1 . --- Are you going to see The Flowers of War by Zhang Yimou?
--- _______It’s said to be too good a film to miss.A. No problem! B. That’s for sure.
C. I’m afraid not. D. Why bother?
2. --- Have the police broken the case?
---Yes, five men, including a pair of twins, have admitted robbery at the store, but _______
murder.(原创 考查动词辨析)
A. denied B. refused C. rejected D. declined
3. John is very _______ --- if he promises to do something he’ll do it. (原创 考查形容词辨析)
A. independent B. confident C. reliable D. flexible
4. There is still a long way to go to work out all the problems ________ conservation of natural resources.
(原创 考查非谓语动词)
A. concerning B. concerned C. to concern D. concern
5. Mr. Black told us that the only way to conquer English is to practice __________.
(原创 考查意义相近副词辨析，其中constantly 为2012年新增词汇)
A. constantly B. always C. regularly D. continually
6. --- Look, Jeff can walk all by himself. He injured so seriously then.
--- Yes, he fought the illness with courage and __________.
(原创 考查名称辨析，其中determination 为2012新增词汇)
A. decision B. determination C. conclusion D. resolution
7.Students are required to go out in couples, especially in the evenings, with friends ______ they
get into trouble.(原创 考查连词)
A. even if B. if only C. in case D. when
8. --- How I regret making the stupid mistake!
--- Yes. I your doing it another way, but in vain.(原创 考查动词时态)
have suggested B. suggested C. would suggest D. had suggested
9. --- A robot dog provides you with unconditional love, gentleness and undemanding attention.
--- _____ Does it do what every small dog is supposed to do? (原创 考查情景交际)
A. That’s reasonable advice. B. Isn’t it a good idea.
C. Do you think so? D. I can’t agree more.
10. Schools across China are expected to hire 50000 college graduates this year as short-term teachers , ________ reduce unemployment pressures.(原创 考查非谓语动词)
A. help B. to have helped C. to help D. having helped
11. --- Is there any possibly _______ you could pick me up to my school?
--- No problem. (原创 考查名词性从句)
A. when B. that C. whether D. what
12. My parents told me ____ no circumstances should I open the door for a stranger when I was alone at home. (原创 考查介词的使用，其中题干部分circumstance 为2012新增词汇)
A. on B. in C. at D. of
13. We _______ John’s name on the race list yesterday but for his recent injury.
(原创 考查情态动词表示虚拟)
A. should put B. should have put C. would put D. would have put
14. The big strike of the workers would _______ the production of cars for several months.
(原创 考查动词词组辨析)
A. hold down B. hold on C. hold with D. hold up
15. To make sure that relics in he museum are well preserved, Tibet’s cultural preservation institutions have ________ modern technologies to monitor the conditions of the relics.(原创 考查动词辨析)
A. adapted B. applied C appointed D. abolished
16. ______ into English, the sentence was found to have an entirely different word order.
(原创 考查非谓语动词)
A. Translating B. Translated C. To translate D. Having translated
17. --- Do you know why Jane was so angry?
--- Her roommate gave in ________ and opened the letter addressed to her.
(原创 考查名称辨析，其中 curiosity为2012新增词汇)
A. curiosity B. consideration C. concern D. convenience
18. The question takes _______ ten to fifteen minutes to complete and can be used along with the assessment interview.(原创，考查副词辨析)
A. mainly B. punctually C. approximately D. precisely
19. ________ in London for so many years, you must learned a lot about English culture.
