杭外剑桥国际高中入学模拟考试英语4

1、单选1x 151. its very nice _ you to help me.a. ofb. forc. tod. with2. is this lucys eraser?no, its not _.a. sheb. herc. hersd. herself3. would you like some more _?thanks, im full already.a. bananab. breadc. caked. water4. can i help you carry the box?no, thanks. theres _ in it. its empty.a. something

2、b. anythingc. everything d. nothing5. its raining _, they have to stay at home.a. badly b. loudly c. heavilyd. hardly6. what a fine day today!yes, but its a bit _ than yesterday.a. hotb. hotterc. so hotd. hottest7. shall we go swimming this afternoon?sorry, i _. i have lots of homework to do.a. must

3、ntb. needntc. may notd. cant8. _ have you been in china?since last wednesday.a. how soonb. how oftenc. how longd. how much9. hi, xiao hui, you look tired. what happened?i _ well last night.a. didnt sleepb. dont sleepc. havent sleptd. wont sleep10. these dinosaur eggs _ in liaoning in 1990.a. were fo

4、undb. foundc. are foundd. was found11. you look really cool in the new hat. how much did you _ it? a. ask forb. pay forc. think aboutd. find out12. you may watch tv, but please _. wang le is studying.a. turn it onb. turn it offc. turn it upd. turn it down13. what do you think of them?well, _ this dr

5、ess _ that one is fit for you. they are too big.a. both; and b. either; orc. neither; nor d. not only; but also14. what did he say?he told us _ computer games any more.a. to playb. not playc. dont playd. not to play15. can you tell me _ tomorrow?a. where they will fly tob. what will he doc. when he

6、arrivedd. how did he go there完形填空：（共15小题，计15分）we sometimes call the lion “the king of the jungle (丛林)” because it is stronger and more dangerous than other animals. it can 16 faster than many animals and it can hunt (捕猎) the best. it is the highest animal in the 17 food chain (食物链).in the sea, the s

7、hark is one of the animals at the 18 of the food chain. it can swim faster than 19 other sea animals, and it can use its big teeth to eat them. what is at the top of the worlds food chain? 20 are! we are not the biggest or fastest, but we are the 21 . we could not run faster than cheetahs (猎豹), so w

8、e 22 cars and now we can move the fastest. we could not 23 better than lions, so we invented guns (枪). now we can hunt the best.peoples inventions are clever, but they can be 24 , too. for example, people invented 25 , and now they make the air and rivers dirty. this can make 26 changes. dirty river

9、s kill fish. 27 bears cannot eat the fish and the bears die. if we kill one part of the food chain, 28 also die. remember that we are a part of the food chain, 29 we are in danger too! if we protect animals, we are protecting 30 ! we should and we could do something for the world!16. a. walk b. run

10、c. swim d. jump17. a. land b. sea c. mountain d. desert18. a. front b. end c. top d.beginning19. a. some b. any c. more d. most20. a. people b. lions c. sharks d. cheetahs21. a. strongest b. cleverest c. most special d.most important22. a. used b. had c. made d.invented23. a. fight b. escape c. kill

11、 d. catch24. a. dangerous b. interesting c. useful d. helpful25. a. hotels b. schools c. factories d.hospitals26. a. great b. terrible c. wonderful d. complete27. a. if b. when c. then d. while28. a. one part b. another part c. other parts d.the other parts29. a. and b. but c. or d. so30. a. oneselv

12、es b. yourselves c. themselves d. ourselves阅读 (2x15) some teenagers think that newspapers are boring and only for adults. but thats not true. there are many interesting stories in the paper. you just need to make clear what you are looking at. i spend about half an hour reading newspapers every day,

13、 said 15-year-old gao ming from beijing. im interested in things happening at school. school news is just one kind of news story in newspapers. theres also world news: from international problems to pop stars.read the newspaper carefully, well find different types of articles on the pages:news stori

14、es these stories are about events. reporters try to show all points of a story to help readers understand what happened. reporters try to speak to as many people as possible. they also use pictures and numbers to show the readers that the stories are true. the newspaper teenagers has lots of news st

15、ories on the news page and front page. when we read them, we learn more about the facts, not the writers ideas.opinion writing - opinion writing is usually about something happening right now. but it isnt just facts. here writers add their own opinions to the news. writers pick only the facts that h

16、elp back up their ideas. they make readers believe that they are telling the truth. this is usually the kind of story that gets people thinking. go to speak out on page two for an example of opinion writing in teenagers.advertisement - dont get happy too early when you read them. those sweet words a

17、nd lovely pictures are just ways to get us interested in their products! people have to pay to put advertisements in newspapers!31 . the underlined sentence you need to make clear what you are looking at. means that the readers _ .a. should understand interesting news storiesb. ought to know which k

18、ind of things to readc. need to look at the school news firstd. must know the contents of all the news32. writers use some facts in opinion writings because they want us_their opinions.a. to understand b. to rememberc. to agree with d. to speak out33. we can not find the facts of an event_.a. in adv

19、ertisements b. in the school newsc. in opinion writing d. on the front page34. in the writers opinion, wed better be _advertisements in newspapers. a. interested in b. against c. worried about d. careful of35. this passage mainly discusses how_.a. reporters write different kinds of newsb. teenagers

20、get interested in newspapersc. readers can read newspapers in better waysd. readers can deal with different kinds of news in newspapersnow some women are spending a weekend at mothers camp（营地）. there, husbands and children are not allowed. why would a woman want to take a vacation without her family

