I 卷

I 单选题（共15小题，每题1分，满分15分）

1) The further falling of the stock market, as reported has _____ a fresh wave of selling.

A. set off B. give off C. put off D. get off

2) The old couple often take a walk after supper in the park with their pet dog _____ them.

A. to follow B. following C. followed D. follows

3) They had no great belief ______ Chinese medicine.

A. on B. at C. in D. about

4) I like getting up very early in summer. The morning air is so good _____.

A. to be breathed B. to breathe C. breathing D. being breathed

5) We had great fun _____ our body photographs.

A. to compare B. comparing C. compared D. compare

6) Mr Wang had her luggage _____ an hour before her plane left.

A. check B. checking C. to check D. checked

10) The army was ______ from its base.

A. cut down B. cut off C. cut in D. cut through

11) ------- James didn’t turn up last night, did he?

------- No, He ______ . We had changed our plan.

A. shouldn’t have come B. needn’t have come

C. didn’t need to come D. needn’t come [来源:学科网ZXXK]

12) Sorry, I’m late. I _____ have turned off the alarm clock and gone back to sleep again this morning.

A. might B. should C. can D. will

13)I often ______ the words I don’t know in the dictionary or on the internet.

A. look up B. consult C. look into D. look for

14) May I help you? You seem to be having some problems.

_____ , thanks, I think I can manage.

A. All right B. No problem C. It’s all right D. There’s no way

15) The capta
in ______ all the soldiers before him, telling them to get ready for the fight.

A. collected B. selected C. gathered D. elected

II完形填空 (共20小题，每题1分,满分20分)

阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项.

I will never forget the year I was about twelve years old. My mother told us that we would not be _16_ Christmas gifts because there was not enough money. I felt sad and thought, “What would I say when the other kids asked what I had 17 ?” Just when I started to 18 that there would not be a Christmas that year, three women 19 at our house with gifts for all of us. For me they brought a doll. I felt such a 20 of relief（轻松） that I would no longer have to be embarrassed (尴尬的)when I returned to school. I wasn’t 21 . Somebody had thought 22 of me to bring me a gift.

Years later, when I stood in the kitchen of my new house, thinking how I wanted to make my 23 Christmas there special and memorab
le（值得记忆的）, I 24 remembered the women’s visit. I decided that I wanted to create that same feeling of 25 for as many children as I could possibly reach.

So I 26 a plan and gathered forty people from my company to help. We gathered about 125 orphans (孤儿) at the Christmas party. For every child, we wrapped (包扎)colorful packages filled with toys, clothes, and school supplies, 27 with a child’s name. We wanted all of them to know they were 28 . Before I called out their names and handed them their gifts, I 29 them that they couldn’t open their presents 30 every child had come forward. Finally the 31 they had been waiting for came as I called out, “One, two, and three. Open your presents!” As the children opened their packages, their faces beamed(面露喜色)and their bright smiles 32 up the room. The 33 in the room was obvious, and 34 wasn’t just about toys. It was a feeling –the feeling I knew 35__ that Christmas so long ago when the women came to visit. I wasn’t forgotten. Somebody thought of me. I am important.

16. A. sending B. receiving C. making D. exchanging

17. A. found B. prepared C. got D. expected

18. A. doubt B. hope C. suggest D. accept

19. A. broke in B. settled down C. turned up D. showed off

20. A. matter B. sense C. sadness D. patience

21. A. beaten B. loved C. forgotten D. affected

22. A. highly B. little C. poorly D. enough

23. A. present B. first C. recent D. past

24. A. hardly B. immediately C. regularly D. frequently

25. A. strength B. independen
ce C. importance D. safety

26. A. kept up with B. caught up with C. came up with D. put up with

27. A. none B. few C. some D. each

28. A. fine B. special C. helpful D. normal

29. A. reminded B.
glared C. tricked D. promised

30. A. after B. until C. when D. since

31. A. chance
B. gift C. moment D. reward

32. A. lit B. took C. burned D. cheered

33. A. atmosphere B. curiosity C. calmness D. joy

34. A. it B. such C. something D. everybody

35. A. by B. till C. for D. from [来源:Zxxk.Com]

III 阅读理解（共10小题，每题2分，满分20分）[来源:学科网]

A

Every person has its own way of s
aying things, and it’s their own special expressions. Many everyday American expressions are based on colors.