(原创 考查非谓语动词)
A. to live B. To have lived C. Having lived D. Living
20. My daughter, ______ all kinds of meat, would not like to eat any vegetables, which worries me a lot.
(原创 考查动词词组辨析)
A. devoted to B. addicted to C. accustomed to D. exposed to
第二节：完形填空(共20小题，每小题1分，共20分)http://www.helpothers.org/ 原创)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从2140各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将选项标号涂黑。
Some time ago, a man punished his 5 year old daughter for wasting a roll of expensive gold wrapping paper. Money was and he became more upset when the child pasted the gold paper so as to_22_ a box to put under a Christmas tree. _23_, the little girl brought the gift box to her father next morning and said " This is for you daddy. " The father was_24 _by his earlier _25_, but his _26_ flared again when he found the box empty . He spoke to her in a harsh _27_, " Don't you know young lady , _28_ you give someone a present there's _29_to be _30_ inside the package
The little girl looked up at him with tears in her eyes and said " Oh Daddy , it is not_31_. I _32_ kisses into it until it was full." The father was crushed. He_33_on his knees and put his arms around his little girl and he begged her to _34_his unnecessary anger. An accident_35_ the life of the child only a short time later and it is told that the father _36_ the gold box by his bed for all the years of his life and whenever he was _37_or faced difficult problems, he would open the box and take out a(n)_38_ kiss and remember the love of the child who had put it there. In a very real _39_, each of us as human beings have been given a golden box filled with unconditional love and kisses from our children , family friends and God .There is no more precious_40_ anyone can hold .
21. A. tight B. enough C. tough D. little
22. A. fill B. design C. decorate D. make
23. A. Therefore B. Nevertheless C. Otherwise D. But
24. A. excited B. uncertain C. embarrassed D. surprised
25. A. action B. reaction C. conversation D. contact
26. A. disappointment B. excitement C. astonishment D. anger
27. A. manner B. behaviour C. means D. approach
28. A. when B. before C. after D. until
29. A. thought B. found C. supposed D. believed
30. A. everything B. nothing C. anything D. something
31. A. old B. empty C. broken D. full
32. A. put B. push C. blew D. pull
33. A. dropped B. struggled C. stood D. fell
34. A. remind B. forgive C. explain D. ignore
35. A. carried B. lost C. brought D. took
36. A. held B. remained C. had D. kept
37. A. hesitated B. tired C. discouraged D. shocked
38. A. real B. imaginary C. visible D. unforgettable
39. A. view B. point C. sense D. meaning
40. A. possession B. kindness C. care D. treasure
阅读理解(本题有两小节，第一节共20小题;每小题2分，第二节共5小题;每小题2分;满分分)第一节：阅读下列材料，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。http://teens.i21st.cn/index_se.html 题目原创)
My newly-rented small apartment was far away from the centre of London and it was becoming essential for me to find a job, so finally I spent a whole morning getting to town and putting my name down to be considered by London Transport for a job on the underground. They were looking for guards, not drivers. This suited me. I couldn’t drive a car but thought that I could probably guard a train, and perhaps continue to write my poems between stations. The writers Keats and Chekhov had been doctors. T.S. Eliot had worked in a bank and Wallace Stevens for an insurance company. I’d be a subway guard. I could see myself being cheerful, useful, a good man in a crisis. Obviously I’d be overqualified but I was willing to forget about that in return for a steady income and travel privileges — those being particularly welcome to someone living a long way from the city centre.
The next day I sat down, with almost a hundred other candidates, for the intelligence test. I must have done all right because after about half an hour’s wait I was sent into another room for a psychological test. This time there were only about fifty candidates. The interviewer sat at a desk. Candidates were signaled forward to occupy the seat opposite him when the previous occupant had been dismissed, after a greater or shorter time. Obviously the long interviews were the more successful ones. Some of the interviews were as short as five minutes. Mine was the only one that lasted a minute and a half.
I can remember the questions now: “Why did you leave your last job?” “Why did you leave your job before that?” “And the one before that?” I can’t recall my answers, except that they were short at first and grew progressively shorter. His closing statement, I thought, revealed a lack of sensitivity which helped to explain why as a psychologist, he had risen no higher than the underground railway. “You’ve failed the psychological test and we are unable to offer you a position.”
Failing to get that job was my low point. Or so I thought, believing that the work was easy. Actually, such jobs — being a postman is another one I still desire — demand exactly the sort of elementary yet responsible awareness that the habitual dreamer is least qualified to give. But I was still far short of full self-understanding. I was also short of cash.
41.The writer applied for the job chiefly because _________.
