２００８年高考英语模拟试卷Ⅳ

崔　宇　吴　昊

Ⅰ.单项填空

1. ——Can you spare me a few minutes now?

——____, but Ill be free this afternoon.

A. No, I wont B. Yes, with pleasure

C. Im not sure D. Im afraid not

2. Next time youre in London ____ us.

A. to come and visit B. to come and visiting

C. come and visit D. come and visiting

3. I know this is not quite the right word, but I cant be bothered to think of ____.

A. a better B. a best C. the better D. the good

4. You could see the runners very well from ____ we stood.

A. which B. where C. that D. when

5. What have you got ____ will help a cold?

A. what B. that C. it D. who

6. ____ it happened to be a nice day, we decided to go to the beach.

A. When B. Before C. If D. Since

7. This kind of cancer can be cured, provided it is ____ early.

A. got B. gained C. seen D. caught

8. Her new dress didnt fit so she took it back to the shop and changed ____.

A. it B. for another C. another D. 不填

9. I missed what was happening because I wasnt ____ very closely.

A. noticing B. running C. watching D. glancing

10. Because of continual price increases, the ____ of the pound has fallen in recent years.

A. value B. price C. cost D. usefulness

11. ____ their inexperience, theyve done a good job.

A. Given B. Supposed C. Considered D. Concluded

12. Dont waste your money on silly things—____ it.

A. saving B. to save

C. save D. to having saved

13. You ____ practise the drums while the baby is sleeping.

A. neednt B. mightnt C. mustnt D. wont

14. Ill cook plenty of potatoes just ____ they decide to stay for dinner.

A. because B. when C. in case D. since

15. If you cant get in from the front door, ____ to the back door.

A. go B. to go C. going D. to be going

Ⅱ.完形填空

Our airplane was just beside the airport building. It did not look too strong to me, but I decided not to think about such things. We saw the baggage going out __1__ it on trolleys and being loaded from __2__ the aircraft. Next, three men and three girls, all in uniform, went over to the plane and __3__ it. Over the loudspeakers we were __4__ the plane was ready to leave and were asked to walk __5__ to it. Everybody moved quickly in order to __6__ the seats they wanted. I was __7__ to get a seat near the tail, but the plane looked __8__ inside than it had from outside. I fastened my seat belt __9__ we took off and tried to __10__ my nervousness.

After an hours flying I __11__ black clouds ahead through my window. An electric sign flashed __12__: “Fasten your seat belts, please,” one of the hostesses made a __13__ request over the loudspeakers. She told us we were about to fly into a storm but __14__ cheerfully there was nothing to worry __15__. Suddenly, the plane __16__ all over, dropped about twenty feet and seemed to hang on one __17__. Then it rose twenty feet and there was a great flash of lightning. The three girls did their best to __18__ pills for airsickness and __19__ the passengers. Soon the sky became light again. The pilot had __20__ to get above the storm.

1. A. at B. over C. to D. above

2. A. inside B. beside C. behind D. under

3. A. arrived B. entered C. climbed D. flew

4. A. asked B. noticed C. announced D. told

5. A. out B. inside C. in D. by

6. A. fetch B. hold C. keep D. get

7. A. impossible B. possible C. unable D. unsuitable

8. A. prettier B. stronger C. smaller D. heavier

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

10. A. smooth B. forget C. correct D. drive

11. A. noticed B. looked C. watched D. realized

12. A. on B. up C. out D. in

13. A. general B. similar C. common D. sharp

14. A. smiled B. spoke C. added D. acted

15. A. at B. about C. on D. with

16. A. shake B. shaken C. shook D. shocked

17. A. edge B. line C. side D. wing

18. A. give out B. give off C. give up D. give back

19. A. save B. cool C. persuade D. comfort

20. A. succeeded B. flown C. planned D. managed

Ⅲ.阅读理解

(A)

People have been painting pictures for at least 30,000 years. The earliest pictures were painted by people who hunted animals. They used to paint pictures of the animals they wanted to catch and kill. Pictures of this kind have been found on the walls of caves in France and Spain. No one knows why they were painted there. Perhaps the painters thought that their pictures would help them to catch these animals. Or perhaps human beings have always wanted to tell stories according to pictures.

About 5,000 years ago the Egyptians and other people in the Near East began to use pictures as a kind of writing. They drew simple pictures or signs to represent things and ideas, and also to represent the sounds of their language. The signs these people used became a kind of alphabet(字母表).

The Egyptians used to record information and to tell stories by putting picture-writing and pictures together. When an important person died, scenes and stories from his life were painted and carved on the walls of the place where he was buried. Some of these pictures are like modern comic-strip stories. It has been said that Egypt is the home of the comic-strip. But, for the Egyptians, pictures still had magic power. So they did not try to make their way of writing simple. The ordinary people could not understand it.

