【同步教育信息】

一. 本周教学内容：

    第二次月检测

【模拟试题】（答题时间：120分钟）

第I卷（共85分）

第一部分：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，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

1. In the        of rain , the opening ceremony of the book fair will have to be held indoors .

    A. face    B. event    C. time    D. course

2. I want to buy that kind of cloth because I        the cloth        well .

A. have told ; washed                 B. have been told ; washes

C. have been told ; is washed              D. was told ; washed

3. Willpower is a kind of quality―and that is        it takes to do everything well .

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

4. To keep healthy , a lot of people        jogging as a regular form of exercise .

    A. took up    B. caught on    C. carried out    D. made for

5. Richard was called in by the police to answer questions        the disappearance of Thomas Riley , whose relatives were so        his present situation .

A. concerning ; concerning about               B. concerned ; worrying about

C. with regards to ; concerned about           D. regarding ; concerned about

6. Jim is awfully difficult to make friends with , but the friendship of his ,        , is more true than any other .

    A. once gained    B. when to gain    C. as gained    D. while gaining

7. Is the Haihe River ,        through Tianjin ,very large ?

    A. which flows    B. flows    C. which one flows    D. flowed

8. ― Why are you so late ? I        here for more than an hour .

 ― I’m terribly sorry . I overslept and missed the bus .

    A. am waiting    B. was waiting    C. have been waiting    D. have been waited

9. Mom , I lost        diamond ring you bought for me as my birthday present .

Could you keep        eye out for it when you clean my bedroom ?

    A. a ; an    B. a ; the   C. the ; the    D. the ; an

10. The local government is trying all out to find out who is        the forest fire .

A. to blame for starting                      B. to blame to start

C. to be blamed for starting          D. to be blamed to start

11. ― Do you mind if I visit you now and talk about the advertising campaign , Mr. President ?

   ― I’d rather you        at the moment .

    A. are not coming    B. don’t come    C. didn’t come    D. will not come

12. It was        back home after the experiment .

A. not until midnight did he go                    B. until midnight that he didn’t go

C. until midnight when he didn’t go            D. not until midnight that he went

13. My parents will move back into town in a year or        .

    A. later    B. after    C. about    D. so

14. The film Harry Potter IV is        for children above 12 and adults for it contains horror and violence .

    A. promised    B. intended    C. admitted    D. permitted

15.        it is true that a successful businessman or inventor will usually become rich , many other people who are outstanding in their fields take little notice of personal possessions .

A. While    B. Since    C. Unless    D. If

第二节：完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16―35各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

During my first three years on the island , I considered often how I might cross to this mainland . My first two attempts  16   , for in each case ,   17   I had painstakingly built a boat to carry me , I found it too   18   and heavy to move to the water’s edge .   19   I built a small canoe out of a tree trunk .   20   too small for crossing the ocean , the canoe would at least enable me to sail around the   21   . I loaded it with provisions（准备）,   22   my little sail , and set out , staying close to the   23   . At length , however , I   24   a rocky point around which the waves   25   in such a way as to send my small boat out to sea . It was only by great   26   and providence I was able to sail back to land . When at last I fell exhausted upon the floor of my country bower（凉亭）, I was   27  to hear a voice echoing（回响）my   28  , saying , “ Poor Robinson Crusoe , where are you ? Where have you been ? ” I started up   29   fear . After a while I   30   that it was my parrot , Poll ,   31   the phrases I had taught him .

For fifteen years , I busied myself with caring   32   my crops and animals , maintaining my houses , and   33   my island . Then one day as I went to my canoe , I was surprised to see the print of a man’s naked   34   , very plain in the sand , Thunderstruck , I looked and   35   , but neither saw nor heard angry one . Nor were there any other footprints .

