1、河南省郑州市2012届高中毕业班考前检测（二）英 语 试 题YCY本试卷分为第一卷（选择题）和第二卷（非选择题）两部分。考试时间100分钟，满分120分。考生应首先阅读答题卡上的文字信息，然后在答题卡上作答，在试题卷上作答无效。第一卷（选择题共85分）第一部分 听力（略）第二部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。21What did you think of _ concert yesterday?It couldnt be _ better oneAthe;
2、 不填 Bthe; the Cthe; a Da; a22What are you going to do this weekend?_Why?ANothing else BNothing much CNothing special DNothing important23In Norway, it s common _ for the husband to stay at home to look after the babyApractice Bprocess Csense Dact24_ has the right medical knowledge can give first aid
3、 in time of dangerAWho BNo matter who CAnyone DWhoever25The test was so difficult that half of the students _ failed this timeAalmost Bhardly Cstill Dsomehow26I still remember the accident and the troubles _ has caused to meAwhich Bwhat Cit Dthat27Harry Potter describes a world full of magic, in whi
4、ch anything strange _ happenAmay Bshall Cwill Dcan28Why didnt you attend the ceremony yesterday?Because my cousin came to see me, which I _Adidn t expect Bhaven t expectedCwasn t expecting Dhadn t expected29It was about 600 years _ the first clock with a face and an hour hand was madeAbefore Bthat C
5、when Duntil30The new products will not sell well unless they _ properlyAwill be promoted Bare promoted Chave promoted Dare being promoted31She turned on the light and listened to the wind outside, _ why her son hadnt been back yet at such a late timeAhaving wondered Bwondering Cto wonder Dwondered32
6、Yao Ming, now a student of Shanghai Jiaotong University, _ basketball in NBA for nine yearsAhas played Bwas playing Chas been playing Dplayed33He has got himself into a dangerous situation _ he may lose his life as well as his jobAthat Bwhich Cwhere Dwhy34_ once a year, whether you are old or young,
7、 man or woman, is a way to keep healthyABeing examined BExamined CTo be examined DBe examined35While studying, fix your mind on what is really important, or you will _ remembering nothingAshow up Btake up Cbring up Dend up第二节 完型填空（共20小题；每小题15分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上涂黑。One
8、 day a naughty boy, Tom, was taking a walk on the road with his uncle, a professor in a famous universityAs they went along, they saw a pair of old shoes lying on the path, which they supposed to belong to a poor man who was working in a field close by, and who had 36 finished his day s workTom 37 t
9、he professor, saying, Let s play a 38 on the man: we hide his shoes, stay behind those bushes, and wait to see his 39 when he cannot find them Tom, said the professor, we should never 40 ourselves by making fun of the poor You are 41 , and may give yourself a much greater pleasure by helping the poo
10、r manPut a 42 into each shoe, and then we will hide ourselves and watch how the 43 affects himTom did so, and they both hid themselves behind the 44 close by The poor man soon finished his work, and came 45 the field to the path where he had left his coat and shoesWhile putting on his coat, he 46 hi
11、s foot into one of his shoes, but felt something 47 , so he bent down to feel what it was, and found the coinSurprised, he stared at the coin, turned it round, and looked at it again and againHe then looked around himself, 48 no person was seenHe put the money into his pocket, and went on to put on
12、the other shoeBut his surprise was 49 , because he found a coin in the other shoe, tooHis feelings 50 himHe fell upon his 51 , looked up to heaven and let out a sincere thanksgiving, in which he spoke of his wife, sick and 52 , and his dying children without breadThe naughty boy stood there deeply a
13、ffected, his eyes filled with tears Now, said the professor, are you not much more pleased than if you have played your 53 trick?The boy replied regretfully, You have taught me a lesson which I will never forgetI feel now the 54 of those words, which I never understood before It is more blessed to g
14、ive than to 55 36Anearly Bhardly CcloselyDalready37Awalked around Breferred to Cturned toDpuzzled over38Afun Bjoke ChideDtrick39Aopinion Breaction CemotionDthought40Ashow Bhelp CamuseDbehave41Ahealthy Bgood CkindDrich42Acoin Bbutton CgrainDpenny43Apleasure Bdiscovery CchanceDpossibility44Abushes Btr
15、ees CcropsDstones45Aaround Btoward CintoDacross46Awore Bstepped CslippedDtried47Ahard Btight CcoldDloose48Aand Bso CwhileDbut49Afolded Bdeveloped CdoubledDimproved50Aovercame Bbeat CgraspedDcontrolled51Ahands Bknees CfeetDlegs52Abeautiful Bmerciless ChopefulDhelpless53Aintended Brequired CdevotedDde
16、termined54Afaith Bfact CtruthDbelief55Ademand Breceive CfoolDposses第三部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AI must have been about fourteen then, and I put away the incident from my mind with the easy carelessness of youthBut the words, which Carl Walt
17、er spoke that day, came back to me years later, and ever since have been of great value to meCarl Waller was my piano teacherDuring one of my lessons he asked how much practice I was doingI said three or four hours a dayDo you often practice so long at a time? asked my teacherI try to, I answeredWel
18、l, don t, ge said “When you grow up, time won l come in long periodsPractice in minutes whenever you can find them, five or ten before school, after lunch, or between household tasksSpread the practice through the day, and piano-playing will become a part of your lifeWhen I was teaching at Columbia,
