题客网高考押题卷 第二期(江苏版)英语
—I acquired ______ Van Gogh from a businessman from Paris the other day.
—Really? Are you sure it’s ______ real one?
A.a, a | B./, the | C./, a | D.a, the |
—Why are you crying? Today is your birthday!
—____________. I am so excited with so many friends surrounding me.
A.None of your business | B.Don’t mention it |
C.Just can’t help it | D.That’s all right |
In his speech, he said that it was his primary school teachers that he was fond of ________influenced his whole life.
A.what | B.which | C.as | D.who |
Fog and Haze occurred in many areas of our country , a large area of low visibility condition in the city.
A causing B cause C to cause D caused
— I didn’t watch the program “Where are we going, Dad?” yesterday.
— I________, either, if my father hadn’t reminded me.
A.wouldn’t have | B.didn’t | C.wouldn’t | D.hadn’t |
—Excuse me, has the train from Beijing arrived yet?
—________, you are three quarters earlier. It's only 9 now.
A.Unconsciously | B.Instantly | C.Actually | D.Absolutely |
I’m calling about the apartment you the other day. Could you tell me more about it?
A.will advertise | B.had advertised | C.are advertising | D.advertised |
Wherever he is, he makes ______ a rule to give his mother a call every day.
A.him | B.it | C.that | D.this |
I have a big dream — I want to go into space, _______ will take some time to realize, I guess.
A.what | B.it | C.which | D.where |
The terror attack at a Kunming railway station in southwest China's Yunnan Province, 29 lives and leaving 143 , has brought condemnation from around the world this week.
A.claimed; wounding | B.claiming; wounded |
C.claimed; wounded | D.claim; wound |
This nationwide smog should serve as a reminder to all, indicating a high time that we ______ on what we've done to the environment.
A.have reflected | B.are reflecting | C.will reflect | D.reflected |
Mr. Zhang once taught in a remote village in Anhui province as a volunteer, which was ______ only on foot.
A.accessible | B.acceptable | C.available | D.appropriate |
It be the vocabulary that caused you the problem in the exercise because you know a lot of words.
A.couldn’t | B.may | C.should | D.needn’t |
impresses me most is Chinese students are well organized and disciplined. We should learn from them.
A.Which; what | B.What; that | C.What; whether | D.That; what |
Never before______ such a wonderful park, ______ I'd like to pay a visit again.
A.had I seen; where | B.have I seen; which |
C.have I seen; where | D.had I seen; which |
My wife Julie and I were out on the road that______around where we live, when we saw a(n)______ worn-out dog stumbling (蹒跚) painfully up the road. We stopped, bent down, talked __38____to the dog and patted it. I______ and there was a collar with a phone number. I called ______ no one answered.
The dog was painfully thin. So Julie ran home to get some of our dog’s ______ while I tried to encourage the dog. After Julie came back, we sat down on the sidewalk ______ our new friend made short work of the food. ______we got her home.
After trying for many times we got a ______from the number. A lady came around with a bunch of flowers for us. She ______ that Tara had been her father’s dog. She was very old and got lost that morning. So, Tara was ______returned home.
Here is the _____of the story:
Actually Julie and I were out that morning because I was leaving. She was trying to______me to come back, but I wasn’t hearing ______ that made that sound likely.
I was ______ to turn and go when an old black dog walked between us and almost fell down. Suddenly we had something more______than our problem to worry about. There was a creature ______ right before us and we had to work together to help it.
We did help it. And here I am writing the story in my own home, in my own family.
In the______ “Love Is Not a Fight” Warren Barfield talks about marriage. At one point he sings, “And if we try to leave, ______ God send angels (天使) to guard the door.”
Sometimes angels come ______ as dogs.
A.flows B.reaches C.runs D.walks
A.young B.old C.tired D.ugly
A.gently B.carefully C.angrily D.slowly
A.comforted B.touched C.tested D.checked
A.or B.and C.but D.so
A.clothes B.food C.toys D.basket
A.while B.when C.until D.though
A.Gradually B.Successfully C.Eventually D.Surprisingly
A.letter B.phone C.note D.response
A.explained B.declared C.suggested D.insisted
A.happily B.safely C.quickly D.loudly
A.secret B.point C.truth D.background
A.advise B.allow C.urge D.persuade
A.anything B.nothing C.everything D.something
A.going B.about C.supposed D.used
A.important B.influential C.effective D.foolish
A.in order B.in danger C.in need. D.in use
A.song B.story C.film D.book
A.should B.may C.would D.could
A.treated B.regarded C.worked D.disguised.
