英语试卷

（考试时间：120分钟 满分：150分 命题人：Lily & Trisun）

第I卷 （共103分）

Listening Comprehension

Section A

Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.

1. A. 6:00 p.m. B. 8:00 p.m. C. 2:00 p.m. D. 5:00 p.m.

2. A. In a park. B. In a library. C. In a classroom. D. In a theatre.

3. A. Mother and son. B. Colleagues. C. Boss and employee. D. Classmates.

4. A. An activity. B. The weather. C. A mountain. D. The food.

5. A. He is old enough to stay up.

B. He will go to bed in five minutes.

C. He would rather watch TV than go to bed.

D. It is too early to watch the Voice of China.

6. A. Wash hands before using his iPad. B. Review his lessons.

C. Make a journey with his iPad. D. Talk with his classmates.

7. A. The new furniture he bought was on sale.

B. The room was rented at a reasonable price.

C. The furniture that he bought was very cheap.

D. The room was equipped with some new furniture.

8. A. In a different way. B. In a local auto store.

C. From the woman. D. From an advertisement.

9. A. The woman doesn’t look like a writer. B. Few people share the man’s opinion.

C. The woman doesn’t want to be a writer. D. Most of the woman’s friends are writers.

10. A. Cooperative. B. Favorable. C. Sympathetic. D. Disapproving.

Section B

Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one will be the best answer to the question you have heard.

Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.

11. A. Sell it at a local shop. B. Ask for another marriage gift.

C. Just keep it for later use. D. Exchange it for something useful.

12. A. Because he hopes to have as many as three children.

B. Because he has to make a fortune for his wife’s family.

C. Because he has no other gifts to exchange at marriage.

D. Because it is a necessary part at a marriage ceremony

13. A. What the importance of bride service is.

B. How customs vary in different countries.

C. What a wedding ceremony is like in USA.

D. How we express good wishes to new couples.

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.

14. A. It presented good meanings.

B. It presented a lot of difficult words.

C. It defined easy words as well as hard ones.

D. It was one of the most valuable dictionaries.

15. A. Containing word histories. B. Published by Oxford University.

C. A complete list of difficult words. D. Sentences showing meanings of words.

16. A. The features of English dictionaries. B. Different types of English dictionaries.

C. The early history of English dictionaries. D. The story about Dr. Samuel Johnson.

Section C Longer Conversations

Directions: In Section C, you will hear two longer conversations. The conversations will be read twice. After you hear each conversation, you will be required to fulfill the task by filling in the numbered blanks with information you have heard.

Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.

A new apartment



Problems to work out

Solutions



The weather is 17 and the man has no idea how to turn the heating on.

The switch of the heating is in the bathroom cupboard 18 .



There’s some chicken in the 19 .

There are lots of cooking books on the

20 shelf.



Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.

Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.

Reasons for buying a car

● More people can 21 a car. It’s more comfortable.

● 22 is expensive.

● 23 of the car would be useful for both travelling and everyday life.



Reasons for not buying a car

● Cars are expensive. After buying the car, you have to

24 , gas, maintenance and other expenses.

● You will be the only person using the car most of the time.



 Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

II. Grammar and Vocabulary

Section A

Directions: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

(A)

It is said that in the United States many have been told that anyone can become rich and successful if (25) ______ works hard and has some good luck.

Yes, when one becomes rich he wants people to know it. And (26) ______ ______he does not become very rich, he wants people to think that he is. That’s what “Keeping up with the Joneses” is about. The expression was first used in 1913 by a young American (27) ______ (name) Arthur Momand. Momand looked around him and noticed that many people did things to keep up with their neighbours: they tried to look as rich and as successful as their neighbours. He saw the funny side of it and started to write a series of short stories. He called it “Keeping Up with the Joneses”, (28) ______ “Jones” is a very common name in the United States. “Keeping up with the Joneses” came to mean (29) ______ (keep) up with the people around you. After that, Momand’s stories (30) ______ (carry) in different newspapers across the country.

People never seem to get tired of keeping up with the Joneses. That is one reason why they read the “right” books, go to the “right” universities and eat in the “right” restaurants.

Every city has an area where people want to live because others will think (31) ______ (well) of them if they do. And there are “Joneses” in every city of the world. But one (32) ______ get tired of trying to keep up with the Joneses, because no matter what one does, Mr Jones always seems to be ahead.

(B)

I was working as a consultant in a beer company, (33) ______ (help) the president and senior vice-presidents form and carry out their new planning projects. It was really (34) ______great challenge. At the same time, my mother was in the final stages of cancer.

I worked during the day and drove 40 miles home to be with her every night. It was tiring and stressful, but it was what I wanted to do. My commitment was (35) ______ (continue) to do excellent consulting during the day, even though my evenings were very hard. I didn’t want to bother the president with my situation, yet I felt someone at the company needed to know (36) ______was going on. So I told the vice-president of Human Resources, asking him to keep the secret (37) ______ the two of us.

A few days later, the president called me into his office. I figured he wanted to talk to me about one of the many issues we (38) ______ (work) on. When I entered, he asked me to sit down. He faced me from across his large desk, looked me in the eye and said, “I hear your mother is very ill”.

I was totally caught by surprise and burst into tears. He just looked at me, let my crying subside (平息), and then gently said a sentence (39) ______ I will never forget: Whatever you need.

That was it. It was his understanding and his willingness to offer me everything (40) ______ were qualities of sympathy I carry with me to this day.

Section B

Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. initially B. approach C. primarily D. employed E. curiosity F. observing G. profitable H. analyzing I. thirst J. belief K. varied



Scientific research can be divided into basic science, also known as pure science, and applied science. In basic science, scientists working (41) ______ at academic institutions pursue research simply to satisfy the (42) ______ for knowledge. In applied science, scientists at industrial corporations conduct research to achieve some kind of practical or (43) ______ gain.

In practice, the division between basic and applied science is not always clear-cut. This is because discoveries that (44) ______ seem to have no practical use often develop into a useful one as time goes by. For example, superconductivity, the ability to conduct electricity with no resistance, was only a laboratory (45) ______ when a Dutch physicist discovered it in 1911. Today superconductivity is used in an ever-increasing number of important applications.

Scientists study the origin of the solar system by (46) ______ meteorites（陨星） and collecting data from satellites and space stations. They search for the secrets of life processes by (47) ______ the data collected from the activity of individual molecules（分子） in living cells. They observe the patterns of human relationships in the customs of social groups. In each of these (48) ______ investigations the questions asked and the means (49) ______ to find answers are different. All the inquiries, however, share a common (50) ______ to problem solving known as the scientific method. Scientists may work alone or they may work with other scientists. In all cases, a scientist’s work must measure up to the standards of the scientific community. Scientists present their findings to science conferences to be examined by their peers.

III. Reading Comprehension

Section A

Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

People volunteer for a wide variety of reasons, especially wanting to help others. But it’s also OK to want some 51 for yourself from volunteering.

Some people are 52 with the concept that a volunteer “benefits” from doing volunteer work. There is a long tradition of seeing volunteering as a form of charity, based o