四川宜宾县高考适应性测试（二）英语试卷

Carl is studying ________ food science at college and hopes to open up _______meat processing factory of his own one day.

Whenever I made mistakes，the teacher pointed them out with ________.

Police have found________appears to be the lost ancient statue.

At our factory there are a few machines similar to ________ described in this magazine.

My uncle hasn't been able to quit smoking，but at least he has ________.

________ in the bank robbery, Tod was arrested by the local police early in the morning.

The door________open，no matter how hard she pushed.

It was a real race________time to get the project done. Luckily，we made it.

My favorite writer is Mo Yan, some of ________ novels have a surprising ending.

—Shall we go for a drink at one o'clock this afternoon?
—________.Will two o'clock be OK?

After the birth of my second child, I got a job at a restaurant. Having worked with an experienced        for a few days, I was      to wait tables on my own. All went        that first week. When Saturday night came, I was luckily 14 the tables not far from the kitchen.       , I still felt it a little hard to carry the heavy trays(托盘).
Before I knew it, the        was full of people. I moved slowly 17 every step. I remember how        I was when I saw the tray stand near the tables; it looked different from the one I was      on. It had nice handles, which made it      to move around. I was pleased with everything and began to        I was a natural at this job.
Then, an old man came to me and said, “Excuse me, dear, my wife and I loved      your work. It seems your tray stand has been very        to you, but we are getting ready to      now, and my wife needs her        back.”
At first, his      did not get across. “What was he talking about!” Then, I got it. I had set my trays on his wife’s orthopedic walker(助步器). I stood frozen as ice, but my face was        I wanted to get into a hole and        .
Since then, I have learned from many mistakes such as the one I just        . I have learned to be more      and not to be too sure of myself.

A．manager B．assistant C．cook D．waitress

A．promised B．invited C．allowed D．advised

A．well B．quickly C．safely D．wrong

A．left B．given C．brought D．shown

A．Therefore B．However C．Otherwise D．Finally

A．kitchen B．street C．restaurant D．table

A．minding B．changing C．taking D．saving

A．angry B．calm C．sad D．happy

A．fixed B．trained C．loaded D．waited

A．slower B．lighter C．quieter D．easier

A．believe B．agree C．regret D．pretend

A．letting B．making C．watching D．having

A．useful B．familiar C．unusual D．interesting

A．rest B．order C．eat D．leave

A．bag B．walker C．tray D．coat

A．idea B．praise C．message D．need

A．cold B．full of joy C．pale D．on fire

A．lie B．hide C．defend D．stay

A．repeated B．discovered C．corrected D．described

A．careful B．patient C．honest D．Practical

Few of us haven’t read Cinderella, the story of a youngwomanliving in poverty who meets the prince of her dreams. Some might not want to admit it, but there is a hidden Cinderella in everyone’s heart—we all wish we could achieve recognition or success after a period of obscurity（默默无闻）.
Mary Santiago has that secret dream, too. Her story is featured in Another Cinderella Story, a film set in a US high school.
Mary is shy but loves to dance. Compared with other girls, she is invisible. However, her world changes completely when a famous teenager pop singer, Joey Parker, appears.
Joey is everything the rest of the boys in her class are not—kind, handsome and desirable. Mary and Joey’s paths cross at aball. They meet and fall in love with each other. But when Mary has to rush back home, she leaves behind her MP3 player, which becomes theonlyclue Joey has to find the girl ofhisdreams. Of course, there is a wicked stepmother, who turns out to be Dominique Blatt and she takes in Mary after her dancer mother dies. Dominique treats Mary like a maid and does everything she can to make sure Mary doesn’t get into the top dance school. Her two daughters are equally determined to stop Joey falling for Mary, even if that means embarrassing her.
The story, though it mostly follows Cinderella, does add a few modern day twists to the classic fairy tale. Refreshingly, the film, unlike many high school films, does not focus on looks, although the actors are all beautiful. There is also a lot less materialism in Another Cinderella Story than in many similar movies.
“ The movie takes the Cinderella fairy tale as its jumping off point,” writes movie critic Amber Wilkinson. “Yet the focus is firmly on following your dream.”
The first paragraph is mainly to ____________.

In the movie, Mary Santiago is the main character who _____________.

What can we inferfromthe passage?

What does movie critic Amber Wilkinson mean byhiswords about Another Cinderella Story?

