2008年高考英语模拟试题·附详解（02）

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1—20 （听力略）  一、单项填空 21. “Would you take this along to the office for me?” “_________.” A. That’s right         B. With pleasure      C. Never mind         D. Not at all 22. Their problem today is somewhat similar to _________ they faced many years ago. A. that                     B. which                  C. that which           D. it 23. This is _________ best kind of _________ pen you can get here. A. the, the               B. the, a                  C. the, 不填            D. a, the 24. The Parkers bought a new house but _________ will need a lot of work before they can move in. A. they                    B. it                         C. one                     D. which 25. He will never _________ anything if he doesn’t work hard. A. hope                    B. wish                    C. achieve                D. succeed 26. She told me she hadn’t enjoyed the film, but I decided to go and see it _________. A. at once                B. at the same time C. all the same        D. at all 27. She raised her finger to her lips as _________ for silence. A. an idea                B. a mark                C. a sign                 D. a word 28. The plane crashed, _________ all 200 people aboard. A. killed                  B. having killed       C. killing                 D. had killed 29. _________ the government agrees to give extra money, the theatre will have to close. A. Until                   B. Unless                 C. Since                   D. While 30. “Why don’t we take a little break?” “Didn’t we just have _________?” A. it                        B. that                     C. one                     D. this 31. The question is _________ of great importance. A. that                     B. it                         C. one                     D. what 32. “Mary looks hot and dry” “So _________ you if you had a high fever.” A. do                       B. are                      C. will                     D. would 33. Entering the room, the headmaster said, “Everyone _________ quiet, please.” A. keep                    B. keeps                   C. is keeping           D. to keep 34. “I _________ his telephone number.” “I have his number, but I _________ to bring my phone book.” A. forget, forget       B. forgot, forgot      C. forget, forgot      D. forgot, forget 35. He wrote a lot of novels, none of _________ translated into a foreign language. A. them                   B. which                  C. it                        D. what  二、完形填空 As Christmas is coming, there are presents to be bought, cards to be sent, and rooms to be cleaned. Parents are ___36___ with difficult jobs of hiding presents from curious young children. If the gifts are large, this is sometimes a real ___37___. On Christmas Eve, young children find the excitement almost unbearable. They are torn between the wish to go to bed early so that Father Christmas will bring their presents quickly and the wish to ___38___ up late so that they will not ___39___ the fun. The wish for gifts usually proves stronger. But though children go to bed early, they often lie ___40___ for a long time, hoping to get a short ___41___ at Father Christmas. Last Christmas, my wife and I ___42___ hid a few large presents in the storeroom. I ___43___ the moment when my son, Jimmy, would ___44___ me where that new bike had come from, but ___45___ he did not see it. On Christmas Eve, ___46___ took the children hours to go to sleep. It must have been nearly ___47___ when my wife and I went quietly into their room and began ___48___ stockings. Then I pushed in the ___49___ I bought for Jimmy and left it beside the Christmas tree. We knew we would not get much sleep that night, for the children were ___50___ to get up early. At about five o’clock the next morning, we were ___51___ by loud sounds coming from the children’s room — they were shouting excitedly! ___52___ I had time to get out of bed, young Jimmy came riding into the room on his new bike, and his sister, Mary, followed close behind pushing her new baby carriage. ___53___ the baby arrived. He moved ___54___ the hands and knees into the room dragging a large balloon behind him. Suddenly it burst. That woke us up ___55___. The day had really begun with a band(巨响) ! 36. A. faced             B. met                     C. filled                   D. pleased 37. A. question        B. matter                  C. problem               D. business 38. A. get                B. stay                     C. stand                   D. wake 39. A. lose               B. break                   C. miss                    D. leave 40. A. awake           B. wake                   C. asleep                  D. sleep 41. A. look              B. stare                    C. glare                   D. watch 42. A. hopefully       B. busily                  C. gladly                  D. successfully 43. A. liked             B. feared                  C. surprised              D. hated 44. A. answer          B. tell                      C. ask                    D. search 45. A. sadly             B. unluckily             C. possibly               D. fortunately 46. A. it                  B. they                     C. I                         D. we 47. A. morning        B. midnight              C. evening               D. daybreak 48. A. filling           B. sewing                 C. mending              D. preparing 49. A. present          B. stocking               C. bike                    D. tree 50. A. going            B. sure                     C. glad                    D. excited 51. A. troubled        B. frightened            C. woken                 D. shocked 52. A. Before           B. After                   C. Until                   D. Since 53. A. Even             B. And                     C. Soon                   D. Then 54. A. with              B. on                       C. over                    D. by 55. A. all                 B. nearly                  C. happily                D. completely 三、阅读理解  