A.he wanted to work in the centre of London
B.he could no longer afford to live without one
C.he was not interested in any other available job
D.he had received some suitable training
.The writer thought he was overqualified for the job because _________.
A.he often traveled underground B.he had written many poems
C.he could deal with difficult situations D.he had worked in a company
.The length of his interview meant that _________.
A.he was not going to be offered the job B.he had not done well in the intelligence test
C.he did not like the interviewer at all D.he had little work experience to talk about
.What does the writer realize now that he did not realize then?
A.How unpleasant ordinary jobs can be. B.How difficult it is to be a poet.
C.How unsuitable he was for the job. D.How badly he did in the interview.
.What’s the writer’s opinion of the psychologist?
A. He was very aggressive(有进取心的). B. He was unhappy with his job.
C. He was quite inefficient. D. He was rather unsympathetic.
My Diary
MONDAY:I’m officially a Facebooker. I find a few people I used to know and I’ve soon got seven friends. I’ve never felt so popular! I wonder if my old university flatmate Steve is on here…What do you know! He is! Maybe Facebook has its uses.
TUESDAY:I’ve received lots of nice welcoming messages on my wall. Later, I meet up with Steve for a drink after not seeing him for five years. We get on really well! Then, he uses his Facebook app for iPhone to suggest me as a friend to some other former classmates. Some of them even come to the pub and it’s just like old times – possibly a bit too much like old times. During the night, photos are uploaded to Facebook.
WEDNESDAY:Disaster! My mum’s on Facebook! Has she seen the photos of me dancing on the table from last night? Has she shown them to dad? Oh. And I have a friend request – mum again!
THURSDAY: There’s a message from my boyfriend, “so, it’s over then, is it?” Evidently I haven’t changed my settings to show I’m “in a relationship”, and I haven’t even added him as a friend. Ah, well, I wonder what my ex-boyfriend is doing… Whoops! I accidentally type his name into my status box instead of the search ‘oox, and now every one can see it on their news feed.
FRIDAY:rime to update my status:揥ork is boring. Cana’t wait for the weekend!” Yeah, that about sums it up. Oh, look, I’ve received a comment! Someone must feel the same way. Lots of my friends now?ikey” this status.
SATURDAY: Good news! I’ve got 100 friends but wait! Someone’s搖n-friendedn” me! I look through my揻riend list ” to try to work out who it was. Why did they do that? Am I really such a terrible person? I never knew Facebook could be this cruel.
SUNDAY: Wake up. Check my Facebook page. Make coffee. Check my Facebook page again. Get ready to leave. Change my mind and check my Facebook page … again. I am becoming addicted to it! I think it’s time to end it all before it takes over my life. I delete my account. Back to good, old, simple e-mails. Oh, look, I’ve got a message: A friend invited you to join Twitter. . .
In July 2010, Facebook had more than 500 million active users. The average Facebook user has 130 friends. Facebook is translated into more than 70 different languages. The world spends 700 billion minutes a month on Facebook. Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page says he’s a Harvard graduate, even though he actually dropped out to focus on Facebook. The site is valued at between $7.9 and $11 billion.
