2010-2011学年河北省九月调研考试英语卷

The big snow caused great ________ to the people living in the south of China, ________ some of them homeless.

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She has ________ that I find it hard to believe anything bad of her.

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Before Sally left home, her mother kept telling her to ________ her manners at the party.

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You can never be ________ when crossing the street.

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More wild tigers have been seen in the forest around this area, ________ there used to be very few.

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It is ten years since we ________ each other last time.

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_________ he was, he still went on with his work.

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Raising environmental awareness was the aim of our art exhibition ____ last week.

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The boy burst into tears ________ he saw his mother.

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The letter was so badly written that I couldn’t _________ it.

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________, he also had a son in college who had taken a bank loan to pay for his studies.

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As far as I see, ________ is no possibility ________ he will win the tennis match this time.

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________ lack of interest, Tom kept trying hard to catch up with others.

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In China, shaking hands with each other is a common________ when people meet for the first time.

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—Tom has passed the final exam.

—______! He never really worked hard before.

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________ the help of her teacher, Mary ________ in the past few months.

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Mathilde and her husband turned the whole room upside down ________ the lost necklace.

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--- Mike, it’s a pity you didn’t come to last night’s concert. It was really great!

--- Really? If I ________ so busy, I would have gone with you.

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Little Bob is often educated by his parents to be good and friendly to anybody even if ________.

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______ is often the case, many Chinese parents save enough money for their children’s further education.

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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。

I believe in my mother. My belief began when I was just a kid, when I 41 becoming a doctor.

My mother was a 42 . Through her work, she observed that 43 people spent a lot more time 44 than they did watching television. She announced that my brother and I could only watch two to three 45 TV programs during the week. With our free time, we had to read two books each week from the Detroit Public Library and 46 written book reports to her. She would mark them up with check markers and underline the 47 parts. Years later we realized her marks were a 48 . My mother was illiterate(文盲). Although we had no money, 49 the covers of those books, I could go anywhere, do anything and be anybody.

When I entered high school, I was an A-student, but not for 50 . I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang about with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student and to a C-student, but I didn’t 51 . I was cool.

One night my mother came home after her several jobs and I 52 about not having enough Italian knit shirts. She said, “Okay, I’ll give you the money I 53 this week by rubbing floors and cleaning bathrooms and you can buy the family food and pay the bills. With 54 left over, you can have all that you want.” I was very 55 with that arrangement. But once I got through 56 money, there was nothing left. I realized my mother was a financial genius to be able to keep a(n) 57 over our heads and any kind of food on the table. I was also 58 that immediate satisfaction wasn’t going to get me anywhere. Success 59 intellectual(知识上的) preparation. I went back to my studies and became an A-student again, and 60 I realized my dream and I became a doctor.

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Margaret, married with two small children, has been working for the last seven years as a night cleaner, cleaning offices in a big building.

She trained as a nurse, but had to give it up when her elder child became seriously ill. “I would have liked to go back to it, but the shifts（工作班次）are all wrong for me, as I have to be home to get the children up and off to school.”

So she works as a cleaner instead, from 9 p.m. till 6 a.m. five nights a week for just ￡90, before tax and insurance. “It’s better than it was last year, but I still think that people who work ‘unsocial hours’ should get a bit extra.”

The hours she’s chosen to work mean that she sees plenty of the children, but very little of her husband. However, she doesn’t think that puts any pressure on their relationship.

Her work isn’t physically very hard, but it’s not exactly pleasant, either. “I do get angry with people who leave their offices like a place for raising pigs. If they realized people like me have to do it, perhaps they’d be a bit more careful.”

The fact that she’s working all night doesn’t worry Margaret at all. Unlike some dark buildings at night, the building where she works is fully lit, and the women work in groups of three. “Since I’ve got to be here, I try to enjoy myself—— and I usually do, because of the other girls. We all have a good laugh, so the time never drags.”

Another challenge Margaret has to face is the reaction of other people when she tells them what she does for a living. “They think you’re a cleaner because you don’t know how to read and write,” said Margaret, “I used to think what my parents would say if they knew what I’d been doing, but I don’t think that way any more. I don’t dislike the work though I can’t say I’m mad about it.”

1.Margaret quit her job as a nurse because _______.

2.Margaret gets angry with people who work in the office because _______.

3.When at work, Margaret feels _______.

4.The underlined part in the last paragraph implies that Margaret’s parents would _______.

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Domestic (驯养的) horses now pull ploughs, race in the Kentucky Derby, and carry police. But early horses weren’t tame (驯服的) enough to perform these kinds of tasks. Scientists think the first interactions humans had with horses were far different from those today.

