英语综合测试题

综合测试题

一、完形填空

I still remember that the year when I started university. It was a very 36 time for me. Like many other new students I missed my mother’s cooking and my friends, got quite homesick and 37 thought of leaving university and going home.

The 38 time for many students was getting letters from home, and at first my mailbox was full. But 39 the letters gradually became fewer and finally the day came when I found my mailbox was 40 . It made me feel quite miserable. Then one day while I was waiting for the postman I saw that I had a postcard in my box. Happily I sat down to read it, 41 that it was from one of my friends. 42 it was 43 of a young woman called Annie and her new baby. I took the card back to my room, put it into my desk drawer and 44 all about it.

Several days later, I 45 another postcard. This time it was about Antonio, Annie’s cousin. Soon later, another card came and then another, 46 full of interesting information about people I had 47 met. I began to really look forward to them, 48 to see what the writer would 49 next. They made me feel 50 unhappy with my own life and I even began to smile. 51 while the cards 52 coming, I joined some societies and made some new friends. At last I was beginning to enjoy 53 life. The postcards had made me feel happy and helped me begin a new life so I 54 all the cards and even now bring them out 55 I feel miserable.

36. A. easy B. difficult C. good D. bad

37. A. often B. sometimes C. only D. seldom

38. A. busiest B. hardest C. happiest D. worst

39. A. as time went by B. as time going C. with time went D. with time going by

40. A. open B. closed C. full D. empty

41. A. enjoying B. expecting C. hoping D. writing

42. A. So B. Although C. However D. But

43. A. postcards B. emails C. letters D. news

44. A. cared B. forgot C. thought D. realized

45. A. sent B. accepted C. received D. wrote

46. A. either B. neither C. every D. each

47. A. ever B. never C. once D. always

48. A. surprised B. interested C. frightened D. worried

49. A. write about B. think about C. ask for D. come up

50. A. more B. most C. less D. least

51. A. Actually B. At the same time C. Luckily D. Frequently

52. A. began B. continued C. stopped D. finished

53. A. college B. home C. hardship D. common

54. A. sold B. sent C. thrown D. kept

55. A. whenever B. wherever C. whichever D. when

二、阅读理解

A

My grandmo ther often said to me, “You can count the number of your true friends on the fingers of one hand.” For a long time I thought this was true. However, I’ve now discovered my grandmother was only half right. Maybe we do only make a few “best” friends in our l ifetime, but those aren’t the only people that we can call friends. There are many different types. Let me tell you about a few of them.

One type of friends is the type I call the “football mom friends”. My neighbour Sally is a good example. We both have kids who play football in a football club, and someone has to take them to practise and pick them up. Sally and I and two other mothers do this. We meet sometimes and have tea and talk about what our kids are doing, but those are the only times that we meet each other. I enjoy being with these women, but we don’t do anything else together.

Another type is called the “hobby friend”. That’s the person you share an interest or a hobby with. Michael and Cater, who are brothers, are a good example of this type. W e’re all in a bird watching club. Every few weekends the members of the club go on a trip to watch different kinds of birds. There’s nothing romantic about my relationship with Michael and Cater, of course. We just share interest in birds.

Then there’s the“other half the couple” type of friends. Jim is married to Rose, a friend that I have known since college. When Rose married Jim, I realized that I would have to be Jim’s friend if I want to continue to be Rose’s. Jim and I don’t share so many interests, but we do have a friendly relationship.

56. What does the first paragraph tell us about?

A. We need true friends in our lifetime.

B. We have few best friends in our lifetime.

C. A true friend is different from a best friend.

D. We must be friendly to all our friends.

57. Many people are mentioned in this passage. Who is the writer’s true friend?

A. Sally.

B. Michael.

C. Jim.

D. None of these.

58. Which of the following statement is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Finally the writer agrees with her grandmother.

B. Michael and Cater both fall in love with the writer.

C. The writer herself takes her kid to the football club.

D. Sally and the writer are close friends.

B

Helen Keller was one of America’s best-known women. She was admired for her courage and achievements although she couldn’t see or hear. She was also known throughout the world for her self-sacrificing work to improve the condition of the blind, the deaf and the speechless. When she died on June 1, 1968, the newspaper Washington Post wrote: “Her life was truly one of the most remarkable phenomena of our time and her death just short of the age of 88 leaves the whole world poorer.”

Helen Keller was born on June 27th, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. For the first 19 months of her life, she was a pretty and happy baby, normal in every way. Then a sudden illness destroyed her sight and her hearing. Because she could not hear sounds to imitate(模仿), she could not speak. Helen used to say that her real birthday was not June 27th, 1880, but March 3rd, 1887 —the day when Anne Sullivan entered her life. It was Anne Sullivan who taught Helen to spell certain words by a special system, Braille, and even to talk.

Anne Sullivan could not teach Helen Keller to speak until some other important things had been learned. The little girl had to learn to control her actions and feelings. She had to learn that she could not always do what she wanted to do. She had always been able to get what she wanted by using force. The teacher had to change such habits without breaking the child’s spirit.

