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2006届高三第四次联考 英语
本试卷分第一卷(选择题)和第二卷(非选择题)两部分。共150分。考试时间120分钟。
第Ⅰ卷(两部分,共95分)
第一部分:英语知识运用(共三节,满分50分)
第一节 语音知识(共5小题;每小题1分,满分5分)
从A、B、C、D四个选项中,找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
例:have
A. gave B.
save C.
hat D.
made
答案是C。
1. therefore A. toothbrush B. through C. together D. northeast
2. official A. usual B. sugar C. inspect D. necessary
3. actor A. support B. perform C. fortune D. information
4. silver A. silent B. pretty C. tiny D. reject
5. pour A. court B. discourage C. hour D. pure
第二节 语法和词汇知识(共15小题,每小题1分,满分15分)
从A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
6. — Our team will play against the Rockets this weekend. I’m sure we will win.
— _____!
A. Good luck B. Cheers C. Best wishes D. Congratulations
7. The number of deaths from heart disease will be reduced greatly if people _____ to eat more
fruit and vegetables.
A. persuade B. will persuade C. be persuaded D. are persuaded
8. — _____ you please write a 3000-word report about this subject for me?
— Perhaps I _____ only write a 1000-word one, but I even doubt it.
A. Could; might B. Would; might C. Might; could D. Would; could
9. Alice used to smoke _____ but she has given it up.
A. seriously B. heavily C. badly D. hardly
10. Not only _______ give us relaxation and pleasure, but also ________ increase our
knowledge.
A. can travel; it can B. travel can; can it C. can travel; can it D. travel can; it can
11. You’d better take something to read when you go to see the doctor _____ you have to wait.
A. even if B. in case C. as if D. in order that
12. It was foolish of him to ________ his notes during that important test, and as a result, he got
punished.
A. stick to B. refer to C. keep to D. point to
13. _____ recent report stated that the number of Spanish speakers in the U.S. would be higher
than the number of English speakers by _____ year 2090.
A. A; the B. A; 不填 C. The; 不填 D. The; a
14. He speaks English well indeed, but of course not _____ a native speaker.
A. as fluent as B. more fluent than C. so fluently as D. much fluently than
15. The most common thing to do on the earth can be a big threat if _____ properly, according to
Chen Shanguang, designer of the spaceship.
A. doesn’t handle B. not handled C. not handling D. having not handled
16. —It’ll take at least 2 hours to do this!
— Oh, _____! I could do it in 30 minutes.
A. come on B. pardon me C. you are right D. is that true
17. It is not so difficult to learn programme well. _____ you need is patience and persistence.
A. Something B. All C. Both D. Everything
18. “Premier Wen’s report,” a smile on his face, he continued, “_____ to several hot topics,
discusses how to increase peasants’ income, in a comparative part.”
A. referring B. refers C. having referred D. referred
19. —Could you type these papers for me, please?
— _____ papers? I have been busy for a whole day.
A. What B. Some C. More D. Different
20. It was unbelievable that the fans waited outside the gym for three hours just _____ a look at
the sports stars.
A. had B. having C. to have D. have
第三节 完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Birthdays often bring surprises. But this year’s surprise on the birthday of the great British playwright William Shakespeare is 21 one of the most surprising.
On April 22, one day before his 441st birthday anniversary, experts 22 that one of the most recognizable 23 of William Shakespeare is a fake(赝品).
This 24 that we no longer have a good 25 of what Shakespeare looked like. “It’s very possible that many pictures of Shakespeare are unreliable because many of them are 26 of this one,” said an expert from Britain’s National Portrait Gallery.
The 27 comes after four months of testing. Experts from the gallery say the image—— commonly known as the “Flower portrait” ——was actually 28 in the 1800s, two centuries 29 Shakespeare’s death.
The art experts who work at the gallery say they used modern chemistry technology to 30 the paint on the picture. These checks found traces(痕迹) of paint deep in the picture 31 about 1814.
Shakespeare 32 in 1616, and the date that appears on the portrait is 1609.
“We now think the portrait dates back to around 1818 to 1840. This was 33 there was a new interest in Shakespeare’s 34 ,” Tanya Cooper, the gallery’s 16th century curator(馆长) said.
