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A(n) (81) ___________writer about 2,000 years ago called Pausanias came on a(n) (82) ___________journey to find out about the present-day Olympic Games. He interviewed a(n) (83) ___________named Li Yan. He learned that there were two main (84) ___________of Games—the Winter and Summer Olympics, and that both were held four years on a regular (85) ___________.Anyone who has reached an agreed standard for their event can be admitted as (86) ___________.To Pausanias’s surprise, women are playing a very important role in many games. Every country wants to (87) ___________the Olympic Games, and it is a great (88) ___________but also a great honour to be chosen. Li Yan told him that the Chinese were very (89) ___________because the 2008 Olympic Games would be held in Beijing. Pausanias was happy to know the (90) ___________of the Olympics—“Swifter, Higher and Stronger” and he felt very interested in it.
第三节:语法填空(共10小题,每小题1.5分,满分15分)
阅读下面短文,根据上下文填入适当的词语,或使用括号中的词语的适当形式填空,并将答案填写在答卷标号为41~50的相应位置。
Long ago the Emperor decided to hold a swimming race between 13 different animals. The order in which they finished would decide the order of their 41 (appear) in the Chinese calendar. All the animals lined up on the river bank and 42 (give) the task of getting to the opposite shore. The cat wondered how he would get across 43 he was afraid of water. The ox worried how he would cross 44 his poor eyesight. The calculating rat suggested that he and the cat 45 (jump) onto the ox's back and guide him across. The ox, steady and hard-working, did not notice the two animals on his back. In the meanwhile, the rat ran behind the unsuspecting cat and pushed 46 into the water. As the ox came ashore, the rat jumped off and finished the race first. 47 the rat got the first year 48 (name) after him and the ox got the second year. 49 the lazy pig reached the finish line in 12th place the race was over and he was awarded the final place on the calendar. From that day the cat, 50 never finished and lost his place on the calendar, became the enemy of the rat.
第二节语法填空(共10小题;每小题1.5分,满分15分)
阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空,并将答案填写在答题卷标号为31-40的相应位置上。
The most influential book in my life
The Story of My Life by Helen Keller is the most influential book in my life. It __31__ (fill) with courage, struggle and faith throughout. Helen Keller was once in deep despair in her __32__ (child), but finally she decided to overcome her physical defects and live happily. Furthermore, she showed great patience, ___33___ (do) well in her long and hard learning period.
I have learned, above all, three lessons from her story. First, she taught me that often the road to success is to face hardships ___34____ (brave). Maybe you are born under an ill star yet you can stand a better chance ___35___ others. It is therefore important that you screw up your courage ____36____courage is needed. Second, the impairment of part of her senses did not prevent ___37___ from learning. On the contrary, she ___38___ (make) continual efforts to go deeper into the realm of knowledge her fortitude had thus helped her overcome many handicaps. ___39___, she advised that we should make the most of our sense-organs as if we ___40___ (lose) them soon because this way we would observe the world more carefully than ever before.
第二节 语法填空(共10题;每小题1.5分,满分15分)
阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空,并将答案填写在答题纸标号为31-40的相应位置上。
As a blind boy, I now had the key to all languages, __31__ I was eager to use it. Children __32__ can hear learn languages without any particular effort. __33__ hear other people speak, and enjoy trying to make the same sounds. The __34__ child must learn languages in a slow and often painful way. __35__ even though the learning may be slow and painful, the result is wonderful. We advance gradually from merely __36__ (name) objects to understanding the thought in a line of Shakespeare.
At first, when my teacher told me about a new thing, I asked very __37__ questions. My ideas were not clear, and I didn’t know many. But as my knowledge of things __38__ (grow) and I learned more and more words, I could ask more questions, and I would return again and again __39__ the same subject, eager for more information. Sometimes a new word make me remember an experience I had had __40__ (early) and I finally come to understand that the most effective way to learn a language well is to use it as much as possible.
