国光中学2004年英语科高考模拟试卷

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21. --- The experiment is of particular importance .

 --- I see . We will carry on with it ____ we can get enough money .

 A . unless   B . though   C . whether   D . until

22. --- Where have you been recently ?

  --- I ___ in Hangzhou on business for a week last month .

 A . have been   B . was   C . had been   D . had gone

23. You’ll ___ in hospital if you drive so fast .

 A . die up     B . end up     C . turn up     D . give up

24. I’m sure the beauty of ___ nature there will make ___ excellent impression upon you .

 A . the ; an      B . / ; the     C . the ; /      D . / ; an

25. --- I had a good holiday at my uncle’s .

--- _____ .

  A . Oh,  that’s very nice of you .   B . Congratulations . 

  C . Oh, I’m glad to hear that .     D . It’s a pleasure .

26. --- We want someone to design the new art museum for us.

  --- ___ the young fellow have a try ?

 A . May     B . Shall      C . Will      D . Need

27. Before Tom left home , his mother kept telling him to ____ his manners at the party.

  A . mind   B . notice   C . watch   D . care

28. Being able to speak another language fluently is a great ___ when you are looking for a job .

 A . chance  B . importance  C . assistant  D . advantage

29. I planned ___ to see you last week , but I was ill.

  A . to have come       B . to come 

C . to be coming       D . to have been coming

30 . The old lady was the only person that died in the fire . ___ else was rescued by the firemen.

 A . Everyone     B . Anyone    C . Someone    D . No one

31. --- Have you known each other for long ?

   --- Not very , ___ we started to work in the ABC Motor Company .

 A . before     B . since      C . when       D. after 

32. Although he sometimes loses his temper , his students like him ___ for it .

 A . not so much   B . not so little   C . no more  D . no less

33. --- Are you waiting for a bus from the office of the City Government ?

  --- Yes.  I arrived here at the bus stop ten minutes ago , but the bus ___ .

 A . hadn’t come           B . won’t come

C . didn’t come          D . hasn’t come

34. --- Is Miss Wang in the office today ?

   --- No , she’s gone to her hometown __ the Spring Festival and she’ll be back in a week .

 A . in      B . during       C . for          D . on

35. In this university a medal with ten thousand dollars ___ gains success in science and technology every two years .

 A . is given to whoever       B . are given to anyone who

 C . gives to whomever        D . give to everyone

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   Christmas was a quiet affair when I was growing up . There were just my parents and  36   . I wished that someday I’d  37  and have six children , and at   38  my house would be full of  39   and love .

  I found the  40  who shared my dream, but we had not  41  the possibility of infertility(不能生育). So we asked for adoption and , within a year , he arrived . We called him our Christmas boy because he came to us during that season of joy ,  42  he was just six days old . Then nature  43  us again . Within two years we  44  two biological children to the family --- not as many as we had hoped for ,  45  compared with  46  childhood , three made an entirely  47  crowd .

  As our Christmas boy grew , he made it clear that only he had the special skill to select and decorate the Christmas  48  each year. He started his Christmas gift list  49  before we’d finished the Thanksgiving turkey . He encouraged us to sing songs , using our froglike  50  comparing with his musical gift of perfect voice .

  Our friends thought that adopted children were not the same and they were  51  . Our Christmas boy brought  52

into our lives with his good cheer , his wit . He made us look and act better than we were .

  Then on his 26^th Christmas , he left us as  53  as he had come . He was killed in a car accident on an icy Denver street , on his way home to his young wife and daughter . But first he had  54  by our home to decorate our tree , as usual . His father and I sold our home , where memories clung to every room . We moved to California , leaving  55

our friends and church .