Miss Sullivan’s battle began. Sometimes, there was real fighting between the wild child and the strong young teacher. At last, however, the battle was won by Miss Sullivan, who succeeded in showing Helen that she loved her and wanted to help her. The child and her teacher became friends. They continued to be friends until the teacher’s death, fifty years later.

The day on which Helen finally accepted Miss Sullivan as her friend and teacher was a great day in Helen’s life. After that, the teacher could begin to teach the child language.

59. Helen Keller was admired by many people because .

A. she was very famous in America

B. she had great courage and gained lots of achievements

C. she went to college though she couldn’t see or hear

D. she had a good teacher

60. Learning was Helen Keller’s first lesson before she was taught to speak.

A. to sit all day long

B. to make friends with her teacher

C. to do a thing again and again

D. to control actions and feelings

61. We can infer from the passage that Anne Sullivan .

A. was more than a teacher to Helen

B. was very clever

C. a blind woman

D. taught Helen how to write

62. Which of the following statement is NOT mentioned in the passage?

A. Helen Keller stayed in touch with Miss Sullivan for fifty years.

B. Anne Sullivan took great trouble to show Helen that she loved her and wanted to help her.

C. It was not until Helen had learned some other important things that Miss Sullivan

could teach her to speak.

D. Miss Sullivan met many difficulties in teaching Helen how to speak.

C

The Trip to Alishan in Taiwan

It was the fourth day of our trip to Taiwan, bright but cold. After a good breakfast we put on our jackets and gloves, pulled on our hats and got into a car. We travelled for about two hours, up, and up, and up the mountain road.

We finally arrived at the top of the mountain. It was Christmas Day. So imagine my joy to see icicles(冰柱)hanging form branches and the whiteness of the scenery. Indeed, it was my first Christmas in the northern hemisphere(半球)and, guess what? It even started snowing too. How amazingly exciting for me to have Christmas in my grandmother’s hometown, and to experience icicles and snow. Alishan is really beautiful, especially seen form this dizzy height. After Sun parked the car, we got out and looked down through the trees. It hadn’t snowed hard enough so there was no snow on the ground, just loads of pine needles. There was a most wonderful smell of pine sap(松液)drifting up to us form the ground. It was very quiet, except for the twittering of birds, and the odd car passing along the road. Quietness in Taiwan is something to treasure.

Over the road was a small stall so we went over to it. They were selling some drink steaming hot in paper cups, too hot to hold immediately. We jumped around to get warm. There was a cool wind blowing up the side of the mountain, and the clouds above us were moving along quickly. I could imagine there was quite a strong wind blowing up there, so I was glad we were down on the ground! The drink cooled down fairly rapidly. I picked up my share and, wow, what a lovely smell was coming form it. It was the smell of ginger(姜). I took a sip. How delicious, and so this was ginger tea, which I had never tried before. It warmed my body so quickly that I could feel the heat travel right down to my fingers and to my toes. This was very good stuff. And then it was time to leave as we were going down to Hualian to attend a Buddha bi-bi, eat hot pot, and drink some Shaoxing rice wine.

63. Why was the author excited and amazed to see icicles?

A. Because she had never seen icicles before.

B. Because she liked icicles very much.

C. Because it was her first time to experience a cold Christmas.

D. Because it was her first time to experience winter.

64. Which of the following words can be used to describe Alishan?

A. beautiful, cold, quiet

B. high, white, quiet

C. beautiful, cold, bright

D. high, white, bright

65. What did the author describe in the third paragraph?

A. It was very cold at the top of the mountain.

B. It was blowing strongly on the mountain.

C. She enjoyed herself very much in the cold.

D. She was greatly amazed by the ginger tea.

66. From the text, we can tell that the author is most probably _______.

A. a Chinese person in Australia

B. a Chinese person in America

C. an Australian

D. an American

D

I use tea to refer to a snack(点心)taken in the late afternoon or early evening (ie after getting home from work but before the main meal, which I call dinner) and I don’t think that’s rare(罕见)at all. I think the difference is when you originally had your main meal and I would agree that it’s a class thing, not a north/south thing (I’ve heard the midday meal referred to as both lunch and dinner by different people in all areas of England).

Dinner was always the main meal. In the past, working class men worked near (or even at) home and came home for their main meal at midday, and so that was their dinner. Middle class men worked in offices far from their homes (often working in the city centre, and living outside the city) and so couldn’t go home for a meal at midday. They therefore had a light meal at midday and had their main meal with their family in the evening after they go home from work, so dinner was in the evening. Because most children at state schools were working class, we still use dinner for school meals. For middle and upper class people, tea was a light snack served in the mid-afternoon at which ladies (who didn’t, of course, go out to work) could entertain their friends. For working class people, however, tea was the light snack you had before going to bed. Supper, for all classes, was the light snack you had before going to bed.