A Do you love American country music? If you do, come to Nashville. It’s the home of American country music. Nashville is the capital city of the state of Tennessee. Here you don’t have to go to the big auditoriums(音乐厅) to enjoy the country music. In the open air restaurants or on the streets, you can always hear the beautiful and sweet sounding folk music. All the singers are young and they play their guitars while they sing. The songs they sing are so touching(动人) that, if you listen attentively, you can feel they are singing with their souls rather than with their voices. Shops selling music records and tapes can be found everywhere in Nashville. Many records are made by famous singers and they are sent to many countries all over the world. The folk songs most of the singers sing come form the rural areas in the southern United States. The songs often describe those days to situations and the feeling of the country people. They often sing in praises of heroism(英雄) and true love. 56. From the passage we know Nashville is ________. A. a village 　                                        B. a big city C. a small town 　                                 D. a capital city 57. To enjoy the country music, you can go to ________. A. the big auditoriums 　                        B. the open air restaurants C. the streets 　                                      D. All of the above 58. According to the passage which of the following statements is not true? A. Shops that sell music records and tapes can be found everywhere in Nashville. B. The folk songs can impress you deeply C. Not all records are made by famous singers D. The folk songs only sing in praises of heroism and true love. 59. The passage is mainly about ________. A. Nashville 　                                       B. American young people C. pop singers 　                                    D. the country music  

B Super- short tales of the unexpected, plus read- along tapes! Twenty soft- cover 16-page mini books help students attain reading success through a high interest approach (方法). Audio cassettes, perfect for the ESL (English as a second Language) students, build listening skills by teaching pronunciation, giving oral directions, and presenting vocabulary words in context. Each story is followed by four pages of short, simple comprehension and vocabulary exercises. Price: $6.00 for each pack of books (including five books). $7.00 for each cassettes (all together four cassettes). Publisher: Shanghai Educational Publish House, Simon & Schuster. 60. The exercises following each story are bout ________. A. vocabulary and comprehension            B. listening and speaking C. comprehension and writing                  D. listening and vocabulary 61. There are ________ packs of the books in this set. A. 4                    B. 5                C. 9               D. 20 62. If you want to buy all the books plus read- along tapes, how much do you have to pay? A. $ 24               B. 28                 C. 58                       D. 52

C Fire can help people in many ways. But it can also be very harmful. Fire can heat water, warm your houses, give light, and cook food. But fire can burn things too. It can burn trees, houses, animals, or people. Sometimes big fires can burn forests. Nobody knows for sure how people began to use fire. But there are many interesting, old stories about the first time a man or woman started a fire. One story from Australia tells about a man a very, very long time ago. He went up to the sun by a rope and brought fire down. Today people know how to make a fire with matches. Children sometimes like to play with them. But matches can be very dangerous. One match can burn a piece of paper, and then it might burn a house. A small fire can become a big fire very fast. Fires kill many people every year. So you must he careful with matches. You should also learn to put out fires. Fires need oxygen. Without oxygen they die. There is oxygen in the air. Cover a fire with water, sand, or in an emergency, with your coat or something else.This keeps the air away from a fire and kills it. Be careful with fire, and it will help you. Be careless with fire, and it will burn you. 63. According to the passage which of the following is true? A. Where there is oxygen there is fire. B. It is an Australian who started a fire. C. We are not sure how people started to use fire. D. Nobody knows how to make a fire. 64. The reason why children mustn’t play with matches is that ________. A. they don’t know how to make a fire with matches B. it is not interesting C. matches can be dangerous D. matches burn paper 65. If you are going to put out a fire, you________. A. must be careful with matches              B. have to know fires kill many people every year C. have to cover it with water only        D. should keep air away from it 66. We must be careful with fire, or it ________. A. can die                                                B. warms our houses C. might burn us                                     D. will help us 67. What is the main idea of the passage? A. Fire can help people in many ways.   B. Fire can be both helpful and harmful. C. Fire can burn things and people.        D. We must be careful with matches.  