BEIJING, March 7 (Xinhua) -- Beijing will take a series of measures to tackle its environmental problems and is confident they will not derail its bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, an official said on Thursday.
Beijing has formulated 84 measures to deal with environmental issue and air pollution, said Li Shixiang, Beijing's executive vice mayor, at the ongoing annual session of the National People's Congress, the top legislature.
Beijing is expected to cut its current coal consumption by more than half to 10 million tonnes a year by 2017. It will also impose tough controls over industrial pollution and dust fall from construction sites, while reducing the number of newly added vehicles every year to 150,000, said Li.
He said the Chinese capital will benefit from the experience of successfully holding the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Beijing and Zhangjiakou City in neighboring Hebei Province will launch a joint bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, the Chinese Olympic Committee (COC) announced in early November 2013.
Beijing will bid to stage the ice events while Zhangjiakou will seek hosting rights for snow sports, according to the COC.
Beijing has been plagued by choking smog and it is a great concern for its chances of hosting the Winter Olympics.
What does the underlined word “plagued”mean in the last paragraph?
A.annoyed | B.destroyed | C.striked | D.broken |
Which statement is true according to the passage?
A.Beijing will cut its current coal consumption. |
B.Beijing will reduce the number of newly added vehicles every year. |
C.Beijing will firmly control industrial pollution and dust fall from construction sites. |
D.Smog will hurt Beijing's Winter Olympics bid. |
Hawking's Five Easy Steps for Making Yourself a Genius
As we all know,Stephen Hawking writes the book A Brief History of Time that explains the
origin of the universe. The book spent 147 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List and has
sold 10 million copies. He is,most agree,very smart.
In his recently published autobiography My Brief History,Hawking offers five life lessons on
how to become a genius.
1)Don’t miss opportunities by being too cool
“We showed an air of complete boredom and the feeling that nothing was worth making an
effort for. One result of my illness has been to change all that. When you are faced with the
possibility of an early death, it makes you realize that life is worth living and that there are lots of
things you want to do. ”Seize the moment,as Oxford types would say.
2)Keep it simple
When writing A Brief History of Time,he tried to make science understandable for the rest of
us. “I was sure that nearly everyone is interested in how the universe operates,but most people
cannot follow mathematical equations(数学公式). ”He has trouble with them,too. “This is
partly because it is difficult for me to write them down,but mainly because I don't have an inborn
feeling for equations. My aim in the book was to describe these mental images in words. It is
such an easy book that everybody can understand it.” The moral:You don't have to be a genius to know everything.
3)Have fun
Hawking has a long history of being a joker,and he has placed lots of bets with other
scientists on the nature of black holes. One was with Cal-Tech scientist John Preskill. After
paying off his bet by giving Preskill a baseball encyclopedia,Hawking wrote,“but maybe I should
have just given him the ashes. ”So lighten up! Geniuses like bad jokes too.
4) Always look for a silver lining (even if you are seriously ill)
Hawking's disease has slowly robbed him of the ability to walk,move his arms,even speak.
But,Hawking says,“in some ways I guess my disability has been an assist:I haven't had to
lecture or teach students, and I haven't had to sit in meetings. So I have been able to devote
myself completely to research.”In other words,Hawking was given lemons,and he made
Champagne.
5)Don’t work too hard at school
……
The passage tells us the facts about A Brief History of Time EXCEPT that ________.
A.it included Hawking's five life lessons on how to become a genius |
B.it has sold 10 million copies up to now |
C.it spent 147 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List |
D.it explained the origin of the universe |
According to the passage,which of the following statements is guiding you to be a genius?
A.Place lots of bets with your friends. |
B.Find something good even in bad situations. |
C.Seize the moment to learn everything. |
D.Get to know everything including math equations. |
Hawking shows his viewpoint by ____________.
A.making comparisons | B.quoting a famous saying |
C.talking about his own experience | D.listing the numbers and equations |
Three “Great Walls” built around the United States’ Tornado Alley could reduce tornadoes from destroying billions of dollars in property and endangering millions of lives, a physicist has claimed.
Professor Rongjia Tao of Temple University, Philadelphia unveiled a proposal this week calling for the construction of three 1,000-foot barriers up to 100 miles long, which would act like hill ranges and soften winds before tornadoes could form, the BBC reports.