19、 I wanted to write, but class periods, theme-reading and committee meetings filled my days and eveningsFor two years I got practically nothing down on paper, and myexcuse was that I had no timeThen I remembered what Carl Walter had saidDuring the next week I conducted an experimentWhenever I had fiv
20、e minutes to spare, I would sit-down and write a hundred words or soTo my astonishment, at the end of the week I had a rather large manuscript （手稿） ready for revision, later on I wrote novels by the same meansThough my teaching schedule had become heavier than ever, every day there were free moments
21、 which could be caught and put to useI even took up piano-playing again, finding that the small intervals of the day provided enough time for both writing and piano practiceThere is an important trick in this time-using formula; you must get into your work quicklyIf you-have only five minutes for wr
22、iting, you cant afford to waste four minutes chewing your pencilYou must make your mental preparations ahead of time, and focus on your task almost immediately when the time comesFortunately, rapid concentration is easier than most of us realizeI admit I have never learnt how to let go easily at the
23、 end of the five or ten minutesBut life can be counted on to supply interruptions （中断时间）Carl Walter has had a great influence on my lifeTo him, I owe the discovery that even very short periods of time add up to all useful hours I need, if I begin without delay56Which of the following can be the best
24、 tide of this passage?AConcentrate on Your Work BA Little at a TimeCHow I Became a Writer DMy Teacher s Advice57Which of the following statements is true?AThe writer owes great thanks to his teacher for teaching him to work in long periodsBCarl Walter has had a great influence on the writer s life s
25、ince he became a studentCThe writer didnt take the teacher s words to heart at firstDRapid concentration is actually more difficult than most people imagine58The underlined part counted on in the last paragraph can be replaced by _Aenriched Bconcentrated Cvalued Dexpected59We can infer from the pass
26、age that the author _Ahas new books published each year however busy his teaching isBis always tired of interruptions in life because his teaching schedule is always heavyChas got into the bad habit of chewing a pencil while writing his novelsDis devoted to work immediately because he can find enoug
27、h time for preparationsBLONDON For sale: the world s smallest country with its own flag, stamps, currency and passportsApply to Prince Michael of Sealand if you want to run your own nation, even if it s just a wartime fort （堡垒） lying on two concrete towers in the North SeaBuilt in the Second World W
28、ar as an anti-aircraft base to fight against German bombers, the deserted platform was taken over 40 years ago by a retired army officer Paddy Roy Bates, who went to live there with his familyHe declared the platform, lying seven miles off the east coast of England and just outside Britains territor
29、ial （领土的） waters, to be the principality （公国） of SealandThe self-styled Prince Roy adopted a flag, chose a national anthem and made silver and gold coinsThe family saw off attempts by Britain s Royal Navy to force them to leave and also an attempt in 1978 by a group of German and Dutch businessmen t
30、o seize Sealand by forceI was held prisoner out there for three or four days and then managed to get back to England , Roy s son Michael saidPrince Michael, whose 85-year-old father now lives in Spain, said his family had been approached by customers who wanted freedom, more than the housesAsked wha
31、t were the delights of living on Sealand, the 54-year-old prince said, The neighbors are very quietThere is a good sea viewThere is no jurisdiction （管辖权） by any other country in the worldCalling it a cross between a house and a ship, the prince acknowledged it was not the world s most beautiful coun
32、try but two large concrete towers with eight rooms in each towerBut it is quite pleasant sitting inside in the warm and watching the frightening weather fighting past the windows60What is the passage mainly about?APaddy Roy Bates and his son Prince MichaelBThe sale of the world s smallest countryCTh
33、e history of the country in the North SeaDThe introduction of the world s smallest country61What might attract buyers most?AThe freedom BThe easy trafficCThe beauty DThe quietness62Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?APaddy Roy Bates never left SealandBSealand has its
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43、ifferent topics for readers66The passage is mainly intended for those who are interested in _Aentertainment Bcomputer engineeringCwriting DbusinessDEarly one morning, more than a hundred years ago, an American inventor called Elias Howe finally fell asleepHe had been working all night on the design
44、of a sewing machine, but he had run into a very difficult problem: It seemed impossible to get the thread to run smoothly around the needleThough he was tired, Howe slept badlyHe turned and turnedThen he had a dreamHe dreamed that he had been caught by terrible savages （ SHSA） whose king wanted to k
45、ill him and eat him unless he could build a perfect sewing machineWhen he tried to do so, Howe ran into the same problem as beforeThe thread kept getting caught around the needleThe king flew into the cage and ordered his soldiers to kill HoweThey came up towards him with their spears raisedBut sudd
