2013·江苏卷
第二部分 英语知识运用(共两节,满分35分)
第一节 单项填空(共15小题;每小题1分,满分15分)
请认真阅读下面各题,从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。
例:It is generally considered unwise to give a child ________ he or she wants.
A.however B.whatever
C.whichever D.whenever
答案是B。
21.Generally,students' inner motivation with high expectations from others ________ essential to their development.
A.is B.are C.was D.were
21.A 考查主谓一致。主语students' inner motivation表示单数意义,所以谓语动词用单数,并且叙述的是通常情况下的状态,所以用一般现在时,故选A项。
22.—The T-shirt I received is not the same as is shown online.
—________ ?But I promise you we'll look into it right away.
A.Who says B.How come
C.What for D.Why worry
22.B 考查情景交际。句意:——我收到的T恤衫跟网上展出的不一样。——怎么会那样呢?我向你保证我们将立刻着手调查。How come?意为“怎么会?”,符合语境。A项意为“谁说的”;C项意为“为何目的”;D项意为“为何担忧”,均与语境不符。
23.—The town is so beautiful! I just love it.
—Me too.The character of the town is well ________.
A.qualified B.preserved
C.decorated D.simplified
23.B 考查动词辨析。句意:——这座城市如此美丽啊!我喜爱它。——我也是。这座城市的特征得到了很好的保存。preserve意为“保护,保存”,符合题意。qualify意为“有资格”;decorate意为“装饰”;simplify意为“简化”。
24. Lionel Messi, ________ the record for the most goals in a calendar year,is considered the most talented football player in Europe.
A.set B.setting
C.to set D.having set
24.D 考查非谓语动词。句意:里奥内尔·梅西在一年内打破进球最多的纪录,他被认为是欧洲最有天赋的足球运动员。动词set的动作在主句的谓语动词is considered之前发生,且与主语Lionel Messi是主谓关系,所以用现在分词的完成式,故选D项。
25. —Could I use your car tomorrow morning?
—Sure.I ________ a report at home.
A.will be writing
B.will have written
C.have written
D.have been writing
25.A 考查动词时态。句意:明天早上我可以用你的车吗?——当然可以。明天早上我会在家写一份报告。根据时间状语tomorrow morning可知,这一动作发生在将来,“我写报告”这个动作是在明天早上那个时候发生的,所以用将来进行时。
26. I am always delighted when I receive an e-mail from you. ________ the party on July 1st, I shall be pleased to attend.
A.On account of B.In response to
C.In view of D.With regard to
26.D 考查介词短语辨析。句意:收到你的电子邮件我总是很快乐。关于7月1日的聚会,我乐意参加。with regard to意为“关于”,符合题意。on account of意为“因为”;in response to意为“作为……的答复”;in view of意为“鉴于,考虑到”。
【知识拓展】在单项填空中,经常会给出搭配相似的短语让考生辨析,如:in honor of, in favour of, in place of, in control of, in charge of等。
27. “Never for a second,” the boy says, “________that my father would come to my rescue.”
A.I doubted B.do I doubt
C.I have doubted D.did I doubt
27.D 考查倒装用法。否定副词never放于句首时,句子需用部分倒装语序,即把助动词放在主语的前面;根据引号里的宾语从句中谓语动词用过去将来时可知,主句要用一般过去时,故选D项。学生如果审题不清,容易被the boy says干扰,不知道使用倒装语序或者误用了与现在有关的时态,而误选其他三个选项。
28. In the global economy, a new drug for cancer, ________ it is discovered, will create many economic possibilities around the world.
A.whatever B.whoever
C.wherever D.whichever
28. C 考查状语从句。句意:在全球经济中,一种治疗癌症的新药,不管在哪里问世,都会在世界范围内创造很多商机。分析句子结构可知,空格后的主要成分完整,缺少的是状语,所以用wherever“无论哪里”,符合题意。whatever意为“无论什么”;whoever意为“无论谁”;whichever意为“无论哪一个”。
29. Team leaders must ensure that all members ________ their natural desire to avoid the embarrassment associated with making mistakes.
