河南信阳高中毕业班第二次调研考试英语试卷

--Why do you suggest Mount Lu?
--I believe ________ beauty of nature there will make ________ excellent impression on you.

Whether by accident or ________, he arrived too late to help us.

As we all know, children are always ________ about everything fresh to them.

They ________ the train until it disappeared in the distance.

--Let’s go there by taxi.
--It’s not far from here, I prefer ________.

--They ________ out the problem, but failed.
--What a shame ! I never thought it was going to happen like that.

--The plane is due to take off at 7∶50 from the airport.
--________ we fail to arrive there in time?

Come and see me whenever ________.

They were all very tired, but ________ of them would stop to take a rest.

Many people in the west make ________ a rule to buy Christmas presents for their relatives and friends.

--why don’t we choose that read to save time?
--The bridge to it ________.

The weather ________ be very cold at times, though it’s usually warm in spring in my home-town.

My grandpa transplants some trees to his garden ________ it is the best time for them every year.

--You ought to have given them some advice.
--________, but who cared what I said?

We rent a beach house with two small rooms, ________ can serve as a kitchen.

Recently, I experienced a wonderful lesson in how little things still mean a lot. My home is on the Big Island of Hawaii. About a month ago, when I   36   my car and was about to drive off, I
  37   at the roadside. A piece of paper   38   my eye. I picked it up and read it   39  . Instantly, I was grateful that I had done that.
The form turned out to be a receipt from the State Motor Vehicle Division, documenting the owners’   40   of their Vehicle’s Registration fees. Quickly, I put myself in their shoes and  __41  : no one would throw this away, especially   42   it was current. I also looked over the form for contact or any personal   43  , perhaps a license tag or telephone number. But that seemed __44  . The form had been blown by the wind, so   45   would I find the owners? Had it been lying there for a few minutes or a week? So I checked the date and   46   the names of the owners , who must  47  in our town. I believed that the best and easiest step to take was to put the form in a（n）  48   addressed to the couple and mail it by post. Further, I imagined that if I had posted the receipt to a wrong   49   , how frantic（慌乱的）I’d be. But it was much   __50_  to attempt to return it than to leave them angry, upset , etc. over the   51   , so I did as I thought. My hunch（预感） was right. On the weekend, a happy couple   52   my house and brought me a big gift. They said they had panicked（恐慌）and   53   the receipt madly everywhere before giving up. Without it they would have to   54   another 8,000. It felt great to know I’d helped someone avoid a major trouble by doing   55   that at first glance seemed minor.

A．found B．started C．bought D．parked

A．lay down B．flew down C．glanced down D．jumped down

A．caught B．blocked C．kept D．covered

A．suddenly B．gladly C．formally D．carefully

A．application B．payment C．permission D．achievement

A．decided B．planned C．calculated D．thought

A．if B．because C．when D．though

A．opinions B．news C．data D．matters

A．possible B．important C．useful D．unlikely

A．why B．how C．what D．which

A．noted B．recalled C．called D．changed

A．wait B．live C．stop D．study

A．bag B．pocket C．envelope D．dustbin

A．place B．country C．way D．station

A．sadder B．better C．worse D．faster

A．luck B．pain C．mistake D．loss

A．called at B．toured around C．ran towards D．returned to

A．took away B．searched for C．looked at D．asked about

A．earn B．save C．borrow D．spend

A．anything B．nothing C．something D．everything

Laura was married for 6 months. Her husband was using drugs. She didn’t want her son or her unborn baby to live that way, but she was afraid to ask her husband to leave. She left him a note instead. After reading the note, Laura’s husband waited for her to come home and then beat her and
her son.
He smashed（使……碎）dishes, pictures and toys and left the house in a terrible mess（混杂）. He said it was all her fault. After Laura cleaned up the mess she went to the hospital. She was badly hurt all over her body, but the baby was fine.
Laura had little education and she never had a good paying job. She was ashamed to ask for help from the police, courts or women’s shelters. Laura wanted her marriage and family to work. Sometimes her husband was very nice to her. She decided to try harder se her children could have a home and a father. Laura joined a church and told a priest（牧师）about her problem.
But her husband kept using drugs and hurting the family. Finally, she told her husband she loved him, but they should live apart for a while. He beat her again. The priest had called and could tell Laura was in trouble. He came over to talk to her, He asked the husband to go out for a while. Laura packed up her kids and left. Her husband went to jail. Laura got a lot of help from groups that help women who have been beaten. Now she is in college, has her own apartment and works on special projects at a women’s shelter. “We got out , and it changed the life for me and my children. You can do it. You can break the cycle.” Laura said.
Laura’s husband treated her ________.

A．carefully

B．badly

C．coldly

D．carelessly

. Why did Laura not leave her husband in the beginning?

. Which of the following is NOT true?
A. Now Laura works on a special project at a women’s shelter.
B. Laura had little education and she never had a good paying job.
C. After Laura cleaned up the mess, she went to the church.
D. Laura was ashamed to ask for help from organizations.
. Which do you think is this passage about?

A. You and Me, Baby
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Language: English
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Reading level: Baby - Preschool
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Book Description: It’s bath time for Scruff. But does anyone know where he’s hiding? Have the cows seen him? Moo - no ！How about the pigs? Oink - no ! Looking for that dog is just too tough! But not for toddlers. If they look carefully, they’ll find Scruff hiding on every pop – up page !
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Book Description: Once there was a tree… and she loved a little boy. Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her think… and the tree was happy.
D. Where the Wild Things Are
Reading level: Ages 6 - 10
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. Little Tom who likes to read picture books with a hide - and - seek adventure, will be likely to buy ________.

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. How much will you pay if you order three books named “Where the Wild Things Are?”