16. A. failed              B. happened           C. succeeded                D. survived

17. A. as                   B. when                C. after                        D. before

18. A. tall                  B. small                C. large                        D. dangerous

19. A. Firstly             B. Secondly           C. Next                        D. Finally

20. A. But                 B. Still                  C. Because                   D. Though

21. A. sea                 B. island                C. river mouth                     D. water’s edge

22. A. put                 B. folded               C. raised                       D. started

23. A. rock               B. sea        &n&bsp;           C. ocean                       D. shoreline

24. A. escaped           B. avoided             C. came across                    D. knocked into

25. A. swept             B. blew                 C. flew                         D. flooded

26. A. courage           B. struggle             C. wisdom                    D. desire

27. A. mad                B. angry                C. pleased                     D. astonished

28. A. tones                     B. heart                 C. speeches                  D. thoughts

29. A. at                   B. by                     C. in                                   D. with

30. A. knew                     B. realized              C. admitted                   D. recognized

31. A. singing            B. shouting            C. learning                    D. repeating

32. A. about                     B. of                     C. to                                   D. for

33. A. enjoying          B. beautifying         C. planning                   D. exploring

34. A. foot                B. hand                 C. leg                           D. arm

35. A. thought           B. listened              C. noticed                     D. sensed

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选个项中，选出最佳选项。

A

Money spent on advertising is money spent as well as any I know of . It serves directly to assist a rapid distribution of goods at reasonable price , thereby establishing a firm home market and so making it possible to provide for export at competitive prices . By drawing attention to new ideas it helps enormously to raise standards of living . By helping to increase demand it ensures an increased need for labor , and is therefore an effective way to fight unemployment . It lowers the costs of many services : without advertisements your daily newspaper would cost four times as much , the price of your television license would need to be doubled , and travel by bus or tube would cost 20 per cent more .

And perhaps most important of all , advertising provides a guarantee of reasonable value in the products and services you buy . Apart from the fact that twenty seven acts of Parliament govern the terms of advertising , no regular advertiser dare promote a product that fails to live up to the promise of his advertisements . He might fool some people for a little while through misleading advertising . He will not do so for long , for mercifully the public has the good sense not to buy the inferior article more than once . If you see an article consistently advertised , it is the surest proof I know that the article does what is claimed for it , and that it represents good value .

Advertising does more for the material benefit of the community than any other force I can think of .

There is one more point I feel I ought to touch on . Recently I heard a well-known television personality declare that he was against advertising because it persuades rather than informs . He was drawing excessively fine distinctions . Of course advertising seeks to persuade .

If its message were confined merely to information-and that in itself would be difficult if not impossible to achieve , for even a detail such as the choice of the color of a shirt is subtly persuasive-advertising would be so boring that no one would pay any attention . But perhaps that is what the well-known television personality wants .

36. By the first sentence of the passage the author means that        .

A. he is fairly familiar with the cost of advertising

B. everybody knows well that advertising is money consuming

C. advertising costs money like everything else

D. it is worthwhile to spend money on advertising

37. The underlined word “ it ” in the second paragraph stands for        .

A. the article                           B. the advertiser

C. the advertisement                   D. the proof

38. The author deems that the well-known TV personality is        .

A. very precise in passing his judgment on advertising

B. interested in nothing but the buyers’ attention

C. correct in telling the difference between persuasion and information

D. obviously partial in his views on advertising

39. In the author’s opinion ,        .

A. advertising can seldom bring material benefit to man by providing information

B. advertising informs people of new ideas rather than wins them over

C. there is nothing wrong with advertising in persuading the buyer

D. the buyer is not interested in getting information from an advertisement

B

One thing the tour books don’t tell you about London is that 2,000 of its residents are foxes . They ran away from the city about two centuries ago after developers and pollution moved in . But now that the environment is cleaner , the foxes have come home .

“ The number and variety of wild animals in urban areas is increasing , ” says Comer Jones . A survey of the wildlife in New York’s Central Park last year counted 14 species of mammals . A similar survey conducted in the 1890s counted only five species .

Several changes have brought wild animals to the cities . Foremost is that air and water quality in many cities has improved as a result of the 1970s pollution-control efforts . Meanwhile , rural areas have been built up , leaving many animals on the edges of suburbs . In addition , urban wildlife refuges（避难处）have been created . The Greater London Council last year spent ￡ 750,000 to buy land and build 10 permanent（永久的）wildlife refuges in the city . As a result , many birds are now living in the city . For peregrine falcons cities are actually safer than rural cliff dwellings（悬崖栖息地）. By 1970 the birds had died out east of the Mississippi because of the DDT had made their eggs too thin to support life . That year , scientist Tom Cade of Cornell University began raising the birds for release in cities , for cities afforded plenty of food .

Cities can attract wild animals without turning them harmful . The trick is to create habitats where they can be self-sufficient but still be seen and appreciated . Such habitats can even be functional . In San Francisco , the local government is testing different kinds of rainwater control basins to see not only which ones retain（保持）the cleanest water but which will attract the most birds .