A.get over B.look over
C.take over D.come over
29.A 考查动词短语辨析。句意:团队的领导者必须确保所有的成员克服他们与生俱来的因惧怕犯错而难堪的心理。get over意为“克服”,符合题意。look over意为“检查”;take over意为“接管”;come over意为“过来,顺便来访”。
30. I should not have laughed if I ________ you were serious.
A.thought B.would think
C.had thought D.have thought
30.C 考查虚拟语气。句意:如果我认为你是认真的话,我就不会笑了(实际上我笑了)。根据主句的谓语动词可知,是与过去事实相反的虚拟,所以if从句的谓语动词用过去完成时,故选C项。
31. Shortly after suffering from a massive earthquake and ________ to ruins, the city took on a new look.
A.reducing B.reduced
C.being reduced D.having reduced
31. C 考查非谓语动词。分析句子结构可知,空格处应与前面的suffering并列,作介词after的宾语,同时动词reduce与主句主语the city之间构成动宾关系,所以用动名词的被动形式,故选C项。
32. The president of the World Bank says he has a passion for China,________ he remembers starting as early as his childhood.
A.where B.which
C.what D.when
32.B 考查定语从句。先行词a passion for China在非限制性定语从句中作动词remember的宾语,所以用关系代词which引导,故选B项。
33. With inspiration from other food cultures, American food culture can take a ________ for the better.
A.share B.chance
C.turn D.lead
33.C 考查名词辨析。句意:因受到其他饮食文化的启发,美国的饮食文化可以更好。turn意为“变化”,符合题意。share意为“份额,股份”;chance意为“机会”;lead意为“领导,榜样”。
34.—What about your self-drive trip yesterday?
—Tiring!The road is being widened, and we ________ a rough ride.
A.had B.have
C.would have D.have had
34.A 考查动词时态。句意:——昨天你自驾游怎么样?——累人!马路正在加宽,我们开车开得艰难。根据语境可知,“我们开车开得艰难”是在昨天发生的动作,所以用一般过去时,故选A项。
35.—Thank you for the flowers.
—________.I thought they might cheer you up.
A.That's right B.All right
C.I'm all right D.It's all right
35.D 考查情景交际。句意:——谢谢你的花。——不客气。我认为它们或许会使你振奋起来。D项意为“不客气,没关系”,符合语境。A项意为“没错”;B项意为“好吧”;C项意为“我很好”。
第二节 完形填空(共20小题;每小题l分,满分20分)
请认真阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。
I used to believe in the American Dream,which meant a job,a mortgage(按揭),credit cards, success.I wanted it and worked toward it like everyone else, all of us __36__ chasing the same thing.
One year, through a series of unhappy events, it all fell __37__.I found myself homeless and alone.I had my truck and$56.I __38__ the countryside for some place I could rent for the __39__ possible amount.I came upon a shabby house four miles up a winding mountain road __40__ the Potomac River in West Virginia.It was __41__, full of broken glass and rubbish.I found the owner, rented it,and __42__ a corner to camp in.
The locals knew nothing about me,__43__ slowly, they started teaching me the __44__ of being a neighbor.They dropped off blankets,candles,and tools,and began __45__ around to chat. They started to teach me a belief in a __46__ American Dream—not the one of individual achievement but of __47__.
What I had believed in, all those things I thought were __48__ for a civilized life, were nonexistent in this place.__49__ on the mountain, my most valuable possessions were my __50__ with my neighbors.
Four years later, I moved back into __51__.I saw many people were having a really hard time, __52__ their jobs and homes.I managed to rent a big enough house to __53__ a handful of people. There are four of us now in the house,but over time I've had nine people come in and move on to other places.We'd all be in __54__ if we hadn't banded together.
The American Dream I believe in now is a shared one.It's not so much about what I can get for myself;it's about __55__ we can all get by together.