 36. A. my friends   B . my brothers  C . my children   D . me

 37 . A . like  B . marry  C . better   D . love

 38 . A . night   B . New Year  C . Christmas   D . home

 39. A . energy   B . people    C . child     D . hope

 40 . A. woman   B.  man   C . wife   D . son

 41. A . planned  B . wanted  C . expected  D . imagined

 42. A . after   B . before  C . when  D . until

 43. A . disappointed  B . surprised  C . interested  D . encouraged

 44 . A . brought  B .took  C . hoped  D . added

 45. A . so   B . because   C . but   D .while

 46. A . quiet  B . noisy   C . happy  D . exciting

 47. A . satisfactory   B . great  C . small    D . necessary

 48. A . house   B . card  C . gift   D . tree

 49. A . ever   B . still   C . even   D . yet

 50. A . sounds  B . songs  C . noises  D . voices

 51. A . right   B . silly   C . kind  D . clever

 52. A . color   B . bright   C . love   D . dream

 53. A . early  B . late  C . unexpectedly  D . happily

 54. A . stopped  B . gone   C . passed   D . entered

 55. A . behind   B . for   C . away     D . out

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A

   Some time ago , I discovered that one of my chairs had a broken leg. I didn’t think there would be any difficulty in getting it mended , as there are a whole lot of antique shops near my home . So I left home one morning carrying the chair with me . I went into the first shop expecting a friendly reception . I was quite wrong . The man wouldn’t even look at my chair.

  The second shop , though slightly more polite , was just the same, and the third and the fourth --- so I decided that my approach must be wrong .

  I went into the fifth shop with a plan in my mind . I placed the chair on the floor and said to the shopkeeper , “Would you like to buy a chair ?” He looked it over carefully and said, “Yes , not a bad chair. How much do you want for it , sir ?” “Twenty pounds ,” I said . “OK ,” he said , “I’ll give you twenty pounds.” “It’s got a slightly broken leg,” I said . “Yes , I saw that , it’s nothing .”

  Everything was going according to plan and I was getting excited . “What will you do with it ?” I asked . “Oh, it will be easy to sell once the repair is done .” “I’ll buy it ,” I said , “ What do you mean? You’ve just sold it to me ,” he said . “Yes , I know but I’ve changed my mind . I’m sorry , I’ll give you twenty-seven pounds for it .” “You must be crazy ,” he said . Then , suddenly the penny dropped . “ I know what you want . You want me to repair your chair.” “You’re right ,” I said . “And what would you have done if I had walked in and said , ‘ Would you mend this chair for me?’” “ I wouldn’t have agreed to do it ,” he said . “We don’t do repairs , not enough money in it and too much trouble . But I’ll mend this for you , shall we say for a five ?” He was a very nice man and was greatly amused by the whole thing .

56. We can learn from the text that in the first shop the writer ____ .

 A . was rather impolite    B . was warmly received

 C . asked the shopkeeper to buy his chair

 D. asked the shopkeeper to repair his chair

57. The expression “the penny dropped” in the last paragraph means the shopkeeper ___ .

 A . changed his mind        B . accepted the offer

 C . saw the writer’s purpose   D . decided to help the writer

58. How much did the writer pay ?

 A . 5 pounds    B . 7 pounds   C . 20 pounds   D . 27 pounds 

59. From the text , we can learn that the writer was _____ .

 A . honest   B . careful   C . smart   D . funny   

         B          

  The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, painfree life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever attaining real happiness . If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness then pain must be equal to unhappiness . But in fact , the opposite is true : more often than not things that lead to happiness involve some pain.

  As a result , many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness . They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children , professional achievement , religious commitment , self-improvement .

  Ask a bachelor why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying . If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment .For commitment is in fact quite painful . The single life is filled with fun , adventure , excitement . Marriage has such moments , but they are not its most distinguishing features .

  Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole night’s sleep or a three-day vacation . I don’t know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children . But couples who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild .

  Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations . It liberates time : now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness . It liberates money : buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless . And it liberates us from envy : we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.

60. According to the author , a bachelor resists marriage chiefly because ____ .

 A. he is reluctant to take on family responsibilities

 B . he believes that life will be more cheerful if he remains single

 C . he finds more fun in dating than in marriage

 D . he fears it will put an end to all his fun adventure and excitement

61. Raising children , in the author’s opinion is ____ .

 A . a moral duty      B . a thankless job

 C . a rewarding task   D. a source of inevitable job

62. From the last paragraph , we learn that envy sometimes stems from ___ .

 A . hatred  B . misunderstanding  C . prejudice   D . ignorance

63 . To understand what true happiness is one must ___ .

 A . have as much fun as possible during one’s lifetime

 B . make every effort to liberate oneself from pain

 C . put up with pain under all circumstances

 D. be able to distinguish happiness from fun

64. What is the author trying to tell us ?

 A . Happiness often goes hand in hand with pain.

