广东省教师命题比赛英语科试题9

1、广东省2009年教师命题比赛英语科试题九本试卷共12页，四大题，满分150分。考试用时120分钟。注意事项：1答卷前，考生首先检查答题卡是否整洁无缺损，监考教师分发的考生信息条形码是否正确；之后务必用0.5毫米黑色字迹的签字笔在答题卡指定位置填写自己的学校、姓名和考生号，同时，将监考教师发放的条形码正向准确粘贴在答题卡的贴条形码区，请保持条形码整洁、不污损。2选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案，答案不能答在试卷上。不按要求填涂的，答案无效。3非选择题必须用0.5毫米黑色字迹的签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内

2、相应位置上，请注意每题答题空间，预先合理安排；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。4考生必须保持答题卡的整洁，考试结束后，将答题卡交回。听力（共两节，满分35分）略语言知识及应用（共两节，满分35分）第一节 完形填空（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从2130各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。As I walked home one freezing day, I stumbled(绊脚) on a wallet in the street. I pick

3、ed it up and looked inside to find some 21 so that I could call the owner. But the wallet 22 only three dollars and a letter, which looked as if it had been in there for years. The envelope was 23 and the only thing on it was the return address. I started to open the letter, 24 to find some clue. Th

4、en I saw the dateline1924. The letter had been written almost sixty years earlier! It was written in a beautiful handwriting, on blue paper with a little flower in the left-hand corner. It was a “Dear John”(绝交) letter that told the 25 , Michael, that the writer could not see him any more because her

5、 mother 26 it. Even so, she wrote that she would 27 love him. It was signed Hannah.It was a beautiful letter, but there was no 28 , except for the name Michael, to identify the owner. 29 if I called the information center, the operator could find a phone listing for the address on the envelope. Actu

6、ally, I took great 30 to find both Hannah and Michael, who still remained single. Then, after sixty years separation, they married each other in their late seventies. And I was invited to be their best man!21AidentificationBqualificationCrecognitionDdescription22Acost BfilledCcontainedDincluded23Ane

7、wBwornCprettyDattractive24AmanagingBwonderingCsupposingDhoping25AreceiverBownerCfriendDpartner26AallowedBforcedCforbadeDpromised27AeverBneverCalwaysDeven28AproblemBwayCmarkDsign29AOnlyBEvenCAsDMaybe30ApainsBrisksCactionsDcautions第二节 语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用

8、括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为3140的相应位置上。Mothers day is not celebrated on the same day throughout the world, for instance, in American Mothers Day 31 （occur） on the second Sunday in May while in Britain it is honored on the fourth Sunday in Lent（大斋期）Mothering Sunday was celebrated in Britain beginning i

9、n the 17th century. It began 32 a day when apprentices and savants could return home for the day to visit their mothers. 33 （Tradition）, men went home with a gift of “mothering cake”-a kind of fruitcake or fruit-filled pastry 34 （know） as simnel cake.Thanks 35 Anna M. Jarvis, Mothers Day has become

10、an official holiday in the United States. After a year when 36 mother died on May 9,1905, Anna M. Jarvis attended a memorial service at the church. Inspired by the service, she thought it would be wonderful 37 people set aside a certain time to pay personal respect to their mothers. Then, the daught

11、er began using some of her money to promote a day 38 would honour all mothers.She and 39 staged a letter-writing campaign to ministers, businessmen, and politicians in order to establish an national Mothers Day. They were successful in the end. President Woodrow Wilson, in 1914, made 40 official ann

12、ouncement making Mothers Day a national observance that was to be held each year on the 2nd Sunday of May.阅读（共两节，满分40分）第一节 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，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。AI used to watch her from my kitchen window. She seemed so small as she muscled her way through the crowd of boys

13、 on the playground. The school was across the street from our home and I would often watch the kids as they played during break. I remember the first day I saw her playing basketball. I watched in wonder as she ran circles around the other kids. She managed to shoot jump shots just over their heads

14、and into the net. The boys always tried to stop her but no one could. I began to notice her at other times, basketball in hand, playing alone.One day I asked her why she practiced so much. Without a moment of hesitation she said, “I want to go to college. The only way I can go is to get a scholarshi

15、p. I am going to play college basketball. I want to be the best. My Daddy told me if the dream is big enough, the facts dont count.” Well, I had to give it to hershe was determined. I watched her through those junior high years and into high school. Every week, she led her school team to victory.One

16、 day in her senior year, I saw her sitting in the grass, head in her arms. I walked across the street and sat down in the cool grass beside her. Quietly I asked what was wrong. “Oh, nothing,” came a soft reply, “I am just too short.” The coach told her that at 55” she would probably never get to pla

17、y for a top ranked teammuch less offered a scholarshipso she should stop dreaming about college. She was heartbroken and I felt my own throat tighten as I sensed her disappointment. I asked her if she had talked to her dad about it yet. She told me that her father said those coaches were wrong. They