46. Why did Jamie’s boyfriend ask her whether she had broken up with him?
A. He had seen photos of Jamie dancing on the table.
B. She showed in her facebook that she was still not dating anyone.
C. Her boyfriend was angry that she refused to add him as her friend.
D. He saw the name of her ex-boyfriend on his news feed.
47. Which of the following is conveyed in this article?
A. Visiting Facebook website took up a large part of Jamie’s time and energy.
B. Jamie is enthusiastic about her present job.
C. Facebook was created by a Harvard graduate, Mark Zuckerberg.
D. Compared with Facebook, Twitter is a better choice for Jamie.
48. What does the word搖n-frienda” mean in揝omeoneg’s ‘un-friended’ me!”?
A. Be unfriendly to others. B. Have a quarrel with somebody.
C. Remove a name from the friend list. D. End friendship with somebody.
49. It can be learned from the passage that the writer’s attitude towards Facebook is _▲_ .
A. approval B. objective C. negative D. positive
C
(选自 杭州市四校联考卷阅读理解B篇)
It’s a nightmare for Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST): within a week, two students committed suicide by jumping off dorm buildings. Officials from the university are reluctant(不情愿的) to give interviews. “We had a hard time calming down students who were shocked at the suicides,” said Zhang Jingyuan, head of HUST’s center for research and guidance for students’ development. “Media coverage(报导) may arouse some students’ negative emotions again. Suicide can be contagious(传染性的),” Zhang said. The university reacted promptly to the first suicide on October 23. Advisors and class leaders conducted dorm-to-dorm checks to find students suffering depression. Then psychologists offered one-on-one counseling to them. Notice boards publicizing tips for identifying peers’ mental problems and offering help were set up in front of dorm buildings. Leaflets(传单) carrying similar information were handed out to each dorm. However, the second suicide came seven days later. Both students were described as men of few words. Their schoolmates didn’t see anything to indicate suicide. Zhang revealed that the two students had been bothered by mental disorders. But the school didn’t know this until the students’ close friends outside school and their parents unveiled(揭露) the truth after the suicides. According to Zhang, there are only three full-time counselors (心理辅导专家)working in the university’s counseling center for its 60,000 students. He complained: “It’s unrealistic to rely only on counselors to detect students’ mental problems.” Some universities in the US may be able to offer solutions to Zhang’s worries. They have established programs to train students to be the bridge between troubled friends and counselors. At Worcester Polytechnic Institute, at Worcester, Massachusetts, US, young people in the Student Support Network role play to learn how to detect SOS signals from their schoolmates. They also practice how to gently persuade emotionally troubled students to go for professional help. To develop such empathy(同理心), many universities in China have organized campus events to popularize knowledge about mental health. But these are not that attractive to students. Ke Juanjuan, 24, is pursuing a master’s degree in English translation at HUST. Ke has found that few of her peers will pay attention to activities about mental health when they are not troubled by it. Rather than bombard students with the words “mental health”, Ke suggested the school organize lectures and workshops concerning study, job-hunting and relationships. She explained: “Students care about these topics. They tend to have problems in these areas and may thus get stuck in depression. “By helping students better deal with these problems, the school can effectively prevent self-inflicted injury and suicide among students.” Effective prevention comes from long-term education for life instead of temporary intervention(干预) to meet an emergency, said Hu Yi’an. Hu delivers a course of lectures on life and death at Guangzhou University. He worries that universities have paid little attention to education for life. “Education for life helps students respect and love life so they won’t resort(诉诸) to ending their lives when they have difficulties,” said Hu. According to Hu, the principles can be incorporated(结合) into everyday teaching.
In which column of a newspaper would you most probably read this passage?
A. Forum B. Campus C. Advertisement D. Culture
Which one of the following is NOT one of the reasons why officials from the university are reluctant to give interviews?
A. The university reacted promptly to the first suicide on October 23.
B. They had a hard time calming down students who were shocked at the suicides.
C. Media coverage may arouse some students' negative emotions again.
D. Two suicides within a week is really a nightmare for the university.
52. The writer mentions Worcester Polytechnic Institute to______.
A. encourage universities in China to organize campus events to popularize knowledge about mental health.
B. show their students are good at persuading emotionally troubled peers to go for professional help.
C. give an example of the universities in the US that have established programs to train students to be the bridge between troubled friends and counselors.
D. show that Zhang's complaint is wrong.
53. Which one of the following sentences is NOT true?
A. According to Ke Juanjuan, students tend to have problems in study, job-hunting and Relations.
B. Effective prevention comes from temporary intervention to meet an emergency.
C. According to Hu Yi'an, education for life helps students respect and love life so they won't commit suicide when they have difficulties.
