第二部分.英语知识运用(共两节,满分45分)
第一节完形填空(共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从21—35各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Recently, I was driving down a highway at about 60 miles an hour. A car came from the 21 direction at about the same speed. As we passed each other, I looked into the driver’s eyes for a second. I 22 whether he might be thinking, as I was, how 23 we were on each other at that moment. I was relying on him not to fall 24 , not to cross over into my lane (车道) and bring my 25 to a sudden end. He relied on me in just the same way without 26 .
I believe that is the way the world 27 . At some level, we all depend upon one another. Sometimes that dependence requires us simply not to 28 over the double yellow line. Sometimes it requires us to act cooperatively (同心协力地), with friends or even 29 .
As technology makes our world smaller, the need increases for cooperation. In 2003, doctors in five nations were encouraged to 30 the causes of SARS, saving thousands of lives. The threat(威胁) of international terrorism(恐怖主义) has shown itself to be a similar 31 , one requiring the 32 across the world. We must 33 that our future is not controlled by ourselves alone.
I’ve come to believe that one must rely upon the good faith and judgment of others. So, while 34 alone down a dark road, we must know the coming light may not be a danger, but a 35 moment of trust.
21. A. same B. opposite C. near D. far
22. A. asked B. searched C. repeated D. wondered
23. A. friendly B. strange C. dependent D. confident
24. A. awake B. asleep C. away D. apart
25. A. car B. trip C. journey D. life
26. A. doubt B. success C. difficulty D. feeling
27. A. forms B. runs C. works D. appears
28. A. jump B. cross C. take D. go
29. A. strangers B. relatives C. colleagues D. animals
30. A. determine B. damage C. consider D. find
31. A. condition B. problem C. situation D. question
32. A. efforts B. practice C. fighting D. forces
33. A. hope B. decide C. realize D. face
34. A. sitting B. standing C. flying D. driving
35. A. closed B. shared C. broken D. concerned
My brother and I are exactly one year apart. We look like twins, but we are completely ____16____ . By the time we got to middle school it was clear that my older brother ____17____ meditation ( 冥想 ),while I was a born ____18____ who preferred the theatrical, even when off stage. I took his relative silence to be offensive. We simply didn't ____19____ .
I didn't ____20____ having a tense relationship with my brother because I was involved at school. ____21____ , I threw myself into the world of musicals. I practised singing in the bedroom every day to remain at my best and be ____22____ for roles; my brother would meditate on a window seat. He might feel high school was already hard enough ____23____ my noisy singing. So space to practise became a ( n ) ____24____ between us because we shared a room.
At the start of the semester, I practised "Circle of Life" for a musical. This was the first time I _____25_____ to learn a song, because my voice cracked ( 破音 )as I switched to a head voice. I was annoyed in that period and _____26_____ practising, declaring I had reached the ceiling of my singing career. For the first time in years my brother _____27_____ quiet when I got home.
After two days of this, my brother asked me to _____28_____ him in meditation. Feeling my anger at my inability to manage this song _____29_____ ,I accepted. My brother said, "When your mind floats away, you simply come back. Don't blame yourself" I got the message, and it soon became my new _____30_____ . I kept trying at the song, no longer getting _____31_____ at myself. And just in time for the trial performance, I was able to _____32_____ power in my singing despite the switch to a head voice. It was important for me to learn that you don't have to always get everything _____33_____ the first time and that good things come with continual _____34_____ .I now understand why my brother favours the _____35_____ .
16.
A. |
mature |
B. |
different |
C. |
content |
D. |
normal |
17.
A. |
disliked |
B. |
preferred |
C. |
replaced |
D. |
abandoned |
18.
A. |
writer |
B. |
leader |
C. |
painter |
D. |
performer |
19.
A. |
get along |
B. |
drop by |
C. |
show off |
D. |
check in |
20.
A. |
try |
B. |
mind |
C. |
enjoy |
D. |
delay |
21.
A. |
In particular |
B. |
In vain |
C. |
In return |
D. |
In theory |
22.