The $16.9 billion plan would call for the faux hill ranges in North Dakota, along the border between Kansas and Oklahoma, and in Texas and Louisiana, ostensibly saving billions of dollars in damage every year, Tao said. The walls would not shelter towns, he said, but instead would soften the streams of hot southern and cold northern air that form tornadoes when they clash in the first place.
But critics laughed at Tao’s proposals. Leading tornado experts pointed to areas that are already protected by hill ranges the size of the barriers Tao is proposing, yet still have plenty of tornados, like parts of Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri. And even if the plan did work, it would create more problems than it would solve, scientists said, by creating catastrophic weather side effects.
“Everybody I know is of 100% agreement – this is a poorly conceived idea,” Professor Joshua Wurman of the Center for Severe Weather Research. “From what I can gather his concept of how tornadoes form is fundamentally flawed(有缺陷的). Meteorologists(气象学家) cringe(尴尬) when they hear about ‘clashing(交锋) hot and cold air’. It’s a lot more complicated than that.”
What does the underlined word “unveiled”mean in the fourth paragraph?
A.reminded | B.came up with | C.referred | D.applied |
What’s the main idea of the passage?
A.The different opinions on the proposal that the walls will reduce the loss caused by tornadoes. |
B.How to solve the problems that are caused by tornadoes. |
C.The proposal mentioned in the paragragh is totally wrong. |
D.The proposal to reduce tornadoes is effective. |
From the passage, we can infer that__________.
A.the tornadoes form by clashing(交锋) hot and cold air. |
B.if the walls are built, they will work well. |
C.if the plan is carried out, we will have more problems than expected. |
D.The walls not only soften the winds but also shelter the towns. |
Which of following statements is true according to the passage?
A.Leading tornado experts think that would soften the streams of hot southern and cold northern air that form tornadoes. |
B.Professor Joshua Wurman pointed out that the plan will be expensive. |
C.Professor Rongjia Tao is against the construction of walls to prevent the tornadoes. |
D.the plan will not be carried out because it will creating serious weather side effects. |
The events of Saturday night in Kunming are deeply engraved in the mind of Xie Qiming, who narrowly escaped death in the terrorist attack at the city's railway station.
The 48-year-old policeman intervened to stop the butchering of unarmed civilians, saving many from death and injury, but he was injured in the process.
Lying in a hospital bed, his head and nose marked by serious hacking wounds - one more than 20 centimeters long - Xie recounted(详细叙述) his actions on the day he describes as a nightmare.
"I shot at them but fell to the ground during the fighting. After the shots, the terrorists turned their attention to the police and several of them surrounded me and stabbed me like crazy," he said. "There is no humanity in them."
Xie is from the Beijinglu Police Station, the closest to the attack, and four police officers from the station were the first to respond. He survived because he was wearing a bulletproof vest, which was damaged by the attackers.
When the officers arrived, the attackers were running out of the ticket hall, attacking people with long knives.
Xie and his colleagues tried to stop the attack, which is when Xie was injured. In addition to the deep cuts, his skull was fractured, and at the time of writing he was awaiting further surgery.
"A wave of fierce anger rose up in my mind, and we all forgot to think about the possible danger to us," said Hu Zhe, 23, a police officer trainee at the Beijinglu Police Station.
Having no firearm, he fought the terrorists with a wooden baton, but it got broken in the fighting. He sustained a 6-centimeter wound to his left eyebrow.
Wan Weiqing, a neurosurgeon from Beijing Tiantan Hospital, learned of the attack at 2 am on Sunday and took the first flight to Kunming, where he has been helping the victims.
He said that 71 victims are being treated at the Kunming First People's Hospital, most of them with severe multiple injuries.
"There is one victim whose rib, breastbone, lung and even heart were all injured in one chopping action. The attackers had obviously prepared and practiced for a long time," he said.
Zhou Hongmei, director of the Medical Reform Office at the Yunnan Health Department, said a team of medical experts including 29 doctors had arrived in Kunming by Monday night. They have been working at the five hospitals treating victims of the attack.
Chen Min, a Neurology Department nurse at Kunming First People's Hospital, said the department usually had seven nurses in the daytime and three at night. "But all the other nurses who were not on duty returned to the hospital voluntarily on Saturday night," she said.
In the past three days, none of them had more than 10 hours of rest.
"The crucial factor in saving lives in such incidents is treatment without delay," said Chai Wenzhao, associate director of the Intensive Care Unit in the Peking Union Medical College Hospital. Chai has participated in many emergency rescue efforts.
