instead, he 82. ___________

was just trying to find out whether that everyone knew exactly 83.

____________

where the new restaurant was, as he was the new owner the 84. ___________

restaurant. Then I knew who he was or what he wanted to do. 85. ___________

第二节：书面表达（满分25分）

为了配合国际爱护动物周活动，一家英文杂志邀请各国学生提供有关爱护动物的故事。请根据右图用英语为该杂志写一篇故事，并结合个人观点对小明及其同学的行为发表看法。

注意：1. 词数：120左右；

2. 开头语已为你写好，不计入总词数。

One day Xiao Ming and his classmates were playing happily on the hill when

they suddenly heard the sound of a shot.

参：

21-25 BAADC 26-30 DBDDC 31-35 AABBD 36-40 BDACB

41-45 AADCD 46-50 CACDB 51-55 DCABD 56-60 CDDAC

61-65 DDBDC 66-70 BACAB 71-75 DBABB

76. then → when 77. of → to 78. careful → carefully 79. our → my

80. √ 81. tell → told 82. which → that 84. owner后加of 85. or → and

83.去掉that

One possible version:

One day Xiao Ming and his classmates were playing happily on the hill when they suddenly heard the sound of a shot. Almost at the same moment, they saw a bird falling down to the ground, badly wounded. Just then a young man appeared with a gun, looking for something. They realized that it was the young man who shot the bird. In order to save the poor bird, they picked it up and ran away before he could find it. After that, they took it home. They looked after the bird and fed it with the best food. Soon it was well again. Then they took the bird to the wild and set it free.

Birds are people’s friends. It was right for Xiao Ming and his classmates to protect the bird.