第二节:语法填空(共10小题;每小题1分, 满分10分)
We eat for many different reasons but not always for the right reason. Most people choose to eat something just 26 the food tastes delicious. 27 , if we choose based 28 taste alone, regardless of nutrition(营养) or healthy eating habits, then gaining weight is inevitable. Changing your eating habits means 29 you need to look at the nutritional value as well as the amount of fat.
Healthy eating habits come from eating foods that are low 30 fat. Learn to read labels so that you can make good decisions; every 31 (package) food product has a label that tells you the nutritional value, 32 number of calories and fat content.
Eating habits usually stay the same as we grow from childhood to adulthood. 33 (fortune), our metabolism(新陈代谢)tends 34 (slow) down as we get older. If you are raised on sugar and high-fat foods, the amount of fat keeps building as you get older 35 the cycle is broken by good eating habits or exercise, and perfectly both.
第二节:语法填空(共10小题;每小题1分, 满分10分)
阅读下面短文, 按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求, 在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空, 并将答案填写在答题卷标号为31~40的相应位置上。
Autumn came again,and with it ___31____ (come)trouble and sorrow, A strange disease had broken out among the sealers.Betty Sparrow, who was Abraham Lincoln’s mother’s aunt,and her husband were the first to ___32___ (attack)by this terrible sickness.The narrow camp which was their home was ___33___cheerless place even at its best,and the disease did its work____34____ (quick).
And then Abraham Lincoln’s mother was stricken down.Suffering from damp and cold in the camp had robbed her of her ___35____(strong)and made her easily ____36___ (catch) the disease,
One morning,when the grey daylight was struggling ___37___ the gaps of the unfinished cabin,she reached out her arms and drew little Abraham before her, “My boy, you are going ___38____ live as I have taught you.” Then the end came.
____39___ only ten years old,Lincoln was no longer a child. He was ___40___ (determine) to be a man of the type his mother would praise and admire. Long afterward,when he had won honor and had a sure place among the great men of the world,he said,“All that I am,and all that I hope to be,I owe to my angle mother.”
第二节 语法填空(共10小题;每小题1.5分,满分15分)
阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空,并将答案填写在答题卡标号为31—40的相应位置上。
I had an unusual conversation with a woman about physical limitations. Nancy suffered 31 a serious disease and she could no longer walk. She spent her 32 (wake) hours in a wheelchair.
“I’m not ‘confined (限制)’ to a wheelchair,” she insisted one day. “It doesn’t confine me but 33 (set) me free.”
She asked me, “Do you want to know 34 reason for living?”
“What is it?” I wondered.
“To liberate people. To set them free. Before I got my wheelchair,” she explained, “I had trouble getting around. Now I can go places! However I can free people, I want to do 35 .”
“People speak of being ‘shut in,’” she continued. “People 36 are confined to a room or a house or a bed are not ‘shut in.’ They’re ‘shut out’ – shut out of activities and shut out of people’s lives. So my aim is to liberate people, to set them free, however I can.”
Because of her disease, Nancy now helps people find ways of gaining more physical 37 (free).
Listen to these words from Darwin P. Kingsley: “You have powers you never dreamed 38 . You can do things you never thought you 39 do. There are no limitations in 40 you can do except the limitations of your own mind.”
第二节语法填空 (共10小题,每小题1.5分,满分15分)
阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空,并将答案填写在答题卡标号为31~40的相应位置上。
Last year, I was driving home one night, just around the holidays. I was about to turn onto the highway31 I noticed a rather sad looking figure holding a sign. I honestly don't recall 32 the sign read, but I did know that it was getting very cold outside. This man was obviously homeless, and was completely exposed33 the elements.
I happened 34 (purchase) a new blanket. It was in my car, still packed in plastic from the store. I thought for a moment,35 (roll) down the window, and gestured to the man. He ran over to my vehicle. I told him that he looked cold, and he laughed. I explained that while I didn't carry any cash, I 36 happen to have a new blanket, and asked him if he could use it. He was thrilled. I told him that it was37 , as long as he agreed to do something kind for someone else 38 return.
I am pretty sure that 39 made his day, and kept him warm through the evening.
I know I felt the 40 (warm).
