Unit1 Festivals around the world2

第一部分：单项选择（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。

1.        With the development of modern science and technology, changes in the ways that people perform their work are sure to _______.

A. to be taken place   B. take place   C. be happened   D. be replaced

2.  –Are you hungry?

   --Yes. I ________.

   A. have starved  B. will be starved to death  C. I am starving  D. starve to death.

3.  The origins of some religious ceremonies are in no way ________.

A. to find out  B. to be discovered  C. discovered  D. found out

4.  Many festivals are held _______ our ancestors for their contribution to the world.

A. in honor of  B. in the honor of    C. in memory to   D. in the memory of

5.  Please never do such things _______ other people.

A. that will do harm to           B. as will do harm to 

C. as they will do harm to         D. which are harmful to

6.  Standing on top of the mountain, the travelers ______ their eyes on the breath-taking scenery below.

A. treated    B. feasted   C. pointed   D. fed

7.  Different peoples _______ at different festivals in different ways because of their cultural or religious _____.

A. dress up; beliefs   B. put on; believes  C . wear; belief   D. dress up; believes

8.  ______his arrival at the classroom on his first day at school, the teacher _______.

A. At; was played a trick on                   B. On; played a trick at his students

C. To; played a trick on his students             D. On; was played a trick on

9.  _______ were given to those foreigners who helped the country ______ independence from Britain.

A. Rewards; gain  B. Awards; make   C. Prizes; take   D. Awards; get

10.  The old professor travelled from one school to another, _______ first-hand information about the education situation in China.

A. to gather    B. collecting   C. getting together   D. to get together

11.  Handsome, young, energetic and talented, the manager ________ both by the male and female in the company.

     A. is admired   B. is fond of   C. is enjoyed    D. is appreciated

12.  _______ the project completed, all the workers anxiously looked forward to _______what they should.

     A. With; be paid   B. After; pay   C. After; being paid   D. With; being paid

13.  Food, _____, shelter and transportation are the four basic necessities of life.

     A. clothes   B. clothing   C. cloth   D. dress

14.  The loud noise outside ______ our teacher’s voice so that we didn’t ______ what he was saying.

     A. put out; hear   B. drowned; make out   C. cut out; recognize   D. threw away; know

15.  She promised to ______ at the meeting but she didn’t ______.

     A. turn up; keep her word   B. present; keep her promise  C. attend; turn up  D. appear; keep her words

16.  It was obvious that the ship ______ on its voyage without _______ from the officials in charge or it would not have sailed off so secretly.

     A. set off; a permission  B. set out; permission  C. set off; permit   D. set out; a permit

17.  Whoever ______ such a rare chance to get promoted is a fool

     A. throw out   B. throw away   C. throw off   D. throw up

18.  The old man is so ______ that he has to ______ his meals every day.

A. forgettable; be reminded of   B. forgetful; be remembered of

C. forgetful; be reminded of     D. forgettable; be remembered of

19. She is thin ______ as though she never ______ anything.

   A. for the bone; ate   B. to the bone; ate   C. with the bone; eats  D. to the bone; eats

20. With pressure from life and work increasing day by day, there should be something for people to ______

   A. make fun of   B. have fun with  C. play tricks on  D. have for fun

21. _______ and see how long you can ______it.

   A. Take your breath; hold B. Hold your breath; do C. Catch your breath; D. Make your breath; make

22. ---You should ______ to her for what you did _____her the other day.

   ---Why should I? It was not my fault.

A.     apologize; to;  B. have apologized; to;  C. apologize; with; D. have apologized; about

23. Day and night, the old woman wept over the death of her only son, ______ she forgave the driver who killed him.

   A. as though   B. even though   C. all though   D. even

24. She _______ her tears and continued to fight against the cruel customs that killed her daughter.

A. wiped out   B. wiped away   C. wiped up   D. wiped down

25.  I really don’t understand what_______ it ______ to hold beauty contest worldwide. In my opinion, it is a waste of money, time and energy.

   A. on the earth; is  B. on earth; means   C. at all; means   D. in the world; is

第二部分　完形填空（共20小题；每小题1．5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（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。

Barbara was driving her six-year-old son, Benjamin, to his piano lesson on the highway. They were late and Barbara was  26  tired. She had worked extra shifts as a night  27  nurse. The sleet(雨夹雪) storm and icy roads  28  her tension. She was thinking of turning around at once.

  Suddenly a car ahead of them lost control on a patch of ice and crashed  29  into a t elephone pole. The impact was horrible.