18、 just did not understand the power of a dream. He told her that if she truly wanted a scholarship and that nothing could stop her except one thing her own attitude.The next year, as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship game, she was offered a scholarship and on the college t

19、eam. She was going to get the college education that she had dreamed of.41The author was probably the girls .AneighborBfriend Cmother Dteacher42Why was the girl heartbroken?AShe was considered too short to be a top player.BHer coach stopped her training because of her height.CShe couldnt be on a col

20、lege basketball team.DShe wouldnt be admitted by an ideal college.43We can learn from the passage that .Aher family wouldnt like to pay her college feeBher father forced her to play basketball in collageCbeing a top basketball player can win you a scholarship for collegeDshe wouldnt like to turn to

21、his father for help when in difficulty44Which word can best describe her father?AEncouraging.BOptimistic.CStubborn.DCruel.45Which proverb best matches the story?APractice makes perfect.BRome was not built in a day.CWhere there is a will, there is a way.DPride comes before a fall.BAs I was reading a

22、recent story in Slate on 20-somethings complaining about how the economy was ruining their life plans, I couldnt help but think the 20-somethings sounded like a bunch of spoiled children who grew up expecting everything to be easy for them. As a 20-something myself, I certainly share their disappoin

23、tment: my husband and I probably wont be able to buy a house until were in our 40s, and we too are burdened by student loans(贷款). But why should it be any different? Being young persons in America, shouldnt they take up all of the challenges and opportunities that this country offers?Consider some o

24、f these views shared in the Slate story: Jennifer, 29, owner of a two-bedroom apartment with her husband, worries that she wont be able to have children for at least a decade because they cant afford to buy a house yet.I read that, and I thought, what planet is she living on where you need to own a

25、house in order to have kids? Has she ever visited a developing country, or even downtown areas in this one? Home ownership is a luxury(奢华), not a fertility requirement.A 26-year-old in the story despairs(绝望) that he cant afford to get a Ph.D. in literature. Well, that sounds a bit like expressing di

26、sappointment that no one will pay you to write poetry on the beach in Thailand for five years.Yes, its sad that these young people feel so lost. But I think the problem is their extremely high expectations, not economic reality. Beth Kobliner, author of Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your

27、 Twenties and Thirties, says that she thinks peoples expectations are slowly adjusting, but todays 20-somethings grew up at a time when everyones wealth appeared to be expanding. Their parents probably saw their home values rise along with their investments. “So you have people who have grown up in

28、an environment where people had great expectations of what living well means,” says Kobliner.This recession(衰退) will certainly play a role in forcing those expectations into more realistic group. In the meantime, it seems a lot better for our mental health to focus on being gratefulfor our one-bedro

29、om apartments, for living in modern cities, or perhaps just for being able to eat three meals a daythan on longing for some kind of luxury life.46What makes the author think the 20-somethings sound like a bunch of spoiled children?AThey expect everything to be easy for them.BThey complain that the e

30、conomy is spoiling their life plans.CThey are reluctant to face all of the challenges.DThey are burdened by student loans.47The underlined word “fertility” in Paragraph 3 probably means .Ababy productionBpleasantCbaby comfortDessential48Which of the following is not one of the complaints of the 20-s

31、omethings?AThey cant have children for at least a decade to buy a house.BThey have only one-bedroom apartment to live in.CThey cant buy a house until 40 because of student loans.DThey despair at not being able to afford a Ph.D. in literature.49Whats the authors attitude towards the 20-somthings with

32、 high expectation in Paragraph 5?AIntolerant.BNegative.CUnbelieving.DUnderstanding.50What is the best title for this passage?AHow Young People Afford to Continue Their StudyBWhy Young People Cant Afford to Buy a HouseCWhen Young Peoples High Hopes Create DespairDWhat the 20-somethings High Expectati

33、ons AreCAnyone who doubts that children are born with a healthy amount of ambition need spend only a few minutes with a baby eagerly learning to walk. No matter how many times the little ones stumble in their first efforts, most keep on trying, determined to master their amazing new skill. It is onl

34、y several years later, many psychologists and teachers agree, that a good number of kids seem to lose their natural drive to succeed. For the parents of such kids, whose own ambition is often tied to their childrens success, it can be a painful experience.Figuring out why the fire went out is the fi

35、rst step. Assuming that a kid doesnt suffer from a learning disability, or isnt involved in some family crisis(危机) at home, many educators attribute a sudden lack of motivation to a fear of failure or classmate pressure. “Everything is within the kids control; their intelligence is changeable,” says

36、 Lisa Blackwell, a research scientist at Columbia University. More than any teacher or workshop, Blackwell says, “parents can play a key role in conveying this message to their children by praising their effort, and progress rather than emphasizing their smartness or praising high performance alone.