D. According to Hu, education for life can be incorporated into everyday teaching.
54. What is most likely to be talked about in the paragraph following the passage?
A. The function of education for life.
B. The ways of education for life.
C. The importance of education for life.
D. How to incorporate education for life into everyday teaching.
D
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For eighty four days old Santiago had not caught a single fish. At first a young boy, Manolin, had shared his bad fortune, but after the fortieth luckless day the boy’s father told his son to go in another boat. From that time on, Santiago worked alone. The boy loved the old fisherman and always helped him with money and food. Usually, they would talk about the fish they had taken in luckier times or about American baseball after supper, while at night, alone in his cottage, Santiago dreamed of lions on the beaches of Africa, where he had gone years before. He no longer dreamed of his dead wife.
On the eighty-fifth day, Santiago set off to fish before dawn. Two of his baits(饵) were fresh tunas(金枪鱼) the boy had given him, as well as sardines(沙丁鱼) to cover his hooks. Then he set his lines which went straight down into deep dark water. As the sun rose he saw other boats in toward shore. A bird showed him where dolphin were chasing some flying fish. This time Santiago saw tuna jumping in the sunlight. A small one took the hook on his line. Pulling the fish aboard, the old man thought it a good fortune. Toward noon a marlin, a common fish in the sea, started eating the bait which was one hundred meters down. Gently the old man played the fish, a big one, as he knew from the weight on the line. At last he struck to settle the hook. The fish did not come out of the surface. Instead, it began to pull the boat to the northwest. The old man followed it. Although he was alone and no longer strong, he had his skill and knew many tricks. He waited patiently for the fish to be tired . It was cold after the sunset. When something took one of his remaining baits, he cut the line with his knife. Once the marlin leaned suddenly, pulling Santiago forward on his face and cutting his cheek. By dawn his left hand was cramped(抽筋的). The fish had headed northward; there was no land in sight. Hungry, he cut pieces from the tuna and chewed them slowly.
That morning the fish jumped. Seeing it, Santiago knew he had hooked the biggest marlin he had ever seen. Then the fish went down and turned toward the east. Santiago drank a little water from the bottle during the hot afternoon.
Close to nightfall a dolphin took the small hook he had rebaited. He lifted it aboard, careful. After he had rested, he cut meat from the dolphin and kept also the two flying fish he found in its stomach. That night he slept. He awoke to feel the line running through his fingers as the fish jumped. Feeding line slowly, he tried to tire the marlin. After the fish slowed its run, he washed his cut hands in sea water and ate one of the flying fish. At sunrise the marlin began to circle. Faint, he worked to bring the big fish nearer with each turn. Almost exhausted, he finally drew his big fish alongside and drove in the harpoon(鱼叉). The fish was two feet longer than the boat. No fish like it had ever been seen in Havana harbor. An hour later, he sighted the first shark, a fierce Mako, and it came in fast to chase after the dead marlin. The old man struck the shark with his harpoon. The Mako rolled and sank, carrying the harpoon with it and leaving the marlin bloody. He knew the smell would spread. Watching, he saw two sharks closing in. He struck at one with his knife and watched it sliding down into deep water. The other he killed while it tore at the flesh of the marlin. When the third appeared, he thrust(刺) it with the knife. The other sharks came at sunset. At first he tried to beat them with the tiller(舵柄) from the boat, but his hands were bleeding and there were too many in the sea. In the darkness, as he steered toward the harbor of Havana, he heard them hitting the boat again and again. But the old man thought only of his steering and his great tiredness. He had gone out too far and the sharks had beaten him. He knew they would leave him nothing but the stripped skeleton of the big marlin. All lights were out when he sailed into the little harbor and beached his boat. He could just make out the white backbone and the upstanding tail of the fish. Once he fell under their weight and lay patiently until he could gather his strength to go on. In his cottage he fell on his bed and went to sleep.