36.A.separately B.equally
C.violently D.naturally
37.A.off B.apart C.over D.out
38.A.crossed B.left
C.toured D.searched
39.A.fullest B.largest
C.fairest D.cheapest
40.A.at B.through
C.over D.round
41.A.occupied B.abandoned
C.emptied D.robbed
42.A.turned B.approached
C.cleared D.cut
43.A.but B.although
C.otherwise D.for
44.A.benefit B.lesson
C.nature D.art
45.A.sticking B.looking
C.swinging D.turning
46.A.wild B.real
C.different D.remote
47.A.neighborliness B.happiness
C.friendliness D.kindness
48.A.unique B.expensive
C.rare D.necessary
49.A.Up B.Down C.Deep D.Along
50.A.cooperation B.relationships
C.satisfaction D.appointments
51.A.reality B.society
C.town D.life
52.A.creating B.losing
C.quitting D.offering
53.A.put in B.turn in
C.take in D.get in
54.A.yards B.shelters
C.camps D.cottages
55.A.when B.what
C.whether D.how
【要点综述】 本文是一篇夹叙夹议的散文。本文主题是关于American Dream的,讲述作者在遭遇一系列不幸后,在乡村的经历使作者对美国梦有了认识和深刻理解。
36.A 考查副词辨析。根据本句中the same thing的提示可知,作者和其他人都在各自(separately)追逐同一个梦想。
37.B 考查副词辨析。根据前半部分“经历了不愉快的事件”以及后面一句话“我发现自己无家可归、独身一人”可知,此处指作者的生活变得一团糟。fall apart意为“破碎,土崩瓦解”。故选B项。
38.D 考查动词辨析。根据本句可知,作者在乡下寻找能租住的地方。search意为“寻找”,符合语境。
39.D 考查形容词最高级辨析。根据前一句“I had my truck and $56.”以及后面一句中“I came upon a shabby house…”可知,作者身上没多少钱,所以要租最便宜的房子。故选D项。
40.C 考查介词辨析。表示横跨河面的道路通常用介词over。
41.B 考查动词辨析。根据house的修饰词shabby和full of broken glass and rubbish可知,这幢房子没人居住,是被遗弃的。故选B项。
42.C 考查动词辨析。既然房子里满是碎玻璃和垃圾,所以得清理(clear)。
43.A 考查连词辨析。根据前半句“他们对我一无所知”以及后半句“他们教我邻里相处之道”可知,前后句之间是转折关系,but意为“但是”,符合语境。
44.D 考查名词辨析。根据第三段最后一句可知,他们认为邻里间应友好相处,由此说明他们教作者的是邻里间相处的艺术(art)。
45.A 考查动词辨析。根据本句中chat(聊天)可知,他们送来毛毯、蜡烛、工具之后开始继续留下来聊天。stick around意为“逗留,在原地”,符合语境。
46.C 考查形容词辨析。根据第一段可知,作者理解的美国梦就是取得个人成就,而这里他们认为的梦想是邻里友好相处,因此是不同的。故选C项。
47.A 考查名词辨析。四个选项中与individual achievement相对的应是neighborliness(邻里友好),且前文中也提到此。
48.D 考查形容词辨析。根据第一段可知,作者之前认为的那些东西如工作、按揭、信贷、成功,是文明生活中必须具备的,而在这个地方完全不存在。与nonexistent相对的是necessary。
49.A 考查副词辨析。根据第二段第五句可知,此处指在山上,故选A项。
50.B 考查名词辨析。根据第三段最后一句中“…but of neighborliness.”的提示可知,在这座山上,作者最有价值的财富便是与邻居间的关系(relationship)。
51.C 考查名词辨析。根据第二段可知,作者在乡下居住;根据本句中moved back可知,现在是回到城里。故选C项。
52.B 考查动词辨析。根据本句前半句提示可知,许多人过着艰难的生活,说明他们失去工作和家园。故选B项。
53.C 考查动词短语辨析。根据下文可知,作者租住的房子最初有4个人,然后又多达9个人,因此,他租了一间足够大的房子,是为了收留更多的人。take in意为“收留”,符合语境。
54.B 考查名词辨析。如果不联合起来,作者和他们就会都在避难所(shelter)。
55.D 考查连词辨析。现在作者所信仰的“美国梦”是同舟共济,不是能为自己获得什么,而是如何通过共同努力让所有人都有收获。此处表示方式,所以用how。
第三部分 阅读理解(共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分)
请认真阅读下列短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。
A
Guest Services
Front Gate Guest Services can help you with anything from finding out what time your favourite show starts to purchasing tickets.The Guest Services location inside Front Gate also serves as a message centre,lost children's area and lost and found.Canada's Wonderland does not offer personalized public paging(传呼).
Food&Drink Options
Shops are located throughout Canada's Wonderland.Picnic baskets and coolers are welcome at the shelter located outside Wonderland on the north side of our Front Gate.Outside food and drinks are not allowed in the Park.Bottled water may be brought into the Park.