46、enly the inventor noticed somethingThere was a hole in the tip of each spear The inventor awoke from the dream, realizing that he had just found the answer to the problemInstead of trying to get the thread to run around the needle, he should make it run through a small hole in the center of the need
47、leThis was the simple idea that finally made Howe design and build the first really practical sewing machineElias Howe was not the only one in finding the answer to his problem in this way Thomas Edison, the inventor of the electric light, said his best ideas came into him in dreamsSo did the great
48、physicist Albert EinsteinCharlotte Bronte also drew in her dreams in writing Jane EyreTo know the value of dreams, you have to understand what happens when you are asleep Even then, a part of your mind is still workingThis unconscious （无意识的） but still active part understands your experiences and goe
49、s to work on the problems you have had during the dayIt stores all sorts of information that you may have forgotten or never have really noticedIt is only when you fall asleep that this part of the brain can send messages to the part you use when you are awakeHowever, the unconscious part acts in a
50、special wayIt uses strange images which the conscious part may not understand at firstThis is why dreams are sometimes called secret messages to ourselves67According to the passage, Elias Howe was _Athe first person who solved problems in his sleepBmuch more hard-working than other inventorsCthe fir
51、st person to design a sewing machine that really workedDthe only person who knew the value of dream at the time68The problem Howe was trying to solve was _Awhat kind of thread to useBhow to design a needle which would not breakCwhere to put the needleDhow to prevent the thread getting caught around
52、the needle69Thomas Edison is spoken of because _Ahe also tried to invent a sewing machineBhe got some of his ideas from dreamsChe was one of Howes best mendsDhe also had difficulty in falling asleep70Dreams are sometimes called secret messages to ourselves because _Astrange images are used to commun
53、icate ideasBimages which have no meaning are usedCwe can never understand the real meaningDonly specially trained people can understand them第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。Are you cooperative? Are you a good team member? If so, the future may hold more for y
54、ou than you think 71 That s happening in those areas of business and data processing where one person and a computer can replace a team of workersBut, elsewhere, teamwork is very much aliveHigh technology has led to a new type of teamwork in a number of fields, including advertising, scientific rese
55、arch, engineering design, architecture and ocean explorationThrough computer networking, scientists, engineers and technicians at different locations often thousands of miles apart can work on the same project at once 72 Examples An engineering team can now design and try out a robot system ?a new m
56、anufacturing process or an entire factory before it is built 73 A medical team can simulate （模拟） a dangerous operation before performing it on a patientOf course, computer-assisted team effort doesnt end with investigation and simulation74 CAD-CAM computer-aided design and manufactureis breaking dow
57、n barriers between traditional design and manufacturing functions, explains DrPrakash Rao, an engineering manager at General ElectricInterdisciplinary （跨学科的） teams and engineers follow a product from concept to productionEverything is interconnected like a networkSometimes, a computer-aided effort c
58、an extend beyond productionA team that produces robots may use them to explore space and ocean depths 75 AThey can exchange ideas, try out different designs and test their resultsBIn the future, teamwork will be highlighted by the introduction of new technologyCAn architectural team can do the same
59、with a building or a bridgeDIt ends in the products which are extensions of the traditional designEIt now usually continues into actual design, manufacturing and testingFHigh technology, some predicted, would make teamwork a thing of the pastGFor high-technology teamwork, the future seems limitless第
60、二卷（非选择题，共35分）第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）第一节 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（），并在此符号下面写出该加的词。删除：把多余的词用斜线（）划掉。修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。注意：1每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；2只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。Dear friend,I m an Australian boy of 16 years old, liv
61、e in SydneyI like Chinese very much, butI want a pen pal in ChinaAt school I like playing football and tennisOur favorite subjectis science because it s very interestingI won t like history, for I think it s rather boringI play guitar well, so I join in the school rock bandIn the afternoon we usuall
62、y play foot-ball or tennisWe usually got home at about 5: 30 pmFor weekends I often go out for aswim, which is really relaxedDo you like sports and games? Which do you like to play?I d like to get your early replyYours truly,Jack第二节 书面表达（满分25分）现在，网络语言已经引起了大众的担忧。请根据下面表格中的内容，用英语写一篇短文，并发表自己的观点。注意：1词数：100左右，开头已为你写好，不计人总词数；2短文需包括表格中所有要点，内容可适当发挥，以使行文连贯。参考词汇：负面的negativeNowadays, the Internet is flooded with cyberlanguage, which has aroused great public concern.