55. The above story is adapted from __________.
A. Treasure Island B. The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
C. The Old Man And The Sea D. The Son Of The Sea
56. Why did the man feel that he could be lucky this time?
A. Because a small tuna took the hook on his line.
B. Because he dreamed about the American lions.
C. Because he saw many flying fish were chased by the dolphins.
D. Because a lot of sharks followed his boat.
57. According to the text, which statement is NOT true about Manolin?
A. The boy had mercy on Santiago.
B. The boy often shared his stories with Santiago.
C. The boy showed his great concerns to Santiago.
D. The boy was Santiago’s adopted son.
58. Why does Santiago let the marlin lead his boat instead of pulling the big fish up?
A. He wanted to kill the marlin first before he pulled it up to the boat.
B. He was too tired and hungry to pull the big fish up.
C. His experience told him not to do so before the fish was tired out.
D. He wanted to use the marlin as a bait to catch the sharks.
59. Which sentence below can be used to best describe Santiago’s character?
A. “He no longer dreamed of his dead wife.”(Para 1)
B. “Although he was alone and no longer strong, he had his skill and knew many tricks.”(Para4)
C. “Almost exhausted, he finally drew his big fish alongside and drove in the harpoon.”(Para7)
D. “Once he fell under their weight and lay patiently until he could gather his strength to go on .”(Para 9)
60. According to the text, what will be talked about in the next paragraph?
A. the man’s action to realize his dream about the lions.
B. people’s reflection when they saw the giant marlin outside.
C. people’s discussion about how they ate the giant marlin.
D. a funeral held by the boy and the local people after his death.
第二节：(选自 浙江省台州市2012届上学期高三期末质量评估试题美国长大的台湾人气歌手Wang Lee Hom在接受CNN Talk Asia栏目专访时，回答了主持人Lorraine Hah提出的五个问题(第61—65题)。请从下列提问(A、 B、C、D、E和F)中选出与他的回答相匹配的问题，并在答题纸上将相应选项的标号涂黑。选项中有一项是多余选项。What do awards mean to you?
How would you describe your style?
What is it about acting that’s so attractive?
How do you deal with this loss of privacy?
How do you divide your time in acting and music?
What gave you the idea to start the studios in the first place?
Born in New York in 1976, Wang grew up in the United States. Blessed with a mix of brains and talent, he spent his youth performing in local musicals. While in university, Wang landed a recording contract in Taiwan. His breakthrough album firmly established him as a rising star in the Asian music scene. In addition to writing and producing his own music, Wang has also taken part in movie projects around Asia. He has won a great popularity, and now he is having an interview with CNN Talk Asia. 61. ___________________
WL: It is a school of hip hop, which is the way I like to think of it. It combines Chinese elements and sounds. I started it off in my last album called Shangrila. And this album combines the music of ethnic minorities, in China, in Tibet, and in Mongolia. It’s beautiful and original to Chinese culture. And this new album called Heroes of Earth combines Opera and Quen-chu, which are thousand-year-old traditions also unique to Chinese culture. Very unique instruments, costumes, singing styles. I don’t think anyone has ever done this before in the hip hop world.
62. ___________________ WL: Um, just the large quantity of work that I have to come up with. I produce for other artists and compose for them as well. And there are a lot of changes in music going on right now in Asia. And it’s really exciting so I decided that I’m going to need a studio in New York. I’m going to need a studio in Taipei. And maybe the rest I can get by with just my laptop.
63. ___________________
WL: Well, I started doing musical theatre. And I loved it so much from the age of 13, you know. Actually in 2000, I did my first movie and ever since then I’ve been enjoying doing movies. I don’t think I’m much of an actor. But I just love being surrounded by creative people and a lot of times doing music is a lonely struggle, especially composing, and arranging, producing my own albums. Acting, every day you get called and you’re surrounded by other actors and creative people. 64. ___________________ WL: The first time I won, like you just said, when I was 22, it meant a lot to me. It was like…I didn’t know I could make this happen. I didn’t know I could get this kind of recognition. So back then, it was huge increase of confidence. And I don’t want to say vanity(虚荣心), but confidence. I think every artist needs confidence.
65. ___________________
WL: Well, it can be a real pain in the neck. You know, I feel lucky that I can go back to New York and not be recognized and not be followed. At times it can be really, really annoying. Today many people own a cell phone that has a camera on it… and a blog. In the entertainment news, there’s a recent trend of journalists or media just going on to the Internet and saying “Oh, so and so saw so and so.” when they see a blog. You know, it’s completely irresponsible but in the blog what he says can become the title of the newspaper article.