The 35 picture has often been used as a cover for 36 of his plays. It is called the “Flower portrait” because one of its 37, Desmond Flower, gave it to the Royal Shakespeare Company.
“There have always been 38 about the authenticity(真实性) of the painting,” said David Howells, curator for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
“Now we know the truth, we can put the image in its proper place in the history of Shakespearean portraiture(画像技法),” he said.
Two other images of Shakespeare are also being studied as part of the investigation and the results will 39 later in May. But for now what Shakespeare really looked like will remain a 40.
21. A. surely B. never C. hardly D. only
22. A. wondered B. doubted C. found D. considered
23. A. plays B. masterpieces C. portraits D. photos
24. A. recommends B. advises C. decides D. means
25. A. news B. idea C. design D. expression
26. A. bargains B. productions C. copies D. prints
27. A. justice B. discovery C. invention D. deed
28. A. cloned B. developed C. painted D. copied
29. A. after B. before C. since D. until
30. A. try B. remove C. wash D. check
31. A. looking back B. dating from C. getting along D. starting with
32. A. died B. was born C. succeeded D. was buried
33. A. why B. when C. how D. what
34. A. stories B. pictures C. plays D. photos
35. A. real B. original C. valuable D. fake
36. A. requirements B. collections C. consequences D. playwrights
37. A. owners B. painters C. writers D. readers
38. A. causes B. problems C. questions D. orders
39. A. go about B. come out C. turn up D. break out
40. A. surprise B. problem C. secret D. mystery
第二部分 阅读理解(共25小题。第一节每小题2分,第二节每小题1分;满分45分)
第一节 阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
ABC News anchor (节目主持人) Peter Jennings died on Aug.7, 2005 at home in New York after a brief battle with lung cancer. ABC News anchors said they hope if anything good can be taken from Jennings’ death, it is a great awareness of the dangers of smoking.
“I want to give a message,” Barbara Walters said. “If you have kids who are smoking, tell them that we lost Peter.”
Lung cancer is the worst killer in America, taking more lives each year than any other cancer, according to the America Cancer Society. About 160,440 Americans die each year of cancer, making up 28 percent of all cancer deaths. More than 87 percent of lung cancers are smoking related.
Dr. Derek Raghavan, director of the Cleveland Clinic’s Taussing Cancer Center, said that once a person stops smoking, he starts getting better. Three to five years after quitting, the possibility of getting lung cancer is reduced by half.
Warning signs of lung cancer can also be mixed with symptoms connected with long-term smoking. The three main warning signs are an increase of coughing that doesn’t clear up, coughing up blood and sharp chest pains.
People with those symptoms should see a doctor. Raghavan said there have been promising developments in the treatment of lung cancer, including uses of radiation and surgery and drugs. “But the fact is that stopping smoking is the most important thing we can do,” Raghavan said. “There is no treatment that even comes close.”
41. Anchor Peter Jennings died of lung cancer which was possibly caused by _____.
A. his bad eating habit B. overmuch work C. long-term smoking D. the old age
42. The first paragraph mentioned Peter Jennings’ death in order to _____.
A. make him the main character of the passage.
B. warn the smokers of the danger of smoking
C. introduce the topic to be talked about
D. make him better-known than before
43. The underlined word “quitting” in the fourth paragraph probably refers to _____.
A. doing more exercise B. giving up smoking
C. getting over lung cancer D. staying in hospital
44. To fight against lung cancer, what matters much to smokers is _____.
A. to receive the treatment of lung cancer B. to do exercise regularly
C. to see a doctor in time D. to stop smoking
B
Comets(彗星)orbiting a distant star have been found to contain water, the first time the ingredient(成份) considered key to life has been discovered in objects circling a star other than our sun.
The discovery, announced by scientists, adds weight to the theory that other planetary(行星的)systems may be necessary to the formation of life as we know it.
Scientists have no way of knowing whether life ever existed on any comets or planets orbiting this particular star, known as CW Leonis and located some 3,000 trillion miles (4,800 trillion kilometers) from Earth in the constellation Leo(狮子座).
