2014 淮南市二模试卷

第二部分

单项填空

21. Beijing opera can be very enjoyable, but ___ can be appreciated if you don’t like it .

A. nothing B. everything C. something D. anything

22. — Do you know when Lily____ back yesterday eventing?

— Not too late. About 8 o’clock

A. was coming B. had come C. came D. would come

23. In Beijing, a PE test as part of the College Entrance might encourage parents to ____ various tutoring programs with physical exercise.

A. replace B. regard C. react D. respond

24. A new ___ urges everyone in the UK should learn at least 1,000 words of another language.

A. process B. movement C. campaign D. conflict

25. — What is the purpose of this experiment ?

— ______ if this material breaks easily under high pressure .

A. Figure out B. To figure out C. Figuring out D. Figured out

26. — The air of many cities in China has been seriously polluted .

— It may be many years ___ the situation improves

A. until B. after C. before D. since

27. Oh, sorry. I forgot where I read the article, or I ___ it to you now.

A. will show B. show C. can show D. would show

28. 2,000 adults will be questioned to see ___ they think ghosts are real on Halloween.

A. that B. whether C. what D. which

29. — Linda , ___ we attend the lecture about oral English?

— Why not ? It’s closely related to our English study .

A. may B. should C. must D. shall

30 I wronged the poor honest man very much, ___ I made an apology afterwards.

A. for whom B. for which C. with whom D. with which

31. ____sports do great harm to people who have heart problems.

A. Thrilled B. Entertained C. Entertaining D. Thrilling

32. — Shelly won’t like it, you know .

— ______? I don’t care what she thinks.

A. So what B. Why not C. What for D. How come

33. I didn’t blame anyone; I __ said errors like this could be avoided .

A. mostly B. nearly C. merely D. exactly

34. Look! Out of the classroom ____who hurry to catch the bus home.

A. the children B. do the children rush C. rush the children D. are the children rushed

35. — A bottle of beer?

— _____. I have to drive home after the party.

A. That depends B, Anything but that C. By all means D. No way

第二节:完型填空：(（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）

?阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

I grew up with a fat dad------450 pounds at his heaviest. Every week he’d try a new diet, and my family__36__ eating whatever freeze-dried he was trying at that moment. By the time I was nine, I was an expert on losing __37___. I spent four weeks __38___ only small bowls of white rice at home, __39__ my 10-year-old fellows were eating ice cream. What I remember most about those years is that I __-40___ felt hungry ------ hungry for food, hungry for someone to care for me and I __41_ to be cared for.

But on Friday nights,? I was__42__ hungry. My grandmother would take me to her home for the ____43___. When we arrived at my grandparents’ home, there was always a pot of something cooking on the stove. It was at my grandmother’s house__44___ I learned what true nutrition was.

After my third-grade year, my family had to move away from our hometown, and leave my grandmother and her delicious food ___45___. There would no more special weekends at my grandmother’s house. It was total __46___ for survival. In this new city, I felt extremely lonely and __47____, and I missed my grandmother terribly.

My grandmother knew just how I felt------ and she knew the __48__: Every week, she would send me a card with a $20 bill, a recipe and a list of what to buy at the market. Her receipes kept us ___49___ and filled my body and soul.

Over the years, I’ve grown to better understand my father’s struggles with__50_ and __51__ growing up in such an unhealthy eating environment, I found a __52___ for a nutrition consultant.

Today, Food is no longer a barrier that keeps us__53__, but a __54___ that keeps us connected. There’s nothing my dad enjoys more than talking with me about his weight-loss__54__. And now I am the one__55__ sending recipe cards to my father’s house, just as my grandmother did for me.