A. |
humorous |
B. |
ordinary |
C. |
competitive |
D. |
grateful |
23.
A. |
above |
B. |
below |
C. |
near |
D. |
without |
24.
A. |
issue |
B. |
contrast |
C. |
agreement |
D. |
balance |
25.
A. |
struggled |
B. |
expected |
C. |
promised |
D. |
decided |
26.
A. |
began |
B. |
allowed |
C. |
stopped |
D. |
continued |
27.
A. |
hated |
B. |
experienced |
C. |
accepted |
D. |
wanted |
28.
A. |
help |
B. |
invite |
C. |
join |
D. |
admire |
29.
A. |
gracefully |
B. |
suddenly |
C. |
fiercely |
D. |
cautiously |
30.
A. |
limit |
B. |
sentence |
C. |
mistake |
D. |
philosophy |
31.
A. |
rude |
B. |
angry |
C. |
surprised |
D. |
excited |
32.
A. |
lose |
B. |
share |
C. |
reduce |
D. |
maintain |
33.
A. |
wrong |
B. |
right |
C. |
back |
D. |
down |
34
A. |
luck |
B. |
absence |
C. |
effort |
D. |
fear |
35.
A. |
fight |
B. |
noise |
C. |
quiet |
D. |
safety |
Over the past 38 years, Mr. Wang has pretended to be someone else many times,and has even learned to_21_different dialects(方言),leading to him being described as an "Oscar-winning actor".
The 60-year-old is not an actor, but a _22._However,he is more devoted to his " _23_ "than any real actor.
In the 1990s, a group of thieves often sold stolen goods with the heip of some beggars. To look into the _24_,Wang disguised(伪装)himself and _25_ the beggars.Dirty shorts and old shoes gave him the _26_ of a real beggar and his convincing dialect soon won him the _27_ of the beggars.
"I often _28_ them to drink alcohol. Once they were _29_,they began to talk a lot,"Wang said. "I'd then __30 __ myself to use the toilet, _31_what the beggars said, and send the _32_ to my teammates."
Wang,who is often in__33_ situations, is also a judo (柔道) master. "As long as I get close enough, no criminal can __ 34__ from me," he said.
Wang's __ 35__ won him several honors, including a National May Day Labor Medal and 11 Citations of Merit.Paris.
21.
A. |
teach |
B. |
compare |
C. |
assess |
D. |
speak |
22.
A. |
lawyer |
B. |
doctor |
C. |
policeman |
D. |
businessman |
23.
A. |
role |
B. |
study |
C. |
family |
D. |
audience |
24.
A. |
minor |
B. |
case |
C. |
future |
D. |
question |
25.
A. |
interviewed |
B. |
joined |
C. |
arrested |
D. |
assisted |
26.
A. |
challenge |
B. |
experience |
C. |
appearance |
D. |
freedom |
27.
A. |
vote |
B. |
sympathy |
C. |
permission |
D. |
trust |
28.
A. |
invited |
B. |
forced |
C. |
helped |
D. |
expected |
29.
A. |
drunk |
B. |
deserted |
C. |
bored |
D. |
lost |
30.
A. |
guide |
B. |
persuade |
C. |
excuse |
D. |
allow |
31.
A. |
refer to |
B. |
note down |
C. |
ask about |
D. |
miss out |
32.
A. |
plan |
B. |
agreement |
C. |
direction |
D. |
information |
33.
A. |
awkward |
B. |
dangerous |
C. |
unfortunate |
D. |
strange |
34.
A. |
separate |
B. |
recover |
C. |
escape |
D. |
hear |
35.
A. |
courage |
B. |
honesty |
C. |
kindness |
D. |
optimism |
Recently,I took a trip home by train.I got a seat opposite a middle-aged man with sharp eyes,who kept 1 a young woman in a window seat with a little boy on her lap.The woman's eye fell on the man's face,and she immediately looked down and 2 her scarf.
As the night wore on,people began to close their eyes,but the seats were so uncomfortable that only a very heavy sleeper could manage to get any 3 .The woman looked over at the man.He was still staring at her.She looked back at him with fire in her eyes.I was beginning to get 4 ,too.