However, because work patterns changed and many working class people started eating their main meal in the evening too, dinner, tea and supper started to become interchangeable for them. Also many working class families have since become middle class, so the terms have become less of a current class thing (if class still exists at all) and more of a system of terminology inherited(家族术语)from grandparents etc, different from family to family. When I was a child (Southern English, middle class family, but with working class forebears(祖先)) we called the midday meal dinner and the evening meal tea, but when I was in my early teens I had a new stepfather (from a family that had always been middle class

for generations) who used lunch and dinner,and that’s what I’ve used ever since.

67. The working class people in the past usually had _______ in the evening.

A. a snack

B. some water

C. supper

D. dinner

68. What was the order of meals for the middle and upper class people in a day?

A. Breakfast, lunch, tea, dinner, supper.

B. Breakfast, dinner, supper.

C. Breakfast, lunch, tea, supper, dinner.

D. Breakfast, dinner, tea.

69. T he underlined word “entertain” in the text has the same meaning as the underlined

part of

sentence _______.

A. He tried to please his friends with his songs and jokes.

B. He could never consider the idea of living in the country.

C. He invited his friends for a dinner at his home last Sunday.

D. He showed his friend around his new house before dinner.

70. At the end of the text, the author gave an example to show us mainly that people from

different _______ called meals by different names.

A. times

B. countries

C. directions

D. classes

答案

一、完形填空

36. B

解析：刚进大学校园无法适应，那段时期对作者来说很难熬。

37. A

解析：因想家，经常想回家，符合语境。

38. C

解析：收到家信当然是最高兴的事。

39. A

解析：as time went by / with time going by是固定搭配。

40. D

解析：结合上文可知，有一天我的信箱变成空的了。

41. B

解析：期盼明信片是家里寄来的，符合语境。不能选A，因为明信片不是从家里寄来的。

42. D

解析：前后文是转折关系，故用But。不能选C，因为However 作“然而，但是”解释时，其后面通常加逗号。

解析：从主谓一致的语法知识可以判断应选D(news)。

44. B

解析：从前文可知，明信片不是寄给作者的，因此他把它放在书桌里，也就把它忘掉了。

45. C

解析：明显是又收到一张明信片。

46. D

解析：每张(each)都写了不同人的情况，符合语境。不能选C，因为every不能单独作主语。

47. B

解析：never这里指从未谋面，素不相识的人。

48. B

解析：作者说他开始期待下一张明信片，对下一张明信片会是什么内容感兴趣，符合语境。

49. A

解析：本句的意思是：作者对寄明信片的人会写(write down)什么感兴趣。不能选D，表示“某人提出……”时应用sb come up with sth。

50. C

解析：首段说作者的学习生活状况不是很好，收到这些明信片让他原本的生活没有那么难熬。

51. B

解析：从下文可知，与此同时作者参加了许多社团，结识了许多新朋友，由此可以合理推断作者还在不断地收到明信片。

52. B

解析：因为作者以前就收到过明信片，所以不选A(began)。其他选项可依据全句作出判断。

53. A

解析：文章第一段提到大一是作者的艰难过渡期，从而可以推断是大学生活。

54. D

解析：根据上下文可知作者把明信片都保存了起来。

55. A

解析：根据句义可知作者每逢感到情绪低落时，都把明信片拿出来看看。

四、阅读理解

56. B

解析：文章开篇提到祖母说能用一个手的手指数出来真正的朋友有多少，接着作者说她发现祖母只说对了一半。由此可见，人的一生真正的朋友没有几个。

57. D

解析：从文中可知，Sally, Michael 和Jim三者都称不上是作者的知己。

58. C

解析：依据文章第二段第三﹑四句可知。

59. B

解析：细节题。本文介绍了Helen Keller和她的老师Miss Sullivan，根据第一段第二句可知Helen以她的勇敢和贡献而闻名。

解析：细节题。根据第三段第二句可得知Helen要先学会控制自己的行为和情绪。

61. A

解析：推理判断题。由第四段第二、三句可知Miss Sullivan对于Helen来说更像是朋友。

62. D

解析：理解题。本文没有涉及Miss Sullivan在教授Helen发音时的困难，而是着重讲述了她们一开始相处时遇到的困难。

63. C

解析：细节理解题。根据“it was my first Christmas in the northern hemisphere(半球)and …”可知作者很兴奋是因为第一次过一个寒冷的圣诞节。

64. A

解析：细节理解题。根据文章第二段内容提到“It even started snowing too.” “Alishan is really beautiful …”“It was very quiet …”从这三个细节可分别得出三个形容词beautiful, cold和quiet。

65. B

解析：主旨大意题。第三段第二句可知他们在卖一些热饮——姜茶。

66. A

解析：推理判断题。阿里山在台湾，作者说第一次在祖母的故乡(北半球)过圣诞节，故选A。

67. A

解析：四个选项中，C是指所有阶层的人在睡觉前吃的小点心；D是在指工人阶层在中午吃的午餐。故选A。

68. B

解析：根据上下文可得出中上阶层一天用餐名称的顺序。

69. C

解析：此处为贵妇人款待朋友，故选C。

70. D

解析：最后作者本人因为继父而更替用餐名称是为了显示出不同阶层有自己不同的叫法。