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1、一、單選1. Finding a job in China that Tom is is difficult, for he knows little Chinese at all.A. related toB. accustomed to C. devoted toD. suited to答案是D 解析：句意“想要在中國找到一份適合湯姆的工作很難，因?yàn)樗麕缀醪粫h語”。be related to 和 有關(guān) be accustomed to 習(xí)慣于 一 be suited to 適合2. The experienced goalkeeper moved to block the ball, b

2、ut unfortunately, the youngplayer kicked the ball into the goal.A. steadilyB. smartlyC. seriouslyD. gently答案 B 句意：這個有經(jīng)驗(yàn)的守門員很靈活地移動身體想要把球撲出去，但是不幸的是，那個年輕的 球員還是把球踢進(jìn)了球門。從experienced就可以看出應(yīng)該用smartly這個單詞來修飾.3. Feeling exhausted after three hours' study, I myself with a glass of iced drink.A. switchedB.

3、stretchedC. releasedD. refreshed答案 D 考查詞匯。句意：三個小時的學(xué)習(xí)后，我感覺疲憊。所以喝了一杯冰飲料振作了 一下。Refreshed adj,表示容光煥發(fā)，精神振奮。4. Young people are the most eager to learn and the least in their thinking.A. sensitiveB. arbitraryC. conservativeD. conscious答案 C句意：年輕人是最可渴望學(xué)習(xí)且思想一點(diǎn)也不保守的人。sensitive adj 敏感的；arbitrary adj 武斷的； consc

4、ious adj有意識的，清醒的5. the growing Syrian refugee crisis, the two organizations have teamed up with a new campaign to provide quality education for children displaced by the conflict.A. In addition toB. In response to C. In need ofD. In search of答案 B句意：兩個組織已經(jīng)聯(lián)合起來發(fā)起一個新的運(yùn)動來給流離失所的兒童提供高質(zhì)量 的教育以應(yīng)對不斷增長的敘利亞難民危機(jī)

5、。In response to 對做出回應(yīng)6. his health, we decided to put off the trip to England and waited until he recovers.A. Making sure ofB. Making way forC. Making allowance forD. Making up for答案 C 句意：考慮到他的健康，我們決定推遲英國之旅等他康復(fù)。 make allowance(s) for :考慮至L 顧及，體諒 make way for: 讓路于； 讓位于 make up for: 彌補(bǔ)7. They set up t

6、he non-profit organization in the 1990s, one of purposes is to help promisingstudents who cannot afford a university education.A. whichB. whereC. whoseD. whom答案 C考查定于從句。句意：他們在90年代建立這家非盈利組織，其目的之一就是幫助那些無法負(fù)擔(dān)大學(xué)學(xué)費(fèi)的 有前途的學(xué)生。定語從句中的 "purposes 和先行詞 "the non-profit organization 是所有格的關(guān)系。8. It was not

7、until I came here I realized this place was famous for not only its beauty but also its weather.A. whoB. thatC. whereD. before答案是B 解析：句意：直到我來到這里我才意識到這個地方不僅因?yàn)樗拿利惗劽€因?yàn)樗奶鞖狻?Not until?？純煞N用法。一是 not until在句首的時候，主句中部分倒裝；二是 it is/was not untilthat弓雖調(diào)句型。9. -Could you tell me how to work out the maths pro

8、blem?- Sorry, I can ' t. You can turn to David for help. He' s clever and the problem is to hiiA. as easy as pie B. as sly as a fox C. as white as a sheet D. as cool as cucumber 答案是A解析：as easy as pie 小菜一碟 as sly as a fox 十分狡猾as white as a sheet 蒼白as cool as cucumber 非常冷靜10. -John has resigne

9、d from his post to seek his fortune in Shanghai. ? He got promoted last month.A. How comeB. Who caresC. Why notD. What ' s on答案 A 考察交際用語。How come? 為什么；怎么會（那樣）主要表示吃驚、承認(rèn)、 認(rèn)可，如果對方提的問題過于簡單，回答時可以用來表示輕微的驚異，有時用來表示不耐煩、抗議或異議。 Who cares?誰在乎（表示沒人在乎） 二、閱讀理解請認(rèn)真閱讀下列短文，從短文后各題所給的A、B、C、D四個選項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。

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16、is Paragraph 2 mainly about?A. Ways of finding free service.C. Skills of creating websites.2. What ' s the purpose of the text?A. To teach a budget lesson.C. To present a website design.A篇【文章大意】本文是篇廣告 ，講述 站。1. B 段落主旨題。文中第二段提到了 而節(jié)省了公司需要支付給設(shè)計者的費(fèi)用 司的信息。因此該段講述 Wix. comB. Advantages of Wix. com.D. Tr

