2013乐清中学实验班提前招生英语试卷
一．单项选择题（15%）
( )1. I called Hannah may times yesterday evening, but I couldn’t get through. Her
brother ___ on the phone all the time!
A. was talking B. has been talking C. has talked D. talked ( )2. the website of the Fire Department in your city, and you will learn a
lot about firefighting.
A. Having searched B. To search C. Searching D. Search ( )3.____ the project as planned, we’ll have to work two more hours a day. A. Completing B. Complete C. Completed D. To complete. ( )4.---Do you have any problems if you __this job?
---Well, I’m thinking about the salary…
A. offer B. will offer C. are offered D. will be offered
( )5. Have you heard news? The price of ___ petrol is going
up again！
A. the, the B. 不填，the C. the, 不填 D. 不填，不填 ( )6 .The trees ___ in the storm have been moved off the road.
A. being blown down B. blown down
C. blowing down D. to blow down ( )7.---When did you last hear_____ Jay?
---He phoned me this morning, and we agreed____ a time and place to meet. A of, to B about, with C. from, with D. from, on ( )8. It is reported that the floods have left about people homeless.
A. two thousand B. two-thousands B. C. two thousands D. two thousands of
( )9. The open-air celebration has been put off the bad weather.
A. in case of B. in spite of C. instead of D. because of
( )10. by a greater demand for vegetables, farmers have built more green
houses.
A. Driven B. Being driven C. To drive D. Having driven ( )11. If you don’t want to let us down, do believe yourself! A. come up with ideas B. be more confident C. be more outgoing D. pay more attention
( )12. Although I work hard, I still have trouble learning English. A. find English hard to study B. concentrate more on English C. learn English very well D. find it easy to learn English
( )13. Mr. Huang is impressed by his hard work at his English. A. worried B. moved C. excited D. surprised
( )14. I can’t understand every word when my teacher speaks. What should I do?
-- Don’t sorry, It’s really not important if you don’t understand every word. A. I’m not sure B. Take it easy C. It doesn’t matter D. Keep on listening
( )15. Take the elevator to the second floor. Go past the bank, you can find the
bookstore.
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A. Go by B. Pass through C. Pass D. Pass by
二．完形填空（15%） 阅读下面短文，从短文后所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
You say you want my advice about reading. Perhaps the following are pieces of advice that I hope you’ll find 16 .
If the book is in English, that may 17 slow progress for you. But I don’t advise you to read too 18 . when I was living in Tokyo, I used to go to Kanda, where the 19 bookshops are. The shelves were full of English books. The 20 twenty or thirty pages many of them had their margins filled with penciled notes and there were lots of words and phrases underlined. The 21 , probably university students, had started out very 22 , determined to master the books. Then, as I turned the pages over. I found the reader had 23 his attempt.
I suppose that’s common experience in many countries with books 24 a foreign language. The reader starts out, full of hope. But they 25 to look up unknown words in a dictionary, perhaps ten or even twenty times a page, tired him out.
Therefore, don’t start reading a book 26 you see, from the first few pages, that it’s 27 you can read and understand easily. Don’t try to run before you can walk. Don’t 28 reading the whole chapter quickly. 29 you’ll find the unknown word comes again, perhaps several times. And by the end of the chapter you’ll have 30 its meaning. That’s how we learn the meaning of words in our own language, isn’t it?
( ) 16.A. interesting B. special C. useful D. different ( ) 17. A. take B. make C. keep D. mean ( ) 18. A. quickly B. loudly C. directly D. slowly ( ) 19. A. secondhand B. large C. old D. modern ( ) 20 A. last B. first C. next D. middle ( ) 21.A. librarians B. booksellers C. owners D. students ( ) 22. A. seriously B. carelessly C. slowly D. clearly ( ) 23. A. carried on B. given up C. tried out D. put off ( ) 24. A. with B. in C. by D. for ( ) 25. A. chance B. difficulty C. decision D. need ( ) 26. A. if B. unless C. when D. though ( ) 27. A. something B. all C. one D. nothing ( ) 28 A. start B. enjoy C. try on D. stop
( ) 29. A. Suddenly B. Quite often C. Every time D. Later on ( ) 30 A. guessed B. expected C. noticed D. chosen 三．阅读理解（32%）
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The sky usually looks like blue. But if you went to the top of the highest mountain, where there is less air between you and the sun to scatter the sunlight, the sky would be dark blue. And if you rode in a spaceship high above the earth, where there is no air at all to scatter the sunlight, the sky would be so dark that it would be black.