第二节:语法填空(共10小题,每小题1.5分,满分15分)
阅读下面短文,根据上下文填入适当的词语,或使用括号中的词语的适当形式填空,并将答案填写在非选择题答题卷上标号为31—40的相应位置。
A new study from Finland shows pet owners tend to be heavier. 31 active and in poorer health than people without a pet, which was released in PLOS ONE, an online journal 32 (publish) by the Public Library of Science.
33 a number of studies showed certain people can take advantage of a dog or cat to ease stress or loneliness in the elderly, researchers recently found pet owners were generally more likely to be overweight and to view their own health 34 poor.
to be overweight and to view their own health 34 poor.
The conclusion 35 (draw) from survey data of more than 21,000 young to middle – aged Finnish adults.
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This was 36 (large) because pet owners tended to be the middle – aged. 37 had less education and more health – risk factors explained Dr. Leena K. Koivusilta, the study is leading author.
The fact that pet owners were in poorer health does not mean pets are bad for people. Koivusilta said. “In my opinion, pets provide us all 38 a vast potential for health promotion, and this has indeed been shown when some special groups have been studied.”第二节: 语法填空(共10空,每空1.5分,满分15分)
阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填人一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空,并将答案填写在答题卡标号为26-35的相应位置上。
Many strange things were happening in the countryside of northeast Hebei, where the water in the wells rose and fell, 26 smelly gas came from the cracks, the chickens and the pigs were too nervous to eat and even mice ran out of the fields 27 (look) for places to hide. Fish jumped out of 28 bowls and ponds. But the one million people in the city, 29 thought of little of these events, were sound asleep as usual that night. At 3:42 am, everything began to shake. The world seemed to be 30 an end. In fifteen terrible seconds a large city lay in ruins. Two-thirds of the people died or 31 (injure). All of the city’s hospitals,75% of 32 factories and buildings disappeared. All the railway tracks were now 33 (use) pieces of steel. It was very hard to get water, food and electricity. However, all hope was not lost. Soon after the earthquakes, many soldiers came to help the rescue workers. The army organized teams to dig out those who were trapped and 34 (bury) the dead. Workers built shelters for survivors 35 homes had been destroyed. Little by little, the city began to breathe again.
第二节:语法填空(共10小题,每小题l.5分,满分l5分)
阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中的词语的适当形式填空。
Long before, there was a large mountainside, where rested an eagle's nest with four large eagle eggs. One day 31 earthquake rocked the mountain, causing one of the eggs to roll down the mountain to a chicken farm 32 (locate) in the valley below. The chickens were kind enough to care for the eagle's egg, and an old hen volunteered to nurture (哺育) and raise the large egg.
One day, the egg hatched and a beautiful eagle was born. Sadly, 33 , the eagle was raised to be a chicken. Soon, the eagle believed he was nothing more 34 a chicken. The eagle loved his present family, but his spirit cried out 35 more. While playing on the farm one day, the eagle happened to notice a group of mighty eagles soaring in the skies. "Oh," the eagle cried, "I wish I could soar like those birds."
The chickens roared with 36 (laugh), “You cannot soar with those birds. You are a chicken and chickens do not soar."
The eagle continued staring at his real family up above, 37 (dream) that he could be with them. Each time the eagle would let his dreams 38 (know), he was told it couldn't be done. That is 39 the eagle learned to believe. The eagle, after time, stopped dreaming and continued to live like a chicken. Finally, after a long life as a chicken, the eagle passed away.
You become what you believe you are. So, if you ever dream of becoming an eagle, follow 40 dreams... not the words of a chicken.
第二节语法填空 (共10小题;每小题1.5分,满分15分)
阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空,并将答案填写在答题卡标号为31~40的相应位置上。
Feneque, for his part, couldn't stop wondering what had happened to the woman on the tracks. He went on his own hunt, posting a message on a newspaper website asking if anyone knew 31.________ the woman who'd fallen in the subway 32._________(survive) or not. No one responded. Several weeks later, while surfing the Internet for any new clues, Feneque found a television station had posted an update on its website, detailing Donath's recovery and her search for her rescuer. Feneque e-mailed the address 33.____________(provide) to say that he was that man.
