一、语音知识:共5小题;每题1.5分,共7.5分。在下列每组单词中。有一个单词的划线部分与其他单词的划线部分的读音不同。找出这个词。
1. 请选择出划线部分读音不同的选项( )。
A. certain
B. railway
C. sail
D. wait
【正确答案】A
2. 请选择出划线部分读音不同的选项( )。
A. Thursday
B. thousand
C. television
D. result
【正确答案】C
3. 请选择出划线部分读音不同的选项( )。
A. push
B. number
C. cut
D. rubber
【正确答案】A
4. 请选择出划线部分读音不同的选项( )。
A. everyone
B. reply
C. safety
D. physics
【正确答案】B
5. 请选择出划线部分读音不同的选项( )。
A. attention
B. station
C. direction
D. question
【正确答案】D
二、词汇与语法知识(共15小题;每题1.5分,共22.5分。) 从每小题的四个选择项中,选出最佳的一项。
第6题 What do you imagine the child uses this old tool______
A. about
B. by
C. for
D. of
【正确答案】C
【答案解析】 本题考查固定短语。句意:你能想象出那个小孩用这个旧工具做什么吗?use sth.for表示用某物做某事。
第7题 —Have you got a camera
—No.I should buy______.
A. it
B. one
C. that
D. this
【正确答案】B
【答案解析】 本题考查代词辨析。句意:——你有照相机吗?——没有,我应该买一个。it是特指某物,而one指的是一个。
第8题 Peter was about to unlock the door______ he found someone had broken into the room.
A. once
B. before
C. than
D. when
【正确答案】D
【答案解析】 本题考查连词辨析。句意:彼特正准备去开门,这时他发现有人已经破门而入了。when表示这时,此刻。
第9题 The speaker, ______for his speeches,was warmly received by the students.
A. known
B. to be known
C. having known
D. being known
【正确答案】A
【答案解析】 本题考查非谓语动词。句意:那位演讲者,以他的演讲而闻名,受到了学生们的热情欢迎。通过分析句子结构可知,本句主语为the speaker,谓语部分为was warmly received by the students,所以空格部分是用分词来表示修饰的结构,the speaker与know是被动关系,故用过去分词。
第10题 His______is so great that money doesnt mean much to him.
A. idea
B. richness
C. health
D. wealth
【正确答案】D
【答案解析】 本题考查名词辨析。句意:他很有钱,以至于钱对他来说没有什么太多的意义。idea主意,想法;richness 富裕,富有;health健康;wealth财富。
第11题 My husband and I both go out to work,______we share housework at home.
A. for
B. so
C. yet
D. or
【正确答案】B
【答案解析】 本题考查连词辨析。句意:我和我的丈夫都在外边工作,因此我们一起在家做家务。for因为,由于;so因此,所以;yet但是,然而;or或者,还是。
第12题 —Would you like to go to the cinema with us tonight
—______,but I don’t think I can afford the time.
A. Id like to
B. Id better go
C. I didnt want to
D. I wouldnt
【正确答案】A
【答案解析】 本题考查日常交际用语。句意:——今晚你想和我们一起去看电影吗?——我很想去,但是我认为我没有时间。答句中的but说明前后句的意思是相反的。后句说我没有时间,所以前句是我想去。I’d like to表示我想做某事。
第13题 It is recorded that in 1892 the weather became so cold that the river______over.
A. freezes
B. was freezing
C. has frozen
D. froze
【正确答案】D
【答案解析】 本题考查时态。句意:记录表明在1892年天气变得如此冷以至于河水都结冰了。句中出现了具体的时间状语in 1892,所以应该用一般过去时。
第14题 The President gave the Secretary of State 30 days______the report.
A. completes
B. to complete
C. completing
D. completed
【正确答案】B
【答案解析】 本题考查动词不定式。句意:总统给了国务卿30天时间完成报告。此处应用动词不定式,作补语。
第15题—Who do you think has made my room so dirty,Mom
—It______be your younger brother.
A. must
B. shall
C. will
D. would
【正确答案】A
【答案解析】 本题考查情态动词。句意:——妈妈,你认为是谁把我的房间弄得这么脏?——一定是你的弟弟。情态动词must表示肯定的猜测。
第16题 Hold on,please.Ill put you______to the manager.
A. across
B. through
C. off
D. over
【正确答案】B
【答案解析】 本题考查固定短语。句意:请不要挂电话,我将给你接通经理的电话。put through to sb.是个固定短语,表示接通某人的电话。
第17题 People were disturbed and began to see where the noise______.