ATMs
ATMs are located just inside the Park beside Stroller,Locker and Wheelchair Rentals at the Front Gate,as well as KidZville(beside Guest Services),Splash Works(two locations),and outside Thunder Run.
Pet Care
A pet care facility is located outside our Front Gate on the south side for a daily fee.Water and air-conditioned shelters are provided.Guests are asked to provide food and exercise.
First Aid
If you need medical assistance,tell any park employee who will call First Aid and have them come to your location.
Stroller,Locker and Wheelchair Rentals
Stroller, locker and wheelchair rentals are available inside the Park at the Front Gate, beside Thrills Are Wonderland.
Smoking Policy
Smoking is not permitted while riding or standing in line for rides or in any of the children's areas or the Water Park. Smoking is permitted in designated(指定的)areas only.
Failure to observe all Park rules could result in being driven out of the Park without refund.
56.The leaflet is to inform visitors of the Park's________.
A.advanced management
B.thrill performances
C.entertainment facilities
D.thoughtful services
57.A visitor to the Park can ________.
A.rent a stroller outside Front Gate
B.ask for first aid by Thunder Run
C.smoke in the Water Park
D.leave his pet at KidZville
【要点综述】 本文是一篇说明文,是加拿大游乐园的旅游指导宣传页。作者通过描述游客服务、饮食选择、ATM机服务、宠物的照料、急救、婴儿车、储物柜和轮椅的租用及吸烟的规定等方面,为游客的旅游提供全方位的指导服务。
56.D 细节理解题。文章主要介绍了游乐园的顾客服务,有饮食选择、宠物护理、急救措施等周到的服务,故选D项。
57.B 细节理解题。根据First Aid一栏中的信息可知,来园的游客可以要求急救,故选B项。而A项应是在前门内;C项应是在指定的区域可以吸烟,而不是在水上公园;D项中宠物应留在前门外并要求游客提供食物,故A、C和D错。
B
We've considered several ways of paying to cut in line:hiring line standers, buying tickets from scalpers(票贩子),or purchasing line-cutting privileges directly from,say,an airline or an amusement park.Each of these deals replaces the morals of the queue(waiting your turn)with the morals of the market(paying a price for faster service).
Markets and queues—paying and waiting—are two different ways of allocating things,and each is appropriate to different activities.The morals of the queue,“First come, first served,” have an egalitarian(平等主义的)appeal.They tell us to ignore privilege,power,and deep pockets.
The principle seems right on playgrounds and at bus stops.But the morals of the queue do not govern all occasions.If I put my house up for sale, I have no duty to accept the first offer that comes along, simply because it's the first.Selling my house and waiting for a bus are different activities,properly governed by different standards.
Sometimes standards change, and it is unclear which principle should apply.Think of the recorded message you hear,played over and over,as you wait on hold when calling your bank:“Your call will be answered in the order in which it was received.”This is essential for the morals of the queue.It's as if the company is trying to ease our impatience with fairness.
But don't take the recorded message too seriously.Today, some people's calls are answered faster than others.Call center technology enables companies to “score” incoming calls and to give faster service to those that come from rich places.You might call this telephonic queue jumping.
Of course,markets and queues are not the only ways of allocating things.Some goods we distribute by merit,others by need,still others by chance.However,the tendency of markets to replace queues,and other non-market ways of allocating goods is so common in modern life that we scarcely notice it anymore.It is striking that most of the paid queue-jumping schemes we've considered—at airports and amusement parks,in call centers,doctors' offices,and national parks—are recent developments, scarcely imaginable three decades ago.The disappearance of the queues in these places may seem an unusual concern,but these are not the only places that markets have entered.
58.According to the author,which of the following seems governed by the principle “First come,first served”?
A.Taking buses.
B.Buying houses.
C.Flying with an airline.
D.Visiting amusement parks.
59.The example of the recorded message in Paragraphs 4 and 5 illustrates ________.
A.the necessity of patience in queuing
B.the advantage of modern technology
C.the uncertainty of allocation principle
D.the fairness of telephonic services
60.The passage is meant to ________.
