[江苏]2012届江苏省淮安市高三第四次调研英语试卷

The passengers were at ________ loss when ________ word came that their voyage was called off because of the hurricane.

—Peter, you look so tired and wet all over!
—Yes, all afternoon I ________ football on the playground.

— Which of these two books will you take?
—I will take ______ in case the trip is boring.

— I heard that there were a lot of shouts and screams at yesterday’s party. It must have been terrible.
— Oh, no.  ________, I enjoyed every minute.

Mary ________ a smile when she heard her family went to Australia without her.

Now our school is four times ________ it was twenty years ago.

— It’s ten years since I met you last time. I ________ you at all.
—I wouldn’t have, either, if someone ________ you by name.

You are always telling me I am lazy. Look at your room. What a mess it is! ________.

Tom is _______ learning English. To learn it well, he abandons all his hobbies.

Generally speaking, _______ according to the directions, the drug has no side effect.

Look! the ground is wet. It must have rained last night, _______?

— How long will it be _______ the president pays another visit to China?
— It all depends.

So sudden ________that the residents had no time to escape.

—Mom, today I received a message telling me to send money to the account.
—Delete it. It’s a trick. Many a person ________ by such tricks.

—Shall I pick you up after the meeting is over?
—Thank you. ________.

The little boy turned to the old woman next to him, ‘‘Granny, are you sure I don’t have enough money?’’ She nodded. The little boy was still   36   the doll (洋娃娃) in his hand.
I walked toward him,   37   who he wished to give this doll to. “Sister. She was sure that Santa Claus would bring a doll to her.” I told him that maybe Santa Claus would do so. But he replied to me   38   . “No, Santa Claus(圣诞老人) can’t bring it to her   39   she is now. I have to give the doll to my mommy so that she can give it to my sister when she   40   there. My sister has gone to be with God. Daddy says that Mommy is going to see God very soon too,   41   I thought she could take the doll with her to give it to my sister.’’
The little boy looked   42   at me, “I told Daddy to tell Mommy not to go yet. I need her to wait until I come back from the mall. I   43   she didn’t have to leave me, but Daddy says that she has to go to be with my little sister.” Then he looked   44   at the doll with sad eyes.
I quickly   45   for my wallet. “Let’s check again, just in case you do have enough money for the doll!” “OK. I hope I do have enough.” I added some of my money to   46   without him seeing and we started to count it. There was enough for the doll and   47   some spare money. “Thank you God for giving me enough money!” He looked at me and   48  , “I wanted to have enough money to buy a white rose for my Mommy, but I didn’t dare to ask God   49   too much. But He gave me enough to buy the doll and a white rose. My mommy loves white roses.”
  50   I remembered a local newspaper article two days ago, mentioning a drunk man in a truck hit a car   51   by a young woman and a little girl. The little girl   52   right away and the mother was   53  in a critical state.
Two days   54   this encounter (偶然相遇) with the little boy, I read in the newspaper that the young   55   had passed away.

