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. 单词拼写1. An _（被遗弃的） baby was found in a box on the hospital steps. 2. Does she live within walking _（距离） of her parents? 3. They came here in search of new markets for their _（产品）. 4. The man was _（射杀） dead by the police during a raid on his house. 5. I want to _（训练） my dog to roll over. 6. The childrens shouts _（惊吓） off the birds just now. 7. All three men were hot, dirty and _（疲惫不堪的）. 8. The people involved in the wedding _（仪式） all enjoyed themselves. 9. Life is like a _（旅程） of which the destination shouldnt be cared about. 10. Sometimes they just drive slowly down the lane enjoying the _（风景）. . 语法和词汇知识 1. The plan was _ when it was discovered just how much the scheme would cost. A. releasedB. desertedC. resignedD. abandoned2. If youre a poor driver, you should not _ at night. A. to try drivingB. try to driveC. to try to driveD. try driving3. 2012泰安模拟 _ it is to sit down and have a good chat with your close friends! A. What great funnyB. What a great funC. What great funD. How good fun4. The _ of Suzhou and Hangzhou in spring is attractive. A. viewB. sceneryC. sceneD. sight5. The faces of four famous American presidents on Mount Rushmore can be seen from a _ of 60 miles. A. lengthB. distance C. wayD. space6. Ad-makers choose words and brand names very carefully in order to make a creative image of the product they are _. A. processingB. producingC. providingD. promoting7. 2012哈尔滨模拟Do you begin the day by reading the newspaper, then go off to work and then return home_ for bed? A. tired and readyB. to tire and be ready C. tiredly and readilyD. tiring and ready8. How much did you get about this chapter? Almost nothing. The teacher explained three times but didnt _. A. get onB. get throughC. get acrossD. get off9. 2012杭州模拟Last year my college friend Melissa _ her family business, a company supplying metal boxes to other factories. A. took upB. took downC. took offD. took over10. The communication satellite _ from Xichang Space Center has entered the orbit successfully. A. to be launchedB. launchedC. launchingD. having launched11. Please _ vocabulary about Market & Price if you want to know better about the article. A. come toB. refer toC. add toD. get to12. Everything is easily _ so its not wise to follow the fashion. A. out of sightB. out of dateC. out of reachD. out of memory13. It is because he _ experience that he is rejected. A. is short ofB. is short for C. lacks ofD. lacks for14. The _ explosion _ all the people present just now. A. frightened; frightenedB. frightening; frightenedC. frightened; frightensD. frightening; frightens15. Would you mind if you helped me with my math? _. I have set my mind to help you. A. Never mindB. Dont mention itC. No wayD. Of course not. 阅读理解(A)Cars and airplanes changed life in the 20th century. New changes in transportation are going to make life very different in the 21st century, too. Trains and planes will be faster and more comfortable. Planes will also be bigger. NEW AIRPLANESToday the biggest planes carry about 400passengers. Soon airlines will build larger planes. These new large planes will carry 600800 passengers. Now high-speed planes travel from London to New York in 3 hours. They carry only 100 passengers. New high-speed planes will be bigger and faster. They will fly from London to New York in only 1. 