Ⅰ.品句填词

1．Sorry to d______ you，but do you know where Miss Yang is?

答案：disturb

2．The police didn't know who committed the crime，but they s________Jones.

答案：suspected

3．He is a ________(职业的)basketball player.

答案：professional

4．This is a good article on the________ (主题)of space travel.

答案：subject

5．The prospect of living in a city holds little________(吸引力)for me.

答案：appeal

Ⅱ.选词填空



1．In China，people enjoy freedom of speech.So you're________to say what you like.

答案：at liberty

2．He likes to have control over everyone，that is，he________power.

答案：is thirsty for

3．His behaviour is________a matter of impoliteness.In fact，it is a form of crime.

答案：more than

4．The government decided to________vehicles

答案：tax on

5．The lights of the city were soon________.

答案：left behind

6．________he's been all around the world.

答案：It is said that

Ⅲ.单项填空

1．Varieties of activities in the supermarket________many different types of interest and

taste among the public________its out-of-date goods.

A．adjust to；to deposit　　　　 B．cater to；to promote

C．apply to；to take to D．appeal to；to claim

答案：B

2．(2012年潍坊模拟)The new law has come into________；surely it will have________on

industry of the country.

A．affect；an effect B．effect；affect

C．effect；an effect D．an effect；an effect

解析：句意：新法律已经开始实施，这必定对我们的工业有影响。come into effect开始实施；have an effect on对……有影响，均属固定搭配。

答案：C

3．In the past，he rarely spoke unless others were speaking about something that________

to him.

A．tended B．addicted

C．appealed D．applied

答案：C

4．－What do you know about the traffic accident________yesterday?

－It was the drunken driver who was________for it.

A．occurred；to blame

B．occurring；to blame

C．to be occurred；to be blamed

D．occurring；to be blamed

解析：occur“发生”，是不及物动词，由于第一空在句中作定语，所以要用occurri

ng；“某人应该受到责备”常用sb.be to blame来表示，所以第二空要用to blame。故答案为B。

答案：B

5．The girl who wears red hair________in the crowd of the students.

A．stood by B．stood out

C．stood for D．stood at attention

答案：B

6．After studying in a medical college for five years，Jane________her job as a doctor in

the countryside.

A．set out B．took over

C．took up D．set up

答案：C

7．If you ask the fast runner to set the pace，then most of them will be left________.

A．alone B．behind

C．back D．out

解析：句意：如果你让跑得最快的人来定速度，那么他们中的大多数人都将落后。leave sb.behind“把某人撇在后面”，符合句意。

答案：B

8．(2012年泰安模拟)When the family moved to Canada，the children________very quickly

to the new environments.

A．appealed B．attached

C．adapted D．admitted

解析：句意：当这家人迁到加拿大后，孩子们很快适应了新的环境。appeal“呼吁，吸引”；attach“连接，使附属于”；adapt“适应”；admit“承认”。

答案：C

9．They are________the most reasonable diet which will do good to their health.

A．seeking B．stimulating

C．shaping D．sinking

答案：A

10．－My father is coughing heavily.

－You'd better________.It's bad for his health.

A．discourage him from smoking

B．keep him smoking

C．force him to stop to smoke

D．persuade him to smoke

解析：答句句意：你最好阻止他抽烟。抽烟对他的身体有害处。keep sb.doing让某人一直做；C项含义是强迫他停下手中的活，去抽烟；persuade sb.to do sth.劝服某人做某事，均不合题意。discourage sb.from doing sth.阻止某人做某事。

答案：A

11．Many people are quite at a loss as to what to do________a real fire.

A．in honor of B．in need of

C．in case of D．in form of

答案：C

12．You have been sitting on my hat and now it is badly out of________.

A．date B．shape

C．order D．balance

解析：句意：你一直坐在我的帽子上，它现在都严重走样了。out of shape是“变形”的意思。根据have been sitting on my hat可知是帽子变形了，而不是out of date“过时”，out of order“混乱”或out of balance“失去平衡”。

答案：B

13．It's important to write these goals down，rather than________think about them.

A．partly B．merely

C．nearly D．specially

答案：B

14．I will telephone you________I________your country.

A．immediately；set foot on B．as soon；set foot in

C．immediate；arrive D．as soon；set foot on

解析：句意：我一到你的国家就给你打电话。immediately＝as soon as一……就……；set foot on踏上。

答案：A

15．(2012年江苏卷，33)—Honey，the cat's stuck in the tree.Can you turn off the TV and

get a ladder...?

—Oh，it jumped off.________.

A．Never mind B．All right

C．No problem D．Take care

解析：考查情景交际。句意：——亲爱的，猫被卡在树上了，你能不能关上电视，然后把梯子搬过来……？——它已经跳下来了，别担心了。Never mind.“不要紧，没关系”；All right.“好吧”；No problem.“没问题”；Take care.“小心点”。既然猫已从树上跳下来，那就没必要搬梯子了。所以排除掉B、C和D三项，答案为A。

答案：A

Ⅳ.阅读理解

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出最佳选项。

A

(2012年豫东、豫北联考)Powered by courage and determination，Felicity Aston,33，became the first person to ski alone across Antarctica on 15，Jan,2012.

Aston finished the 59-day trip almost exactly a century after Roald Amundsen first reached the South Pole in 1911.Aston crossed 1,084 miles from the Ross Ice Shelf to Hercules Inlet.

