英语考试(天津卷)

1、英语考试（天津卷）第一部分：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）例： Stand over there you ll be able to see it before.A. orB. andC. butD. while答案是 B。1. We ll have a picnic in the park this Sunday it rains or it s very cold.A. since B. ifC. unlessD. until2. My brother is really . He often works in hi

2、s office far into the night.A. open-mindedB. hard-workingC. self-confidentD.warm-hearted3. I just can t stop worrying about the result of the job interview. There s nothing you can do now but wait.A. Relax B. Go aheadC. Go for it D. Good luck4. their hats into the air, the fans of the winning team l

3、et out loud shoutsof victory.A. To throwB. ThrownC. Throwing D. Being thrown5. To know more about the British Museum, you can use the Internet to go to the library, or .A. neitherB. someC. allD. both6. She have left school, for her bike is still here.A. can tB. wouldn tC. shouldn t D. needn t7. The

4、meal over, the managers went back to the meeting room to their discussion.A. put away8. take down C. look overD. carry on8. It was along the Mississippi RiverMark Twain spent much of hischildhood.A. howB. whichC. thatD. where9. How much do I owe you for lunch?. It s nothing.A. You re welcome B. Forg

5、et it right10. Many Chinese universities provided financial aid.A. in favour ofB. in honour ofC. With pleasure D. That sscholarships for students C. in face ofD. in need ofP1511. Most air pollution is caused by the burning of like coal, gas and oil.A. fuelsB. articlesC. goodsD. products12. The last

6、time we had great fun was we were visiting the Water Park.A. whereB. howC. whenD. why13. Her shoes her dress; they look very well together.A. suitB. fitC. compareD. match14. He football regularly for many years when he was young.A. was playingB. played C. has played D. had played15. At the railway s

7、tation, the mother waved goodbye to her daughter until the train was.A. out f sightB. out f reachC. out f order D. out f place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。Jenna, a popular girl from Westwood Middle School, had graduated first in herclass and was ready

8、 for new 16 in high school.17, high school was different. In the first week, Jenna went to tryouts（选拔赛）for cheerleaders（ 拉拉队队员）.She was competing against very talented girls, andshe knew it would be 18 for her to be selected. Two hours later, the 19 read a list ofthe girls for a second tryout. Her h

9、eart 20 as the list ended without her name.Feeling21, she walked home carrying her schoolbag full of homework.Arriving home, she startedwith math. She had always been a good mathstudent, but now she was 22. She moved on to English and history, and was 23 to find that she didn ' t have any troubl

10、e with those subjects. Feeling better, she decided not to 24 math for the time being.The nest day Jenna went to see Mrs. Biden about being on the school 25. Mrs. Biden wasn ' t as 26 as Jenna. "I 'm sorry, but we have enough 27 for the newspaper already. Come back next year and we'

11、ll talk then. " Jenna smiled 28and left. "Why is high school so 29? " she sighed.Later in 30 class, Jenna devoted herself to figuring out the problems that had given her so much 31. By the end of class, she understood how to get them right. As she gathered her books, Jenna decided she

12、' d continue to try to 32 at her newschool. She wasn ' t sure if she 'd succeed,but she knew she had to 33. Highschool was just as her mom had said:"You will feel like a small fish in a big pond 34 a big fish in a small pond. The challenge is to become the 35 fish you can be.16. A.

13、processesB. decisionC. challengesD. exercises17. A. ThereforeB. HoweverC. OtherwiseD. Besides18. A. difficultB. easyC. boringD. interesting19. A. editorB. bossC. candidateD. judge20. A. jumpedB. sankC. stoppedD. raced21. A. strangeB. happyC. awfulD. lonely22. A. strugglingB. improvingC. workingD. co

14、mplaining23. A. ashamedB. disappointedC. shockedD. relieved24. A. put upB. prepare forC. worry aboutD. give up25. A. committeeB. newspaperC. radioD. team26. A. enthusiasticB. artisticC. sympatheticD. realistic27. A. speakersB. readersC. cheerleadersD. writers28. A. widelyB. weaklyC. excitedlyD. brig

15、htly29. A. similarB. ordinaryC. differentD. familiar30. A. physicsB. historyC. EnglishD. math31. A. pleasureB. hopeC. troubleD. sorrow32. A. fit inB. look outC. stay upD. get around33. A. swimB. tryC. askD. escape34. A. in return forB. in case ofC. in terms ofD. instead of35. A. slimmestB. smallestC

16、. bestD. gentlest第二部分：阅读理解（共 20 小题;每小题阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A 、 B、 C、2 分，满分40 分）D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。ASandra Cisneros was born in Chicago in 1954 to a Mexican American family. As the only girl in a family of seven children, she often felt like she had“ sevenfathers, ” because her six brothers, as well as her fath

17、er, tried to control her. Feeling shy and unimportant, she retreated（ 躲避 ） into books. Despite her love of reading, she did not do well in elementary school because she was too shy to participate.In high school, with the encouragement of one particular teacher, Cisneros improved her grades and worke