5 hours and they will carry 300 people. A ticket on these fast planes will be very expensive. So most people will not take them. HIGH-SPEED TRAINSMany people will take new, high-speed trains instead of planes. Today most trains can go 80 miles per hour (130km/h). Japans bullettrain can go 150 mph (240 km/h). The most watched Shanghai-Nanjing high-speed intercity （城市间的） railway opened on July 1, which is covering 301 km from Shanghai Hongqiao to Nanjing. The train runs at 300to 350 km per hour. New high-speed trains will go more than 300 mph (480 km/h) twice faster than the bullet train. Germany, Switzerland and Japan will be the first countries to use these new high-speed trains. Other countries plan to have the new train, too. In the future, the trains we have today may not be used at all. 1. Planes will travel _ faster in the future than now. A. half B. twiceC. three times D. four times2. The reason why fewer people will take the fast planes is that _. A. they are not safeB. people will have their own planesC. the service on the planes is not satisfactoryD. people will spend much if they take such planes 3. Which of the following is RIGHT according to the passage? A. Japans bullet train is the fastest train in the world. B. The Shanghai-Nanjing high-speed train runs faster than Japans bullet train. C. Trains will become smaller in the future. D. Trains will run faster than planes. 4. Which of the following words cant be used to describe the future trains and planes? A. Fast. B. Comfortable. C. Big. D. Cheap. 5. Whats the passage mainly about? A. Predictions about the future trains and planes. B. Planes which will be faster and more comfortable than trains. C. Trains which will take the place of planes. D. Planes and trains which will become the main means of transport in the future. (B)Carole Wright, 54, was unable to put on her own shoes because of her size two years ago. Her weight at 29st 10lb（29英石10磅）, which is equal to about 190 kilos, meant she was forced to sit on a brick wall at a barbecue two years ago for fear that she could break a plastic garden chair. But since then, Carole, has turned her life around and lost two-thirds of her body weight and now weighs 10st. “The doctor said, If you dont do something about your weight, youre going to be dead in two years. It was terrifying to hear that, but I didnt know where to go for help, ” she said. She realised she had to change her lifestyle when she joined a slimming club. “Weighing almost 30st was a huge shock and I burst into tears, ” she said. “All I ever did was watch television or sit by the computer. It got to the stage where I wasnt only trapped inside the house, I was trapped in my own body too and I couldnt see a way out. ”Carole, who is 5ft 3in tall, lost a stone in her first week of eating healthy home-cooked meals, and lost a stone every month for the next year. Carole was named Slimming Worlds woman of the year 2011. “I can do all of the little things everyone else takes for granted like putting my own shoes on, painting my toe nails and walking up stairsin fact, I run up them now, ” she said. “The last time I weighed 10st I was 10 years old. My only regret is that I didnt do it 35 years ago, but to make up for lost time I plan to grow old gracefully. ”“For the first time in my life I feel normal and its a great feeling. ”6. When the doctor told Carole Wright she would die in two years, she _. A. went to a slimming club immediatelyB. decided to go on a diet immediatelyC. felt very frightenedD. didnt believe what the doctor said7. Which of the following contributed to Carole Wright being overweight? A. Her lifestyle. B. A rare disease. C. Home-cooked meals. D. Her work. 8. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 “I run up them now” means that _. A. I do them as usual B. I do them quicklyC. I do them while running D. I run out of them9. According to the passage, we know that Carole Wright _. A. thinks she should have begun to lose her weight at the age of 35B. has been living a terrible lifeC. feels it great to be thinD. has been treated badly in the past years10. Whats the best title of the passage? A. Carole Wright, an English woman aged 54B. Slimming Worlds woman of the year 2011C. Carole Wright, aged 54, loses her weight successfullyD. A person who should have died two years ago答案解析. 