  Barbara pulled onto the road’s shoulder. Thank God she was a nurse—her skill might make a  30  in the fate of these  31  passengers! But what about Ben ? Little boys  32  see scenes like this. But was it  33  to leave him alone? What if their car was  34  from behind, or a stranger  35  him? For a brief moment, Barbara decided to go on her way. “Ben, honey,  36  me you’ll stay in the car!” she cried over her shoulder.

  “I will, Mommy,” she heard him say  37  , she can, slipping and sliding, toward the cr ash site.

It was  38  than she had feared. Two hi gh-school-aged girls had been in the car. One, the blonde on the passenger side was dead. The driver, however, was unconscious. Barbara quickly  39  pressure to the wound in the teenager’s head while her practiced eyes ran over the other  40  , a broken leg, maybe two, along with probable internal damage. But if help came , this girl would live. The ambulance arrived. “ Good job,” one rescue worker said,  41  he examined the driver. “ You probably saved her life, Ma’am.”

As Barbara walked back to her car, a feeling of  42  overwhelmed her, especially for the family of the passenger who had died. But what should she tell Ben?

“Mom,” he  43  “ did you see it?”

“See what honey?” she asked.

“The angel, Mom! He came down from the sky. And he opened the door, and he took that girl out. “ Barbara’s eyes were filling with tears, “ Which door, Ben?” “The  44  side.”

 Later Barbara was able to meet the families of the victims. They expressed their  45  for the help she had provided. Barbara was able to give them something more: Ben’s Vision.

26. A. uncommonly     B. commonly    C. unusually    D. usually

27. A. class            B. work        C. school      D. duty

28. A. added to         B. made up      C. added      D. brought up

29. A. front            B. forward       C. backward   D. sideways

30. A. help            B. devotion       C. contribution    D. difference

31. A. fortunate        B. unfortunate     C. strange        D. familiar

32. A. shouldn’t        B. can’t          C. wouldn’t      D. couldn’t

33. A. safe            B. necessary       C. fit           D. sure

34. A. stole n          B. beat            C. hit           D. broken

35. A. approached      B. stolen          C. struck        D. robbed

36. A. tell             B. reply           C. answer       D. promise

37. A. before          B. as             C. after          D. on

38. A. lucky           B. more dangerous  C. worse        D. better

39. A. pulled          B. put             C. set          D. applied

40. A. scars           B. injuries          C. death        D. harms

41. A. before          B. after             C. since       D. as

42. A. harm           B. achievement      C. sadness      D. tiredness

43. A. whispered      B. shouted           C. yelled       D. repeated

44. A. driver          B. stranger          C. passenger    D. passer-by

45. A. gratitude        B. admiration        C. help        D. benefits

第三部分 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

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

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 bad, 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 are 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 believe 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 tha t 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.

46. What is said about the two diseased elderly women?

A. They lived out a natural life

B. They died of exhaustion after the long plane ride

C. They weren’t used to the change in weather.

D. They died due to lack of care by family members.

47. The author had to conduct the two women’s funerals probably because ______.

A. he wanted to comfort the two families

B. he was an official from the community

C. he had great pity for the deceased

D. he was minister of the local church

48. People feel guilty for the deaths of their loved ones because _____.

A. they couldn’t find a better way to express their sorrow

B. they believe that they were responsible

C. they had neglected the natural course of events

D. they didn’t know things often turn in the opposite direction

49. According to the passage, the underlined part in paragraph 4 probably means that_____.

A. everything in the world is predetermined

B. the world can be interpreted in different ways

C. there is an explanation for everything in the world

D . we have to be sensible in order to understand the world

50. What’s the idea of the passage?

A. Life and death is an unsolved mystery.

B. Every story should have a happy ending.

C. Never feel guilty all the time because not every disaster is our fault.

D. In general, the survivors will feel guilty about the people who passed away.

B

The internet has led to a huge increase in credit-card(信用卡) fraud. Your card information could even be for sale in an illegal Website(非法网站). Websites offering cheap goods and services should be regarded with care Online shoppers who enter their credit-card information may never receive the goods they thought they bought.

The thieves then go shopping with your card number—or sell the information over the Internet. Computer hackers(黑客)have broken down security(安全) system, raising questions about the safety of card holder information.

Several months ago, 25,000 customers of a CD universe, an online music retailer(批发商), were not lucky. Their names, addresses and credit-card numbers were posted on a Website after the retailer refused to pay US $ 157,828 to get back the information.

Credit-card firms are now fighting against online fraud. Master-card is working on plans for Web only credit-card, with a lower credit limit. The card could be used only for shopping online. However , there are a few simple steps you can take to keep from being cheated.

Ask about your credit-card firm’s online rules: under British law, cardholders are responsible for the first US $ 78 of any fraudulent spending. And shop only at secure sites: send your credit-card information only if the Website offers advanced secure system .