 B . One must know how attain happiness.

 C . It is important to make commitments.

 D . It is pain that leads to happiness.

C

When I asked my daughter which item she would keep : the phone , the car , the cooker , the computer , the TV , or her boyfriend , she said “the phone” . Personally , I could do without the phone entirely , which makes me unusual because the telephone is changing our lives more than any other piece of technology .

  Point 1 : The telephone creates the need to communicate , in the same way that more roads create more traffic . My daughter comes home from school at 4:00 pm and then spends an hour on the phone talking to the very people she has been at school with all day . If the phone did not exist , would she have anything to talk about ?

  Point 2 : The mobile phone means that we are never alone . “The mobile saved my life ,” says Crystal Johnstone. She had an accident in her Volvo on the A45 between Otley and Skipton . Trapped inside , she managed to make the call that brought the ambulance to her rescue .

  Point 3 : The mobile removes our secret . It allows Marketing Manager of Haba Deutsch , Carl Nicolaisen , to ring his sales staff all round the world at any time of day to ask where they are , where they are going , and how their last meeting went.

  Point 4 : The telephone separates us . Antonella Bramante in Rome says , “ We worked in separate offices but I could see him through the window . It was easy to get his number . We were so near --- but we didn’t meet for the first two weeks !”

  Point 5 : The telephone allows us to reach out beyond our own lives . Today we can talk to several complete strangers simultaneously on chat lines ( at least my daughter does . I wouldn’t know what to talk about ). We can talk across the world . We can even talk to astronauts ( if you know any ) while they’re spacewalking . And , with the phone line hooked up to the computer , we can access the Internet , the biggest library on earth.

65. How do you understand “Point 1 : The telephone  creates the need to communicate , …” ?

 A . The telephone creates more traffic.

 B . People communicate because of the creating of the telephone .

C . People communicate more since the telephone has been created .

D . People communicate more because of more traffic .

66. Which of the following best shows people’s attitude towards mobile phones ?

 A . Mobile phones are useful when you have an accident.

 B . Mobile phones bring convenience to people.

 C . Mobile phones can help people go across the world .

 D . Mobile phone number is easy to get .

67. The underlined word “simultaneously” most probably means  ____  .

 A . in a friendly way      B . in an easy way

 C . at the same time       D . through computers

                 D

  An explosion on Thursday killed one and injured 21 in a busy street in Tongren , Southwest China’s Guizhou Province.

     The bomb was hidden in a rubbish bin in the city’s commercial hub, where lots of shops and restaurants are concentrated .

     The ear-splitting blast was heard around 12:50 pm , said a local newspaper , citing witnesses . The power of the blast shattered nearby shop windows and ripped the stainless steel rubbish can to pieces .

    One passer-by , identified only as Zhang , said she was shocked by the noise and saw a lot of pedestrians lying on the ground when she got to the scene .

      Thirteen of the injured were taken to the a local hospital after the explosion . A doctor there said five were in serious condition but already out of danger after emergency treatment . The others were just slightly hurt .

    The cause of the explosion is still under investigation , said an office with the Tongren police , but refuse to speculate as to the cause.

68. It can be inferred from the passage that ____ .

 A . All the injured were taken to a hospital.

 B . 8 of the injured were not taken to a hospital.

 C . The rubbish bin with a bomb was in a restaurant .

 D . The rubbish bin with a bomb was in a shop.

69. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage ?

 A . One passer-by , identified only as Zhang , saw the man throwing a bomb into a bin,

 B . Some customers in restaurants were injured .

 C . The writer didn’t get to the scene.

 D . All customers in shops got hurt.

70. In the last paragraph the underlined word “speculate” probably means ____ .

 A . tell   B . guess   C . discuss   D . talk

71. What of the following can be the best title for the passage ?

 A . Bomb Hidden in a Rubbish Bin

 B . The Cause of the Explosion

 C . A Terrible Thing

 D . Market Blast Kills 1 , Injures 21

E

  In 1826 , a Frenchman named Niepce needed pictures for his business . But he was not a good artist . So he invented a very simple cameras . He put it in a window of his house and took a picture of his yard . That was the first photograph.