When the two first met, Donath threw 34.____________ arms around Feneque and wept. It was overwhelming, she says, to try to convey her 35.____________ (feel). "What do you say to the person who saved your life?" When they met again several months later, for this photo shoot, it felt a lot 36.____________(easy). "I finally had the chance to hear his side of the story in detail," she says. "He really just seems like such 37.____________ sweet and humble person."
Feneque says there's no point in 38.____________(wonder) why he was on the platform. "Whether it was pure coincidence or sent from above, who's to say? 39.____________I know is I was there and I'd do it again," he says.
"I have a daughter. And I said 40.____________ myself, I'm going to help this person. She could be anybody's daughter."
第三节短文填词(共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分)
阅读下面短文,根据以下提示(汉语提示、首字母提示或语境提示),在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词,并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确,拼写正确。
There is a chemical factory near my home. The manager, who was in
90) c_____of the factory, was criticized (批评) by the government because 90. ________
the factory gave out a lot of waste gas every day, 91)_____ badly influences 91. ________
(影响) people’s health. But the manager still paid no attention to environmental
92)_________(保护). When the factory was forced to stop production, the 92. ________
manager said angrily, “Is there any evidence to prove that we did 93) h______ 93. ________
to people’s health? In 94) r_____, we haven’t done anything wrong.” Just then, 94. ________
a doctor came, with the manager’s physical examination report, saying that the
manager was 95)s________ from a severe lung cancer. 95. ________
96)_______ is very clear that the pollution has an extremely bad effect 96. ________
97)______ the people around the factory, including the manager himself. The 97. ________
manager regretted (后悔) that what they had done had 98) r______ in so much 98. ________
pollution. Now he has realized the 99) i__________ of keeping the air clean. 99. ________
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第四部分 模块二基础知识(共三节,满分30分)
第一节课文填空(共5小题;每空0.5分,满分 10分)
The ______ of the room was in the fancy ______ popular in those days. It was also a treasure ______ with gold and jewels, which took the country’s best ______ about ten years to make.
Nowadays any country can ______ part if their ______ are good enough. There are over 250 sports and each one has its own _______. Women are not only _______, but play a very important ______ in gymnastics, team sports and …
As a result I _____ changed my shape. As I have grown older I have also grown ______. …But I was always so lonely standing there by myself, _____ in the early 1960s they gave me a family connected by a _____. I was able to _____ my knowledge with others through the World Wide Web.
I’m ______ myself from mosquitoes. When I find a millipede insect, I rub it over my body. It _______ a powerful drug which ______ mosquitoes.
Daisy had always _____ to help ______ species of wildlife. One day she woke up and found a flying carpet by her bed. “Where do you want to go?” it asked. Daisy ______ immediately. “I’d like to see some…”
第二节 语法填空(共10小题;每小题1.5分,满分15分)
阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空,并将答案填写在答题卡标号为31~40的相应位置上。
China's influence on the world's political and economic order has been steadily increasing. Over the past decades, the international political and economic order has been still controlled by a __31 (hand) of developed countries, 32 the majority of developing nations have been ignored despite their rising calls for the establishment of a new world order. In the 1980s, the Chinese leadership, well aware of the core of the complicated international situation, 33 (repeat) called for a new international political and economic order 34 (set up) on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence and made continual efforts toward this. 35 its peaceful foreign policy and self-development, China has played an increasingly bigger role in the formulation of the long-expected new international order.
China's provision of sufficient food and clothing to 36 large population, one-fifth of the world's total, is itself a big contribution to world peace and security. Over the past decades, China has never stopped safeguarding the authority of the United Nations and 37 (participate) in UN-led multilateral (多边的) activities. It has 38 actively carried 39 cooperation with other countries on economic, anti-terror, arms control, peacekeeping, human rights, and environmental issues to better deal with the world's major challenges and hot spots. China's extensive cooperation with the rest of the world on trade, finance, investment and energy has also contributed a lot 40 international efforts towards the establishment of an open and just trade system and the improvement of the current international financial system. All these will help trade disputes be resolved through dialog and negotiation.