By the year 1,000 BC, people who lived in the area around the Mediterranean Sea had developed a simpler system of writing. The signs they used were very easy to write, and there were fewer of them than in the Egyptian system. This was because each sign, or letter, represented only one sound in their language. The Greeks developed this system and formed the letters of the Greek alphabet. The Romans copied the idea, and the Roman alphabet is now used all over the world.

These days we can write down a story, or record information, without using pictures. But we still need pictures of all kinds: drawings, photographs, signs and diagrams. We find them everywhere: in books and newspapers, in the streets, and on the walls of the places where we live and work. Pictures help us to understand and remember things more easily, and they can make a story much more interesting.

1. Pictures of animals were painted on the walls of caves in France and Spain because ____.

A. the hunters wanted to see the pictures

B. the painters were animal lovers

C. the painters wanted to show imagination

D. the pictures were thought to be helpful

2. The Greek alphabet was simpler than the Egyptian system for all the following reasons EXCEPT that ____.

A. the former was easy to write

B. there were fewer signs in the former

C. the former was easy to pronounce

D. each sign stood for only one sound

3. Which of the following statements is TRUE? ____.

A. The Egyptian signs later became a particular alphabet

B. The Egyptians liked to write comic-strip stories

C. The Roman alphabet was developed from the Egyptian one

D. The Greeks copied their writing system from the Egyptians

4. In the last paragraph, the author thinks that pictures ____.

A. should be made comprehensible

B. should be made interesting

C. are of much use in our life

D. are disappearing from our life

(B)

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1. Who will be interested in this passage? ____.

A. Doctors who treat diabetes

B. People who like free books

C. Patients with heart disease

D. People who suffer diabetes and raise cholesterol

2. What information will the booklet provide for its readers? ____.

A. When to see a doctor

B. How to cure your diabetes

C. How to know the level of your cholesterol

D. How to get the free book

3. The word ChoLESterol in the passage probably means ____.

A. keeping cholesterol steady B. making cholesterol fall down

C. the level of cholesterol D. curing your diabetes

4. The purpose of this advertisement is ____.

A. to help doctors get more patients

B. to help people with higher level of cholesterol

C. to obtain benefit from the booklet

D. to make the organization well known

(C)

Within fifteen years Britain and other nations should be well on with the building of huge industrial complexes(结合) for the recycling of waste. The word “rubbish” could lose its meaning because everything that goes into the dumps would be made into something useful. Even the most dangerous and unpleasant wastes would provide energy if nothing else.

The latest project is to take a city of around half a million inhabitants and discover exactly what raw materials go into it and what go out. The aim is to find out how much of these raw materials could be provided if a plant for recycling waste were built just outside the city. This plant would recycle not only metal such as steel, lead and copper, but also paper and rubber.

Another new project is being set up to discover the best ways of sorting and separating the rubbish. When this project is complete, the rubbish will be processed like this: first, it will pass through sharp metal bars which will tear open the plastic bags in which rubbish is usually packed; then it will pass through a powerful fan to separate the lightest elements from the heavy solids; after that grounders and rollers break up everything that can be broken. Finally the rubbish will pass under magnets, which will remove the bits of iron and steel; the rubber and plastic will then be sorted out in the final stage.

The first full-scale giant recycling plants are, perhaps, fifteen years away. Indeed, with the growing cost of transporting rubbish to more distant dumps, some big cities will be forced to build their own recycling plants before long.

1. The main purpose of the passage is ____.

A. to show us a future way of recycling wastes

B. to tell the importance of recycling wastes

C. to warn people the danger of some wastes

D. to introduce a new recycling plant

2. How many stages are there in the recycling process? ____.

A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6

3. What is the main reason for big cities to build their own recycling plants? ____.

A. To deal with wastes in a better way

B. Its a good way to gain profits

C. Its more economical than to dump wastes in some distant places

D. Energy can be got at a lower price

4. The first full-scale huge recycling plants ____.

A. have been in existence for 15 years

B. takes 15 years to build

C. cant be built until 15 years later

D. will remain functioning for 15 years

(D)

Land, unlike labor and capital, has a special feature: It is in strictly fixed supply in total. Because of this, we say that its price is demand-determined. In other words, the price of land is determined completely by what families and firms are willing to pay for it. But not all the land is the same. Some land is more valuable than other land. The value of land to a potential user may depend upon the characteristics of the land itself or upon its location.

Consider the potential uses of a piece of land in a suburb of Kansas City, Allan wants to build a clothing store in that place. He estimates that he can earn economic profits of $ 10,000 per year there because of the lands excellent location. Bella, another person interested in buying the comer, believes that she can earn $ 35,000 in economic profits if she builds a drug store there. Clearly, Bella will be more likely to get the land.