But they are certain that no life could exist there now. That is because as it burns out the last of its nuclear fuel, the star has swelled(膨胀) and increased in luminosity(发光度), engulfing(吞没) nearby objects and melting comets in orbits as distant as Neptune is from the sun—releasing the water that astronomers spotted using a radio telescope in out space.
“ The existence of these bodies is measured through their destruction(毁灭)” said Gary Melnick, chief scientist on the project and an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Mr. Melnick said the discovery was of particular importance because if there was a reservoir of water farther from the star, there could have been water closer to the star, bolstering the ideas that life may have existed outside our solar system. Comets are believed to have helped build life on Earth, Mr. Melnick and other scientists said. Besides bringing water to the oceans, they are also thought to have transported important chemicals as they went through Earth’s atmosphere in past eons(远古时代).
“Comets are some of the smaller bodies in the solar system and form the seeds of planets themselves,” said Saavik Ford, a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University who first suggested that the water may have come from evaporating(蒸发的) comets. “The fact that we found water is interesting because it is necessary for the formation of life.
45. According to the passage which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. No life ever existed on any comets or planets orbiting CW Leonis.
B. Neptune is a planet which orbits the sun.
C. Water has been found beyond our solar system.
D. CW Leonis belongs to constellation Leo.
46. The underlined word “bolstering” in paragraph 6 means _____.
A. objecting B. inferring C. denying D. supporting
47. What would be the best title for the text?
A. Water is necessary for life. B. Water found in comets.
C. New discovery in space D. Comets and stars.
48. We can infer from the passage _____.
A. All the chemicals on Earth were from comets.
B. There couldn’t be life on Earth without comets orbiting a distant star.
C. The earth probably came into being from a comet.
D. Scientists are trying to find water on CW Leonis.
C
For those who have lonely nights and have trouble falling asleep, he is proving the ideal partner. This is a man who does not snore (打鼾) in bed. And he is happy to wrap a comforting arm around his dearest until morning arrives.
He does exist. He is the body-shaped pillow, the latest sleeping aid from Japan.
This pillow comes without a head and is filled with foam. It’s made by Kameo and has a “body” and a flexible arm that can be curled around its owner.
About 1,000 of the pillows have been sold since they went on sale in Japan last year and many buyers say they are pleased with their sleeping companion.
“This pillow makes me feel relaxed because I can hold the arm and feel something warm at my side,” said 34-year-old radio DJ Junko Suzuki.
But according to Kameo, the pillow is more than just an emotional help for those tired of spending the night alone. And it is shaped, the firm says, to support its partner on both sides to ensure a night of good sleep.
The idea is to curl up in between the body and the flexible arm. The head just rests on the pillow’s “arm muscles”.
“My grandmother used to say that there is no more comfortable pillow than another person,” said the firm president, Tomoki Kakehashi. “So I thought that maybe people would want to sleep on a pillow shaped like an arm.”
The pillows, on sale only in Japan for the moment, cost 8,500 yen(around US$80) each and come with shirt-or shirt-shaped pillow covers in blue, pink or green.
49. Which of the following statements isn’t mentioned in the text?
A. Many buyers are satisfied with the body-shaped pillow.
B. The pillows are sold only in Japan at present.
C. The inventor decided to develop new market in the US.
D. The idea of body-shaped pillow is from what an old lady said.
50. The underlined word in paragraph 6 “Kameo” may be the name of _____.
A. a manager B. the firm C. a buyer D. another radio DJ
51. The purpose of the passage seems_____.
A. to introduce the latest sleeping aid, the body-shaped pillow
B. to advise people to use the body-shaped pillow
C. to tell how the body-shaped pillow is invented
D. to tell how the body-shaped pillow works
52. The body-shaped pillow is popular with users because _____.
a. users can fall asleep easily using the pillow
b. buyers can afford the pillow
c. the pillow ensure a night of good sleep
d. the pillow can provide an emotional help
A. a; b; c B. b; c; d C. a; c; d D. a; b; d
D
For many years, I was convinced(使相信) that my suffering was due to my size. I believed that when the weight disappeared, it would take old wounds, hurts, and rejections with it.
Many weight-conscious people also mistakenly believe that changing our bodies will fix everything. Perhaps our worst mistake is believing that being thin equals being loved, being special, and being cherished. We fantasize about what it will be like when we reach the long-awaited goal. We work very hard to realize this dream. Then, at last, we find ourselves there.