If the security is in place, a letter will appear in the bottom right-hand corner of your screen. The Website address may also start http://--the extra “s” stands for secure. If in doubt, give your credit-card information over the telephone.

Keep your password safe: most online sites require a user name and password before placing an order. Treat your password with care.

51. The underlined word “fraud” in the first paragraph probably means ______.

A. cheating    B. sale     C. payment    D. use

52. According to this passage most people worry about shopping on the Internet because ______.

A. a great number of stolen credit-cards are sold on the Internet every day

B. fraud on the Internet happens very often

C. many Websites break down every day

D. there are too many illegal Websites on the Internet

53. Thieves usually get the information of the credit-card ______.

A. because many customers lost their cards

B. by paying money for people working in the information companies

C. because of the carelessness of the customers

D. by stealing the information from Websites

54. If the passwords of your credit-cards are not probably kept, _____.

A. the bank and the shop will suffer great losses

B. you will not be able to get back your information

C. you might suffer great losses

D. the bank will answer for your loss

55. What’s the best title of the passage?

A. How to Beat Online Credit-card Thieves

B. How to Shop on the Internet

C. Never Use Credit-card Without an Advanced Computer

D. Why Thieves Steal Credit-card Information

第四部分 书面表达

第一节  阅读表达（共5 小题；每小题 2分, 满分10分）

       阅读下面的短文，并根据短文后的要求答题。（请注意问题后的字数要求）

Doctors say anger can be an extremely damaging, unless you learn how to deal with it. They warn that anger can lead to heart disease, stomach problems, headaches, emotional problems and possibly cancer.

 Anger is a normal emotion that we all feel from time to time, some people express anger openly in a calm reasonable way. Others burst with anger, and scream and yell. But other people keep their anger inside. They can not or will not express it. This is called ______________.

For years many doctors thought that repressing anger was more dangerous to a person’s health than expressing it. They said that when a person is angry, the brain release the same hormones(荷尔蒙). They speed the heart rate, raise blood pressure, or sugar into the blood, etc. in general the person feels excited and ready to act

Some doctors say that both repressing and expressing anger can be dangerous. They believe that those who express anger violently may be likely to develop heart disease, and they believe that those who keep their anger inside may face a greater danger of high blood pressure.

Doctors say the solution is learning how to deal with anger. They say the first step is to admit that you are angry and to recognize the real cause of the anger, then decide if the cause is serious enough to get angry about. If it is, they say, “Do not express your anger while angry. Wait until your anger has cooled down and you are able to express yourself calmly and reasonably.”

Doctors say that a good way to deal with anger is to find humor in the situation that has made you angry. They said that laughter is much healthier than anger.

56. What is the best title of the passage? (please answer within 10 words.)

   ______________________________________________________________

57. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?

   If you don’t express your anger, you may have more chances of having high blood pressure.

   _____________________________________________________________________________

58. Please fill in the blank with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (please answer within 10 words.)

_____________________________________________________________________________

59. What did you do when you became angry before? (please answer within 30 words.)

____________________________________________________________________________

60. Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.

________________________________________________________________

第二节 书面表达(满分25分)

随着网络的发展，目前很多人给亲朋好友发电子贺卡。请根据 以下提示，阐述电子贺卡的优越性。

1．可播放动画和声音；

2．传递速度快。

3．形式多样，还可自己设计。

4．有利于保护环境。

注意：文章包括以上要点，可适当发挥，不要逐条翻译。

词数：100—120字

参考词汇：电子贺卡：electronic card;      动画：animation

Unit 1  Festivals around the world

1—25 BCBAB   BADDB   ADBBA   BBCBB  BABAB

26-30CDADD  31-35BAACA  36-40DBCDB   41-45DCACA

46-50 ADBCC 51-55ABDCA

56. How to deal with your anger/ ways of dealing with your anger/Anger and illnesses/ The relationship between anger and illnesses

57. Those who keep their anger inside may face a greater danger of high blood pressure.

58. repressing anger

59. The answers may vary.

60. 那些医生说,第一步就是首先承认你生气了,并找出使你生气的真正原因,然后判断这个原因是否已经严重到使你生气.

书面表达： 参考范文

       With the development of Internet, more and more people tend to send electronic c ards instead of paper ones.

       Compared with the traditional cards, electronic cards are more interesting and lively, for you can get not only pictures but also sound and even animations. Besides, it’s faster to send an electronic card. There are many websites on line where different varieties of cards are available.

       If none of these cards are of any interest to you, you can design cards of unique style using FLASH or other software. More importantly, with the popularity of electronic cards, less paper is used for making paper cards, which contributes to the environment protection.