1、.单项填空1(2011沈阳六校3月诊断)Helen always helps her mother even though going to school _ most of her day.Aputs upBtakes upCsaves up Dmakes up解析：考查动词短语辨析。句意：海伦总是帮助母亲，虽然上学占据了她一天中的大部分时间。此处take up表示“占据(时间)”。put up “举起”； save up “储蓄”； make up “编造”。答案：B2(2012河北唐山二模)Better not throw waste paper here and there.Im so
2、 sorry, but I _ the waste paper basket.Awont see Bwasnt seeingCdidnt see Ddont see解析：考查时态。句意：“最好不要乱扔废纸。”“对不起，我刚才没看见废纸篓。”根据句意可知，说话者说的是过去，故排除A、D两项；see“看见”，强调结果，一般不用进行时。答案：C3Its no use having ideas only.Dont worry. Peter can show you _ to turn an idea into an act.Ahow BwhoCwhat Dwhere解析：考查“疑问词不定式”结构中疑问
3、词的选择。答句句意：别担心。彼得会向你展示如何将想法付诸实践。由语境可知此处要用how表示如何。答案：A4(2012毫州模拟)Christine stared angrily at her boss and then turned round, as if _ out of the office.Awent Bto goCgone Dwould go解析：句意：Christine愤怒地盯着她的老板，然后转过身去，好像要离开办公室。as if引导方式状语从句时，从句可用省略形式，条件是从句的主语和主句的主语一致，且从句的谓语部分含有be动词，所以选B。as if to go out of the
4、 office as if she was to go out of the office。答案：B5Some old people dont like pop music because they cant _ so much noise.Aconcern BtolerateCundertake Dignore解析：考查动词辨析。句意：有些老人不喜欢流行音乐，因为他们难以忍受流行音乐的噪音。用tolerate表示“忍受”。答案：B6(2012马鞍山模拟)When I got home, it flashed _ me that I had forgotten to lock the door
5、.Aupon BinCat Dwith解析：考查介词用法。It flashed upon sb. that .为一常用句型，意为“某人突然想到”。答案：A7Im sure the beauty of _ nature there will make _ excellent impression on you.Athe; the Bthe; anC/; an D/; /解析：句意：我确信那里的自然之美会给你留下美好的印象。nature作“大自然”讲时为不可数名词，单独使用时，前面不用冠词；短语make an impression on “给留下印象”，故选C项。答案：C8As his best
6、friend, I can make accurate guesses about _ he will do or think.Awhat BwhichCwhom Dthat解析：句意：作为他最好的朋友，我能够准确地猜出他要做什么，想什么。本句中用what he will do or think作介词about的宾语。答案：A9(2012福州质检)Health problems are closely connected with bad eating habits and a _ of exercise.Alimit BlackCneed Ddemand解析：句意：健康问题与不良的饮食习惯和
7、缺乏锻炼息息相关。根据句意，所表达的应是“缺乏”的意思。limit “限制”； need “需要”； demand “需求”。故选B。答案：B10After the meeting was over, the secretary _ the new worker to the managers office.Aaimed BpointedCguided Dimitated解析：句意：会议结束后，秘书领着新员工去经理办公室。guide sb.to someplace “领某人去某地”，符合句意。aim“瞄准”； point “指明”； imitate “模仿”。答案：C11Walking acr
8、oss the field _ the happy times Id spent on my grandparents farm.Acalled me on Breminded me ofCinformed me about Drecalled me of解析：考查短语辨析。句意：走在田地里让我想起了我在祖父母的农场度过的那些快乐时光。remind sb. of “使某人想起”； call on sb.“拜访某人”； inform sb. about “通知某人”； recall意为“回忆”时没有recall sb. of的搭配。答案：B12The most important _ of th
9、e job as a typist is to be able to type fast and _.Aaspect; accurate Bway; exactlyCaspect; accurately Dpart; precisely解析：考查词义辨析。句意：打字员工作最重要的方面就是要打得又快又准确。“的方面”用aspect表示，排除B、D。修饰动词type要用副词，排除A。答案：C13Sir, please _ off your mobile phone！The meeting has begun.Sorry. I forgot. Achange BswitchCbend Dskip解析
10、：上句句意：先生，请关上手机。会议已经开始了。switch off “关上(手机、电灯等)”。答案：B14(2012宁德质检)The new manager hopes to get the company back _ its feet within five months.Aon BofCto Doff解析：句意：新经理希望在五个月内使公司恢复元气。be back on ones feet “(困境后)恢复；完全复原”。答案：A15They havent seen each other for ten years, but they still keep in _contact with
11、each other.Aconstant BinstantCcontent Dconsistent解析：句意：他们已经10年没有见面了，但他们依然保持经常的相互联系。keep in contact with sb.“与某人保持联系”。constant “不变的；经常的”； instant “立即的；立刻的”； content “满足的”； consistent “始终一致的”。答案：A.阅读理解(2012辽宁六校模拟)Environmentalists said our planet was doomed to die. Now one man says they are wrong.“Eve
12、ryone knows the planet is in bad shape，” thundered a magazine article last year. Species (物种) are being driven to die out at record rates, and the rivers are so poisonous that fish are floating on the surface, dead.But theres a growing belief that what everyone takes for granted is wrong: things are
13、 actually getting better.A new book is about to overturn our most basic assumptions about the worlds environment.Rivers, seas, rain and the atmosphere are all getting cleaner.The total amount of forests in the world is not declining. The Skeptical Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg, professor of stat
14、istics at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, is an attack on the misleading claims of environmental groups, and the “bad news” culture that makes people believe everything is getting worse.Now the attacks are increasingly coming from leftwing environmentalists such as Lomborg, a former member of G