The train moved on.The little boy was 5 awake on his mother's lap,but the woman dropped off to sleep.A moment later,he began to 6 the half-open window-one leg went over it.The man jumped up and 7 the child just before he fell out.
The 8 woke up the woman.She seemed to be in 9,and then reality dawned (显现)."Your child has been looking for an opportunity to climb out of the window,"the man said as he gave the child back to her. ."So I have been watching the whole time."The woman was 10 ,and so was I.
1.
A. |
guiding |
B. |
bothering |
C. |
watching |
D. |
monitoring |
2.
A. |
adjusted |
B. |
changed |
C. |
packed |
D. |
waved |
3.
A. |
air |
B. |
joy |
C. |
space |
D. |
rest |
4.
A. |
nervous |
B. |
embarrassed |
C. |
angry |
D. |
disappointed |
5.
A. |
almost |
B. |
still |
C. |
hardly |
D. |
even |
6.
A. |
drag |
B. |
climb |
C. |
knock |
D. |
push |
7.
A. |
grabbed |
B. |
rocked |
C. |
touched |
D. |
picked |
8.
A. |
alarm |
B. |
quarrel |
C. |
risk |
D. |
noise |
9.
A. |
sorrow |
B. |
relief |
C. |
panic |
D. |
pain |
10.
A. |
astonished |
B. |
confused |
C. |
concerned |
D. |
inspired |
When 17﹣year﹣old Quattro Musser hangs out with friends, they don't drink beer or cruise around in cars with their dates.(1) , they stick to G﹣rated activities such as rock﹣climbing or talking about books.
They are in good company, according to a new study showing that teenagers are increasingly delaying activities that had long been seen as rites of passage into (2) . The study, published Tuesday in the journal Child Development, found that the percentage of adolescents in the U. S. who have a driver's license, who have tried alcohol, who date, and who work for pay has plummeted since 1976, with the most precipitous (急剧的)(3) in the past decade. The declines appeared across race, geographic, and socioeconomic lines, and in rural, urban, and suburban areas.
To be sure, more than half of teens still engage in these activities, but the (4) have slimmed considerably. Teens have also reported a steady decline in sexual activity in recent decades, as the portion of high school students who have had sex fell from 54 percent in 1991 to 41 percent in 2015, according to Centers for Disease Control statistics. "People say,'Oh, it's because teenagers are more responsible, or more lazy, or more boring,' but they're (5) the larger trend," said Jean Twenge, lead author of the study, which drew on seven large time﹣lag surveys of Americans. Rather, she said, kids may be less (6) in activities such as dating, driving or getting jobs because in today's society, they no longer need to.
According to an evolutionary psychology theory that a person's "life strategy" slows down or speeds up depending on his or her (7) , exposure to a "harsh and unpredictable" environment leads to faster development, while a more resource﹣rich and secure environment has the (8) effect, the study said. In the first (9) , "You'd have a lot of kids and be in survival mode, start having kids young, expect your kids will have kids young, and expect that there will be more (10) and fewer resources," said Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University who is the author of "iGen: Why Today's Super﹣Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy﹣and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood."
In that model a teenage boy might be thinking more (11) about marriage, and driving a car and working for pay would be important for "establishing mate value based on procurement of resources," the study said. But America is shifting more toward the (12) model, and the change is apparent across the socioeconomic spectrum, Twenge said. "Even in families whose parents didn't have a college education…families are smaller, and the idea that children need to be carefully (13) has really sunk in." The (14) of "adult activities" could not be attributed to more homework or extracurricular activities, the study said, noting that teens today spend fewer hours on homework and the same amount of time on extracurriculars as they did in the 1990s (with the exception of community service, which has risen slightly). Nor could the use of smart phones and the Internet be entirely the (15) , the report said, since the decline began before they were widely available. If the delay is to make room for creative exploration and forming better social and emotional connections, it is a good thing, he said.