A. is coming
B. was coming
C. has come
D. had come
【正确答案】B
【答案解析】 本题考查时态。句意:人们被打扰了,开始去看噪音是来自哪里的。前句的时态用的是过去时,所以排除A和C;根据句意可知,此处应用过去进行时,表示过去某段时间或某一时刻正在发生或进行的行为或动作。
第18题 ______in the letter did the young man say anything about his mistake.
A. Anywhere
B. Everywhere
C. Nowhere
D. Somewhere
【正确答案】C
【答案解析】 本题考查倒装结构。句意:这个年轻人没有说出他在这封信中的任何错误。此题是陈述句,但是did提前了,应该立刻想到倒装结构,选项中能够引起倒装结构的只有nowhere。
第19题 The Greens chose to live______life was cheap,and they moved to a small town years ago.
A. if
B. until
C. when
D. where
【正确答案】D
【答案解析】 本题考查连词辨析。句意:格林一家人选择了住在生活费用比较低的地方,他们几年前就搬进了一个小镇。where在这里用作连词,引导名词性从句,相当于the place where,表示“在……的地方”。
第20题 I wrote a letter to the car dealer, ______what had happened to my new car.
A. explaining
B. to explain
C. explains
D. explained
【正确答案】A
【答案解析】 本题考查非谓语动词。句意:我给汽车商写了一封信,解释了我的新车出现的状况。现在分词作伴随状语,其逻辑主语是句子的主语,故用分词的动名词形式。
三、完形填空(共15小题;每题2分,共30分。) 通读下面的短文,掌握其大意。然后,从每小题的四个选择项中选出可填入相应空白处的最佳选项。
Everyone likes things that are free,and businesses often give things for free to customers as a way of getting more people to pay attention to their products.
Ariely,a scientist from MIT,did an experiment on what people would do when 21__________ things that were free.He 22__________ a group of students two kinds of chocolates:the good one for 15 cents each and the poor one for 1 cent each.The good chocolate was worth$1.00,so 15 cents was very cheap,23__________ the poor quality chocolate was worth 5 cents,so 24 __________ it for 1 cent wasn’t very cheap.
Most people chose the high quality chocolate for 15 cents.That’s not a 25__________.But then Ariely lowered the 26__________ of both pieces of chocolate by 1 cent.If people were 27__________ correctly,then they should 28 __________ choose the good quality chocolate.But that 29 __________ what happened.Most people chose the free chocolate.This doesn’t make sense in our 30__________ way of understanding economic behavior(经济行为).
What is happening here?Ariely 31 __________ that people want to get a good bargain,but they also want to reduce risk(风险).That is,they want to 32__________ the chance of making a 33__________.If you pay 14 cents for a piece of chocolate,and then you don’t 34__________ like it when you eat it,you have lost 14 cents.But when something is free and you don’t like it,you haven’t lost anything.People would 35__________ not to take a risk over getting a better bargain.
第21题请选择最佳选项( )。
A. facing
B. buying
C. giving
D. treating
【正确答案】A
第22题请选择最佳选项( )。
A. posted
B. produced
C. offered
D. told
【正确答案】C
第23题请选择最佳选项( )。
A. if
B. as
C. for
D. but
【正确答案】D
第24题请选择最佳选项( )。
A. getting
B. holding
C. eating
D. making
【正确答案】A
第25题请选择最佳选项( )。
A. dream
B. reason
C. reply
D. surprise
【正确答案】D
第26题请选择最佳选项( )。
A. weight
B. size
C. price
D. quality
【正确答案】C
第27题请选择最佳选项( )。
A. working
B. thinking
C. planning
D. looking
【正确答案】B
第28题请选择最佳选项( )。
A. still
B. once
C. almost
D. even
【正确答案】A
第29题请选择最佳选项( )。
A. should be
B. shouldnt be
C. is
D. isnt
【正确答案】D
第30题请选择最佳选项( )。
A. easy
B. old
C. normal
D. modern
【正确答案】C
第31题请选择最佳选项( )。
A. questioned
B. explained
C. agreed
D. added
【正确答案】B
第32题请选择最佳选项( )。
A. find
B. learn
C. lower
D. take
【正确答案】C
第33题请选择最佳选项( )。
A. decision
B. mistake
C. promise
D. warning
【正确答案】B
第34题请选择最佳选项( )。
A. usually
B. gradually
C. certainly
D. actually
【正确答案】D
第35题请选择最佳选项( )。
A. start
B. prefer
C. manage
D. afford
【正确答案】B