湖南特岗特岗教师《中学英语》模拟卷及答案（1）

 Ⅰ.词汇与结构/Vocabularv and structure

1.It is sleeping late in the morning that _________ being late for work.

A. devotes to

B. sticks to

C. refers to

D. leads to

2.The police still haven' t found her, but they' re doing all they _________.

A. may

B. can

C. must

D. Will

3.A person who has _________ final say in an international company is usually influential one.

A. a; the

B. the; an

C. the; the

D. a; an

4.Madame Curie' s _________ encouraged many women to study science, and many of them_________.

A. succeeded; succeeded

B. success ; success

C. succeeded ; success

D. success ; succeeded

5._________ I suggest, he always disagrees.

A. However

B. Whatever

C. Whichever

D. Whoever

6.Three years ago, he got _________ drugs. Now with my help, he decides _________ giving it up.

A. into ; to

B. into ; on

C. over; to

D. off; on

7._________ theday on, the weather got worse.

A. With

B. Since

C. Which

D. As

8.Can you believe that in _________a rich country there should be _________ many poor people?

A. such ; such

B. such ; so

C. so; so

D.so; such

9._________ about the universe up till now.

A. So little had me known

B. Only a little do we know

C. Very little have we known

D. Little shall we know

10.Her sister _________ a rich man. They _________for twenty years.

A. married with; have married

B. married to; have married

C. married; have been married

D.had married; have been married

11.The kind of office equipment will certainly make a(n) _________ to the way I do my job.

A. sense

B. difference

C. effect

D. meaning

12.The discovery of new evidence led to _________.

A. the thief having caught

B. catch the thief

C. the thief being caught

D. the thief to be caught

13.--Would you like some tea, please?

--Yes, I prefer tea _________ sugar.

A. to

B. for

C. with

D. Than

14.People _________ the new TV play.

A. think high of

B. think well of

C. think poor of

D. think good of

15.I had to _________ because someone else wanted to use the phone.

A. give up

B. put up

C. hang up

D. ring up

 

Ⅱ.完形填空/Close

In the dining room of my grandfather' s house stood his heavy clock. Meals in the dining room were a ___16__for our four generations to become one. My grandfather' s clock always stood like a trusted old family friend, ___17__us playing jokes and telling stories, which was already a___18__of our life.

When I was a child, the old clock interested me. I watched and listened to it during ___19__I was surprised how at___20__times of the day, the clock would strike three times, six times or more, with a wonderful great___21__that echoed throughout the house. The clock chimed year after year, a part of my ___22__, a part of my heart.

Even more ___23__to me was my grandfather's special action each day. He meticulously ___24__the clock with a special key each day. The key was magic to me. It___25__our family' s magnificent clock ticking and striking all year round.

( )16. A. time B. Possibility C. problem D. pleasure

( )17. A. seeing B. Hearing C. watching D. looking

( )18. A. start B. Part C. signal D. mark

( )19. A. stories B. Jokes C. periods D. meals

( )20. A. busy B. Urgent C. happy D. different

( )21. A. shock B. Sound C. song D. music

( )22. A. memories B. Minds C. comfort D. information

( )23. A. comfortable B. Hopeful C. wonderful D. skillful

( )24. A. opened B. Wound C. turned D. started

( )25. A. made B. Controlled C. kept D. fixed

Ⅲ.阅读理解/Reading comprehension

(A)

People fell in love with Elizabeth Taylor in 1944, when she starred in National Velvet--the story of Velvet Brown, a young girl who wins first place in a famous horse race. At first, the producers of the movie told Taylor that she was too small to play the part of Velvet. However, they waited for her for a few months as she exercised and trained--and added three inches to her height in four months! Her acting in National Velvet is still considered the best by a child actress.

Elizabeth Taylor was born in London in 1932. Her parents, both Americans, had moved there for business reasons. When World War II started, the Taylors moved to Beverly Hills, California, and there Elizabeth started acting in movies. After her success as a child star, Taylor had no trouble moving into adult(成人)roles and won twice for Best Actress: Butterfield 8 (1960) and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ( 1966 )

Taylor' s fame(名声) and popularity gave her a lot of power with the movie industry, so she was able to demand very high pay for her movies. In 1963, she received $ 1 million for her part in Cleopatra--the highest pay received by any star up to that time.