He said that the victims will need psychological counseling once their physical injuries have been dealt with, because the emotional impact of such an incident can be severe.
Four psychologists from Anding Hospital in Beijing have begun treating some of the victims.
When did the terrorist attack happen?
A.on Saturday afternoon | B.on Sunday night |
C.Three days before the report came out. | D.Just before the report was written. |
Which of the following is true about Xie Qiming?
A.He was the first to arrive at the scene. |
B.He was waiting for surgery when the report was writing. |
C.He was slightly wounded. |
D.He tried to stop the attack all by himself. |
What does the underlined word “engraved” mean in the passage?
A.feared | B.disapointed | C.attacked | D.impressed |
How did Xie Qiming survive?
A.He was saved by his colleagues. |
B.He missed the shot and fell to the ground during the fighting. |
C.He was protected by his bulletproof vest. |
D.He pretended to fall to the ground. |
What can we learn from Zhou Hongmei,?
A.the victims will need psychological treatment, because the emotional impact of such an incident can be severe. |
B.Victims of the attack have been treated by .a team of medical experts. |
C.Treatment without delay should be given to save lives in such incidents . |
D.The attackers had obviously prepared and practiced for a long time, |
What’s the best title of the passage?
A.Survivors recount nightmare |
B.Many people was injured in the attack |
C.A terrorist attack happned in Kunming. |
D.Police stopped the terrorist attack. |
There are many things that we wish to achieve in life. For some, we set goals and objectives, and for some we don’t. Try to remember the last time you set a goal to achieve a certain task. Were you able to complete the task in an effective manner? The tasks which are done by setting and meeting daily goals will definitely be useful and rewarding experiences. A step-by-step approach towards achieving smaller goals is the key to achieving larger ones.
When it comes to the workplace, each and every employee is expected to meet daily responsibilities and expectations. With organizations becoming more and more competitive, the importance of goal-setting for employees is increasing. It helps the employee to perform better and increases his or her efficiency and time management. It’s also important for every student to set high academic goals so as to be able to build a good career.
Setting goals for completing the daily schedule helps an employee to finish the assigned tasks and targets in a timely manner. If an employee is performing the way he or she is expected to, then this will automatically increase the performance, output and productivity of both the employee and the organization. Daily study targets are the same. This helps you complete your assignments within the set time, thus putting less pressure on you during exams and increasing your chances of performing well.
How many times you have to be at work on a weekend just to complete your work? How many times you have had to stay up all night to complete your homework or study for your exams? Had you followed your set goals and targets right from the beginning, you would have spent the time relaxing rather than being busy working or studying! Setting up goals and objectives helps you organize your time and efforts in an efficient manner.
In performing your work diligently, you are likely to keep a steady pace when it comes to fulfilling your set targets. Because you are already on track, there will be no unnecessary workload and time limits over your head. Therefore, another benefit of effective goal-setting is lack of stress and a more calm and relaxed mind. Only a stress-free and calm mind can house progressive and productive thoughts. A calm mind causes positivity, which goes a long way towards increasing your ability to achieve the personal goals you have set for yourself.
Each and every human being aims to achieve two things: to fulfill desires and to enjoy life. This is possible only through proper discipline and time management. Goal-setting leads to not only professional growth but also personal growth and development. You are expected to know that every step counts and that setting up goals is easy, but following them on a consistent basis is difficult. Therefore, if you want to be successful and also harvest the fruits of your hard work, you need to stick to your set goals and be focused towards achieving them. Realize the significant role that goal-setting plays in your life, make sure that you do all you can to achieve what you want., set your goals, work towards achieving them and celebrate your success!
Passage outline |
Supporting details |
Significance of goal-setting in achieving success |
In face of competition, employees with goals can perform better as well as ______ efficiency and time management. Students who want to build a good career should attach______to setting high academic goals. |
Increase output and performance |
By setting goals, an employees can increase output and performance instead of_____ completing his or her tasks. Students can have less pressure and perform well with the aid of daily study targets. |
Help in time management |
You can have your time and efforts ____ better if you follow your setting –goals from the beginning. You’re likely to have more time for_____instead of occupying yourself in working or studying. |
Reduce ____ levels |
Chances are that you can fulfill your set targets steadily____ to lack of pressure. Effective goal-setting is____ for you to keep a relaxed mind, which can result in positivity. |
Every step counts |
You should be _____that it’s difficult to follow your goals consistently. Your hard work will_____ off if you stick to your set goals step by step. |