Teachers of Physics Needed for (be Middle School in Kent)
Start date: Sept. 1st，2014
Hours:Full Time
Are you skilled in teaching physics? If yes, come and join us!
This school follows the idea that learning is joyful. It offersa friendly and supportive environment for its teachers and students. The primary concern is to train students' creative ability. Students enjoy benefit from positive relationships with the staff.
Requirements:
一 Patience with students.
—Ability to inspire students.
—Experience in teaching physics.
一 Excellent knowledge of physics.
Please Note: What is basic for this post isa teacher'scertificate (资格证)!
To apply or find more information, please consult our secretary Helen Brown.
Office Tel. 0800-22-829.
This text is meant to            .

What is the basic requirement for this job?

What can be inferred about this school?

If you are interested in this job，you may           .

As we grow old, we realize that we have so little time to read and there are so many great books that we’ve yet to get around to. Yet re-readers are everywhere around us. For certain fans, re-reading The Lord of the Rings is a conventional practice annually. One friend told me that Jane Austen’s Emma can still surprise him, despite his having read it over 50 times.
New sudden clear understandings can be gained from the process of re-reading. Journalist Rebacca Mead, a long-time Englishwoman in New York, first came across George Eliot’s Middlemarch at 17. Since then, she has read it again every five years. With each re-reading, it has opened up further; in each chapter of her life, it has resonated (引起共鸣) differently. Mead evidenced the large number of ways in which really good books not only stand the test of repeat reads, but also offer fresh gifts each time we crack their spines. These kinds of books grow with us.
Scientists have also recognized the mental health benefits of re-reading. Research conducted with readers in the US found that on our first reading, we are concerned with the “what” and the “why”. Second time round, we’re able to better appreciate the emotions that the plot continues to express. As researcher Cristel Russell of the American University explained, returning to a book “brings new or renewed appreciation of both the great book and its readers.”
It’s true that we often find former selves on the pages of old books (if we’re fond of making notes on the pages). These texts can carry us back to a time and place, and remind us of the kind of person that we were then. We’re changed not only by lived experience but also by read experience – by the books that we’ve discovered since last reading the one in our hand.
More so than the movie director or the musician, the writer calls upon our imaginations, using words to lead us to picture this declaration of love or that unfaithfulness in life. A book is a joint project between writers and readers, and we must pour so much of ourselves into reading that our own life story can become connected with the story in the book.
Perhaps what’s really strange is that we don’t re-read more often. After all, we watch our favourite films again and we wouldn’t think of listening to an album only once. We treasure messy old paintings as objects, yet of all art forms, literature alone is a largely one-time delight. A book, of course, takes up more time, but as Mead confirms, the rewards make it adequately worthwhile.
The two books are mentioned in Paragraph 1 mainly to __________.

The underlined expression “crack their spines” in Paragraph 2 refers to ________.

It can be learned from the passage that __________.

The purpose of the passage is to __________.

Every day we are exposed to images, videos, music and news. In this age of visual and aural hyper-stimulation, the medium of radio is making a great comeback.
“We’re at the beginning of a golden age of audio,” said US-based podcaster Alex Blumberg in an article in The Sydney Morning Herald. In the last month alone, 15 percent of US adults listened to a radio podcast (播客). These statistics, released by Edison Research, show the successful evolution of traditional radio broadcasts to the present day’s digital podcast format. The term “podcast” was invented in 2004, but the trend only started gaining mainstream popularity in recent years. With the sharp increase in consumer demand for smartphones and tablets, podcast sales have jumped.
The appeal of the podcast partly lies in its multiplatform delivery and on-demand capabilities (功能). You can listen during those extra minutes of the day when you’re walking to the shops, waiting in a queue or riding the subway. Similar to television shows, podcasts are generally free to download and most offer new content every week.
Donna Jackson, 22, Sydney University media graduate, listens to podcasts two or three times a week, via iTune. “I listen while I’m wandering around the house doing something else. It makes completing a boring task much more enjoyable… And it’s an easy way of keeping in touch with what’s going on in the rest of the world,” she said, “I mainly listen to BBC podcasts, but recently I’ve also been listening to This American Life and Serial. They have a special skill to really draw you in.”
Unlike television and music, the audio format has the potential to create a deep impression on readers. Blumberg says this owes to the podcast’s ability “to create close relationship and emotional connection.” Sydney University undergraduate Hazel Proust, majoring in social work and arts, agrees. “When you’re listening, it feels as if the voice of the podcast’s storyteller is talking directly to you. It’s comforting.” said Proust.
It seems the age-old tradition of verbal storytelling is very much alive and well.
From the first two paragraphs, we can learn that ________.

The writer mentions Donna Jackson mainly to ________.

Paragraph 5 is mainly about ________.