Elizabeth Taylor is a legend (传奇人物) of our times. Like Velvet Brown in National Velvet, she had been lucky, and she had beauty, fame and wealth. But she was also a hard worker. Taylor seldom acted in movies any more. Instead, she put her time and efforts into her businesses, and into helping others--several years ago, she founded an organization that has raised more than $ 40 million for research and education.

26. The producers didn' t let Taylor play the part of Velvet at first because they thought she _________.

A. was small in size

B. was too young

C. did not play well enough

D. did not show much interest

27. What Elizabeth Taylor and Velvet Brown had in common was that they were both _________.

A. popular all their lives

B. famous actresses

C. successful when very young

D. rich and kindhearted

28. Taylor became Best Actress at the age of _________.

A. 12

B. 28

C. 31

D. 34

29. In her later life, Elizabeth Taylor devoted herself to _________.

A. doing business and helping others

B. turning herself into a legend

C. collecting money for the poor

D. going about research and education work

(B)

More than 6000 children were expelled(开除) from US schools last year for bringing guns and bombs to school, the US Department of Education said on May 8.

The department gave a report on the expulsions as saying handguns accounted for 58 percent of the 6093 expulsions in 1996--1997, against 7 percent for rifles(步枪) or shotguns and 35 percent for other types of firearms.

"The report is a clear sign that our nation' s public schools are cracking down (严惩) on students who bring guns to school", Education Secretary Richard Riey said in a statement, "We need to be tough-minded(坚强的) about keeping guns out of our schools and do everything to keep our children safe. "

In March 1997, an ll-year-old boy and a 13-year-old using handguns and rifles shot dead four children and a teacher at a school in Jonesboro, Arkansas. In October, two were killed and seven wounded in a shooting at a Mississippian school. Two months later, a 14-year-old boy killed three high school students and wounded five in Daducab, Kentucky.

" Most of the expulsions(开除), 56 percent, were from high schools, which have students from about age 13, 34 percent were from junior high schools and 9 percent were from elementary schools. " The report said.

30. From the first paragraph we can infer that in US schools _________.

A. students enjoy shooting

B. students are eager to be soldiers

C. safety is a problem

D. students can make guns

31. The report from the US Department of Education shows that _________.

A. the number of the expulsions is now large

B. the number of the expulsions is wrong

C. there are soldiers hiding among the students

D. guns are out of control in US schools

32. The main idea of Paragraph Four shows us _________.

A. some examples of shootings in US schools

B. the Americans' feeling

C. some famous schools

D. that some teachers were killed by students

33. How many students were shot dead in 1997 in US schools?

A. 10

B. 9

C. 12

D. 22

34. From this passage we know that _________.

A. every American cannot have guns

B. only soldiers and the police can have guns

C. every American citizen can own guns

D. teachers have no money to buy guns

 

 

(C)

In meditation (冥想), people sit quietly and focus their attention on their breath. As they breathe in and out, they attend to their feelings. As thoughts go through their minds, they let them go. Breathe. Let go. Breathe. Let go.

According to a recent study at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, three months of training in this kind of meditation causes a marked change in how the brain allocates( 分配) attention. It appears that the ability to let go thoughts that come into mind frees the brain to attend to more rapidly changing things and events in the outside world. Expert mediators are better than other people at catching such fast-changing stimuli(刺激), like facial expressions.

The study provides evidence for changes in the workings of the brain with mental training. People can learn and improve abilities of all sorts with practice, everything from driving to playing the piano. The study has shown that meditation is good for the brain. It appears to reduce pressure and promote a sense of well-being.

In an experiment, 17 volunteers with no meditation experience in the experimental group spent three months meditating 10 to 12 hours a day. A control group also with no meditation experience meditated for 20 minutes a day over the same period. Both groups were then given the tests with two numbers in a group of letters. As both groups looked for the numbers, their brain activity was recorded.