A．raising B．holding C．hiding D．tearing

A．considering B．understanding C．watching D．asking

A．proudly B．hurriedly C．sadly D．angrily

A．where B．what C．who D．when

A．comes B．finds C．goes D．leaves

A．so B．for C．but D．as

A．down B．on C．to D．up

A．think B．wish C．imagine D．find

A．then B．sadly C．again D．now

A．reached B．looked C．searched D．charged

A．myself B．him C．his D．them

A．still B．yet C．also D．even

A．nodded B．added C．laughed D．showed

A．to B．for C．in D．on

A．Now B．Therefore C．However D．Then

A．occupied B．controlled C．attacked D．owned

A．left B．died C．came D．killed

A．knocked B．treated C．left D．kept

A．after B．since C．until D．before

A．man B．girl C．boy D．woman

Oprah Winfrey, the American media queen, is undoubtedly one of the most successful women in the world. She’s the host and owner of The Oprah Winfrey Show, which continuingly wins high ratings, and the founder of Harpo Productions, which produces her television shows and movies.
Certainly Winfrey feels right these days. Early on, however, Winfrey seemed more like a candidate for welfare rolls than film roles. She stayed with her grandmother after birth and moved to Wisconsin to live with her mother at 6, and hence began the most difficult period in her life. They lived in the low-income community and her mother showed her less attention. Her classmates came from families with more money and she couldn’t participate with them in a lot of activities.
The young girl had held too much anger and pain inside and she rebelled. She repeatedly ran away from home and got into various troubles. During that time, she turned heavy smoker, became addicted to alcohol and drug and was sent to a juvenile detention home(青少年拘留所) at the age of 13.
Fed up, Oprah’s mother sent her to Tennessee to live with her father. To a large extent, this man saved Oprah’s life and helped pave the way for her success. She received a full scholarship to Tennessee State University where she majored in Speech and Performing Arts. After graduation, she landed a job as a news reader at a television station, where she did not do well at first. But she did not give up; instead, she worked harder. She put in long hours and prepared carefully before going on camera.
Her hard work paid off: she moved up swiftly to news reader and reporter in Baltimore and was offered her own talk show in 1977. From then on, her career began to take off.
Some people are handed money at birth and are nurtured into success; other people create their own success, and Oprah Winfrey definitely belongs to the latter. “There is no such thing as failure in my life,” she concluded, “Life is a marathon. I think the ones who survive in life do it by hammering at it one day at a time.” Well, by doing so, she won the game.
By mentioning “Winfrey seemed more like a candidate for welfare rolls than film roles” in Paragraph 2, the author indicates that ______.

Which of the following is NOT the cause of her bad behaviors as a teenager?

Oprah Winfrey succeeded at last chiefly due to _______.

Which of the following can best serve as the title of this passage?

The Oxford Mal, England
Most prisons are the kind of place you’d be desperate to escape from, not somewhere you’d possibly conceive of escaping to.
But this former Oxford prison has been converted into a boutique hotel by the fashionable Malmaison chain and offers the kind of luxurious living that former convicts could only have dreamed of.
Rates: Double room £140 (US$233). Breakfast £12.95 per person
Jules’ Undersea Lodge, United States
Originally a research laboratory, the world’s only underwater hotel sits at the bottom of the Emerald Lagoon in Florida, and can only be reached by scuba diving down six meters.
The lodge can accommodate two couples and is kitted out with showers, a microwave and a fridge.
The real attractions are the fish; the lodge is like a goldfish bowl in reverse, where you sit and watch angelfish, parrotfish, barracuda and snappers peering in at you through the window.
Rates: From US$400
Das Park Hotel, Austria
Stay overnight in a concrete sewer pipe on the banks of the River Danube.
The drainpipes are two meters in diameter and two and a half meters long, with a porthole to look out of, a front door to close and a cozy nest to snuggle into, which includes a low-slung futon, bedside lamp, woolly blanket and light sleeping bag.
Rates: You pay as much, or as little, as you want.
Sant` Angelo Luxury Resort, Italy
“Four-star boutique cave-hotel” is the proud boast of the Sant’Angelo in the city of Matera, which is famous for its sassi-houses dug into the rock. Matera is the only place in the world where people can boast to be still living in the same houses as their ancestors did 9,000 years ago. The rooms have been fashioned from old sassi stables and workshops. There are two restaurants, a bar and an art gallery.
Rates: A three-night package costs from US$560 per person including some meals, a walking tour and car hire, but not flights.
La Balade Des Gnomes, Belgium
A truly out-of-this-world experience, this hotel makes you feel like you’re on the moon.
You can sleep in a moon buggy, bathe in a lunar capsule, and the walls and ceilings are covered in twinkling stars and planets.
Other themed rooms include a newly opened Trojan Horse, a Troll Forest, a South Seas sailing ship and a Wine Room.
Rates: From €115 (US$170) per double
Das Park Hotel is different from the other hotels in that __________.

If you want to experience the life on the moon, most probably you will choose to stay in __________.

If Mr. and Mrs Smith put up at the Oxford Mal for one night and have breakfast there, they will have to pay at least _____________.