40. The passage is mainly concerned with        .

A. wildlife returning to large cities               B. foxes returning to London

C. wild animals living in zoos                     D. a survey of wildlife in New York

41. It can be inferred from the passage that        .

A. Londoners are putting more and more wild animals into their zoos

B. Londoners are happy to see wild animals return to their city

C. Londoners are trying to move wild animals back to the countryside

D. Londoners have welcomed the wild birds , but found foxes a problem

42. According to the passage , the number of species of wildlife in New York’s  Central Park        .

A. is slowly decreasing                             B. competes favorably with other cities

C. is on the same level as before          D. has more than doubled in the last century

43. Which of the following is NOT a reason that wildlife is returning to the cities ?

A. Food is plentiful in the cities .

B. Wildlife is appreciated in the cities .

C. Wildlife refuges have been built in the cities .

D. Air and water quality has improved in the cities .

C

Shopping is not as simple as you may think ! There are all sorts of tricks at play each time we reach out for that particular brand of product on the shelf .

Coloring , for example , varies according to what the producers are trying to sell . Health foods are packaged in greens , yellows or browns because we think of these as healthy colors . Ice cream packers are often blue and expensive goods , like chocolates , are gold or silver .

When some kind of pain killer was brought out recently , researchers found that the colors turned the customers off because they made the product look weak and ineffective . Eventually , it came on the market in a dark blue and white package―blue , because we think of it as safe , and white as calm .

The size of a product can attract a shopper . But quite often a bottle doesn’t contain as much as it appears to .

It is believed that the better-known companies spend , on average , 70 per cent of the total cost of the product itself on packaging !

The most successful producers know that it’s not enough to have a good product . The founder of Pears soap , who for 25 years has used pretty little girls to promote their goods , came to the conclusion . “ Any fool can make soap , but it takes a genius to sell it . ”

44. Which of the following may trick a shopper into buying a product according to the text ?

A. The cost of its package .                B. The price of the product .

C. The color of its package .               D. The brand name of the product .

45. The underlined part “ the color turned the customers off ”（in para. 3）means the colors    

    .

A. attracted the customers strongly

B. had weak effects on the customers

C. tricked the customers into shopping

D. caused the customers to lose interest

46. Which of the following is the key to the success in product sales ?

A. The way to promote the goods .

B. The discovery of a genius .

C. The team to produce a good product .

D. The brand name used by successful producers .

47. Which of the following could be the best title for the text ?

A. Choice of good products .                     B. Disadvantage of products .

C. Effect of packaging on shopping .   D. Brand names and shopping tricks .

D

“ A good book for children should simply be a good book in its own right , ” says Mollie Hunter . Born and brought up near Edinburgh , Mollie has devoted her talents to writing primarily for young people . She firmly believes that there is always and should always be a wider audience for any good book whatever its main market is . In Mollie’s opinion it is necessary to make full use of language and she enjoys telling a story , which is what every writer should be doing . “ If you aren’t telling a story , you’re a very dead writer indeed , ” she says . With the chief function of a writer being to entertain（让人愉快）, Mollie is indeed an entertainer . “ I have this great love of not only the meaning of language but of the music of language , ” she says . “ This love goes back to early childhood . I’ve told stories all my life . I had a school teacher who used to ask us what we would like to be when we grew up and , because my family always had dogs , and I was very good at handing them , I said I wanted to work with dogs , and the teacher always said ‘ Nonsense , Mollie , dear , you’ll be a writer . ’ So finally I thought that this woman must have something , since she was a good teacher and I decided when I was nine that I would be a writer .”

This childhood intention is described in her novel , A Sound of Chariots , which although written in the third person is clearly autobiographical（自传体的）and gives a picture both of Mollie’s ambition（理想）and her struggle towards its achievement . Thoughts of her childhood inevitably（不可避免地）brought thoughts of the time when her home was still a village with buttercup meadows and strawberry fields―sadly now covered with modern houses . “ I was once taken back to see it and I felt that somebody had lain dirty hands all over my childhood . I’ll never go back , ” she said . “ Never . ” “ When I set one of my books in Scotland , ” she said , “ I can recall my romantic（浪漫的）feelings as a child playing in those fields , or watching the village blacksmith at work . And that’s important , because children now know so much so early that romance can’t exist for them , as it did for us . ”