What is probably the best title of the passage?

The discovery of an ancient giant panda skull has confirmed its bamboo diet dates back more than 2 million years and may have played a key part in its survival.
A Chinese-US research team reports its results today following studies on a fossil skull found in south China’s Cuangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in 2001.
The six fossils unearthed in Jinyin Cave are dated between 2.4 and 2 million years ago, according to the report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an influential US journal.
Jin Changzhu, of the chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and lead author of the paper, said the smaller fossil skull indicates the giant pandas were about a third smaller than today’s pandas.
Researchers knew the panda reached its maximum size about 500,000 years ago, when it peaked ,and then gradually became smaller.
Jin, a paleontologist (古生物学者) at the Institute of Vertebrate paleontology and Paleoanthropology (古人类学) attached to the CAS, said the size variation was a basic rule of evolution.
“A species tends to grow bigger when it reaches the peak of its population , but becomes smaller when numbers decline,” he said.
The dental remains of the skull, which is the oldest giant panda skull ever found, are similar to today’s pandas, indicating the type of teeth that could munch (津津有味地嚼)mountains of bamboo. A panda can eat up to 40kg of bamboo per day.
Paleoanthropologist Russell Ciochon, the US co-author at the University of lowa, said the panda’s focus on bamboo could have helped it survive all these years.
“Once an animal begins to rely on a common and stable food source, such as bamboo, it tends to evolve a larger body size,” he said. “As individuals of the evolving species grow bigger, they have a better chance not to be eaten by predators (肉食动物) due to their larger body size.”
According to the research of the CAS , there were most pandas in the world     .

The underlined word “variation” in para 6 means      .

From the passage, we can learn      .

The passage mainly tells us that      .

―Hi, David. I heard you're looking for a new job.
—Yeah. ______
---- Oh. ___
-----I think 1 did well. They said they would make a decision by this Friday.
— This Friday? ______
-----Yeah! I think so ，too.
-----_____.
------I believe I have a very good chance. The director seems to like me.
——______
------Thanks. I hope it helps.

E. How did it go?
F I think you will face some new challenges.
G. Looks like they want to hire the person .as quickly as possible

Lacrosse, invented by the Native Americans, is a popular team sport in North America and a national summer sport for Canada. It involves the use of nets, or “heads” as they are called, which consist of a wooden or metal stick with a net on   the end. Hockey is a game based on this sport.
The name “lacrosse” was named by the French settlers ，with “Crosse” meaning curved stick. Lacrosse played a more serious role in Indian culture than anywhere else. Lacrosse was not a very well-known sport until the late nineteenth century. It was mostly a boy’s game until a few years ago, and now it is played by both boys and girls.
There were about three different forms of lacrosse based on the different tribes or places of how they played it. One of the ways still played today is called double stick; you play by using a two-and-a-half-foot stick in each hand and tossing a deer skin ball in between the two sticks.
Like many other ball games ，there are two teams in Lacrosse ，each with ten players. There is one goalie, three defensemen, three midfielders and three attackmen. The goalies defend the goals, and if the ball goes into the goal, the team who got the goal scores. Whoever scores the most goals by the end of the game wins, with an overtime period being played if the game is tied. The game has four quarters and starts with a "faceoff “at the beginning of each quarter. A faceoff is when the ball is on the ground to start the game ，and one person from each team fights for the bail.
Who invented the game Lacrosse? (no more than 3 words)
When did Lacrosse become a well-known sport? (no more than 6 words)
How many players are needed to play a Lacrosse game? (no more than 1 word)
What is a goalie’s job? (no more than 7 words)
What happens if two teams score the same goals at the end of a game? (no more than 6 words)

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅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仅限一词。
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
I as well as my family are going to New York City this weekend. I had been looking forward to go there for a long time. It is one of the modernist city in the world. There have also a lot of museums where you can learn something you can’t learn it in school. I’d also like to see the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building. Unfortunately, the twin towers destroyed on September 11th, 2001 and I would have the chance to see them by myself. Now I am getting ready for the excited trip. I bet it will be a unforgettable experience.

假设你叫李华，你的一位朋友(英语名字叫John)刚从国外归来，邀请你参加本周日在他家举办的朋友聚会，但你不能参加，请你根据以下要点给他写一封电子邮件：
1．表达想参加的意愿；
2．忙于准备高考；
3．由于感冒，身体不适；
4．表示歉意并另约时间；
注意：1.可适当增加细节以使行文连贯。
2．词数100～120。
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Dear John，
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Yours truly
Li Hua