A.justify paying for faster services
B.discuss the morals of allocating things
C.analyze the reason for standing in line
D.criticize the behavior of queue jumping
【要点综述】 本文是一篇议论文,主要讲述的是生活中购物买票等的插队问题。作者通过举例、道理分析来解读道德和市场的平衡问题,要想得到快速的服务,就要额外付出更多的费用,由此对在道德和市场竞争之间产生的矛盾进行探讨。
58.A 推理判断题。根据第二段中的“First come, first served…”和第三段“The principle seems right on playgrounds and at bus stops.But the morals of the queue do not govern all occasions.”可知选A项。
59.C 细节判断题。根据第四段“Sometimes standards change, and it is unclear which principle should apply.”和第五段可知,有时分配的原则是不断变化的,也就是说分配原则的不确定性,故选C项。
60.B 作者意图题。本文主要阐述了如何进行分配,讨论了基于分配原则的可变性的道德标准,故选B项。
C
If a diver surfaces too quickly,he may suffer the bends.Nitrogen(氮)dissolved(溶解)in his blood is suddenly liberated by the reduction of pressure.The consequence,if the bubbles(气泡)accumulate in a joint,is sharp pain and a bent body—thus the name.If the bubbles form in his lungs or his brain,the consequence can be death.
Other air-breathing animals also suffer this decompression (减压) sickness if they surface too fast:whales, for example.And so, long ago, did ichthyosaurs.That these ancient sea animals got the bends can be seen from their bones.If bubbles of nitrogen form inside the bone they can cut off its blood supply.This kills the cells in the bone,and consequently weakens it,sometimes to the point of collapse.Fossil(化石) bones that have caved in on themselves are thus a sign that the animal once had the bends.
Bruce Rothschild of the University of Kansas knew all this when he began a study of ichthyosaur bones to find out how widespread the problem was in the past.What he particularly wanted to investigate was how ichthyosaurs adapted to the problem of decompression over the 150 million years.To this end, he and his colleagues traveled the world's natural-history museums, looking at hundreds of ichthyosaurs from the Triassic period and from the later Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
When he started, he assumed that signs of the bends would be rarer in younger fossils, reflecting their gradual evolution of measures to deal with decompression.Instead,he was astonished to discover the opposite.More than 15% of Jurassic and Cretaceous ichthyosaurs had suffered the bends before they died,but not a single Triassic specimen(标本)showed evidence of that sort of injury.
If ichthyosaurs did evolve an anti-decompression means, they clearly did so quickly—and, most strangely, they lost it afterwards.But that is not what Dr Rothschild thinks happened.He suspects it was evolution in other animals that caused the change.
Whales that suffer the bends often do so because they have surfaced to escape a predator (捕食动物)such as a large shark.One of the features of Jurassic oceans was an abundance of large sharks and crocodiles,both of which were fond of ichthyosaur lunches.Triassic oceans,by contrast,were mercifully shark- and crocodile-free.In the Triassic, then, ichthyosaurs were top of the food chain.In the Jurassic and Cretaceous,they were prey(猎物)as well as predator—and often had to make a speedy exit as a result.
61.Which of the following is a typical symptom of the bends?
A.A twisted body.
B.A gradual decrease in blood supply.
C.A sudden release of nitrogen in blood.
D.A drop in blood pressure.
62.The purpose of Rothschild's study is to see ________.
A.how often ichthyosaurs caught the bends
B.how ichthyosaurs adapted to decompression
C.why ichthyosaurs bent their bodies
D.when ichthyosaurs broke their bones
63.Rothschild's finding stated in Paragraph 4 ________.
A.confirmed his assumption
B.speeded up his research process
C.disagreed with his assumption
D.changed his research objectives
64.Rothschild might have concluded that ichthyosaurs ________.
A.failed to evolve an anti-decompression means
B.gradually developed measures against the bends
C.died out because of large sharks and crocodiles
D.evolved an anti-decompression means but soon lost it
【要点综述】 本篇为科普说明文,讲述鱼龙患减压病的原因和后果。Dr Rothschild通过实验推翻了关于鱼龙进化的一些猜测。
61.A 细节理解题。根据the bends可定位到首段。由“The consequence…is sharp pain and a bent body—thus the name.”可知答案,a bent body和a twisted body是同义转换。由第二句的“Nitrogen dissolved in his blood is suddenly liberated by the reduction of pressure.”可知,这是说the bends的形成原因,故C、D项错,而B项文章没有提及。
62.B 推理判断题。题干中的关键词是Rothschild's study,由此可定位到第三段的前两句。根据“…to find out how widespread the problem was in the past…to investigate was how ichthyosaurs adapted to the problem of decompression…”可知答案为B。
63.C 推理判断题。根据第四段“…he assumed that signs of the bends would be rarer in younger fossils, reflecting their gradual evolution of measures to deal with decompression.Instead, he was astonished to discover the opposite.”可知,Rothschild的假设结论与在研究过程中得出的结果是相反的,故选C项。
64.A 推理判断题。根据倒数第二段可知,Rothschild认为鱼龙在进化过程中反减压方式进化失败,故选A项。
D
Mark Twain has been called the inventor of the American novel.And he surely deserves additional praise:the man who popularized the clever literary attack on racism.