21、? some women say they need time to be alone.at mothers camp a woman has room to herself. she can sleep, read or watch tv, and no one will bother her. no children will ask,“mom, whats for dinner?” no husband will say, “oh, dear, i cant find any clean socks.”in fact almost 50% of women in the united s

22、tates work outside the home. many of them work full-time and then come home to a second job-taking care of their homes and families. these working women say one of their biggest problems is housework.in the united states, working wives do about 75% of the housework. many of their husbands say they w

23、ant to help. but then they burn the rice or they cant find the pans. they ask so many questions that their wives decide it is easier to do the job themselves.some women go to mothers camp just to get a break from housework. for two days they dont cook, they dont clean, they dont look after their chi

24、ldren and husbands. what do they do? they enjoy warm, sunny weather, walking, swimming or boating in a clear blue lake and sing songs around the campfire. they relax away from home. they have a really wonderful vacation at mothers camp.36.from this passage we can see in the united states.a. women wa

25、nt to work outside the homeb. working wives do most of the houseworkc. husbands do as much housework as their wivesd. women do not like to stay at home with their families37.at mothers camp, women cant . a. watch tvb.read newspapers c.swirn in the lake d.bring their husbands and children38.why would

26、 some mothers like to be alone? because .a. they dont like their husbands and childrenb. they have to work full-timec. they are too busy to relax themselvesd. they want a new life39. is one of the biggest troubles for working wives in the united states. a.houseworkb.working outside the home c.when t

27、o take a vacation d.looking after their children40.whats the best title（标题）for this passage? a.busy working mothers b.welcome to mothers camp c.mothers relax away from home d.mothers in the usstaggering tasks confronted the people of the united states, north and south, when the civil war ended. abou

28、t a million and a half soldiers from both sides had to be demobilized, readjusted to civilian life, and reabsorbed by the devastated economy. civil government also had to be put back on a peacetime basis and interference from the military had to be stopped. the desperate plight of the south has ecli

29、psed the fact that reconstruction had to be undertaken also in the north, though less spectacularly. industries had to adjust to peacetime conditions: factories had to be retooled for civilian needs. financial problems loomed large in both the north and the south. the national debt had shot up from

30、a modest $565 million in 1861, the year the war started, to nearly $3 billion in 1865, the year the war ended. this was a colossal sum for those days but one that a prudent government could pay. at the same time, war taxes had to be reduced to less burdensome levels. physical devastation caused by i

31、nvading armies, chiefly in the south and border states, had to be repaired. this herculean task was ultimately completed, but with discouraging slowness. other important questions needed answering. what would be the future of the fourmillion black people who were freed from slavery? on what basis we

32、re the southern states to be brought back into the union? what of the southern leaders, all of whom were liable to charges of treason? one of these leaders. jefferson davis, president of the southern confederacy, was the subject of an insulting popular northern song, hang jeff davis from a sour appl

33、e tree. and even children sang it. davis was temporarily chained in his prison cellduring the early days of his two-year imprisonment. but he and the other southern leaders were finally released, partly because it was unlikely that a jury from virginia, a southern confederate state, would convict th

34、em. all the leaders were finally pardoned by president johnson in1868 in an effort to help reconstruction efforts proceed with as little bitterness as possible.41. the word staggering in line 1 is closest in meaning to a. specialized b. confusing c. various d. overwhelming 42. the word devastated in

35、 line 3 is closest in meaning to a. developing b. ruined c. complicated d. fragile 43. according to the passage, which of the following statements about the damage in the south is correct?a. it was worse than in the north. b. the cost was less than expected. c. it was centered in the border states.

36、d. it was remedied rather quickly. 44. the passage refers to all of the following as necessary steps following the civil war except.a. helping soldiers readjust b. restructuring industry c. returning government to normal d. increasing taxes 45. which of the following can be inferred from the phrase

37、it was unlikely that a jury from virginia, a southern confederate state, would convict them ?a. virginians felt betrayed by jefferson davis. b. a popular song insulted virginia. c. virginians were loyal to their leaders. d. all of the virginia military leaders had been put in chains. wild bill donov

38、an would have loved the internet. the american spymaster who built the office of strategic services in world war ii and later laid the roots for the cia was fascinated with information. donovan believed in using whatever tools came to hand in the great game of espionagespying as a profession. these

39、days the net, which has already re-made such everyday pastimes as buying books and sending mail, is reshaping donovans vocation as well. the latest revolution isnt simply a matter of gentlemen reading other gentlemens e-mail. that kind of electronic spying has been going on for decades. in the past

40、three or four years, the world wide web has given birth to a whole industry of point-and-click spying. the spooks call it open-source intelligence, and as the net grows, it is becoming increasingly influential. in 1995 the cia held a contest to see who could compile the most data about burundi. the

41、winner, by a large margin, was a tiny virginia company called open source solutions, whose clear advantage was its mastery of the electronic world. among the firms making the biggest splash in this new world is straitford, inc., a private intelligence-analysis firm based in austin, texas. straitford

42、 makes money by selling the results of spying (covering nations from chile to russia) to corporations like energy-services firm mcdermott international. many of its predictions are available online at . straitford president george friedman says he sees the online world as a kind of mutually reinforc

43、ing tool for both information collection and distribution, a spymasters dream. last week his firm was busy vacuuming up date bits from the far corners of the world and predicting a crisis in ukraine. as soon as that report runs, well suddenly get 500 new internet sign-ups from ukraine, says friedman

44、, a former political science professor. and well hear back from some of them. open-source spying does have its risks, of course, since it can be difficult to tell good information from bad. thats where straitford earns its keep. friedman relies on a lean staff of 20 in austin. several of his staff members