But we often gain back what we have lost. Even so, we continue to believe that next time it will be different. Next time, we will keep it off. Next time, being thin will finally fulfill its promise of everlasting happiness, self-worth, and, of course, love.
It took me a long while to realize that there was something more for me to learn about beauty. Beauty standards vary with culture. In Samoa a woman is not considered attractive unless she weighs more than 200 pounds. More importantly, if it’s happiness that we want, why not put our energy there rather than on the size of our body? Why not look inside? Many of us strive hard to change our body, but in vain(徒劳地). We have to find a way to live comfortably inside our body and make friends with and cherish ourselves. When we change our attitudes toward ourselves, the whole world changes.
53. The passage tries to highlight(强调) the importance of _____.
A. body size B. attitudes toward life
C. culture difference D. different beauty standards
54. The word “everything” in paragraph 2 means _____.
A. all the problems B. all the possessions C. the whole world D. the absolute truth
55. What can be inferred about the author?
A. The author is a Samoan.
B. The author succeeded in losing weight.
C. The author has been troubled by her /his weight.
D. The author probably got wounded in wars or accidents.
56. According to the author, what is the common view of those who have lost some weight first
and gained it back later?
A. They feel angry about the regained weight.
B. They pay little attention to the regained weight.
C. They feel optimistic about future plans on weight control.
D. They think they should give up their future plans on weight control.
E
Daily Telegraph bestseller for last week
A Special Relationship
This novel is about a woman whose entire life is turned upside down in a very foreign place despite the fact that people there speak her language. Sally Goodchild is a 37-year-old American who, after nearly two decades as a highly independent journalist, finds herself pregnant (怀孕的) and in London. She married an English foreign correspondent, Tony Thompson, whom she met while they were both on assignment in Cairo. From the outset, Sally’s relationship with both Tony and London is an uneasy one: She finds her husband and his city to be far more foreign than imagined. But her adjustment problems soon turn into a nightmare(噩梦). She discovers that everything can be taken down and used against you, especially by a spouse (配偶) who now considers you an unfit mother and wants to prevent you from ever seeing your child again.
Born in 1955, Douglas Kennedy is the bestselling author of romances such as “The Big Picture”. He is also the author of several praised travel books.
New York Times bestseller for last week
White Hot
Sayre Lynch decided never to return to her hometown Destiny, after she changed her last name and finally escaped from the influence of her controlling father, Huff Hoyle, who owns the iron foundry that the town is built around.
But when Danny, her younger brother, is found dead with a shotgun in his mouth, Sayre unwillingly goes back for his funeral and is annoyed when her father’s handsome lawyer, Beck Merchant, tries to please her.
When the young officer investigating(调查)the case notes that some of the evidence points to murder rather than suicide(自杀), Sayre finds herself unable to leave Destiny. She’s annoyed by Beck’s constant presence, and she is not sure if he’s trying to help or throw her off the trail. Nor does she trust her father or her older brother, Chris, who is as prime suspect in Danny’s murder.
As she tries to figure out how the handsome, charming Beck fits into the picture, she finds herself deeply attracted to him.
Sandra Brown is the author of 51 New York Times top-five bestsellers. She began her writing career in 1981 and has since published 65 novels.
57. From the brief introduction of “A Special Relationship” we can imagine _____.
A. Sally and Tony’s marriage is pleasant.
B. Sally and Tony may break up.
C. Sally and Tony often quarrel about their jobs.
D. Sally is hard to get on with.
58. The story of Sally and Tony mainly happens in _____.
A. America B. London C. Cairo D. Cairo & London
59. It can be learned from the passage that______.
A. Chris killed Danny.
B. Lynch is Sayre’s real family name.
C. Huff Hoyle knows who killed Danny.
D. Sayre fell in love with Beck.
60. In the introduction of White Hot the phrase underlined suggests_____.
A. Sayre thinks Beck has something to do with Danny’s death.
B. Sayre thinks Beck is the right person she wants to marry.
C. Sayre likes the handsome Beck in the picture.
D. Sayre doesn’t know whether Beck likes her.
第二节 根据对话内容,从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
A woman (W) is talking with a doctor (D) about her husband’s illness.