15、reenpeace. The accusation is that, although the environment is improving, green groups with profits of hundreds of millions of pounds a year are using scare tactics (谋略) to gain donations.Lomborgs book doesnt deny global warming probably the biggest environmental threat but destroys almost every oth
16、er environmental claim with many official statistics.The Worldwatch Institute claims that “deforestation has been accelerating over the last 30 years”But Lomborg says that is simply rubbish. Since the dawn of agriculture the world has lost about 20 per cent of its forest cover, but in recent decades
17、 the forest areas depleting has come to a stop. According to UN figures, the area of forests has remained almost steady, at about 30 per cent of total land area, since the 1940s. Forests in countries such as the US, the UK and Canada have actually been expanding over the past 40 years. Despite all t
18、he warnings the Amazon rainforest has only shrunk (缩小) by about 15 per cent.Nor are all our species dying out. Some campaigners claim that 50 per cent of all species will have died out within 50 years. But other studies show only 0.08 per cent of species are dying out each year. Conservation efforts
19、 have been successful. Whales are no longer threatened and the bald eagle is off the endangered list.Environmental groups claim that many of the improvements are the results of the success of their campaigns. Stephen Tindale, director of Greenpeace UK, said, “There are important examples, such as ac
20、id rain and ozone, where things arent as bad as predicted, and thats because behavior has changed.”语篇解读：“环境一直在变坏，我们的星球末日将要来临”，这是环保主义者们发出的警告，然而Lomborg的新书却提出了完全相反的观点，他批驳了环保主义者们耸人听闻的言论。1In his book，The Skeptical Environmentalist，what is Lomborgs main argument?AOur planet is in bad shape.BThe worlds env
21、ironment is improving.CThe total amount of forests in the world is not declining.DConservation efforts have been successful.解析：细节理解题。根据文章第一段与第三段可知Lomborg在The Skeptical Environmentalist中的观点(argument)是环境状况正在改善，因此选项B正确，C项只是他观点的一部分，不全面，故排除。答案：B2What is Lomborgs main accusation of environmentalists?AThey
22、 scared people into making donations.BThey overturned our basic assumptions about the worlds environment.CThey changed their behavior toward the environment.DThey only told people bad news about the environment.解析：细节理解题。根据文章第四段中的第二句话可知Lomborg指责环保主义者们利用恐吓手段让人们捐款。答案：A3The underlined word “depleting” i
23、n Paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to “_”Areducing BlimitingCexpanding Daccelerating解析：词义猜测题。第五段Lomborg通过一些数据反驳了The Worldwatch Institute的观点“deforestation has been acceleration over the last 30 years”， Lomborg认为在最近几十年森林面积的缩小已经停止，因此选择reducing。答案：A4According to the passage, which of the following stat
24、ements is true?AThe total area of forests in the world has increased significantly.BThe effects of global warming are not as bad as first expected.CIt appears that the bald eagle will now survive.DIn the last 50 years the number of whales has increased.解析：细节理解题。根据文章倒数第二段中的“Whales are no longer threa
25、tened and the bald eagle is off the endangered list”可知秃鹰已经不属于濒危的物种了，由此可知C项正确。答案：C.书面表达当今食品安全问题已经成为人们关注的一个话题，请你以Food Safety(食品安全)为题并参考所给要点，写一篇英语短文。要点：1. 简要描述食品安全问题；2. 分析造成该问题的主要原因：(1)利益驱使(2)滥用杀虫剂(3)给动物注射激素3. 提出相应的建议。注意：词数120左右，文章开头已给出，不计入总词数。参考词汇：激素hormones杀虫剂 pesticide Currently, many problems conce
26、rning the safety of food have caused much attention._参考范文：Currently, many problems concerning the safety of food have caused much attention. As for me, I believe at least three factors account for this issue.First, I observe that profits drive many food producers to commit illegal things. They aim t
27、o gain more money at the expense of consumers health. Second, the overuse of agricultural pesticide has some bad effect on food quality. The excessive pesticide bears enormous health risk for people. Furthermore, some food producers inject hormones into domestic animals so as to make them grow more quickly and thus they can turn in more profit. As a result, peoples health has been seriously disturbed.All in all, food safety is such a great concern, and we all should establish laws and implement them effectively to avoid producing poisonous foods.版权所有：高考资源网()版权所有：高考资源网()