1. abandoned 2. distance 3. products 4. shot 5. train 6. frightened 7. exhausted 8. ceremony 9. journey 10. scenery. 1. 【解析】选D。句意：当发现这个方案将耗费巨资时，它被放弃了。abandon 意为“放弃”。release “解除，免除”；desert 表示抛弃自己的职责或应尽的义务；resign “辞去，辞职，放弃”。2. 【解析】选D。句意：如果你是个技术不过关的驾驶员，你不应该尝试在晚上驾车。try to do努力去做；try doing试着做。3. 【解析】选C。考查感叹句。句意：坐下来和亲密的朋友们聊聊天是多么惬意啊！fun是不可数名词，应由what引导感叹句，且fun前不加冠词。4. 【解析】选B。考查名词辨析。句意：春天的苏杭，景色宜人。view表示“从高处或远处看到的风景”； scenery泛指一个地方的风景，是不可数名词；scene场景，一幕；sight指“视力，一个地方的名胜”。【变式备选】The Dragon Tower, from whose top visitors can enjoy a good _ of Harbin, attracts hundreds of tourists every day. A. sight B. view C. scenery D. scene【解析】选B。from whose top. . . Harbin是非限制性定语从句修饰the Dragon Tower，whose在此处表示“这座塔的”。view表示“从高处或远处看到的风景”，sight指“视力，一个地方的名胜”。根据语境可知选B。5. 【解析】选B。考查名词辨析。句意：在罗斯摩尔山的四位美国著名总统的脸从60英里之外就能看到。length长度；distance距离；way方法，道路；space空间。此处指距离，应选distance。6. 【解析】选D。句意：广告制造者十分小心地选择词汇与商标的名字是为了给他们所推广的产品制造一个具有创造性的形象。process处理； produce生产； provide提供；promote促进。7. 【解析】选A。考查形容词作状语。句意：你是通过读报纸开始一天的生活，然后去上班，回到家很累，很想睡觉吗？根据句意以及句子结构可知此处tired and ready for bed作伴随状语，表示回到家时主语的一种状况。故选A。8. 【解析】选C。考查get动词短语。句意：这一章你理解了多少？几乎一点也没理解。老师讲了三遍但没让我明白。get on进展, 上车；get through打通电话，完成，通过（考试）；get across让人理解；get off下车。9. 【解析】选D。考查take短语辨析。句意：去年我的大学朋友Melissa接管了家族企业，这是一家给其他工厂加工金属盒子的公司。take up拿起，占据，开始从事；take down记下，写下；take off脱下，起飞，休假；take over接管，接收。10. 【解析】选B。考查非谓语动词。句意：在西昌卫星中心发射的通讯卫星已经成功地进入轨道。根据句子结构以及句意可知launched from Xichang Space Center作定语修饰the communication satellite，且launch这一动作已发生并与被修饰词the communication satellite之间是被动关系，所以用过去分词。11. 【解析】选B。考查动词短语。句意：如果你想更好地理解这篇文章，请查阅关于市场和价格的词汇。come to来到，达到；refer to提到，指的是，查阅；add to增添；get to到达。12. 【解析】选B。考查固定短语。句意：一切都容易过时，所以赶时髦是不明智的。out of sight看不见；out of date过期的；out of reach够不着；out of memory被忘记。13. 【解析】选A。句意：正是因为他缺少经验才被拒绝了。be short of=lack缺少；be short for是的简称。14. 【解析】选B。第一个空填frightening（令人害怕的），修饰explosion。根据句子结构可知第二个空考查句子的谓语，由just now可知，此处用一般过去时，所以选B。15. 【解析】选D。Never mind不重要，别担心；Dont mention it不用谢；No way没门儿，不可能；Of course not当然不会。根据I have set my mind to help you. 可知，第二个说话者认为自己会提供帮助。故选D。【知识拓展】如何回答Would you mind. . . ? 1. 若表示“不介意”或“同意”时，常用否定形式。如：No, of course not. No, certainly not. No, not at all. No, go ahead. No, do as you like. No, indeed. No, please. No, I dont mind. No, do it please. Not in the least. 等。2. 若表示“介意”或“不同意”时，则常用较委婉的方式加以拒绝。如：Im sorry but I do. Sorry, youd better not. Im afraid you cant. I wish you wouldnt. . . Im sorry, but its not allowed. . . Yes, I do mind. 等。很少用Yes, I do mind. 来回答，因为这种答语显得较生硬。. 1. 【解析】选B。细节理解题。根据NEW AIRPLANES中的Now high-speed planes travel from London to New York in 3 hours. 以及They will fly from London to New York in only 1. 5 hours. . . 可知。2. 【解析】选D。细节理解题。根据NEW AIRPLANES中的A ticket on these fast planes will be very expensive. So most people will not take them. 可知。3. 【解析】选B。细节理解题。根据HIGH-SPEED TRAINS中的内容可知，Japans bullet train的时速是240 km/h而Shanghai-Nanjing high-speed train的时速是300350 km/h。故选B。4. 【解析】选D。细节理解题。根据第一段的最后两句以及NEW AIRPLANES中的A ticket on these fast planes will be very expensive. 可知选D。5. 【解析】选A。主旨大意题。本文主要预测了未来的飞机和火车。故选A。6. 【解析】选C。细节理解题。根据第二段的“. . . It was terrifying to hear that, but I didnt know where to go for help, ” she said. 可知医生说的话使Carole Wright很害怕，但她当时不知道怎么办。故选C。7. 【解析】选A。推理判断题。根据第二段的She realised she had to change her lifestyle when she joined a slimming club. 以及All I ever did was watch television or sit by the computer. 可知Carole Wright的肥胖是她的生活方式造成的。故选A。8. 【解析】选B。句意理解题。根据破折号前面的内容可知Carole Wright现在可以做所有那些大家都理所当然做到的事情，像穿鞋、涂脚趾甲、上楼梯等。此处是补充说明，表示“事实上，我现在做这些事做得很快”。故选B。run up sth. 匆忙或快速做某事。9. 【解析】选C。推理判断题。根据最后一段可知，Carole Wright在减肥成功后，感觉很好。故选C。10. 【解析】选C。主旨大意题。本文主要讲了54岁的Carole Wright减肥成功的事情。故选C。
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