W: 61
D: You shouldn’t worry about it, but he has to have a complete bed rest.
W: Hmm What does that mean, exactly?
D: 62 He really has to lie down all the time.
W: When can he go home?
D: 63
W: That seems like a long time.
D: 64 He has to stay in bed for ten or twelve days. After that, he can only get up twice a day for ten minutes. Finally, he will start to do some easy exercises. When he can walk around for an hour, he may go home.
W: I see. 65.
A. Well, it’s a slow process.
B. After a few days.
C. In two or three weeks.
D. How serious is his back problem?
E. What are you?
F. Well, he shouldn’t walk at all or sit up, not even to eat.
G. Thank you very much for telling me about his condition.
第Ⅱ卷(非选择题,共55分)
第三部分:写作(共三节,满分55分)
第一节 单词拼写(共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分)
根据下列句子及所给汉语注释,在句子右边的横线上写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。(每空只写一词)
66. The gate is too n________ for a car; we’ll have to walk through.
67. He is so rude to his parents. I wouldn’t t_____ that kind of behavior in my family.
68. The two girls used to see each other r________, but they have not been able to do so since
one of them moved to another province.
69. The plane flew fast and soon d________ in the sky.
70. I can’t do that. It is b________ my power.
71. If weather p________, they‘ll go on a picnic.
72. Thousands are going h________ because of the failure of harvest.
73. Professor Gui Xien is honored for his great c________ to the human beings.
74. The story isn’t over; you see the notice, “To be c________.”
75. I’d like to study m________ and become a doctor after my graduation.
第二节 短文改错(共10小题;每小题1.5,满分15分)
此题要求改正所给错误。对标有题号的每一行做出判断:如无错误,在该行右边横线上画一个勾(√);如有错误(每行只有一个错误),则按下列情况改正:
该行多一个词:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉,在该行右边横线上写出该词,并也用斜线划掉。该行缺一个词:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(^),在该行右边横线上写出该词。该行错一个词:在错的词下划一横线,在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。注意:原行没有错的不要改.
As a student, I hate the exam system we are now used. This 76. ___________
system may be a good way to test a student’s memory, and it 77. ___________
can tell you nothing about a student’s ability. It does not good 78. ___________
to students or teachers. As soon as a child begins the school, 79. ___________
he enters a world of exams that will decide his future. In fact 80. ___________
a good exam system should train a student to think himself, 81. ___________
but it now does something like that. So students are encouraged 82. ___________
to remember what is taught. The students who comes out first in 83. ___________
the exam often may not be the best in their studies. It must be 84. ___________
some better way to test a student true ability besides knowledge. 85. ___________
And that is what we should do right now.
第三节 书面表达(满分30分)
请根据下列四幅图画用英语写篇故事,以参加校刊环保征文。
注意:1. 故事须包括所有图画的内容,可以适当增加细节,使故事连贯;
2. 图中学生为李华;
3. 词数:100左右。
参考词汇:写生 draw from nature 画板 drawing board 斧 axe
参 考 答 案
第一部分
1—5 CBDBA 6—20 ADDBA BBACB ABACC
21—30 ACCDB CBCAD 31—40 BABCD BACBD
第二部分
41—50 CCBDA DBCCB 51—60 ACBAC CBBDA 61—65 DFCAG
第三部分
第一节
66. narrow 67. tolerate 68. regularly 69. disappeared 70. beyond 71. permits
72. hungry 73. contributions 74. continued 75. medicine
第二节
76. used → using 77. and → but 78. not → no 79. 去掉the 80. √
81. himself → for himself 82. something → nothing 83. comes → come 84. It → There 85. student → student’s
第三节
One possible version:
Li Hua is a primary school student and he enjoys drawing very much.
One day, he went to the small woods not far from town to draw from nature, carrying a drawing board. He was glad to find a tree living although the rest had been cut down. “Let me start work at once,” he thought and began to set up his board.
Just then a strong young man came with a big axe and got down to cutting the tree. Soon he cut it down and pulled it away.
When Li Hua got ready and turned back to draw, he found the tree had disappeared.
“Dear me! Where on earth is the tree?” Li Hua wondered, very disappointedly.