Aston，a freelance travel writer，and explorer，faced temperatures that averaged－25 degrees as she pulled two sleds across the ice and thick snow on her nearly two-month trip.The scariest moment came when her two lighters failed to work while she was in the Transantarctic Mountains.The lighters started working again at lower altitudes.

While early Antarctic explorers were cut off from the outside world，Aston's access to a satellite phone meant that friends and family could follow her online as she regularly tweeted(在Twitter上发微博)and made almost daily podcasts(播客)about her journey.An interactive map showed Aston's progress in real time.And while she skied，Aston listened to bands.

On New Year's Eve she noted that there would be no champagne.“No wine with me to toast the new year but treating myself to spoonfuls of the peanut butter，”Aston tweeted as the new year approached.

In Aston's last podcast，the emotional traveler recorded after she reached Hercules Inlet, “I seem to have got here in a rush or something and I don't really feel prepared for it，”said Aston.“It feels amazing to be finished and greatly sad that it's over at the same time.”

Weather permitting，Aston will return home today where she says she is looking forward to some“red wine and a hot shower”．

【语篇解读】　本文是记叙文。33岁的Felicity Aston，凭着自己的勇气和决心，用接近两个月的时间徒步横穿南极洲，成为独自完成南极探险第一人，并随时通过网络对外界发布了探险的整个过程。

16．What is Aston's most possible purpose to ski alone across Antarctica?

A．To memorize human's arrival at the South Pole.

B．To become the first woman to cross the South Pole.

C．To make an exploration by herself and write about it.

D．To explore Antarctica and do science researches.

解析：推理判断题。结合全文，文章并没有明确说明Felicity Aston穿越南极洲的目的，但综合文章第一段以及第四段她通过播客发布自己的穿越经历可知，C项为最佳答案。

答案：C

17．What is the difference between Aston's trip and the early explorers'?

A．She brought an electronic map with her.

B．She was monitored by a special satellite.

C．She suffered much lower temperatures.

D．She was followed online all through the trip.

解析：推理判断题。从文章第四段friends and family could follow her online可知，使用现代化通讯手段随时跟亲朋好友保持联系是Felicity Aston与先前的探险家的不同。

答案：D

18．It was the most difficult for Aston when ________.

A．the temperatures fell below－25 degrees

B．her two lighters failed to work in mountains.

C．there was no champagne on New Year's Eve

D．her trip across Antarctica was coming to an end

解析：细节理解题。从文章第三段最后一句The scariest moment came when her two lighters failed to work while she was in the Transantarctic Mountains.可知B项正确。

答案：B

19．Aston feels ________ about the ending of her trip.

A．depressed and sorry B．amazed but sad

C．excited and proud D．tired but cheerful

解析：推理判断题。从文章倒数第二段最后一句It feels amazing to be finished and greatly sad that it's over at the same time.可知，当旅程结束的时候，Felicity Aston感到既惊奇又难过。

答案：B

B

(2012年黄冈市高三质检)A pioneering headteacher is calling for all high schools to follow his lead and start classes at 11 am，allowing teenagers two hours extra in bed.

Dr. Paul Kelley，head of Monkseaton Community High School in North Tyneside，said it would mean the end of sleeping in lessons before lunch，after experiments showed teenagers could have different body clocks from adults and younger children.

Russell Foster，an Oxford professor of neuroscience(神经系统科学)，tested the memory of 200 Monkseaton pupils at 9 am and 2 pm using pairs of words，and discovered a 9% improvement in the afternoon.Students correctly identified 51% of word pairs in the later session，compared with 42% in the morning.Tayler McCullough,15，one of the test subjects，said the majority of students would welcome the extra hours in bed.“I'm extremely hard to get up in the morning.One or two people like to get to school early，but most of us would be up for going in later.I'm sure it would make a big difference to our learning ability.”

Kelley is adamant that a change of school timetable will have a meaningful effect on exam performance.He wants his school's governors to approve his plan and put the new timetable in place before the opening of Monkseaton's new school building，the most technologically advanced in the country，in September.

Kelley hopes his latest idea will be just as successful.“We have to be practical.But this proves that，by starting later，children's learning improves，as does their health.”

Foster said，“This is preliminary(初步的) data，but what's exciting is that it matches more detailed studies carried out in Canada and the US.Teenagers get up late not because they are lazy but because they are biologically programmed to do so.”

【语篇解读】　经过研究发现学生在下午的记忆效果更好，因而一位高中校长呼吁高中学校更改作息时间表，认为这样更加符合青少年的生物钟。

20．How many professors are mentioned in the passage?

A．One. B．Two.

C．Three. D．Four.

解析：细节理解题。文章中只提到一个教授，此人是牛津大学的Russell Foster。

答案：A

21．According to Russell Foster's research，________.

A．the students tested had very good memories

B．the students tested did better jobs in the afternoon

C．42% of the students tested could do very good jobs

D．51% of the students tested could master 9% of words

解析：细节理解题。根据第三段第一句的内容可知他的研究表明被测试的学生在下午的表现更好。

答案：B

22．What does the underlined word “adamant” in the fourth paragraph mean?

A．Angry. B．Absorbed.

C．Adaptable. D．Determined.

解析：猜测词义题。根据第二段中Kelley所持的观点以及第三段中的测验结果和被测验对象所说的话可推测Kelley“坚定不移”地认为学校时间表的变化能对考试表现产生有意义的影响。前三项分别表示“生气的”“全神贯注的”“能适应的”，均不符合