I say clever because anti-slavery fiction had been the important part of the literature in the years before the Civil War.H.B.Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is only the most famous example.These early stories dealt directly with slavery.With minor exceptions, Twain planted his attacks on slavery and prejudice into tales that were on the surface about something else entirely.He drew his readers into the argument by drawing them into the story.
Again and again,in the postwar years,Twain seemed forced to deal with the challenge of race.Consider the most controversial, at least today, of Twain's novels, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.Only a few books have been kicked off the shelves as often as Huckleberry Finn,Twain's most widely read tale.Once upon a time, people hated the book because it struck them as rude. Twain himself wrote that those who banned the book considered the novel “trash and suitable only for the slums(贫民窟).”More recently the book has been attacked because of the character Jim,the escaped slave,and many occurences of the word nigger.(The term Nigger Jim,for which the novel is often severely criticized,never appears in it.)
But the attacks were and are silly—and miss the point.The novel is strongly anti-slavery.Jim's search through the slave states for the family from whom he has been forcibly parted is heroic.As J.Chadwick has pointed out, the character of Jim was a first in American fiction—a recognition that the slave had two personalities, “the voice of survival within a white slave culture and the voice of the individual:Jim, the father and the man.”
There is much more.Twain's mystery novel Pudd'nhead Wilson stood as a challenge to the racial beliefs of even many of the liberals of his day.Written at a time when the accepted wisdom held Negroes to be inferior(低等的)to whites,especially in intelligence,Twain's tale centered in part around two babies switched at birth.A slave gave birth to her master's baby and,for fear that the child should be sold South, switched him for the master's baby by his wife.The slave's light-skinned child was taken to be white and grew up with both the attitudes and the education of the slave-holding class.The master's wife's baby was taken for black and grew up with the attitudes and intonations of the slave.
The point was difficult to miss:nurture(养育),not nature,was the key to social status.The features of the black man that provided the stuff of prejudice—manner of speech,for example—were, to Twain, indicative of nothing other than the conditioning that slavery forced on its victims.
Twain's racial tone was not perfect.One is left uneasy,for example,by the lengthy passage in his autobiography(自传)about how much he loved what were called “nigger shows” in his youth—mostly with white men performing in black-face—and his delight in getting his mother to laugh at them.Yet there is no reason to think Twain saw the shows as representing reality.His frequent attacks on slavery and prejudice suggest his keen awareness that they did not.
Was Twain a racist?Asking the question in the 21st century is as wise as asking the same of Lincoln.If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the “wisdom” of the considered moral judgments of the present,we will find nothing but error.Lincoln,who believed the black man the inferior of the white, fought and won a war to free him.And Twain, raised in a slave state, briefly a soldier,and inventor of Jim,may have done more to anger the nation over racial injustice and awaken its collective conscience than any other novelist in the past century.
65.How do Twain's novels on slavery differ from Stowe's?
A.Twain was more willing to deal with racism.
B.Twain's attack on racism was much less open.
C.Twain's themes seemed to agree with plots.
D.Twain was openly concerned with racism.
66.Recent criticism of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn arose partly from its ________.
A.target readers at the bottom
B.anti-slavery attitude
C.rather impolite language
D.frequent use of “nigger”
67.What best proves Twain's anti-slavery stand according to the author?
A.Jim's search for his family was described in detail.
B.The slave's voice was first heard in American novels.
C.Jim grew up into a man and a father in the white culture.
D.Twain suspected that the slaves were less intelligent.
68.The story of two babies switched mainly indicates that ________.
A.slaves were forced to give up their babies to their masters
B.slaves' babies could pick up slave-holders' way of speaking
C.blacks' social position was shaped by how they were brought up
D.blacks were born with certain features of prejudice
69.What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 7 refer to?