18、d for the school literary magazine.Her fatherencouraged her to go to college because her thought it would be a good way for her to find a husband. Cisneros did attend college, but instead of searching for a husband,she found a teacher who helped her join the famous graduate writingprogramat the Univ

19、ersity of Iowa. At the university s Writers Workshop,however, she felt lonelya Mexican American from a poor neighborhood amongstudents from wealthy families. The feeling of being so different helped Cisneros find her “ Creative voice. ”It was not until this moment when I considered myself truly diff

20、erent that mywriting acquired a voice. I knew I was a Mexican woman, but I didn t think it hadanything to do with why I felt so much imbalance in my life, but it had everything to do with it! That s when I decided I would write about something my classmates couldn t write about. ”Cisneros published

21、her first work, The House on Mango Street , when she was twenty-nine. The book tells about a young Mexican American girl growing up in a Spanish-speaking area in Chicago, much like the neighborhoods in which Cisneros lived as a child. The book won an award in 1985 and has been used in classes from h

22、igh school through graduateschool level. Since then, Cisneros has publishedseveral books of poetry, a children s book, and a short-story collection.36. Which of the following is TRUE about Cisneros in her childhood?A. She had seven brothers.B. She felt herself a nobody.C. She was too shy to go to sc

23、hool.D. She did not have any good teachers.37. The graduate program gave Cisneros a chance to .A. work for a school magazineB. run away from her familyC. make a lot of friendsD. develop her writing style38. According to Cisneros, what played the decisive role in her success?A. Her early years in col

24、lege.B. Her training in the Workshop.C. Her feeling of being different.D. Her childhood experience.39. What do we learn about The House on Mango Street ?A. It is quite popular among students.B. It is the only book ever written by Cisneros.C. It wasn t success as it was written in Spanish.D. It won a

25、n award when Cisneros was twenty-nine.BI love charity（ 慈善 ） shops and so do lots of other people in Britain because you find quite a few of them on every high street. The charity shop is a British institution, selling everything from clothes to electric goods, all at very good prices. You can get th

26、ings you won t find in the shops anymore. The thing I like best about them is that your money is going to a good cause and not into the pockets of profit-driven companies, and you are not damaging the planet, but finding a new home for unwanted goods.The first charity shop was opened in 1947 by Oxfa

27、m. The famous charity s appeal to aid postwar Greece had been so successful it had been flooded with donations（ 捐赠物 ）. They decided to set up a shop to sell some of these donations to raise money for that appeal. Now there are over 7,000 charity shops in the UK. My favourite charity shop in my homet

28、own is the Red Cross shop, where I always find children s books, all 10 or 20 pence each.Most of the people working in the charity shops are volunteers, although there is often a manager who gets paid. Over 90% of the goods in the charity shops are donated by the public. Every morning you see bags o

29、f unwanted items outside the front of shops, although they don t encourage this, rather ask people to bring things in when the shop is open.The shops have very low running costs: all profits go to charity work. Charity shops raise more than £110 million a year, funding（资助）medical research,overs

30、eas aid, supporting sick and poor children, homeless and disabled people, and much more. What better place to spend your money? You get something special for a very good price and a good moral sense. You provide funds to a good cause and tread lightly on the environment.40. The author loves the char

31、ity shop mainly because of .A. its convenient locationB. its great variety of goodsC. its spirit of goodwillD. its nice shopping environment41. The first charity shop in the UK was set up to .A. sell cheap productsB. deal with unwanted thingsC. raise money for patientsD. help a foreign country42. Wh

32、ich of the following is TRUE about charity shops?A. The operating costs are very low.B. The staff are usually well paid.C. 90% of the donations are second-hand.D. They are open twenty-four hours a day.43. Which of the following may be the best title for the passage?A. What to Buy a Charity Shops.B.

33、Charity Shop: Its Origin & Development.C. Charity Shop: Where You Buy to Donate.D. The Public s Concern about Charity Shops.Michael Fish may soon be replaced as a weather forecaster by something truly fishier-the shark（鲨鱼 ）.Research by a British biology student suggests that sharks could be used

34、 to predict storms.Lauren Smith, 24, is close to completing her study on shark s ability to sensepressure.If her studies prove the theory, scientists may be able to monitor the behaviour of sharks to predict bad weather.Miss Smith had previously studied the behaviour of lemon sharks in the Bahamas.S

35、he then used their close relatives, lesser spotted dogfish, for further research at Aberdeen University.Her work-thought to be the first of its kind to test the pressure theory resulted from the observation that juvenile blacktip sharks off Florida moved into deeper water ahead of a violent storm in

36、 2001.Miss Smith said:“ I ve always been crazy about traveling and diving and thisled me to an interest in sharks. ”“I was delighted to have been able to research in the area for my degree. I know there s so much more we need to understand but it certainly opens theway to more research. ”It has been

37、 discovered that a shark senses pressure using hair cells in its balance system.At the Bimini Shark Lab in the Bahamas, Miss Smith fixed hi-tech sensors to sharks to record pressure and temperature, while also tracking them using GPS （Global Positioning System） technology.In Aberdeen, she was able t

