Ⅱ语言知识及应用(共两节,满分35分)
第一节完形填空(共10小题;每小题2分,满分20分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从21~30各题所给的A、B、C和D项中,选出最
佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Scottsdale was a typical American suburb in the 1950s,with children going to each other's houses to play, or riding their bikes around the neighbourhood. But for Steven Spielberg none of these “normal” activities were very excitmg. Instead he made his own entertainment, like the time he 21 his younger sisters that he had a dead body in his bedroom and almost frightened them to death.
When Steven was about seven years o1d, he developed a 22 for television, despite the 23 his parents made t control the children's viewing. His father 24 placed hair on the television“ON' switch to know when Steven watched TV. But Steven would 25 its pasition and replace it after watching hours of television.
A chance finally came for Steven to 26 his ability to entertain with his enthusiasm for television. When his father received a movie camera for Father’s Day, the movies he took,“according to Steven, were 27 .Annoyed by his son's 28 criticism(批评),he gave the camera to Steven.
Steven proved to be a( an) 29 with the camera and quickly made several films using his own toys as the performers. His parents were 30 by how Iife-like they were and so he began a magnificent movie career.
21. A. convinced B. reminded C. promised D. encouraged
22. A. gift B. need C. concem D. love
23. A. decisions B. suggestions C.attempts D. preparations
24. A quietly B. secretly C hopefully D. successfully
25. A locate B. relate C. memorize D. examine
26. A combine B. compare C. connect D. accompany
27. A spccial B.terrible C. entertaining D .surprising
28. A occasional B. humourous C .unreasonable D .constant
29 . A winner B. expert C. natural D native
30. A .satisfied B. amazed C. puzzled D .inspired
完形填空(共15小题;每小题2分,共30分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑
Some people think if you are happy, you are blind to reality. But when we research it, happiness actually ______every single business and educational outcome for the brain. How did we ______ this? Why do we have these social misunderstandings about happiness? Because we assumed you were ______.
When we study people, scientists are often interested in what the average is.
Many people think happiness is genetic. That's only half the story, because the average person does not fight their ______. When we stop studying the average and begin ______ positive outliers(离群值) -- people who are above average for a positive aspect like optimism or intelligence -- a ______ different picture appears. Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and ______.
______, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world. If you scan for the ______ first, your brain really has no resources left over to see the things you are grateful for or the meaning embedded(嵌入) in your work. But if you scan the world for the positive, you start to acquire an ______advantage.
I wrote the cover story for the Harvard Business Review magazine on "Happiness Leads to Profits." Based on my article called "Positive Intelligence" and my research in The Happiness Advantage, I ______ our researched conclusion: the single greatest advantage in the modern economy is a ______ and busy workforce.
A decade of research in the business world ______ that happiness raises nearly every business and educational ______: increasing sales by 37%, productivity by 31%, and ______ on tasks by 19%, as well as a number of health and quality-of-life improvements.
A.rises B.arises C.raises D.realizes
A.think B.miss C.know D.understand
A.usual B.single C.unique D.average
A.bodies B.faces C.genes D.fates
A.researching B.discovering C.finding D.observing
A.mildly B.hardly C.crazily D.wildly
A.interest B.success C.safety D.failure
A.Scientifically B.Fortunately C.Gradually D.Strangely
A.active B.passive C.negative D.positive
A.interesting B.embarrassing C.annoying D.amazing
A.Talked B.summarized C.thought D.underlined
A.silly B.funny C.common D.happy
A.means B.proves C.wishes D.hopes
A.outcome B.answer C.cause D.reality
A.behavior B.mistake C.accuracy D.possession
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I went to India for a 2-week vacation to visit my relatives. We stopped on a red light, and as always, there were a lot of activities outside the cars near the . People walked in, between the cars newspaper, water and a number of kids looked for a bit of charity from the car owners. It’s a familiar in most poor developing countries.
While we were for the red light to turn green, I noticed a man outside a couple of in front of ours trying to sell bottles of water. It’s unusual at first. He was a man in his 40s with relatively clothes. But he walked around in a strange way. He kind of his way around the spaces. He was blind.