37、 Most of all, parents should let their kids know that mistakes are a part of learning.”Some experts say our education system, with its strong emphasis on testing and separation of students into different levels of ability, also bears blame for the disappearance of drive in some kids. “These programs

38、 shut down the motivation of all kids who arent considered gifted and talented. They destroy their confidence,” says Jeff Howard, a social psychologist. Howard and other educators say its important to expose kids to a world beyond homework and tests, through volunteer work, sports, hobbies and other

39、 extracurriculum activities. “The problem of the issue is that many students experience education as irrelevant to their life goals and ambitions,” says Michael Nakkual, a Harvard education professor. The key to getting kids to aim higher at school is to free them of the idea that class work is irre

40、levant, to show them how doing well at school can actually help them fulfill their dreams beyond it. They need to understand that you have to learn to walk before you can run.51According to the passage, the parents of kids with no ambition .Adont do a very good job teaching them to walkBare to blame

41、 if the kids do poorly in schoolCfeel pain because ambitions are connected to their successDshould take part in extracurriculum activities with kids52The underlined part “the fire went out” probably means .Athe motivation was suddenly lostBthe fear of failure was suddenly goneCthe learning disabilit

42、y was suddenly lostDthe fire was suddenly gone 53All the following can contribute to a sudden lack of ambition except .Alearning disabilityBclassmate pressureCemphasis on testingDextracurricular activities54What is the most important thing for parents in motivating their kids?ABy punishing kids who

43、dont display ambition.BBy emphasizing smartness and high performance.CBy telling kids that mistakes are a part of learning.DBy praising the effort and progress they have made.55We can infer from the passage that .Achildren who have lost their ambition will never succeed in lifeBschool performance ha

44、s much to do with students later successCboth the parents and the school are to blame for the lost ambitionDyounger kids learning to walk are more ambitious than older ones第二节 信息匹配（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。请在答题卡上将对应题号的相应选项字母涂黑。首先，请阅读下列职业招聘广告的信息。AService EngineerSatisfactory knowledge

45、on electronic and electric products. 5 years experience in electronic making environment, service / repair experiences are preferred. Good command of English is a must.BEnglish teacherNative English speakers in Shenzhen city, part-time job, 120 yuan per hour.Preferably from USA, CANADA, UK, AUSTRALI

46、A, IRLAND.No other qualifications are necessary. My name is Bill. My MSN: fengxingdi My Skype: Bill Feng3CEnglish teacherThe teachers must be from native language speakers country. Benefit: return way air tickets or 6000RMB as allowance. The salary is 6000RMB per month , at least 20 classes. If you

47、want to earn more money, you can take more classes, each class 40 minutes /100RMB.DService EngineerA communication agency is looking for a junior designer with one year experience. Qualification of education: design education background Computer skills: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, 3d Max Languages

48、: fluent in Chinese and EnglishEEnglish teacher3 Years Training Experience. Excellent interpersonal communication skills. Having teaching background of hotel English. Your students will join the examination of hotel English. If you are interested in this post, please send your CV and a recent photo

49、to Jenny: info FProduction engineerTraining workers on all technical procedures and all technical problems for workshop; Graduated from university, and the major is mechanical engineering. Have more than three years experience for designing and manufacturing. Communication in English and Chinese.请阅读

50、下列职位申请者的个人信息，然后匹配他们拟要申请的的职位：56Jenny, a native English speaker from Canada, is living in Shenzhen. She is a qualified teacher, so she expects a school to provide fare and extra money for more classes.57Jesse is an English teacher who has 6 years experience working as a part-time worker in the field o

51、f electronics, to make more money, now he would like to do another full-time job.58Jack, a Chinese good at English, majored engineering. He has 5 years experience in designing and training staff.59Collins, an English teacher, is very good at communication. He has 5 years teaching experience in teach

52、ing hotel English.60Harry, a Chinese English teacher from Shenzhen, lives in Mohawk, Canada now. In university, he once learnt basic design skills and has more than five years working experience.写作（共两节，满分为40分）第一节 基础写作（共1小题，满分15分）为迎接6月5日“世界环境日”，学校学生会准备举行一次以环保为主题的英语演讲比赛。请你根据以下内容写一个书面通知，欢迎大家积极参与。写作内容目

53、的增长环保知识；提高英语口语内 容“保护环境,节约能源”地 点教学楼五楼演讲大厅报名时间5月25日前报名方式studentcenter比赛时间6月5日星期五下午4:00-5:30评 奖一等奖3名，二等奖 6名，三等奖 12名写作要求只能使用5个句子表达全部内容。注意：通知的开头和结尾已为你写好。Notice The Students Union 写作要求1. 只能使用5个句子表达全部对所给要点;2. 报道中不得提及考生所在学校及本人姓名。评分标准句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。第二节 读写任务 (共1小题,满分25分) 阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。A l

54、ong time ago, there was a huge apple tree. A little boy loved to come and lay around it every day. They loved to play together. As time went by, the boy had grown up and no longer played around it. One day, he came back and the tree excitedly invited him to play. But the boy said he needed money to

55、buy toys. “Sorry, but I have no money, but you can pick all my apples and sell them,” said the tree. The boy did as told and left happily but never came back .The tree was sad. Many years passed, the boy returned and told him he had to make money to build a house for his family. The tree happily offered his branch