17、icks of running a company.B. To make an advertisement.D. To introduce a new business.Wix. com網(wǎng)站的優(yōu)勢，并希望更多的公司使用該網(wǎng)Wix. com可以免費(fèi)提供 HTML5以及Flash網(wǎng)站，從 ,接下來又講Wix. com如何幫助制作者展現(xiàn)自己公 的優(yōu)勢所在。2. B 寫作意圖題。本文主要介紹Wix. com網(wǎng)站的優(yōu)勢，并希望更多的公司使用該網(wǎng)站，故在為 Wix. com 做宣傳。BErnest Hemingway was not only a commanding figure in 20th-cen

18、tury literature, but was also a pack rat. He saved even his old passports and used bullfight tickets, leaving behind one of the longest paper trails of any author.“Ernest Hemingway: Between Two Wars ” , which opens on Friday at the Morgan Library & Museum, is the first major museum exhibition de

19、voted to Hemingway and his work. The largest and most interesting section focuses on the' 20s, Hemingway ' s Paris years, and reveals a writer wemight have been in danger of forgetting: Hemingway before he became Hemingway.The exhibition does not fail to include pictures of the bearded, manl

20、y, Hem. He' shown posing with some kudu he has just shot in Africa and on the bridge of his beloved fishing boat, the Pilar, with Carlos Gutie rrez, the fisherman who became the mode ford Man and the Sea.But the first photo the viewer sees is a big blowup of a handsome, clean-shaven, 19-year-old

21、 standing on crutches. This is from the summer of 1918, when Hemingway was recovering from wounds at the Red Cross hospital in Milan and trying to turn his wartime experiences into fiction.The evidence at this exhibition suggests that, in the early days, he often wrote in pencil, mostly in cheap not

22、ebooks but sometimes on whatever paper came to hand. The first draft of the short story Soldier's Home was written on sheets he appeared to have snatched from a telegraph office. The impression you get is of a young writer seized by inspiration and sometimes barreling ahead without an entirely c

23、lear sense of where he is going.F. Scott Fitzgerald (some of whose letters with Hemingway is also on view) famously urged him to cut the first two chapters of The Sun Also Rises, complaining about the “ elephantine facetiousness " of the beginning, and Hemingway obliged, getting rid of a clunky

24、 opening that nowseems almostmeta.In 1929, in a nine-page penciled critique, Fitzgerald also suggested numerousrevisions for A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway took some of these, but less graciously, and soon afterward his friendship with Fitzgerald came to an end.The papers at the Morgan show a Hemingw

25、ay who is not always sure of himself. There are running lists of stories he kept fiddling with, and there are lists and lists of possible titles, including the 45 he considered for Farewell and 47 different endings for the novel.In display case after display case, you see Hemingway during his Paris

26、years inventing and reinventing himself, discovering as he goes along just what kind of writer he wants to be. In a moving 1925 letter to his parents, who refused to read In Our Time, his second story collection, he writes:"You see I ' m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the ac

27、tual life acrossdescribe life or criticize it but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can' t do this without putting in the bad and the uglyas well as what is beautiful.”By the time the Second World War broke out, Hemingway

28、 had solidified into the iconic figure we now remember: Papa. Even J. D. Salinger calls him this. And a blustery, cranky Hemingway appears in 1949 when aboard the Pilar he grabs an old fishing diary and begins scrawling an angry letter to Harold Ross, the editor of The New Yorker, complaining about

29、Alfred Kazin' s review ofAcross the River and into the Trees, not, in truth, a very good book. But, Hemingway, often drinking and depressed, didn ' t know it, his best work was behind him by then.3. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined words“a pack rat " in thA

30、. A person who doesn ' t waste anything. B. A person who cannot be relied on.C. A person who likes to collect rubbish.D. A person who enjoys collecting things.4. How many of Hemingway ' s works are mentioned in this passage?A. 4.B. 5.C. 6.D. 7.5. What does the writer truly mean by saying“ He

31、mingway before he became Hemingway. " ?A. Hemingway wrote many masterpieces before he killed himself.B. Hemingway was once a war correspondent before he became a famous writer.C. Hemingway devoted all his strengths to writing before he won the Nobel Prize.D. Hemingway kept exploring the world a

32、nd adjusting himself before he became a commanding figure in literature.6. According to the Morgan show, readers are likely to see in Hemingway' s works.tough men who can ' t be defeated anti-war fighters the dark side of the world as well as its beauty love affairs between a man and a woman

33、 the story of a family businessA.B.C.D.B篇【文章大意】本文是一篇記敘文，講述了美國著名作家、諾貝爾文學(xué)獎獲得者海明威的生平，介紹了他的主要作品與突出的生活經(jīng)歷。6 .【解析】選D。詞義猜測題。根據(jù)畫線詞的下一句可知海明威喜歡收集東西，故選D。a packrat意為 喜歡囤積東西的人”。7 .【解析】選C。細(xì)節(jié)理解題。第三段提到了 TheOld Man and the Sea,第四段提到了 Soldier's Home,第五段提到了 The Sun Also Rises 和 A Farewell to Arms,第七段提到了的 In Our Tim