Sometimes the sky doesn't look blue. At sunrise and sunset, the light from the sun sometimes is scattered in such a way that you see red, orange, and other colours in the sky.
( )31. Sometimes the sky doesn't look blue because______.
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A. the sun always rises in the east B. the sun always in the west
C. the air in the sky has different colours
D. the light from the sun is scattered in a different way
( )32. Which of the following is the best title for the story?
A. The Sky Looks Blue B. Why the Sky Looks Colorful
C. The Beautiful Sunlight D. Something about the Air
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阅读短文，根据短文内容选择正确答案。 China's Workforce Now at 540 Million
（Xinhua）China now has 540 million workers，47 percent of the total population，according to the recent fourth population census.
The figure shows that the working population is now at a peak，so it is urgent for the country to employ these rich labour resources in economic construction.
Experts usually regard men between the ages of 15 and 59，and women between 15 and 54，as people capable of working. The employed workforce is the total number employed among those capable of working.
According to the census，the employment rates for the three age groups，20 to 24；25 to 29；and 30 to 34，are respectively 91，94. 4 and 94. 9. The unemployment rate in urban areas for people over 15 years of age is 2.5 percent.
The survey has also shown that China's workforce has become younger. Its average age is 33. 7 years and about 50 percent of the employed workers are under 30.
It is reckoned by the experts that younger workers are easy to teach new and modern technologies and management too.
But they lack experience compared with old workers. They urge enterprises to strengthen technical training among young workers and promote vocational education with the aim of improving workers’ quality.
( )33. What is the population of China according to the fourth population census？
A. It is about 540 million. B. It is about 1，180 million. C. It's about 1，150 million. D. It's about 270 million. ( )34. Experts take the men ________ as workforce.
A. from 15 to 54 B. from 15 to 59 C. from 25 to 29 D. from 20 to 24
( )35. There are 94. 4％ of people at work among the age group ________.
A.20 to 24 B. 25 to 29 C. 30 to 34 D. 24 to 39 ( )36. The young workers should ________.
A. be learning technologies B. be training themselves C. be improving their quality D. be urging themselves
( )37. In cities the rate of people who lose their jobs for more than ________ years
is 2.5 percent.
A. 33. 7 B. 25 C. 20 D. 15
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Tell a story and tell it well, and you may open wide the eyes of a child, open up lines of communication in a business, or even open people’s mind to another culture or race.
People in many places are digging up the old folk stories and the messages in them. For example, most American storytellers get their tales from a wide variety of sources, cultures, and times. They regard storytelling not only as a useful tool in child education, but also as a meaningful activity that helps adults understand themselves as well as those whose culture may be very different from their own.
“Most local stories are based on a larger theme,” American storyteller Opalanga Pugh says, “Cinderella(灰姑娘),or the central idea of a good child protected by he goodness, appears in various forms in almost every culture of the world.”
Working with students in schools, Pugh helps them understand their own cultures and the general messages of the stories. She works with prisoners too, helping them know who they are by telling stories that he listeners can write, direct, and act in their own lives. If they don’t like the story they are living, they can rewrite the story. Pugh also works to help open up lines of communication between managers and workers. “For every advance in business,” she says, “there is a greater need for communication.” Storytelling can have a great effect on either side of the manager-worker relationship, she says.
Pugh spent several years in Nigeria, where she learned how closely storytelling was linked to the everyday life of the people there. The benefits of storytelling are found everywhere, she says.
“I learned how people used stories to spread their culture,” she says. “What I do is to focus on the value of stories that people can translate into their own daily world of affairs. We are all storytellers. We all have a story to tell. We tell everybody’s story.”
( ) 38. What do we learn about American storytellers from Paragraph 2? A. They share the same way of storytelling.
B. They prefer to tell stories from other cultures.
C. They learn their stories from the American natives.
D. They find storytelling useful for both children and adults.
( ) 39. The underlined sentence (Paragraph 4) suggests that prisoners can ? A. start a new life B. settle down in another place
C. direct films D. become good actors
( ) 40. Pugh has practiced storytelling with groups of people. A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5 ( ) 41. What is the main idea of the text?
A. Storytelling can influence the way people think.
B. Storytelling is vital to the growth of businesses.
C. Storytelling is the best way to educate children in school. D. Storytelling helps people understand themselves and others.
D
I began working in journalism when I was eight. It was my mother’s idea. She wanted me to “make something” of myself, and decided I had better start young if I was to have any chance of keeping up with the competition.
With my load of magazines I headed toward Belleville Avenue. The crowds were there. There were two gas stations on the corner of Belleville and Union. For several
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