Death Valley, one of America’s great national parks, is a place of strange and silent beauty. As beautiful as this place is, its name provides evidence of very real danger. Death Valley is a land of beautiful yet dangerous extremes. There are mountains that reach more than 3,000 meters into the sky. There is a place called Badwater that is the lowest area of land in the Western Hemisphere. If there were water there, it would be 86 meters below the level of the ocean.
Death Valley can be dangerously cold during the winter months. Storms in the mountains can produce sudden flooding on the floor of the Valley. The air temperature during the summer has been as high as 57℃. The sun can heat the ground so that the temperature of the rocks and soil can be as high as 74℃. The extreme heat of Death Valley has killed people in the past. It will continue to kill those who do not honor this extreme climate. Death Valley does not forgive those who are not careful.
Death Valley is a good example of the violence of nature. It contains evidence of several ancient volcanoes that caused huge explosions. Evidence of one of these explosions is called Ubehebe Crater. The explosion left a huge hole in the ground almost a kilometer and a half wide.
In many areas of Death Valley it is easy to see where the ground has been pushed up violently by movement deep in the Earth. This movement has created unusual and beautiful rock formations. Some are red. Others are dark brown, gray, yellow or black. Other areas of rock look as if some huge creature violently broke and twisted the Earth to create unusual, sometimes frightening shapes.
In other parts of Death Valley there are lines in the rock that show clearly that this area was deep under an ocean for many thousands of years. Much of the Valley is flat and extremely dry. In fact, scientists believe it is the driest place in the United States.
Death Valley, part of the Great Mojave Desert, is a huge place. It extends more than 225 kilometers across the southern part of California, and across the border with Nevada.
Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

Why were some people killed by Death Valley?

The underlined word “twisted” in Paragraph 4 most possibly mean ______.

The purpose of the article is to _______.

As we drove along, my spirits went up again, and I turned, with pleasure, to the thought of the new life which I was entering. But though it was not far past the middle of September, the heavy clouds and strong north-easterly wind combined to make the day extremely cold; and the journey seemed a very long one, so that it was nearly one o’clock before we reached the place of our destination. Yet when we entered the gateway, my heart failed me, and I wished it were a mile or two farther off. For the first time in my life I must stand alone: there was no retreating now. I must enter that house, and introduce myself among its strange people. But how was it to be done? True, I was near nineteen; but, thanks to the protecting care of my mother and sister, I well knew that many a girl of fifteen, or under, was gifted with a more womanly address, and greater ease and self-possession, than I was. Yet, anyway. I would do very well, after all; and the children, of course, I should soon be at ease with them.
"Be calm, be calm, whatever happens," I said within myself; and truly I was so fully occupied in steadying my nerves and keeping down the rebellious beat of my heart that when I was admitted into the hall and into the presence of Mrs. Bloomfield, I almost forgot to answer her polite greeting; and it afterwards struck me that the little I did say was spoken in the tone of one half-dead or half-asleep.
With due politeness, however, she showed me my bedroom, and left me there to take a little refreshment for a little while and led me into the dining-room. Some beefsteaks and potatoes were set before me; and while I dined upon these, she sat opposite, watching me (as I thought) and trying to keep something like a conversation— consisting chiefly of commonplace remarks. In fact, my attention was almost wholly absorbed in my dinner: not from appetite, but from the toughness of the beefsteaks, and the numbness of my hands.
“I have had so little time to attend to their education myself, but I think they are clever children, and very willing to learn, especially the little boy; he is, I think, the flower of the flock— a generous, noble-spirited boy, one to be led, but not driven, and remarkable for always speaking the truth.” “His sister Mary Ann will require watching,” continued she, “but she is a very good girl on the whole, though I wish her to be kept out of the nursery as much as possible, as she is now almost six years old, and might acquire bad habits from the nurses. I have ordered her bed to be placed in your room, and if you will be so kind as to look after her washing and dressing, and take charge of her clothes, she needs to have nothing further to do with the nursery maid.”
I replied I was quite willing to do so; and at that moment the children entered the room. Tom Bloomfield was a well-grown boy of seven. Mary was a tall girl, for her age of six, somewhat dark like her mother. The second sister was Fanny, a very pretty little girl, looking little younger than Mary. The remaining one was Harriet, a little broad, fat, merry, playful thing of scarcely two, whom I had more desire for than all the rest — but with her I had nothing to do.
Which of the following statements best describes how the writer felt when she entered Mrs. Bloomfield's home?