38、o study the effects of tidal（潮汐的 ） and temperaturechanges on dogfishnone of which were harmed. She also used a special labwhich can mimic（ 模拟 ） oceanic pressure changes caused by weather fronts.She is due to complete her study and graduate later this year. She says she will be looking for a job whic

39、h will give her the chance to enrich her experience of shark research.The passage is most probably taken from .A. a short-story collectionB. a popular science magazineC. a research paperD. a personal diary45. What do we learn from the first four paragraph of the passage?A. Sharks may be used to pred

40、ict bad weather.B. Sharks ' behaviour can be controlled.C. Michael Fish is not qualified for his job.D. Lauren Smith will become a weather forecaster.46. Lauren Smith conducted her research by.A. removing hair cells from a shark ' s balance systemB. measuring the air pressure of weather fron

41、tsC. recording sharks ' body temperatureD. monitoring sharks ' reaction to weather changes47. What is the passage mainly about?A. A popular way of forecasting weather.B. A new research effort in predicting storms.C. Biologists ' interest in the secrets of sharks.D. Lauren Smith ' s d

42、evotion to scientific research.DWe can achieve knowledge either actively or passively（被动地）.We achieve itactively by direct experience, by testing and proving an idea, or by reasoning.We achieve knowledge passively by being told by someone else. Most of the learningthat takesplace in the classroomand

43、 the kindthat happenswhen wewatch TV or read newspapers or magazinesis passive. Conditioned as we are topassivelearning, it ' s not surprising thatwe dependon jt in oureverydaycommunication with friends and co-workers.Unfortunately, passive learning has a serious problem. It makes us tend to acc

44、ept what we are told even when it is little more than hearsay and rumor（谣言）.Did you ever play the game Rumor? It begins when one person writes down a message but doesn ' t show it to anyone. Then the person whispersit, word forword, to another person. That person, in turn, whispers it to still a

45、nother, and so on, through all the people playing the game. The last person writes down the message word for word as he or she hears it. Then the two written statements are compared.Typically, the original message has changed.That ' s what happens in daily life. The simple fact that people repea

46、t a story in their own words changes the story. Then, too, most people listen imperfectly. And many enjoy adding their own creative touch to a story, trying to improve on it, stamping （打上标记）it with their own personal style. Yet those who hear it think they know.This process is also found among schol

47、ars and authors: A statement of opinion by one writer may be re-stated as fact by another, who may in turn be quoted by yet another; and this process may continue, unless it occurs to someone to question the facts on which the original writer based his opinion or to challenge theinterpretation he pl

48、aced upon those facts.48. According to the passage, passive learning may occur inA. doing a medical experimentB. solving a math problemC. visiting an exhibitionD. doing scientific reasoning49. The underlined word "it" in Paragraph 2 refers to.A. active learningB. knowledgeC. communicationD

49、. passive learning50. The author mentions the game Rumor to show thatA. a message may be changed when being passed onB. a message should be delivered in different waysC. people may have problems with their sense of hearingD. people tend not to believe in what they know as rumor 51. What can we infer

50、 from the passage?A. Active learning is less important.B. Passive learning may not be reliable.C. Active learning occurs more frequently.D. Passive learning is not found among scholars.EAs kids, my friends and I spent a lot of time out in the woods." The woods ”was our part-time address, destin

51、ation, purpose, and excuse. If I went to a friend' shouse and found him not at home, his mother might say,“Oh, he ' s out in thewoods, “ with a tone（语气）of airy acceptance.It ' ssimilar to the tone peoplesometimes use nowadays to tell me that someone I' m looking for is on the golfcou

52、rse or at the gym, or even “ away from his desk. " For us ten-year-olds, “ being out in the woods " was just an excuse to do whatever we feel like for a while.We sometimes told ourselves that what we were doing in the woods was exploring（探索）.Exploring was a more popular idea back then than

53、 it is today. History seemed to be mostly about explorers. Our explorations, though, seemed to have less system than the historic kind: something usually came up along the way.Say we stayed in the woods, throwing rocks, shooting frogs, picking blackberries, digging in what we were briefly persuaded

54、was an Italian burial mound.Often we got "lost " and had to climb a tree to find out where we were. If you read a story in which someone does that successfully, be skeptical: the topmost branches are usually too skinny to hold weight, and we could never climb highenough to see anything exc

55、ept other trees. There were four or five trees that we visited regularlytall beeches, easy to climb and comfortable to sit in.It was in a tree, too, that our days of fooling around in the woods came to an end. By then some of us has reached seventh grade and had begun the rough ride of adolescence （

56、青春期） . In March, the month when we usually took to the woods again after winter, two friends and I set out to go exploring. We climbed a tree, and all of a sudden it occurred to all three of us at the same time that were really were rather big to be up in a tree. Soon there would be the spring dance

57、s on Friday evenings in the high school cafeteria.52. The author and his fiends were often out in the woods to .A. spend their free timeB. play gold and other sportsC. avoid doing their schoolworkD. keep away from their parents53. What can we infer from Paragraph 2?A. The activities in the woods were well planned.B. Human history is not the result of exploration.C. Exploration should be a systematic activity.D. The author explored in the woods aimlessly.54. The underlined word “ skeptical ” in Paragraph 3 is