Red is a hot color. Americans often use it to express heat. They may say they are red hot abo
ut something unfair. When they are red hot they are very angry about som
ething. The small hot tasting peppers found in many Mexican foods are called red hots for the
ir color and their fiery taste. Fast loud music is popular with many people. They may say the music is red hot, especially the kind called Dixieland jazz.

Pink is a lighter kind of red. People sometimes say they are in the pick when they are in good health. The expression was first used in America at the beginning of the twentieth century. It probably comes from the fact that many babies are born with a nice pink color that shows that they are in good health.

Blue is a cool color. The traditional blues music in the United States is the opposite of red hot music. Blues is slow, sad and soulful. Duke Ellington and his orchestra recorded a famous song – Mood Indigo – about the deep blue color, indigo. In the words of the song: “You ain’t been blue till you’ve had that Mood Indigo.” Someone who
is blu
e is very sad.

The color green is natural for trees and grass. But it is an unnatural color for humans. A person who has a sick feeling stomach may say she feels a little green. A passenger on a boat who is feeling very sick from high waves may look very green. Sometimes a person may be upset because he does not have something as nice as a friend has, like a fast new car. That person may say he is green with envy. Some people are green with envy because a friend has more dollars or greenbacks. Dollars are called greenbacks because that is the color of the back side of the paper money.

The color black is used often in expressions. People describe a day in which everything goes wrong as a black day. The date of a major tragedy is remembered as a black day. A blacklist is illegal now. But at one time, some businesses refused to employ people who were on a blacklist for belonging to unpopular organizations.

38．According to Paragraph 3, blue refers to ?

A．a famous band B．a pop music form

C．a well-known recorded D．a beautiful song

39．A person earns a good fame as well as lots of money, so his competitor will probably say .

A．I’m red hot about him B．I’m in the pink

C．I’m green with envy D．I have a black day

40．According to the passage, which of the following can replace the underlined word? If someone drove after he drank some alcohol, he would get in his blacklist.

A．illegal record B．wrong activity

C．evil thought D．unpopular organization

B

Houseplants clean the air and brighten a room. Occasionally, they drive us mad as we wonder how exactly we managed to kill yet another "unkillable" houseplant. (In that way, they provide great lessons in perseverance as well!) But it looks like there's one more great reason to grow houseplants: their presence in your workspace might actually make you smarter.

According to a recent study published in The Journal of Environmental Psychology, just having plants in your work space is enough to increase your attention span. An increase in attention span means that we're able to remember more of what we read. To test the hypotheses, the study's authors gave subjects a Reading Span Task, which requires reading sentences aloud, then remembering the last word in each sentence. This requires reading, memorization, and recall abilities, a
nd switching between the three.

The researchers had their entire test pool complete Reading Span Tasks to get a baseline reading. Then they moved some of the people to a room with no plants, and others to a room that had four plants around
the desk. They were all asked to repeat the Reading Span Tasks, and the people who worked near a plant improved overall, while those without plants stayed roughly the same.

Beauty, fresh air, the joy of caring for another living thing — all great reasons to have a few houseplants around. If they help increase attention spans, all the better!

41．The study shows that growing houseplants can .

A．clean the air B．make the house beautiful

C．increase attention spans D．have the joy of caring

42．People in the study were asked to .

A．read sentences slowly B．recall all the information

C．memorize each sentence correctly D．change between the three abilities

43．The underlined word in the second paragraph probably means .

A．ideas B．research

C．theories D．experiments

II 卷

IV 单词拼写 （每空1分，满分10分）

1) Her mother is so _______ (虔诚的) that she won’t even watch TV on Sundays.

2) It is the _______ (风俗) in Japan to take your shoes off when you go into someone’s hou