What job would the writer take in Mrs Bloomfield's home?

Which of the following was TRUE according to the passage?

From the passage, we can infer that ___________.

Talk about happiness
We should not hesitate too much during the first half of our lives, while we should not regret at what we’ve done during the other half. We should seize every opportunity to find a way out in our lives, for it goes off swiftly. We should say something urgent slowly, something serious clearly, something small humorously and something unsure cautiously. We should never say something that did not happen, something that you cannot do, something that does harm to others, and something that is disgusting. We should tell others our happiness on specific occasions and should not tell anyone our unhappiness. Do not easily say something about others. We should follow our own heart and interest, and fulfill what we should do instead of merely paying lip service and looking forward to the future.
Everyone is longing for a happy life, but owning wealth does not necessarily mean owning happiness. To truly reach happiness, we need to know how to get on with others. So we need to understand what happiness is really about and achieve what we desire.
We need to know and understand happiness before we finally get it. A smart man must know to do something good even though it may be small, and not to do something evil even though it may be tiny in the course of socializing. As long as we keep a kind heart and do everything morally and legally, we can live a peaceful life. But if we keep an evil heart and do whatever we want, we are indeed digging a tomb for ourselves. A smart man knows to learn a lesson from his falls, for he knows that every setback is a precious experience leading to happiness in the future. He will not waste his time in criticizing others. Instead, he tends to spend more time seeking his own happiness. He knows to keep a heart of conscience and not to spread others’ mistakes. He also knows to think before he leaps so that he will not feel regretful afterwards. Moreover, he knows to tolerate others, so he can naturally lead a happy life.
Without happiness, one will feel terribly miserable, for he always insists that he has done the right thing all the time and that others often do wrong to him. He blames every mistake on others or the environment instead of reflecting on himself, which keeps him farther and farther away from happiness. A celebrity once said, “Nobody intends to make mistakes. One makes mistakes because of his ignorance.” Therefore, if someone makes mistakes, we need to care about him, forgive him and enlighten him by setting a good example to him instead of losing temper and hating him. Otherwise, we are also ignorant like him, for we also make a stupid mistake that leads us farther from happiness.
In order to possess a happy life, we need to know more about others, about the society, about our culture and history. We should be patriotic(爱国的), obey the law and realize our own responsibility, and then we will definitely have a happy life.

Title	Talk about happiness
Wise actions in life	●Do things without_______and never regret at anything . ●Seize every opportunity to do the things we should. ●Avoid saying or doing what we are not________ about. ●Don’t comment on others easily.
Things about happiness we should________ in mind	●Getting on well with others is necessary. ●Doing good things with a kind heart may make us live ________. ●Knowing future happiness_______ from precious experiences learned from every setback. ●Thinking twice before action and tolerating others can ________ to a happy life.
Reasons for lack of happiness	●He blames everything wrong on others or the ________, not himself. ●His ________ results in making mistakes, which keeps him farther away from happiness
________on how to possess happiness	●We should care about the people who make mistakes instead of losing temper and set an example to them. ●We should have a rich ________  of society, culture, history and others. ●We should obey the law and shoulder our own responsibility.

面对高考，父母孩子们都有着沉重的压力。请仔细观察下面漫画，写一篇短文。要求：
1．描述漫画内容，如情景、人物、动作等等；
2．着重描述漫画所表达的现象以及你的看法。
注意：1. 可参照图中文字及下面文章开头所给提示，作必要的发挥想象。
2．词数150左右。开头已经写好，不计入总词数。
3. 作文中不得提及考生所在学校和本人姓名。内容可适当发挥，注意行文连贯。

As is vividly shown in the cartoon, while the boy is still in sound sleep,