A.The attacks.
B.Slavery and prejudice.
C.White men.
D.The shows.
70.What does the author mainly argue for?
A.Twain had done more than his contemporary writers to attack racism.
B.Twain was an admirable figure comparable to Abraham Lincoln.
C.Twain's works had been banned on unreasonable grounds.
D.Twain's works should be read from a historical point of view.
【要点综述】 本篇为说明文,谈到马克·吐温的小说是否对奴隶制和偏见进行了反抗,以及它受到不同人士的批评情况。
65.B 推理判断题。由第二段的“Twain planted his attacks on slavery and prejudice into tales that were on the surface about something else entirely.”可知,马克·吐温把对奴隶制和偏见的攻击融在故事中,隐晦地表达。而早期小说是直接攻击方式(dealt directly with slavery),因此B项说他的小说对种族主义制度的攻击非常不明显是恰当的。A项文章没有提及;C项与题干无关,答非所问;D项文章没有提及。
66.D 推理判断题。根据关键词Adventures of Huckleberry Finn定位到第三段。由“More recently the book has been attacked because of …many occurences of the word nigger.”可知答案。A项中的target readers错误,文章没有说到;B项不符合文意;C项中的impolite language范围过广,文章只是说到批评者对nigger一词的出现感到不满。
67.C 细节理解题。由第四段的末句“…the character of Jim was a first in American fiction—a recognition that the slave had two personalities…”可知答案。A项中的in detail文章没有提及;B项中的The slave's voice与文章的the character of Jim不一致;D项文章没有提及。
68.C 推理判断题。由第六段可知,举这个例子是为了说明奴隶的社会地位是由生活环境决定的,而不是人的自然本性。
69.D 词义猜测题。由画线词所在句的前面一句可知:没有理由认为马克·吐温把这些表演当作表现现实,后句紧接着解释:马克·吐温对奴隶制和偏见的不断攻击说明了他敏锐的意识,而这些是shows所没有表达出来的,可见they应该就是指代shows。
70.A 作者意图题。末段首先提出一个疑问,然后通过论据否定了这个观点,最后总结了一下自己的观点:And Twain…may have done more to anger the nation over racial injustice …than any other novelist in the past century,可见作者要反驳的是末段首句所表达的疑问,只有A项符合,其他各项只是对具体例子的说明。
第四部分 任务型阅读(共10小题;每小题l分,满分l0分)
请认真阅读下列短文,并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。
注意:每个空格只填一个单词。
Quiet Virtue:The Conscientious
The everyday signs of conscientiousness(认真尽责)—being punctual,careful in doing work,self-disciplined,and scrupulous(一丝不苟的)in attending to responsibilities—are typical characteristics of the model organizational citizen,the people who keep things running as they should.They follow the rules,help out,and are concerned about the people they work with.It's the conscientious worker who helps newcomers or updates people who return after an absence,who gets to work on time and never abuses sick leaves, who always gets things done on deadline.
Conscientiousness is a key to success in any field.In studies of job performance,outstanding effectiveness for almost all jobs,from semi-skilled labor to sales and management,depends on conscientiousness.It is particularly important for outstanding performance in jobs at the lower levels of an organization:the secretary whose message taking is perfect,the delivery truck driver who is always on time.
Among sales representatives for a large American car manufacturer, those who were most conscientious had the largest volume of sales.Conscientiousness also offers a buffer(缓冲)against the threat of job loss in today's constantly changing market,because employees with this quality are among the most valued.For the sales representatives,their level of conscientiousness mattered almost as much as their sales in determining who stayed on.
There is an air around highly conscientious people that makes them seem even better than they actually are.Their reputation for dependability influences managers' evaluations of their work,giving them higher evaluations than objective measures of their performance would predict.
But conscientiousness in the absence of social skills can lead to problems.Since conscientious people demand so much of themselves,they can hold other people to their own standards,and so be overly judgmental when others don't show the same high levels of model behavior.Factory workers in Great Britain and the United States who were extremely conscientious,for example,tended to criticize co-workers even about failures that seemed unimportant to those they criticized,which damaged their relationships.
When conscientiousness takes the form of living up to expectations, it can discourage creativity. In creative professions like art or advertising,openness to wild ideas and spontaneity(自发性)are scarce and in demand.Success in such occupations calls for a balance,however; without enough conscientiousness to follow through, people become mere dreamers,with nothing to show for their imaginativeness.