Carrying a couple of water bottles on one hand, he got to the outside of our car. Out of , my mum decided to buy one water bottle. As she gave the man the money, the light turned green. The car behind sounded loudly and , trying to get ahead of traffic. Seeing this, my mum kindly told the man to the change. However, with his sense of touch, he quickly went through his shirt pocket and threw the money at my mum’s . It was the exact change. The cars behind us were really getting out of control, we decided to go on our way.
I broke down and even when I got home. Here’s a blind man, born in , trying to sell water bottles on the streets to make ends meet. He our sympathy. Life hasn’t been to him, yet he’s giving it his best shot. I think that is what is all about facing life bravely.
A.signs B.crossroads C.stations D.theatres
A.giving B.buying C.selling D.throwing
A.scene B.play C.activity D.street
A.watching B.asking C.waiting D.changing
A.blocks B.crossings C.turns D.cars
A.everything B.something C.anything D.nothing
A.expensive B.fashionable C.ragged D.fastened
A.pushed B.drove C.cleared D.felt
A.eventually B.quickly C.frequently D.happily
A.curiosity B.sympathy C.thirsty D.politeness
A.impatiently B.casually C.naturally D.carefully
A.keep B.return C.borrow D.count
A.poor B.superior C.limited D.enlarged
A.hand B.arm C.face D.lap
A.still B.yet C.so D.but
A.smiled B.shouted C.complained D.cried
A.pain B.poverty C.sadness D.loneliness
A.refused B.enjoyed C.doubted D.cheated
A.rich B.unfair C.kind D.bad
A.kindness B.courage C.experience D.challenge
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
It often appears that we have more to gain by speaking than by listening. One big advantage of speaking is that it gives you a chance to _____ others' thoughts and actions. Whatever your goal is — to have a boss hire you, to ____others to vote for the person of your choice or to describe the ____ you want your hair cut ...the key to success seems to be the ____ to speak well.
Another ____ advantage of speaking is the chance it provides to ____ the admiration, respect, or linking of others. Tell jokes, and everyone will think you're really a ____ man. Tell them all you know,and they'll be ____ by your wisdom. But keep quiet, and it seems as if you are a ____ person.
Finally,talking gives you the ___ to release(释放) energy in a way that listening can't. When you're ____, the chance to talk about your problems can often help you feel better. In the same way, you can often ___ your anger by letting it out orally. It is also helpful to ___your excitement with others by talking about it, ____ keeping it inside often leaves you feeling as if you might burst.
____ it is true that talking does have many advantages,it's important to ____ that listening can do good to listeners, too. As you'll soon read, being a good listener is one good way to __ others with their problems; and what better way is there to have others ____ you? As for controlling others, it may be true that it's hard to be persuasive while you're listening, but your ___ to hear others out will often make them open to your ideas ____. Listening is often reciprocal(互惠的). “You get what you give.”
A.guess B.control C.disturb D.tease
A.insist B.advise C.persuade D.suggest
A.idea B.plan C.means D.way
A.habit B.energy C.power D.ability
A.obvious B.easy C.new D.special
A.catch B.gain C.remain D.declare
A.successful B.simple C.wise D.stupid
A.affected B.moved C.instructed D.impressed
A.fruitless B.homeless C.worthless D.senseless
A.pleasure B.course C.opportunity D.duty
A.in trouble B.in danger C.in debt D.in silence
A.reduce B.extend C.deepen D.widen
A.control B.share C.enjoy D.remove
A.or B.so C.for D.though
A.as B.When C.Since D.While
A.suppose B.aware C.realize D.imagine
A.fail B.cure C.hurt D.help
A.appreciate B.listen to C.envy D.support
A.kindness B.favour C.willingness D.concern
A.by turns B.in return C.in turn D.in order
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I was a single parent of four small children, working at a low-paid job. Money was always tight, but we had a over our heads, food on the table, clothes on our backs, and if not a lot, always . Not knowing we were poor, my kids(孩子们) just thought I was . I’ve always been glad about that.