34、e, 最后一段提到了的 Across the River and into theTreeso很顯然，總共提到了六部作品。8 .【解析】選 D。句意理解題。根據(jù)畫線句前的"reveals a writer we might have been in dangerof forgetting （揭示了一位我們可能會忘記的作家）'可知，作者指的是成為20世紀(jì)文壇中一位舉足輕重的人物之前的海明威，一位曾到過世界許多地方，寫作方式、文風(fēng)、性格和形象不斷發(fā)生改變的海明威。9 .【解析】選 Ao細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第三段的內(nèi)容和倒數(shù)第二段最后一句可知。三、任務(wù)型閱讀請認(rèn)真閱讀下列短文，并根據(jù)所

35、讀內(nèi)容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一個最恰當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~。注意：每個空格只填1個單詞。請將答案寫在答題卡上相應(yīng)題號的橫線上。四、書面表達(dá)Human capital（資金）flight, more commonly referred to as“ brain drain sCathe largeemigration（移民）of a large group of individuals with technical skills or knowledge. Although the term originally referred to technology workers leaving a natio

36、n, the meaning has broadened into the departure of educated and professional people from one country, economic sector, or field for another, usually for better pay or living conditions.Brain drain is usually regarded as an economic cost, since emigrants usually take with them the part of value of th

37、eir training sponsored by the government or other organizations. The contrary phenomenon is “brain gain ” , which occurs when there is- aBcaileemmigration of technically qualified persons.to North America waimEpursIpe. Another source indicatesThe term itself was coined by the Royal Society（ 英國皇家學(xué)會 ）

38、to describe the emigration of “scientists and technologiststhat this term was first used in the United Kingdom to describe the influx（ 流入）of Indian scientist and engineers.The reasons usually include two aspects which respectively（ 分另1J地）come from countries and individuals. In terms of countries, th

39、e reasons may be social environment such as lack of opportunities, political instability, economic depression, health risks, etc. in source countries and rich chances, political stability and freedom, developed economy, better living conditions, etc. in host countries. In terms of individual reasons

40、, there is family influence（overseas relatives ）, and personal preference: preference for exploring, ambition for an improved career, etc.Brain drain is common amongst developing nations, where marketable skills were not financially rewarded.With rapid GDP growth and a higher degree of openness towa

41、rds the rest of the world , China has also been facing brain drain. There has been upsurge in Chinese emigration to Western countries particularly the United States , Canada and Australia since the mkfirst decade of the 21st century. China became the biggest worldwide contributor of emigrants in 200

42、7. According to the official Chinese media, 65,000 Chinese secured immigration or permanent resident status( 地位) in the United States, 25,000 in Canada and 15,000 in Australia. The largest group of emigrants consists of professionals and experts with a middle class background, who are the backbone(骨

43、 干)for the development of China.However, in recent years, China's rapid development and the increasing number of international companies registering to do business in China have led many Chinese living abroad to swap their lives there for a new life back in China. According to the government sta

44、tistics, more than 130 thousand people came back in 2010, and more in the following years. Better jobs, special government policies and more chances to make use of the experience and skills gained abroad have made the future look bright indeed for the overseas Chinese coming home.Brain Drain : A Spe

45、cial Phenomenon Across the WorldPassage outlineSupporting detailsO Originally referring to large scale emigration of (2) andknowledgeable individuals for better pay or living conditions Broadened into the departure of professional people who received good (3)from one country, economic sector, or fie

46、ld for another Regarded as an economic cost(4)of theterm First used in the UK, one (5) the emigration of “scientistsandtechnologists to North America from post war (6) countries;another the influx of Indian scientist and engineersReasons From countries: social environment in the countries which (7)f

47、rom“brain drain OFfrom individuals: family influence and personal preferenceBrain drain in China There has been an increase in Chinese emigration to Western countries since 2005 China(8)the most to brain drain worldwide in 2007 , with 65 , 000to the United States, 25, 000 to Canada and 15, 000 to Au

48、stralia, (9)of whom were professionals and experts with a middle class background However, recently more and more Chinese overseas are (10)homethanks to the better jobs , special government policies and more chances to make use of the experience and skills gained abroad in their home country1. Defin

49、ition 2. skilled 3. Education 4. Origin/Sources 5. describing6. European 7. suffer 8. contributed 9. most 10. returning/coming/back請閱讀下面短文，并按照要求用英語寫一篇150詞左右的文章。Yuan Longping, 90, known as the“ father of h ytplidyisice crucial rote in helping Chinaachieve food security. Every morning what he does first is go to the field and works as a "farmer". When asked how much his shirt was, he told the reporter that it was 35 yuan.Li Junxian, without whom it would have been impossible for us to send the rocket into spac