Because location is often the key to profits, landowners are frequently able to squeeze their renters. One of the most popular locations in the Boston area, for example, is Harvard Square. There are dozens of restaurants in and around the square, and most of them are full most of the time. Despite this seeming success, most Harvard Square restaurant owners are not getting rich, because they must pay very high rents for the locations of their restaurants. A large part of the restaurants revenues goes to rent the land.

Although the supply of land is generally perfectly fixed, the supply of land in a given use may not be so. As the population of a city grows, housing developers find themselves willing to pay more and more for land. As land becomes more valuable for development, some farmers sell out, and the supply of land that can be used for development increases.

1. Whats the difference between land and other resources? ____.

A. Lands supply is strictly fixed

B. The prices of other resources are lower

C. Land cant be used up

D. Land is more useful

2. Which of the following cant determine the price of a piece of land? ____.

A. Its location

B. Its purchasers purpose

C. The total amount of its supply for general use

D. Its features

3. Which of the following is wrong according to the passage? ____.

A. The price of a piece of land is changeable

B. The profit of a shop is often determined by its location

C. Most Harvard Square restaurant owners would be getting rich, if they paid lower rents for the locations of their restaurants

D. The supply of land for development might fall down

4. Which of the following can be the best title of the passage? ____.

A. The Use of Land B. The Natural Resources

C. The Land Market D. The Land Development

(E)

Half of all bosses say a lack of sleep makes them irritable(易怒的) and prone to(有……倾向的) shout at their staff, a study said.

One in five managers also said being kept awake at night meant they were more likely to make mistakes, the Mori poll of 1,006 people revealed(显示).

Some 48% of people aged 35 to 44 said they did not get enough sleep compared to a national average 39%.

Among that age group, people with young children and managerial (管理的) jobs were most likely to suffer.

The report, commissioned(委托) by the think tank Demos and Ikea, said the issue of sleep had been forgotten in the work/life balance debate.

Report author Charles Leadbeater said, “On any working day, a quarter of all managers in Britain are likely to be in a bad mood because they have not slept well.”

“These sleep-deprived and shouty managers with a tendency to make mistakes are responsible for millions of British workers. Its hardly a recipe for good management.”

And Mr. Leadbeater called on the government and employers to take action.

A small loss of sleep is likely to have a big impact on people who lead stressful lives.

“Stressed out parents are already not sleeping enough. They are the people most likely to have their sleep disrupted and they are least able to recover.”

Apart from children keeping their parents awake, worrying about work is the biggest cause of wakefulness at night among managers.

Women are five times more likely than men to lose sleep because their partners snore(打呼噜).

The report predicted that there was likely to be a growing market ofsleep-deprived people, with an increase in “public napping”.

Opportunities to take a nap at work are also likely to increase, and the report recommended that employers take their responsibility for ensuring employees were well slept more seriously.

Peter Jelkeby, marketing manager at Ikea, said the research confirmed suspicions Britons were not getting enough sleep.

And he added: “This is having a detrimental effect on our society as a whole.”

1. Which of following is true according to the text? ____.

A. Half of the people say a lack of sleep makes them irritable

B. 20% managers said being kept awake at night meant they were more likely to make mistakes

C. Some 48% of people said they did not get enough sleep

D. People with young children and managerial jobs were most likely to suffer

2. What does the underlined word “detrimental” mean? ____.

A. 良好的 B. 有害的 C. 片面的 D. 致命的

3. Who that suffered sleep disrupted are least able to recover? ____.

A. The bosses B. Managers

C. People aged 35 to 44 D. Stressed out parents

4. Apart from children keeping their parents awake, ____ is the biggest cause of wakefulness at night among managers.

A. worrying about work B. their partners snoring

C. the relationship D. working conditions

Ⅳ.短文改错

One Friday morning, as I making my rounds, I met 1．____

a woman which was very old—perhaps 90 years old. She had 2．____

short snow-white hairs that looked soft and fluffy (松软的). Her3．____

skin were yellow and wrinkled, as if her bones had suddenly4．____

shrunk and left the skin around them with nothing to support5．____

it and nowhere to go. She looked at small there in the bed with 6．____

the blanket pulled up under her arms. Her eyes were clearly 7．____

and blue, and her voice was surprisingly strong as he greeted me.8．____

From the list that the hospital had give me,9．____

I know her name was Sarah Cohen.10．____

Ⅴ.书面表达

现在许多年轻人都热衷于过诸如“情人节”“愚人节”“圣诞节”之类的洋节，但也有许多人对此持反对态度。请结合下表内容谈谈你的看法。

注意：1. 文章必须包括表中的全部内容。

2. 词数100左右。文章开头已写好，不计入总词数。

3. 参考词汇：情人节:Valentines Day入侵:invasion，传统的:traditional

Is it right for young people to celebrate foreign festivals such as Valentines Day, April Fools Day and Christmas Day?

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