Thousands of years ago, people killed the wild horses that lived around them for food. Over time, people began to catch the animals and raise them. This was the first step in domestication.

As people began to tame and ride horses, they chose to keep those animals that had more desirable characteristics. For example, people may have chosen to keep horses that had a gentle personality so they could be ridden more easily. People who used horses to pull heavy loads would have chosen to keep stronger animals. Characteristics like strength are partly controlled by the animals’ genes. So as the domesticated horses reproduced, they passed the characteristics on to their young. Each new generation of horses would show more of these chosen characteristics.

Modern-day horse breeds（种类） come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. This variety didn’t exist in the horse population before domestication. The Shetland horse is one of the smallest breeds— typically reaching only one meter tall. With short, strong legs, the animals were bred to pull coal out of mine shafts (矿井) with low ceilings. Huge horses like the Clydesdale came on the scene around 1700. People bred these heavy, tall horses to pull large vehicles used for carrying heavy loads.

The domestication of horses has had great effects on societies. For example, horses were important tools in the advancement of modern agriculture. Using them to pull ploughs and carry heavy loads allowed people to farm more efficiently. Before they were able to ride horses, humans had to cross land on foot. Riding horses allowed people to travel far greater distance in much less time. That encouraged populations living in different areas to interact with one another. The new form of rapid transportation helped cultures spread around the world.

1.Before domestication horses were ______.

2.The author uses the Shetland horse as an example to show ______.

3.Horses contributed to the spread of culture by ______.

4.The passage is mainly about _______.

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I had an experience some years ago, which taught me something about the ways in which people make a bad situation worse by blaming themselves. One January, I had to hold two funerals on successive days for two elderly women in my community. Both had died “full of years”, as the Bible would say. Their homes happened to be near each other, so I paid condolence (吊唁) calls on the two families on the same afternoon.

At the first home, the son of the deceased (已故的) woman said to me, “If only I had sent my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow , she would be alive today. It’s my fault that she died.” At the second home, the son of the other deceased woman said, “If only I hadn’t insisted on my mother’s going to Florida, she would be alive today. That long airplane ride, the sudden change of climate, was more than she could take. It’s my fault that she’s dead.”

You see that any time there is a death, the survivors will feel guilty. Because the course of action they took turned out badly, they believe that the opposite course — keeping Mother at home, putting off the operation — would have turned out better. After all, how could it have turned out any worse?

There seem to be two elements involved in our willingness to feel guilty. The first is our pressing need to believe that the world makes sense, that there is a cause for every effect and a reason for everything that happens. That leads us to find patterns and connections both where they really exist and where they exist only in our minds.

The second element is the view that we are the cause of what happens, especially the bad things that happen. It seems to be a short step from believing that every event has a cause to believing that every disaster is our fault. The roots of this feeling may lie in our childhood.

A baby comes to think that the world exists to meet his needs, and that he makes everything happen in it. He wakes up in the morning and summons the rest of the world to its tasks. He cries, and someone comes to attend to him. When he is hungry, people feed him, and when he is wet, people change him. Very often, we do not completely outgrow that childish view that our wishes cause things to happen.

1.The author had to hold the two women’s funerals probably because ________.

2.People feel guilty for the deaths of their loved ones because ________.

3.According to the passage, the underlined part in paragraph 4 probably means that ________.

4.What’s the main idea of the passage?

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Many Americans are turning to Japan, they think, a country of high academic achievement and economic success, for possible answers. However, the answers provided by Japanese preschools are not the ones Americans expected to find. In most Japanese preschools, surprisingly little emphasis is put on academic instruction. In one survey, 300 Japanese and 210 American preschool teachers, child development specialists, and parents were asked about various aspects of early childhood education. Only 2 percent of the Japanese respondents (答问卷者) listed “to give children a good start academically” as one of their top three reasons for a society to have preschools. In contrast, over half the American respondents chose this as one of their top three choices. To prepare children for successful careers in first grade and beyond, Japanese preschools do not teach reading, writing, and mathematics, but rather skills such as determination, concentration, and the ability to work as a member of a group. The huge majority of young Japanese children are taught to read at home by their parents.

Like in America, there is diversity (多样性) in Japanese early childhood education. Some Japanese kindergartens have specific aims, such as early musical training or potential development. In large cities, some kindergartens are attached to universities that have elementary and secondary schools. Some Japanese parents believe that if their young children attend a university-based program, it will increase the children’s chances of eventually being admitted to top-rated（一流的） schools and universities. Several more progressive programs have introduced free play as a way out for the heavy intellectualizing (智能化) in some Japanese kindergartens.

