高考二轮增分增值集训：冠词英语试卷

What ________ pity that you couldn't be there to receive ________ prize!　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

We can never expect ________ bluer sky unless we create ________ less polluted world.

The biggest whale is ________ blue whale，which grows to be about 29 meters long—the height of ________ 9story building.

Have you heard ________ news？ The price of ________ petrol is going up again!

In many places in China，________ bicycle is still ________ popular means of transportation.

It is such ________ honour to take part in ________ celebration，so how could I make any mistakes?

The boy didn't come to ________ life and the method to start his breathing ended up as ________ failure.

On ________ Monday morning in July，Mr. Anderson happened to find his missing father among the people at ________ church.

London's taxis are regarded as ________ best in the world，and New York's yellow taxis came ________ second，according to an annual taxi poll.

With ________ successful launching of Tiangong1，China's space dream has taken ________ step closer to reality.

When 19－year－old Sophia Giorgi said she was thinking of volunteering to help the Make－A－Wish Foundation (基金会)，nobody understood what she was talking about.But Sophia knew just how important Make－A－Wish could be because this special organization had helped to make a dream come true for one of her best friends .We were interested in finding out more，so we went along to meet Sophia and listen to what she had to say.
Sophia told us that Make－A －Wish is a worldwide organization that started in the United States in 1980.“It's a charity(慈善机构)that helps children who have got very serious illnesses.Make－A－Wish helps children feel happy even though they are sick, by making their wishes and dreams come true ，” Sophia explained .
We asked Sophia how Make－A－Wish had first started.She said it had all begun with a very sick young boy called Chris ，who had been dreaming for a long time of becoming a policeman .Sophia said lots of people had wanted to find a way to make Chris's dream come true—so, with everybody's help, Chris, only seven years old at the time，had been a “policeman” for a day.” When people saw how delighted Chris was when his dream came true, they decided to try and help other sick children too，and that was the beginning of Make－A－Wish，” explained Sophia.
Sophia also told us the Foundation tries to give children and their families a special, happy time.A Make－A－Wish volunteer visits the families and asks the children what they would wish for if they could have anything in the world.Sophia said the volunteers were important because they were the ones who helped to make the wishes come true. They do this either by providing things that are necessary，or by raising money or helping out in whatever way they can.
Sophia found out about Make－A－Wish because her best friend had________.

According to Sophia，Make－A－Wish________.

What is said about Chris in Paragraph 3?

Which of the following is true about Make－A－Wish volunteers?

When times get tough，we all look for ways to cut back.When we're hungry，we eat at home instead of going out.We take buses instead of taxis.And we wear our old designer jeans just a few months longer.With college expenses at alltime highs，high school students are eager to do anything to cut the cost of a university education.

One costcutting proposal is to allow college students to get a bachelor's degree in three years instead of four.Educational institutions have been actively exploring ways to make the learning process more efficient.But there's a question：Would the quality of undergraduate(本科生)education suffer？ Few US universities have formally approved a “threeyear degree”model.
I doubt that mainstream North American colleges will carry out a threeyear curriculum(课程)any time soon.For one thing，most universities already allow highly qualified students to graduate early by testing out of certain classes and obtaining a number of college credits(学分)．In addition，at famous universities，the committee who determine which courses are required and which courses are electives are unlikely to suddenly “throw out”one quarter of the required credits.Professors will resist “diluting(稀释)”the quality of the education they offer.
In my opinion，a quality fouryear education is always superior to a quality threeyear education.A college education requires sufficient time for a student to become skilled in their major and do coursework in fields outside their major.It is not a good idea to water down education，any more than it's not a good idea to water down medicine.If we want to help students find their way through university，we should help them understand early on what knowledge and skills they need to have upon graduation.We should allow students to test out of as many courses as possible.We should give them a chance to earn money as interns(实习生)in meaningful parttime jobs that relate to their university studies，such as the fiveyear coop program at Northeastern University.
The first paragraph serves as a(n) ________.

In most US universities，________.

We can infer that ________.

Which of the following can be the best title?