  The next important date in the history of photography was 1837. That year , Daguerre , another French , took a picture of his studio . He used a new kind of camera and a different process . In his pictures , you could see everything very clearly , even the smallest details . This kind of photograph was called a daguerreotype.

  Soon , other people began to use Daguerre’s process . Travelers brought back daguerreotypes from all around the world . People photographed famous buildings , cities and mountains .

  In about 1840, the process was improved . Then photographers could take pictures of people and moving things . The process was not simple . The photographers had to carry lots of films and processing equipment . But this did not stop the photographers , especially in the US . After 1840s daguerreotype artists were popular in most cities .

  Mathew Brady was a well-known American photographer . He took many pictures of famous people . The pictures were unusual because they were very life-like and full of personality .

  Brady was also the first person to take pictures of war . His 1862 Civil War pictures showed dead soldiers and ruined cities . They made the war seem more real and more terrible.

  In the 1880s , new inventions began to change photography. Photographers could buy films readymade in rolls . So they did not have to make the film themselves . Also , they did not have to process the film immediately . They could bring it back to their studios and develop it later meaning that they did not have to carry lots of equipment . And finally , the inventions of the small handheld cameras made photography less expensive.

  With the small camera , anyone could be a photographer . People began to use cameras just for fun . They took pictures of their families , friends and favorite places . They called these pictures “snapshot” .

  Photographs became very popular in newspapers in the 1890s. Soon magazines and books also used documentary photographs . These pictures showed true events and people . They were much more real than drawing.

  Photography also turned into a form of art by the end of the 19th century . Some photographs were not just copies of the real world . They showed ideas and feelings , like other art forms .

72 . The passage is mainly about ___ .

 A . the invention of cameras  B . a kind of new art --- photography

 C . the development of photography

 D . the important dates in the history of photography

73. The first pictures of a war were taken by ___ .

 A . a French photographer in the 1840s

 B . an American photographer in the 1860s

 C . a German reporter in the 1880s  D . a French artist in the 1890s

74. Photography can also be an art form because artists can ___ .

 A . take anything they like   B. keep a record of real life

 C . take photos of the famous  D . show ideas and feeling in pictures

75. According to the passage , which of the followings shows the correct order ? _____

 a . Photographs became popular in newspapers .

 b . Photographers carried processing equipment while taking pictures

 c. The invention of small handheld cameras made photography easier .

 d. Daguerre invented a kind of photograph called daguerreotype.

 e. Brady took pictures of famous people .

 A . e , a , d, b , c       B .  d , b , e, c , a

C . b , e, c , a , d      D .  d , c , e , a , b

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  In my hometown there used to be a temple with a       76. ___

history of over eight hundred years . It lies in a           77.____

valley with green hills around it . It was such beautiful     78.___

and famous that many tourists came visit it every         79.___

day . They took photo; they wrote down their names on    80.___

the walls . They were brought food and drinks and left rubbish 81._

everywhere . One day some tourists did a fire to cook      82.__

food near the temple. All of sudden , a strong wind        83.___

blew . The wooden temple caught fire . Soon the wholly    84.____

temple was burned out and only a little walls remained.    85.___

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April 6, 2004

Dear Editor,

   My name is Li Jia . I’m a student of Biyuan Middle School. Our school lies … _________________________________________
                                         Yours truly ,

                                                 Li Jia        

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36. DBCAB   41. CCBDC   46. AADCD  51. AACAA

56 . DCAC    60.ACBDA    65. CBC   68. BCBD

72. CBDB   76.对  77.lay  78. so  79. to  80. photos 

81. 去掉were  82. made  83. a  84. whole  85. few

                                           April 6 , 2004

Dear editor ,

My name is Li Jia . I’m a student of Biyuan Middle School. Our school lies at the foot of a mountain with a river passing by . There used to be many green trees and all kinds of flowers in our school all the year round. It looked like a beautiful garden and was a nice place for us to study in . But everything has changed since a chemical works was built near our school a year ago. Every day it produces a lot of waste water and harmful gases . The terrible pollution has done great harm to our health . And the great noise from the factory has greatly affected our teaching and studying activities . We suffer a lot from the pollution .

We do hope some measures will be taken to stop the pollution.

                                          Yours truly,

                                             Li Jia