第二节(共8小题;每小题1分,满分8分)
阅读下面短文。根据短文内容,在表格中第63至第70小题的空格里填上适当的单词,使信息完整。每空填一个词。
Green is an important color in nature. It is the color of grass, the leaves on trees and most growing plants. Sometimes, the word green means young, fresh and growing. Sometimes, it describes something that is not yet ripe or finished. For example, a greenhorn is someone who has no expereince, who is new to a situation. In the 15th century, a greenhorn was a young cow or ox whose horns had not yet developed. A century or so later, a greenhorn was a soldier who had not yet had any experience in battle. By the 18th century, a greenhorn had the meaning it has today.
Someone who has the ability to grow plants well is said to have a green thumb. The expression comes from the early 1990s. A person with a green thumb seems to have a magic touch that makes plants grow quickly and well. You might say that the woman next door has a green thumb if her garden continues to grow long after your plants have died.
The Green Revolution is the name given some years ago to the development of new kinds of rice and other grains. The new plants produced much larger crops. The Green Revolution was the result of hard work by agricultural scientists who had green thumbs.
Green is also the color used to describe the powerful emotion, envy. The green-eyed monster is not a terrible creature from outer space. It is an expression used about four hundred years ago by British writer William Shakespeare in his play “Othello.” It describes the unpleasant feeling a person has when someone else has something he wants. A young man may suffer from the green-eyed monster if his girlfriend begins going out with someone else. Or, that green-eyed monster may affect your friend if you get a pay rise and she does not.
| Main idea: Green is an important color which means being young, 63 and growing. |
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| Greenhorn |
It refers to someone who has 64 nothing. |
| Green thumb |
A person with a greenthumb 65 plants well, and his/her garden continues to grow long after the 66 of your plants. |
| Green Revolution |
It is the name given to the 67 of new plants, which were produced by agricultural scientists and had larger 68 . |
| Green-eyed monster |
It 69 the unpleasant feeling a person has when 70 person has something he wants. |
第二节语法填空(共10小题;每小题l 5分.满分l5分)
阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空,并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16—25的相应位置上。
Keeping a diary in English is one of the 16__________ (effect) ways to improve our English writing ability.
17._____________ (compare) with other forms of writing, it is shorter and takes 18.____________ time. It can help us to develop the habit of thinking in English. 19.____________ we persist in this practice, gradually we’ll learn how to express ourselves in English. In keeping a diary in English, we certainly run up against many 20.__________. In the first place, 21.____________ often happens that we have trouble finding appropriate words and phrases to give expression to our mind. Secondly, there are many idiomatic ways of saying things in Chinese. And it is extremely hard for us to put them into English properly.
As far as I _22. ______________ (concern), my 23._____________(suggest) is that we should always have a notebook and a Chinese-English dictionary within easy reach. Whenever something beats us, we can first put it down in our notebook and then consult our dictionary. We can also turn to our English teacher for help, if necessary. In short, I believe that it is 24.___________ great use to keep a diary in English for 25.___ ________ development of our writing skills.
第二节语法填空(共10小题;每小题l 5分.满分l5分)
阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空,并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16—25的相应位置上。
Once upon a time there was a rich merchant 16 __ _____ had four wives. He loved the 4th wife the most. He took great care of her and gave her nothing 17___ _______ the best. He also loved the 3rd wife very much. He was very 18__ (pride) of her and always wanted to show off her to his friends. He also loved his 2nd wife. She is __ 19 ___________very considerate person, always patient and in fact is the merchant’s close friend. __20__________ the merchant faced some problems, he always turned to his 2nd wife and __21____________ would always help him out and tide(帮助渡过) him 22__________ difficult times. Now, the merchant’s 1st wife is a very loyal partner and has made great 23___________ (contribute) in maintaining his wealth and business as well as 24____________ (take) care of the household. _ 25 ________, the merchant did not love the first wife and although she loved him deeply, he hardly took notice of her.
