1、不按以上要求作答的答案无效。4.考生必须保持答题卡的整洁,考试结束后,将答题卡交回。I.语言知识及应用(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1-15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。 Dad loved children. And he always wanted a _1_ family. Eventually, he got what he wanted with twelve children in the family. Without fail, he would show us
2、off to visitors. Once, Dad _2_ presented the first three children in the family, Ann, Mary and Ernestine, to some visitors. Then he picked up a fourth child, and said, And this is our _3_ model, complete with all the improvements. And dont think that this is all; we are _4_ the 1953 model some time
3、next month. But what he _5_ most was taking us o t or a drive. On one occasion a man in a village we were passing through shouted _6_ that he had seen eleven people in our car, not _7_ Mum and Dad. _8_, called out over his shoulder, You _9_ the second baby up from the front here, Mister. Another tim
4、e, Dad told us this joke, though we were not sure then whether he was telling us the _10_. Mum, who was a psychologist (心理学家), once went to give a lecture and left Dad in charge of the _11_. When Mum returned, she asked him if everything had been OK. He said everything was fine _12_ one of the child
5、ren had been taught a lesson because he had been _13_. When he pointed at the child that had been _14_, Mum looked at him calmly and said, Thats not one of ours, dear. He _15_ next door.1. A. rich B. lovely C. close D. large2. A. surprisingly B. nervously C. kindly D. proudly3. A. dearest B. smalles
6、t C. latest D. youngest4. A. ordering B. selling C. expecting D. improving5. A. hated B. enjoyed C. cared D. hoped6. A. crazily B. excitedly C. curiously D. directly7. A. counting B. naming C. showing D. reaching8. A. Immediately B. Carefully C. Angrily D. Easily9. A. saw B. missed C. forgot D. left
7、10. A. truth B. story C. adventure D. accident11. A. lecture B. house C. office D. activity12. A. even if B. apart from C. so that D. except that3. A. troublesome B. careless C. active D. quiet14. A. found B. caught C. punished D. wounded15. A. goes to B. belongs to C. works D. plays第二节语法填空(共10小题;每小
8、题1.5分,满分15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。 The disappearance of the famous crime writer, Agatha Christie, was as mysterious as any of her exciting stories. At about 11 oclock on the evening of F day, December 3rd in 1926, Mrs. Christie got into her
9、car and took a drive without saying _16_ she was going. She didnt return. The next morning her car was found without _17_ driver at Newlands Corner, Surrey. People imagined that she might _18_ (kill) herself. _19_ as the days went by, it was suggested that she was murdered. The press and the public
10、_20_ (natural) took great interest in the case, with at least one newspaper _21_ (offer) a reward to anyone who could find Mrs. Christie. Agatha finally was found alive on Tuesday, December 14th, _22_ she was reunited with her husband at a hotel in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, _23_ was located around
11、 50 kilometers away from her car. _24_ was said that, for ten days, the writer had been staying at the hotel under the name of Mrs. Theresa Neele. Her husband said, She has suffered _25_ the most complete loss of memory and I do not think she knows who she is.II.阅读(共两节,满分50分)第一节 阅读理解(共20小题;每小题2分,满分4
12、0分) 阅读下面短文,从每题所给的A、B,C和D项中选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。A Like all other mothers who have small children, I, too, have to steal time-from my own children at home and from the children who know me as their teacher-just to put a few words down on paper. Many times Ive wanted to write for myself, for other women,
13、 for my parents, for my husband, and especially for my children. I would have liked to leave a legacy (遗产) of words explaining what it has meant to have twins. One reason that there is not a great deal written about being a mother of a new baby is that there is seldom a moment to think of anything e
14、lse but the babys needs. With twins, I did not have a spare hand to write with. Before my twins were born, my days were long and I had nothing to write about. After the twins birth I did have something to write about, but I found myself facing not a pen and paper but milk bottles. Some nights, frien
15、ds would visit. They would leave at 11 p.m., heading for bed, and for us the night was only just beginning. With twins, there is really no night. Each feeding lasts a long time. At 1:00 a.m., each of them would begin crying from hunger. At 4:00am, when I finally put them down, I felt exhausted. Two