Everyone could catch the first number. But the brain recordings showed that the less experienced mediators tended to grasp the first number and hang onto it, so they missed the second number. Those with more experience gave less attention to the first number, as if letting it go, which led to an increased ability to grasp the second number. This shows that attention can change with practice.

Just ask Daniel Levision, who meditated for three months as part of the study. "I am a much better listener," he said, "I do not get lost in my own personal reaction to what people are saying. "

35. The underlined word "them" in Paragraph 1 refers to _________.

A. feelings

B. minds

C. people

D. thoughts

36. Meditators manage their daily tasks better because they _________.

A. are given less pressure

B. allocate their attention better

C. have more stimuli for life

D. practice them more frequently

37. In the experiment, volunteers doing meditation for longer hours _________.

A. were more likely to catch both of the members

B. were used to memorizing numbers in groups

C. usually ignored the first number observed

D. paid more attention to numbers than to letters

38. The study proves that _________.

A. meditation improves one's health

B. brain activity can be recorded

C. human attention can be trained

D. mediators have a good sense of hearing

(D)

All her life, my mother wanted busy children. It was very important that her house should remain at all things clean and tidy.

You could turn your back for a moment in my mother' s house, leave a half written letter on the dining table, a magazine open on the chair, and turn around to find that my mother had "put it back where it belonged," as she explained. My wife, on one of her first visits to my mother' s house, placed a packet of biscuits on an end table and went to the kitchen to fetch a drink. When she returned, she found the packet had been removed. Confused (疑惑的), she set down her drink and went back to the kitchen for more biscuits, only to return to find that her drink had disappeared. Up to then she had guessed that everyone in my family held onto their drinks so as not to make water rings on the end tables. Now she knows better.

These disappearances had a confusing effect on our family. We were all inclined to (有......的倾向) forgetfulness, and it was common for one of us, upon returning from the bathroom, to find the every sign of his work in progress had disappeared suddenly. "Do you remember what I was doing?" was a question frequently asked, but rarely answered.

Now my sister has developed a secondhand love of clean windows, and my brother does the cleaning in his house, perhaps to avoid having to be the one to lift his feet. I try not to think about it too much, but I have at this later time started to dust the furniture once a week.

39. Which of the following is TRUE about my mother?

A. She enjoyed removing others' drinks.

B. She became more and more forgetful.

C. She preferred to do everything by herself.

D. She wanted to keep her house in good order.

40. My wife could not find her biscuits and drink in my mother' s house because _________.

A. she had already finished them

B. my mother had taken them away

C. she forgot where she had left them

D. someone in my family was holding them _________.

41. The underlined part in the fourth paragraph suggests that my sister

A. is happy to clean windows

B. loves to clean used windows

C. is fond of cleaning used windows

D. likes to clean windows as my mother did

42. This passage mainly tells us that _________.

A. my mother often made us confused

B. my family members had a poor memory

C. my mother helped us to form a good habit

D. my wife was surprised when she visited my mother

 

 

Ⅳ.短文改错/Proofreading and error correction

I like music very much, especial pop songs. Every 43. _________

evening when I am doing homework and at weekends 44. _________

when I at home, I always play some of my favorite songs 45. _________

on tapes. The familiar patterns of notes attracts me into the 46. _________

colorful world of music. Now and then I stop to follow the 47. _________

songs. More often than not, my mother comes in, urging

me to concentrate my attention at my work. She does 48. _________

not like pop music. Like the most grown-ups, she enjoys folk 49. _________

songs, because the peaceful music reminds her of their beautiful 50. _________

life when she was young. It is true which people of different 51. _________

age understand music differently and enjoy different music. 52. _________

V.书面表达/Writing

请你以《高中生》杂志的名义写一篇征文启事。启事的主要内容如下：

1.面向全国高中生;

2.正文内容主要反映当代高中生的生活;

3.文章体裁可以是故事、散文、小说等;

4.通讯方式可以是邮寄或发e-mail;

5.截止日期是2009年12月31日。

注意：

1.文章标题已给出;

2.可适当增加细节，以使文章连贯;

3.词数在：100左右。

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