1.We learn from the first paragraph that many Americans believe ________.

2.In Japan’s preschool education, the focus is on ________.

3.Why do some Japanese parents send their children to university-based kindergartens?

4.Free play has been introduced in some Japanese kindergartens in order to ________ .

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What is time? Is it a thing to be saved or spent or wasted, like money? Or is it something we have no control over, like the weather? Is it the same all over the world? That’s an easy question, you say. Wherever you go, a minute is 60 seconds, an hour is 60 minutes, a day is 24 hours, and so forth. Well, maybe. But in America, time is more than that. Americans see time as a valuable resource. Maybe that’s why they are fond of the expression, “Time is money.”

Because Americans believe time is a limited resource, they try to keep and manage it. People in the US often attend conferences or read books on time management. It seems they all want to organize their time better. Professionals carry around pocket planners(计划书) — some in electronic form — to keep track of appointments and deadlines. People do all they can to press more life out of their time.

To Americans, punctuality is a way of showing respect for other people’s time. Being more than 10 minutes late to an appointment usually calls for an apology, and maybe an explanation. People who are running late often call ahead to let others know of the delay. Of course, the less formal the situation, the less important it is to be exactly on time. At informal get-togethers, for example, people often arrive as much as 30 minutes past the appointed time. But they usually don’t try that at work.

American lifestyles show how much people respect the time of others. When people plan an event, they often set time days or weeks in advance. Once the time is fixed, it takes almost an emergency to change it. If people want to come to your house for a friendly visit, they will usually call first to make sure it is convenient. Only very close friends will just “drop by” unannounced. Also, people hesitate to call others late at night for fear they might be in bed. The time may vary, but most folks think twice about calling after 10:00 pm.

Even Americans would admit that no one can master time. Time, like money, slips all too easily through our finger. And time, like the weather, is very hard to predict. However, time is one of life’s most precious gifts.

1.The main idea of the passage is _______.

2.In the fourth paragraph, the writer mainly tells us that _________.

3.The underlined phrase “think twice” (in Paragraph 4) probably means “_______ “.

4.It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

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根据下列句子及所给汉语注释，写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。（每空只写一词）

（请将答案写在答题卡上的指定位置）

1. If you take away 3 from 8, 5 _____ (剩下).                             1.________

2. We’ve just bought a big house and need some new _____ (家具).                             2.________

3. It is no use _____ (后悔) what you have done.                                                 3.________

4. It was so cold that many wild animals were_____ (冻) to death.                        4.________

5. This is not the _____ (原创) picture, but just a copy of it.                                 5.________

6. December is the _____ (第十二) month of the year.                                         6.________

7. I’m _____ (好奇的) to know what she said.                                                  7.________

8. They are now living _____ (分开).                                                                 8.________

9. She _____ (提醒) me that I hadn’t written to Mother.                                       9.________

10. Taking morning exercise can make people much _____ (健康).                        10.________

11. He’s _____ (明显) a man of very high intelligence.                                        11.________

12. Not all of the _____ (屋顶) of the houses in this area are flat.                          12.________

13. We apologize for the late_____ (到达) of the train.                                        13.________

14. _____ (比较) to many women, she is indeed very fortunate.                                   14.________

15. He is about five feet in _____ (高度).                                                           15.________

16. If you are all sitting _____ (舒服), then I’ll begin.                                                16.________

17. She is making _____ (准备) for her marriage.                                               17.________

18. John _____ (复习) his notes before going to bed.                                                  18.________

19. She is famous, both at home and _____ (国外).                                             19.________

20. The thief spoke in a low voice, _____ (承认) he had stolen the money.                     20.________

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此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行做出判断：

如无错误，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：

此行多一个词：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。

此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

此行错一个词：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。

（请在答题卡的指定位置作答）

第三节书法展示（满分5分）

请抄写下面的文章，注意本题是按照书法的好坏评分的，格式要求与原文一致。

建议：先在草稿纸上练习，找找手感，再答卷。

My Hometown

Welcome to my hometown which is located on the Bohai Bay. It is very beautiful! Living here makes you feel quite good. Miles of beaches stretch along the coast. You can lie on the beach, bathing in the sun and enjoying the fresh air. The blue sky and beautiful scenery here will make you relaxed and excited.

People here are very friendly and considerate. They are ready to offer help to people from the country and abroad. There are plenty of tidy hotels and inns for visitors to stay in. Most importantly, you can enjoy all kinds of tasty special foods. I am sure you will have a good time here.

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