16、years have passed since then and weve managed to live through it all. My days are still very full and even now there isnt one evening when I put the twins down for the night that I dont have a break. At last a little time for myself.26. When did the writer have time but she didnt feel like writing a
17、nything?A. Before the birth of her twins.B. When she faced bottles of milk.C. After her friends visited her home.D. When she had to think about the babies needs.27. What does the writer mainly write about?A. Her role as a wife. B. Her work as a writer.C. Her experience as a mother. D. Her feeling as
18、 a woman.28. Why did the writer say the night was just beginning (in the 4th paragraph)?A. Because her friends left her house too late.B. Because she started to take care of the twins even at night.C. Because her babies often cried and she woke up.D. Because she could not sleep till four in the morn
19、ing.29. This passage is probably from a(n) _.A. blog B. newspaper C. guidebook D. advertisement30. What can we learn from the passage?A. The writer was unhappy because of no time for writing.B. The writer cared her babies more than her own interests.C. The writer hated to be a mother of twins.D. The
20、 writer could steal a little time at night.BBeyond the Factory: Child Labor in the Cities At the beginning of the nineteenth century, factory owners faced few restrictions on the way they employed their children workers, who were between the age of 7 and 12. Gradually laws came into being. The first
21、 child-labor laws were passed at the state level in America and usually focused on both required education and a minimum age for employment. And added rules limited the length of the workday for children. Pennsylvania, for example, limited the workday to 10 hours for children under 12. However, gove
22、rnment officials cared little whether businesses followed the law. In fact one group of children was left entirely unprotected by labor laws - the children of immigrant families. By the beginning of the twentieth century, piecework appeared, for which people were paid by the piece. Significant numbe
23、rs of women sewed baby dresses or mens neckties and made the artificial flowers used to decorate hats. Piecework turned homes into factories that were free from the law, and countless children worked long hours alongside their mothers and old sisters. Manufactures exploited the system shamelessly an
24、d paid the lowest wages they could. Embroidering (刺绣) a silk dress, which was a 10-day job, might generate a five-dollar payment. In the case of willowing, workers needed to add more strands to ostrich feathers used on hats to make them longer and more graceful. The first willowers were paid 15 cent
25、s per inch, but a few months later, the pay was reduced to 13 cents. Within three years, willowers were earning only three cents per inch. In order to survive under these circumstances, pieceworkers had even their youngest children help them. In one Italian neighborhood, a three-year-old girl helped
26、 her mother sew clothes. In another case, a child of eight who had lived in New York for three years had never been to school at all and could speak almost no English. Slowly child labor laws brought these abuses to an end.31. The first child-labor laws required _. A. workplace safety and conditions
27、 B. minimum payment and age C. education and working time D. minimum payment and schooling32. Manufactures who hired women to do piecework _. A. were kind and concerned employers B. were sometimes called willowers C. usually paid the lowest salary D. forced children to turn home into factories33. Wi
28、llowing was a kind of _. A. handwork activity B. workplace C. payment requirement D. workers34. By raising the example of the three-year-old girls experience in the last paragraph, the author intended to _. A. show how poor the situations were for children workers B. blame those adult pieceworkers f
29、or allowing children to work C. attract attention to protect young children D. emphasize the importance of educating young children35. Which of the following sentences best summarizes the passage? A. The first child-labor laws were limited due to working at the state level. B. Early child-labor laws
30、 offered no protection to children who worked at home. C. Some immigrant children did not learn English because of their piecework. D. Child-labor laws should have come into being before children became workers.C SHANGHAI-Famed Chinese scientist Qian Weichang died here on Friday morning, saddening millions of his countrymen. He was 98. Qian, a pioneer in mechanics and applied mathematics in modern China, was one of the thr
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