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Which of the following is Not true according to the passage?

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. Where would this advertisement probably appear?

Dear editor,
I am Paul , a senior English teacher in Linchuan No. 1 Middle School in Jiangxi Province , China. This letter is written to ask for your opinion.
The other day, I met with a multiple - choice exercise. We teachers argued heatedly with each other over its answer. Unfortunately, neither side could convince the other. The sentence is to be attached at the end of the letter. There is no doubt that the reference answer C is correct. But I don’t  think it is the only answer. Personally, I do think A is also a reasonable choice in sense as well as in grammar, if the case is treated from another aspect.                                
What puzzles me is why we should deal with so many multiple - choice exercises with not rigorous（严谨的）enough reference keys. But being a teacher, it’s very important and necessary to make it clear to students which answer is correct, which is more appropriate, and which is the best one. Regrettably, Multiple - choice test, which is a bit old - fashioned in western countries, seems to be quite popular and covers a rather high percentage in all sorts of English tests in China, especially in NMET.
Personally speaking, I don’t think multiple - choice test form making up more than 75 percent of the total scores in college entrance examination is a very good and effective testing method. Instead, more subjective testing forms depending on one’s own thinking and his ability to use the language like key words falling, question answering, paragraph or passage summarizing, English - Chinese or Chinese - English inter - translation, etc. should be applied to English proficiency tests. Through the test forms mentioned above, students’ ability to use the language will be better developed. Consequently, more advanced and outstanding English learners could be picked out. In fact, a test paper focusing on multiple - choice test influences, in a sense, students to form their own language thinking, which hinders（阻碍）the development of their language ability as well. Do you think so?
I am looking forward to your authoritative opinion. Thanks.
Yours sincerely,
Paul Liao
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. What can be learnt from the letter is that the writer ________.

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. In order to better develop students’ ability to use English, the writer suggests ________.

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Which of the following does NOT belong to subjective exercises in English learning?

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The writer seems to feel ________ as to the future development of students’ language ability.

  Environmental protection is frequently talked about nowadays. The authorities are doing their best to arise the public awareness of the vital importance of the environmental protection. This issue is, indeed, worth following up.
Environmental protection is closely related not only to our personal life, but also to the entire human race and the world’s further development. For one thing, the environment, in a narrow sense, determines the quality of our individual life. The air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, etc. , all come directly from the environment. If they continue to be contaminated, we may have neither clean water, nor healthy food. For another thing, in a broader sense, the environment plays a decisive role in fate of mankind. As is known to all, the earth, up to now, is human being’s only dwelling place. We can expect that some day we will live on another planet, but I doubt that this day will come earlier than the day when the earth becomes a globe of waste, if we keep damaging the environment. Finally, the environment is essential to the further development of the world. Extensive industrialization, which has brought about all the convenience and facilities we enjoy today, has been depending on the comprehensive exploitation of the earth’s natural resources found in the environment. If we do not protect the environment properly, further development cannot be guaranteed. In a word, to protect the environment is an urgent task.
Nevertheless, environmental protection is indeed a demanding task. Many people are still, either unconscious of the urgency of the task or deliberately damaging the environment for the interests of their own. Hence, we should adopt severe measures to prohibit people from doing more harms to the environment. Meanwhile, we need to make the gravity of the present situation known to all. In other words, punishment and instruction should be equally emphasized. Only in this way can we look forward to a cleaner and greener world.
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. What does the underlined word contaminated（in paragraph 2）probably refer to?

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The author’s purpose in writing the passage is to ________.

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. From the passage we can know that ________.

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余
选项。
Human’s Wants
   71   When a starving man gets a meal, he begins to think about an overcoat; when an executive gets a new sports car, versions of country clubs and pleasure boats dance into view.
The many wants of mankind might be regarded as making up several levels. When there is money enough to satisfy one level of wants, another level appears.
The first and basic level of wants involves food.    72   By the end of World War -Ⅱ these wants were satisfied for a great majority of Americans, Then a third level appeared. It included such items as automobiles and new houses.
By 1957 or 1958 this third level of wants was fairly well satisfied.    73   Rather than other levels , this level stresses mental needs for recognition, achievement and happiness, it includes a variety of goods and services, many of which could be called “luxury” items. Among them are vacation trips, the best medical care , entertainment, and fancy foods and the latest styles in clothing.    74    Will consumers raise their sights to a fifth level of wants as their income increases, or will they continue to demand luxuries and personal services on the fourth level?
   75   Consumers may be spending more and more on taxes to pay government action against diseases, ignorance, crime, and prejudice. At this stage, we may seek to ensure the health, safety and leisure to enjoy more fully the good things on the first four levels.

E. A fifth level probably involve wants that can be achieved best by community action
F. Once this want is satisfied, a second level of wants appears, clothing and some sort of shelter.
G. Then, in the late 1950’s a fourth level of wants appeared: the “life - enriching” level.

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。   
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
I will share with you a true story happened a couple of days ago. One of my classmate bought a bag of snacks from a food store. A few roommates were then invited to enjoy snacks. Unluckily, all of them got poisoned and had stomachache with our faces pale. They are quickly sent to a nearby hospital. Doctors examined them but gave them some medicine. They were out of danger soon before taking the medicine. This accident should make us to realize the seriousness of the food safety problem. I strong suggest that the whole society pays more attention for food safety.

你所在的城市最近计划修建地铁，这件事引发了人们的广泛争论。请根据所给信息写一篇英文报道，陈述人们的不同看法，并表明自己的观点。

注意：1．开头已给出，但不计入总词数；
2．不要逐句翻译，可适当增加内容使行文连贯；
3．词数100左右。
Recently, people are having all argument on whether a subway should be built or not in the city. Opinions vary from person to person____