D I once knew an old man whose bad memory made him famous. John Smith was so forgetful that he sometimes forgot what he was talking about in the middle of a sentence. His wife had to constantly remind him about his meetings, his classes — even his meals. Once he forgot he ate breakfast twice, at home and at school. His wife liked to remind her neighbors, “If John didn’t have his head tied on, he would forget that too!” Since Smith was a professor at a well known university, his forgetfulness was often an embarrassment. It wasn’t that he was not clever, as some critical people tended to say, just very, very absent minded. One hot summer day, Professor Smith decided to take his children to a seaside town about a three- hour train ride away. To make the trip more interesting for his young children, he kept the name of the town a secret. However, by the time they arrived at the station, Smith forgot the name of the town he was planning to visit. Luckily, a friend of his happened to be in the station. He offered to take care of the children while Smith hurried back home to find out where he was going. The professor’s wife was surprised to see him again so soon. “Oh, my dear, I forgot the name of the town.” “What? You forgot the name? May be one day you will forget my name! Now I’ll write the name of that town on a piece of paper, and you put it in your pocket and please, please don’t forget where you put it.” Satisfied that she had solved the problem, she sent her husband off again. Ten minutes later she was astonished to see him outside the house for the third time. “What is the matter now?” “As you told me, I didn’t forget where I put the name of that town, but I forgot where I left our children!” 68. In the opinion of the writer of this passage, the professor is ________. A. careless                                                B. absent minded C. foolish                                               D. forgetful 69. The underlined word “embarrassment” in the first paragraph may mean ________. A. amusement        B. satisfaction                                 C. fun         D. discomfort 70. From the end of the story, we know Mrs Smith would probably be very________. A. satisfied               B. sorry                   C. angry                  D. funny

E We now think of chocolate as sweet, but once it was bitter. We think of it as a candy, but once it was a medicine. Today, chocolate can be a hot drink, a frozen dessert, or just a snack. Sometimes it’s an ingredient(配料) in the main course of a meal. Mexicans make a hot chocolate sauce called mole and pour it over chicken. The Mexicans also eat chocolate with spices(香料) like chili peppers. Chocolate is a product of the tropical cacao tree. The beans taste so bitter that even the monkeys say “Ugh!” and run away. Workers must first dry and then roast the beans. This removes the bitter taste. The word “chocolate” comes from a Mayan word. The Mayas were an ancient people who once lived in Mexico. They valued the cacao tree. Some used the beans for money, while others crushed them to make a drink. When the Spaniards came to Mexico in the sixteenth century, they started drinking cacao too. Because the drink was strong and bitter, they thought it was a medicine. No one had the idea of adding sugar. The Spaniards took some beans back to Europe and opened cafes. Wealthy people drank cacao and said it was good for the digestion. In the 1800s, the owner of a chocolate factory in England discovered that sugar removed the bitter taste of cacao. It quickly became a cheap and popular drink. Soon afterwards, a factory made the first solid block of sweetened chocolate. Later on, another factory mixed milk and chocolate together. People liked the taste of milk chocolate even better.(from www.nmet168.com) Besides the chocolate candy bar, one of the most popular American snacks is the chocolate chip cookie. Favorite desserts are chocolate cream pie and, of course, an ice cream sundae with hot fudge sauce. 71. It was ________that discovered sugar could remove the bitter taste of cacao. A. The workers in the chocolate factory  B. The Spaniards C. The people in England                        D. The owner of a chocolate factory 72. According to the passage which of the following statements is true? A. Nobody had the idea of adding sugar until the sixteenth century. B. The word “chocolate” comes from a Mexican word. C. The beans taste so bitter that even the monkeys like them. D. Workers must dry and roast the beans to remove the bitter taste. 73. The Spaniards think that cacao was a medicine because________ A. it was strong and bitter.                     B. it was good for digestion. C. it cured man’s diseases.                      D. it was a kind of drink for good health. 74. Which is the right time order of the events regarding chocolate? a. Chocolate became a cheap and popular drink in England. b. A factory made the first solid block of sweetened chocolate. c. The Spaniards started drinking cacao. d. It was found that sugar removed the bitter taste of cacao. e. A factory mixed milk and chocolate together. A. a-b-c-d-e　        B. c-d-e-b-a　　      C. c-d-a-b-e　　     D. c-d-b-e-a 75. It can be inferred from the passage that ________. A. chocolate can be a hot drink, a frozen dessert, or a candy bar B. Mexicans like chocolate very much C. chocolate is a product of the cacao tree D. people liked the taste of chocolate mixed with milk  四、短文改错 I am born in a farmer’s family in Suizhong county, Liaoning    76.___________ Province in June, in 1965. When I was a child, I dreamed of flying              77.___________ in the sky. I joined the army in June, 1983. In 1992, I was sent to        78.___________ the air force base. In August, 1996 I was one of the first 14 members79.___________ from 1,500 pilots through the physical examination. I worked hardly,       80.___________ because I was among the first astronauts of our county in 1998        81.___________ and was chosen one of the first manned space aircraft astronauts              82.___________ later. On Oct.15, 2003, I successfully flew to the space, circled        83.___________ around the earth about 14 circle and then returned. I was honored           84.___________ to have given the chance to be the first Chinese to travel in space.          85.___________

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