(1)A. Therefore |
B. Rather |
C. Moreover |
D. Besides |
(2)A. childhood |
B.neighborhood |
C. adolescents |
D. adulthood |
(3)A. escapes |
B. ends |
C. decreases |
D. changes |
(4)A. minorities |
B. majorities |
C. masses |
D. amounts |
(5)A. taking |
B. avoiding |
C. sending |
D. missing |
(6)A. interested |
B. envied |
C. relieved |
D. realized |
(7)A. emotions |
B. surroundings |
C. customs |
D. habits |
(8)A. wrong |
B. same |
C. opposite |
D. similar |
(9)A. event |
B. issue |
C. case |
D. occasion |
(10)A. trouble |
B. questions |
C. benefits |
D. diseases |
(11)A. respectively |
B. delicately |
C. seriously |
D. considerably |
(12)A. slower |
B. better |
C. smaller |
D. faster |
(13)A. emphasized |
B. related |
C. organized |
D. educated |
(14)A. implement |
B. postponement |
C. achievement |
D. payment |
(15)A. cause |
B. impact |
C. fact |
D. result |
Famous people often say that the key to becoming both happy and successful is to "do what you love." But mastering a skill, even one that you deeply love, (1) a huge amount of dull work. Anyone who want to master a skill must run through the cycle of practice, (2) feedback, modification, and increasing improvement again, again and again. Some people seem able to concentrate on practicing an activity like this for years and take pleasure in their gradual improvement. Yet others find this kind of focused, time﹣intensive work to be (3) or boring. Why?
The difference may turn on the ability to enter into a state of "flow," the feeling of being completely (4) in what you are doing. Whether you call it being "in the zone," or something else, a flow state is a special experience. Since Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi developed the (5) of flow in the 1970's, it has been a mainstay of positive﹣psychology research. Flow states can happen in the course of any activity, and they are most common when a task has well﹣defined goals and is at a(n) (6) skill level, and where the individual is able to (7) their performance to clear and immediate feedback.
Csikszentmihalyi suggested that those who most (8) entered into flow states had an "autotelic personality (自带目的性人格)" a disposition to seek out challenges and get into a state of flow. While those without such a personality see difficulties, autotelic individuals see opportunities to build skills. Autotelic individuals are receptive and open to new challenges. They are also (9) and have low levels of self﹣centeredness. Such people, with their capacity for "disinterested interest" have a great (10) over others in developing their innate abilities.
Fortunately for those of us who aren't (11) blessed with an autotelic personalily, there is evidence that flow states can be (12) by environmental factors. (13) , the learning framework prescribed by Montessori schools seems to encourage flow states.
While there isn't (yet) a pill that can turn mundane practice into a thrilling activity for anyone, it is heartening that we seem, at least to some (14) , to be able to nudge ourselves toward flow states. By giving ourselves unstructured, open﹣ended time, minimal (15) , and a task set at a moderate level of difficulty, we may be able to love what we're doing while we put in the hard work practicing the things we loving doing.
(1)A. inquires |
B. requires |
C. acquires |
D. gains |
(2)A. preventable |
B. maintainable |
C. sustainable |
D. critical |
(3)A. frustrating |
B. encouraging |
C. concerning |
D. instructing |
(4)A. improved |
B. indicated |
C. involved |
D. inspired |
(5)A. concept |
B. receipt |
C. reception |
D. condition |
(6)A. alternative |
B. appropriate |
C. approximate |
D. sufficient |
(7)A. make |
B. adopt |
C. adapt |
D. adjust |
(8)A. fully |
B. really |
C. readily |
D. accidentally |
(9)A. generous |
B. persistent |
C. courageous |
D. resistant |
(10)A. addict |
B. advance |
C. advantage |
D. admire |
(11)A. necessarily |
B. obviously |
C. gradually |
D. occasionally |
(12)A. forbidden |
B. functioned |
C. fastened |
D. facilitated |
(13)A. In particular |
B. For example |
C. In conclusion |
D.In comparison |
(14)A. intention |
B. degree |
C. purpose |
D. extension |
(15)A. temptation |
B. charming |
C. attractions |
D. distractions |