48. What does Mollie Hunter feel about the nature of a good book ?

A. It should not aim at a narrow audience .

B. It should be attractive to young readers .

C. It should be based on original ideas .

D. It should not include too much conversation .

49. In Mollie Hunter’s opinion , which of the following is one sign of a poor writer ?

A. Being poor in life experience .

B. Being short of writing skills .

C. The weakness of description .

D. The absence of a story .

50. What do we learn about Mollie Hunter as a young child ?

A. She didn’t expect to become a writer .

B. She didn’t enjoy writing stories .

C. She didn’t have any particular ambitions .

D. She didn’t respect her teacher’s views .

51. In comparison with children of earlier years , Mollie feels that modern children are       .

A. more intelligent

B. better informed

C. less eager to learn

D. less interested in reality

52. What’s the writer’s purpose in this text ?

A. To describe Mollie Hunter’s most successful books .

B. To share her enjoyment of Mollie Hunter’s books .

C. To introduce Mollie Hunter’s work to a wider audience .

D. To provide information for Mollie Hunter’s existing readers .

E

Drunken driving ― sometimes called America’s socially accepted form of murder―has become a national epidemic（流行病）. Every hour of every day about three Americans on average are killed by drunken drivers , adding up to an incredible 250,000 over the past ten years . A drunken driver is usually referred to as one with 0.10 ?Cblood alcohol content or roughly three beer glasses of wine or shots of whisky drunk within two hours . Heavy drinking used to be an acceptable part of the American manly image and judges were lenient in most courts , but the drunken killing has recently cause so many well-publicized tragedies , especially concerning young children , that public opinion is no longer so tolerant（忍受）.

Twenty states have raised the legal drinking age to 21 , reversing a trend（逆转潮流）in the 1960s to reduce it to 18 . After New Jersey lowered it to 18 , the number of people killed by 18-20-year-old drivers more than doubled , so the state recently upped it back to 21 .

Reformers , however , fear raising the drinking age will have little effect unless accompanied by educational programs to help young people to develop “ responsible attitudes ” about drinking and teach them to resist peer pressure to drink .

Though new laws have led to increased arrests and tests in many areas already , to a marked drop in accidents , some states are also punishing bars for serving customers too many drinks . A bar in Massachusetts was fined for serving six or more double brandies to a customer who was “ obviously drunk ” and later drove off the road , killing a nine-year-old boy .

As the accidents continue to occur daily in every state , some Americans are even beginning to speak well of the 13 years national prohibition（禁令）of alcohol that began in 1919 , which President Hoover called the “ noble experiment ” . They forgot that legal prohibition didn’t stop drinking , but encouraged political corruption（腐败）and organized crime . As with the booming drug trade generally , there is no easy solution .

53. What can be inferred from the fact of the traffic accidents in New Jersey ?

A. Young drivers were usually bad .

B. The legal drinking age should be raised .

C. Some drivers didn’t surprise the legal drinking age .

D. Drivers should not be allowed to drink .

54. The underlined word “ lenient ” in the first paragraph means        .

A. merciful    B. cruel    C. serious    D. determined

55. As regards drunken driving , public opinion has changed because        .

A. judges are no longer lenient

B. new laws are introduced in some states

C. drivers do not appreciate their manly image

D. the news media have raised public attention of the problem

第II卷

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）

I used to complain my English teacher for                                             56.        

her bad English . I was also tiring of her teaching methods ,                           57.        

that were always slow and boring . However , my attitude                       58.        

towards her began to change after one afternoon . It was rained                     59.        

heavily but I didn’t attend school . Around 5:30 pm I received                 60.        

a phone call . “ Are you all right ? ” asked my English teacher in quiet              61.        

voice . On hearing his words , I was shocked and my mind was                    62.        

flooded with mixed feeling . She was showing her concern for                63.        

me , though I had not been happily with her ! Was she just acting ,          64.        

or should I smooth away my past misunderstanding , of her ?                  65.        

第二节：书面表达（满分25分）

  66. 请根据以下提示，用英语写一篇100词左右的短文。

三班的同学进行了一场有关英语学习的讨论。讨论的题目是：学习英语要不要从儿童时期开始？请你根据下表中的提示写一篇短文，介绍讨论的情况。

    The students of Class 3 have recently had a discussion about whether it is necessary to start learning English from childhood …

【试题答案】

第I卷

第一节

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第二节

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第三节

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第II卷

第一节

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