It was Christmas time, and although there wasn’t for a lot of gifts, we planned to celebrate with a family party. But the big for the kids was the fun of Christmas .
They planned weeks ahead of time, asking what they wanted for Christmas. Fortunately, I had saved $120 for to share by all five of us.
The big arrived. I gave each kid a twenty-dollar bill and them to look for gifts of about four dollars each. Then everyone scattered(散开). We had two hours to shop; then we would back at the “Santa’s Workshop”.
Driving home, everyone was in high Christmas spirits, my younger daughter, Ginger, who was unusually . She had only one small, flat bag with a few candies— fifty-cent candies! I was so angry, but I didn’t say anything we got home. I called her into my bedroom and closed the door, to be angry again. This is what she told me:
“I was looking thinking of what to buy, and I to read the little cards on the ‘Giving Trees’.One was for a little girl, four years old, and all she for Christmas was a doll(玩具娃娃). So I took the card off the tree and the doll for her. We have so much and she doesn’t have anything.”
I never felt so as I did that day.
A.roof B.hat C.sky D.star
A.little B.less C.enough D.more
A.busy B.serious C.strict D.kind
A.effort B.room C.time D.money
A.improvement B.problem C.surprise D.excitement
A.shopping B.travelling C.parties D.greetings
A.the other B.each other C.one by one D.every other one
A.toys B.clothes C.presents D.bills
A.day B.chance C.cheque D.tree
A.forced B.reminded C.invited D.begged
A.draw B.stay C.move D.meet
A.including B.besides C.except D.regarding
A.quiet B.excited C.happy D.ashamed
A.since B.after C.while D.until
A.waiting B.ready C.hoping D.afraid
A.out B.over C.forward D.around
A.forgot B.stopped C.failed D.hated
A.wanted B.did C.got D.played
A.made B.searched C.bought D.fetched
A.angry B.rich C.patient D.bitter
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
My daughter has been crazy about raising a pet for a long time. Last spring I bought two newly-hatched(孵化) chickens for her. She got and took good care of them. , a few days later, both chickens died. She burst into tears because of .I helped her the two birds under a tree behind our house. I thought it would be the of her ideas.I was wrong . Children are children . The failure hasn’t my daughter in any way. She still tried to keep a small animal or even a snail.
One day last winter, I noticed under the eaves(屋檐) of the house a family of sparrows(麻雀). My daughter and I could the sparrows as our “pets”, but we didn’t.
So I told her to the grains on the windowsill(窗台). A few minutes later, the sparrows came to land on the windowsill and pecked(啄) at the rice. Suddenly my daughter asked me, Mum, can we catch and the sparrows, and let them live with us in the room? How it is for them to live outside?
“Oh, my dear. I do not think it’s a good idea. You know,” I explained to her,“the sparrow is a bird who loves .No one can keep them in a cage. If they are caught, they will quickly. They are to living outside. Moreover, they have warm nest under the eaves.
From then on, we have set up a kind of with the sparrow family. We feed them frequently and them as pet birds. However, we do not need to them. We seeing these little birds flying and jumping among branches, leaves and flowers inthe spring morning.
A.exciting B.excited C.disappointed D.encouraged
A.Naturally B.Suddenly C.Unfortunately D.Finally
A.leaving B.their death C.the chickens D.them
A.Bury B.put C.dig D.set
A.end B.beginning C.wish D.reality
A.Thus B.Then C.However D.Therefore
A.at all B.in all C.after all D.for all
A.encourage B.upset C.help D.impress
A.look B.act C.feed D.catch
A.throw B.pour C.pile D.scatter
A.one after another B.one another C.every other D.each other
A.stay B.love C.cage D.watch
A.free B.happy C.cold D.warm
A.freedom B.spring C.flying D.trees
A.please B.starve C.suffer D.die
A.safe B.used C.proud D.happy
A.neighbor B.understanding C.friendship D.relationship
A.think B.treat C.dream D.appreciate
A.hurt B.possess C.belong to D.hatch
A.enjoy B.would like C.want D.consider