第二节语法填空(共10小题;每小题l 5分.满分l5分)
阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空,并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16—25的相应位置上。 In order to know a foreign language thoroughly, four things are necessary. Firstly, we must understand the language when we hear 16. spoken. Secondly, we must be able to speak it ourselves correctly with confidence and without hesitation. 17. , we must be able to read the language, and fourthly, we must be able to write it. We must be able to make sentences that are grammatically correct.
There is no easy way to success 18. language learning. 19. good memory is a great help, but it is not enough only 20. (memorize) rules from a grammar book. It is not much use learning by heart long lists of words and 21. meanings, studying the dictionary and so on. We must learn by using the language. 22 . we are satisfied with only a few rules we have memorized, we are not really learning the language. “Learn through use” is a good piece of 23. (advise) for those 24. are studying a new language. Practice is important. We must practise speaking and 25. (write) the language whenever we can.
第二节语法填空(共10小题;每小题l 5分.满分l5分)
阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空,并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16—25的相应位置上。
Ms. Mary was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like half her age. She loved driving very fast, and boasted of the fact 16. she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished 17. a driving mistake.
Then one day, she nearly lost her record. A police car followed her, and the policemen in it saw her pass a red light without 18. (stop).
When Ms. Mary came before the judge, he looked at her severely and said that she was too old to drive a car, and that the reason 19. she had not stopped at red light was most probably that her eyes had become weak 20 old age, so that she had simply not seen it.
When the judge had finished 21. he was saying, Ms. Mary opened the big handbag she was carrying and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she 22. (choose) a needle with a very small eye, and threaded it at the first time.
When she had 23 (success) done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed both the needle and thread to the judge, saying, “Now it is your turn. I suppose you can drive a car well, and you have no doubts 24. your eyesight.”
The judge took the needle and tried to thread it. After half a dozen times, he had still not succeeded. The case against Ms. Mary 25. (dismiss), and her record remained unbroken.
What is time? Is it a thing to be saved or spent or wasted, like money? Or is it something we have no control over, like the weather? Is it the same all over the world? That’s an easy question, you say. Wherever you go, a minute is 60 seconds, an hour is 60 minutes, a day is 24 hours, and so forth. Well, maybe. But in America, time is more than that. Americans see time as a valuable resource. Maybe that’s why they are fond of the expression, “Time is money.”
Because Americans believe time is a limited resource, they try to keep and manage it. People in the US often attend conferences or read books on time management. It seems they all want to organize their time better. Professionals carry around pocket planners(计划书) — some in electronic form — to keep track of appointments and deadlines. People do all they can to press more life out of their time.
To Americans, punctuality is a way of showing respect for other people’s time. Being more than 10 minutes late to an appointment usually calls for an apology, and maybe an explanation. People who are running late often call ahead to let others know of the delay. Of course, the less formal the situation, the less important it is to be exactly on time. At informal get-togethers, for example, people often arrive as much as 30 minutes past the appointed time. But they usually don’t try that at work.
American lifestyles show how much people respect the time of others. When people plan an event, they often set time days or weeks in advance. Once the time is fixed, it takes almost an emergency to change it. If people want to come to your house for a friendly visit, they will usually call first to make sure it is convenient. Only very close friends will just “drop by” unannounced. Also, people hesitate to call others late at night for fear they might be in bed. The time may vary, but most folks think twice about calling after 10:00 pm.
Even Americans would admit that no one can master time. Time, like money, slips all too easily through our finger. And time, like the weather, is very hard to predict. However, time is one of life’s most precious gifts.The main idea of the passage is _______.
| A.time is money | B.different attitude toward time in the world |
| C.how to save time | D.how Americans treat time |
In the fourth paragraph, the writer mainly tells us that _________.
| A.Americans respect others’ time in daily life |
| B.Americans seldom call after 10:00 |
| C.Americans inform before paying a visit to their friends |
| D.when planning an event, Americans usually fix time ahead of time |
The underlined phrase “think twice” (in Paragraph 4) probably means “_______ “.
| A.think for a second time | B.be careful |
| C.be afraid | D.pay attention |
It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
| A.Americans like time better than anything else |
| B.generally speaking, Americans respect their time |
| C.on the whole, Americans treasure their time |
| D.Americans consider their time is difficult to master and predict |