【要点综述】 本文是一篇说明文。通常来说,尽职尽责是一个很大的优点——工作认真负责、守时自律、帮助别人等,但同时也有它的缺点,如阻碍创造性,对同事要求过严而影响人际关系等。
71.strict 归纳总结题。由第一段中讲述的尽职尽责的人的特点“…being punctual, careful in doing work, self-disciplined, and scrupulous (一丝不苟的) in attending to responsibilities…”可知,他们守时、工作细心、自律、一丝不苟,这些都说明他们对自己要求很严格。
72.helpful/good 信息转换题。第一段中的“It's the conscientious worker who helps newcomers or updates people…”说明,尽职尽责的人是乐于助人(helpful)或者对别人好(good)的。
73.Functions/Roles/Importance/Significance
74.running/working/going/operating/functioning 归纳总结题。文章的第二、三、四段讲述了尽职尽责的好处和重要性。
75.performance(s) 直接信息题。从第二段第二、三句可知答案。
76.fired/dismissed/jobless 信息转换题。从第三段的“Conscientiousness also offers a buffer against the threat of job loss in today's constantly changing market…”可知,尽职尽责的人不容易失去工作,此处需要转化为动词,即可得到答案。
77.problems/troubles 直接信息题。从第五段的第一句话“But conscientiousness in the absence of social skills can lead to problems.”可知答案。
78.higher/subjective/unfair/unjust/prejudiced 直接信息题。从第四段的“…giving them higher evaluations than objective measures of…”可知答案。
79.tense/damaged/poor/bad 归纳总结题。由第五段中的“…overly judgmental…,tended to criticize co-workers…”可知,尽职尽责的人对同事苛求,可能更容易批评同事,从而造成人际关系紧张。
80.discourage/affect/damage 直接信息题。由第六段的“…it can discourage creativity.”可知答案。
第五部分 书面表达(满分25分)
请根据你对以下两幅图的理解,以“Actions Speak Louder than Words”为题,用英语写一篇作文。
参考词汇:banner(横幅)
stump(树桩)
你的作文应包括以下内容:
1. 简要描述两幅图的内容:
2. 概述你对两幅图中不同做法的理解:
3. 举例说明两幅图对你的启示。
注意:
1. 可参照图片适当发挥:
2. 作文词数150左右:
3. 作文中不得提及有关考生个人身份的任何信息,如校名、人名等。
Actions Speak Louder than Words
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【思路点拨】 此题为情景作文,延续了往年漫画的形式,试题提供了两幅图,主要是有关地球日和植树的,这是学生熟悉的话题,人人有话可说,有感而发。对于考生来说应该是得心应手的,但是应注意以下三点:(1)在构思时要格外细心,试题给出的两幅图片中的内容要点提示是我们写作的重点,不要遗漏内容要点,应围绕其展开,并注意文章的逻辑性和段落层次性。(2)注意写作时的身份限制,切记不能透露自身的具体信息。同时把握好文体、人称、时态进行有条理地叙述,这就把握住了文章的大方向。开放式作文立意较为明确,不易出现理解偏差、跑题等严重错误。(3)对画面进行描述时要精准恰当,之后适当升华,点明寓意。最后在构思过程中要考虑运用适当的过渡性词语(如:but,instead of),以及复杂的句式或句型(如:分词短语作定语、宾语和状语、不定式作状语、状语从句、it形式主语、倒装句式和名词性从句等),这样可以使行文更加流畅。
【参考范文】
Actions Speak Louder than Words
People celebrate Earth Day differently.In Picture l,a man is trying to put up a banner on a lonely tree surrounded by stumps,but in vain,while Picture 2 shows a couple happily planting trees.
The message conveyed here is clear:“Actions speak louder than words.”Our earth is suffering severe damage.Should we just pay lip service or take practical measures to protect it? The answer is definitely the latter.Immediate actions should be taken,like stopping cutting down trees,to better the environment.
Actions are important in other fields,too.Instead of shouting empty slogans,it is more meaningful to donate books and sports goods to children in need.We should strictly and voluntarily follow traffic rules,stopping at the red light rather than complaining about traffic jams.Only when we match our words with actions can we make a difference in whatever we hope to accomplish.