36. A.came up?????? B. turned up ?????? C. ended up??????? D.went up

37.A. weight ?? B.confidence ????? C. temper ?? D. face

38. A. ordering ???? B. consuming ??? C. serving ???? D. treating

39. A. then ??? B. so ?? C. for ?? D. while

40. A. instantly ????? B. constantly ?? C. frankly ?????? D. unfortunately

41. A. longed ??????? B. deal ?? C. hit ???? D. show

42. A. even ??? B. ever ???? C. once ??????? D. never

43.A. weekend???????? B. communicative ??? C. active ???? D. sensitive

44.A.where ????? B. when ??????? C. that ?? D. which

45.A.out ????? B. behind C. alone D. away

46.A.dependence ??? B. intention ?? C. tendency ??? D. independence

47.Aamazed ???????? B. excited ?????? C. lost ??? D.bored

48.A.cure ? B.approach C. reason ????? D.access

49.A. reminded ??? B.linked ??? C. separated ???? D. informed

50.A. quarrels ????????? B. debates ??????? C. topics ????????? D.struggles

51.A.in spite of ??? B. in possession of C. in case of ????? D. in terms of

52.A.demand ?????? B.request ?????? C. command ????? D.desire

53.A. out ??????? B.up ?????? C. down ????????? D. apart

54.A.base ???? B. bridge ??? C. joke ? D. record

55.A.occasionally ???? B. finally ?????? C. regularly?????? D. slightly

第三部分 阅读理解

A

Since I moved from London and started living in the Italian countryside, I have encountered a greater variety of strange insects than I even thought existed. I have also become more of an observer.?

??????A spider built a web outside my office window. My policy these days tends to be one of live and let live. So I just let it be. Every so often, when I took a break from working, I would go to the window and there he would be; perfectly still, waiting in exactly the same place. In fact, he was there for many weeks; about three or four at least.

??????He caught something on a couple of occasions; a moth and a fly. However, in the last few weeks, he caught nothing at all. But he stayed there anyhow, perfectly still-waiting. I wondered if he was getting quite hungry by now. ?One day, I went to the window and the web was still there but the spider was gone. He’d cut his losses and moved on. I found that there were several lessons in his behavior:??????(1)Persistence. How many of us give up in life when desired results don’t materialize immediately? Adults are particularly prone to this in a way that children are not. Imagine if we had given up when we were learning to walk as quickly as we do these days when we try anything new!

??????(2) Know when to quit. Persistence is important. However, knowing when it’s time to move on is also crucial. Someone defined insanity as “doing the same things you’ve always done and expecting a different result”. Clearly, this spider was not insane. He knew when to quit.

??????That’s more than many of us know. We happily sweat away at the same situations, do things the exact same way we’ve always done them, but expect or hope for a different result! We don’t even have the intelligence of a spider. Scary thought, isn’t it??????If I come back to your web in a couple of years time, will I find you still there? Will you still be stuck in the same job, the same relationship, the same social group that you either hate or that’s doing you no good at all? Unlike this little spider, many people don’t know when to quit or when to move on in life to a fresh challenge. ??However, if we are failing to get the results we want in life, there is no point hanging around in our comfort zone, fearing the unknown. This spider did not get caught in his own web. Don’t get caught in yours!

56. According to paragraph 2, we can know the author should be the man who ____

A. is lazy and never cleans his office

B. focuses on spiders’ life style

C takes care of animals

D. tolerates and thinks of others

57. The underlined sentence in paragraph 4 means that ___

A. the spider enjoyed quantities of delicious food and went for a walk

B. the spider searched for food in a different place instead of waiting

C. waiting for the food in the same place made the spider exhausted and bored

D. The best title of this passage should be “____”

A. research on a spider B. A spider of great achievement

C. Lessons form a spider D. Love for animals

B

American grade 3 student Linda Brown had to walk a long way through a railway yard to get to her school in Topeka, Kansas. There was another school closer to home－but Linda was black and this school was for white children only.

Then her father made a decision that ended in a court case which changed US society forever. It celebrated its 50th anniversary last Monday.

The decision was simple: Linda was to study in the nearby all-white school. After the school refused her, Mr. Brown filed a lawsuit against the local board of education.

The case, now known as “Brown versus the Board of Education”, made it all the Way to the US Supreme Court. On May 17, 1954, the court declared that “Separate educational facilities are unequal.” This historic ruling ended racial segregation(隔离) by allowing black children to go to the same schools as white children.

The court said that the US Constitution guaranteed “equal protection of the laws”, and this meant equal treatment for backs and whims. This overturned a 19th century ruling that permitted “separate but equal” racial segregation.

Thanks to the Brown ruling, from the late 1950s segregation was ended on a much wider scale. Buses, beaches, jobs, housing, voting－black people had equal rights to white people in most areas of society. The ruling also helped improved rights for women and the disabled.

Congresswoman Elean