高起专英语密押卷

第Ⅰ卷(选择题,共105分)
一、语音知识（共5小题;每题1.5分，共7.5分。）

二、词汇与语法知识(共15小题；每题1.5分，共22.5分。)
从每小题的四个选择项中，选出最佳的一项。

三、完形填空(共15小题；每题2分，共30分。)
通读下面的短文，掌握其大意。然后，从每小题的四个选择项中选出可填入相应空白处的最佳选项。

           Sometimes I feel that being the mother of three small children is like operating a large circus (马戏团).      21   afternoon last week, my three sons were playing peacefully in the back yard (院子),    22     the ball from one to another. I jumped at the chance to talk to one of my friends   23        the phone, but before I    24     to the phone, I could tell the boys had begun to quarrel with each other about something. I rushed out to    25     peace, but before I got there Charles had   26    a rock at Mark, and hit him in the eye. By the time I got to the back yard, they had begun to   27    about this. Even David, the oldest boy, who won’t usually fight with anybody about    28     ,was involved (卷入). First, I    29     them stop fighting, and then I examined Mark’s eye. I decided that it wasn’t going to develop into a black eye, but I felt that they should    30   at least a little for    31     they had done. “I’m going to   32     to your father about this when he comes home tonight,” I said. “He and I will think of how to punish you.” Things were    33     quiet after that for about half an hour, and then Charles  34  a glass in the kitchen, and at almost the same   35     , Mark fell out of the apple tree.

四、阅读理解（共15小题；每题3分，共45分。）
阅读下列短文，然后根据短文的内容从每小题的四个选择项中选出最佳的一项。

      I found out one time that doing a favor for someone could get you into a lot of trouble. I was in the eighth grade at the time, and we were having a final test. During the test, the girl sitting next to me whispered something, but I didn’t understand. So I leaned over her way and found out that she was trying to ask me if I had an extra pen. She showed me that hers was out of ink and would not write. I happened to have an extra one, so I took it out of my pocket and put it on her desk.
    Later, after the test papers had been turned in, the teacher asked me to stay in the room when all the other students were dismissed (解散). As soon as we were alone she began to talk to me about what it meant to grow up; she talked about how important it was to stand on your own two feet and be responsible (负责任) for your own acts. For a long time, she talked about honesty and emphasized (强调) the fact that when people do something dishonest, they are really cheating (欺骗) themselves. She made me promise that I would think seriously (认真地) about all the things she had said, and then she told me I could leave. I walked out of the room wondering why she had chosen to talk to me about all those things.
     Later on, I found out that she thought I had cheated on the test. When she saw me lean over to talk to the girl next to me, it looked as if I was copying answers from the girl’s test paper. I tried to explain about the pen, but all she could say was it seemed very very strange to her that I hadn’t talked of anything about the pen the day she talked to me right after the test. Even if I tried to explain that I was just doing the girl a favor by letting her use my pen,  I am sure she continued (继续) to believe that I had cheated on the test.

    People in the United States honor their parents with two special days: Mother’s Day, on the second Sunday in May, and Father’s Day, on the third Sunday in June.
    Mother’s Day was proclaimed a day for national observance by President Woodrow Wilson in 1915. Ann Jarvis from Grafton, West Virginia, had started the idea to have a day to honor mothers. She was the one who chose the second Sunday in May and also began the custom of wearing a carnation (康乃馨).
     In 1909, Mrs. Dodd from Spokane, Washington, thought of the idea of a day to honor fathers. She wanted to honor her own father, William Smart. After her mother died, he had the responsibility of raising a family of five sons and a daughter. In 1910, the first Father’s Day was observed in Spokane. Senator Margaret Chase Smith helped to established Father’s Day as a national commemorative (纪念性的) day, in 1972.
     These days are set aside to show love and respect for parents. They raise their children and educate them to be responsible citizens. They give love and care.
     These two special days are celebrated in many different ways. On Mother’s Day people wear carnations. A red one symbolizes a living mother. A white one shows that the mother is dead．Many people attend religious services to honor parents. It is also a day when people whose parents are dead visit the cemetery. On these days families get together at home, as well as in restaurants. They often have outdoor barbecues for Father’s Day. These are days of fun and good feelings and memories.

    When did you last see a polar bear? On a trip to a zoo, perhaps? If you had attended a winter activity in New York a few years ago, you would have seen a whole polar bear club. These “Polar Bears” are people who meet frequently in winter to swim in freezing cold water. That day, the air temperature was 3℃,and the water temperature was a bit higher. The members of the Polar Bear Club at Coney Island, New York are usually about the age of 60. Members must satisfy two requirements. First, they must get along well with everyone else in the group. This is very important because there are so many different kinds of people in the club. Polar Bears must also agree to swim outdoors at least twice a month from November through February.
    Doctors do not agree about the medical effects of cold-water swimming. Some are worried about the dangers of a condition in which the body’s temperature drops so low that finally the heart stops. Other doctors, however, point out that there is more danger of a heart attack during summer swimming because the difference between the air temperature and water temperature is much greater in summer than in winter.
    The Polar Bears themselves are satisfied with the benefits (or advantages) of cold-water swimming. They say that their favorite form of exercise is very good for the circulatory system （循环系统）because it forces the blood to move fast to keep the body warm. Cold-water swimmers usually turn bright red after a few minutes in the water. A person who turns blue probably has a very poor circulatory system and should not try cold-water swimming.
    The main benefits (or advantages) of cold-water swimming are probably mental. The Polar Bears love to swim all the year round; they find it fun and relaxing. As one 70-year-old woman says, “When I go into the water, I pour my troubles into the ocean and let them float away.”

    The common cold is the world’s most widespread illness, which is plague that flesh receives. The most widespread fallacy of all is that colds are caused by cold. They are not. They are caused by viruses passing on from person to person. You catch a cold by coming into contact, directly or indirectly, with someone who already has one. If cold causes colds, it would be reasonable to expect the Eskimos to suffer from them forever. But they do not. And in isolated arctic regions explorers have reported being free from colds until coming into contact again with infected people from the outside world by way of packages and mails dropped from airplanes.
    During the First World War soldiers who spent long periods in the trenches, cold and wet, showed no increased tendency to catch colds. In the Second World War prisoners at the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp, naked and starving, were astonished to find that they seldom had colds. At the Common Cold Research Unit in England, volunteers took part in experiments in which they gave themselves to the discomforts of being cold and wet for long stretches of time. After taking hot baths, they put on bathing suits, allowed themselves to be with cold water, and then stood about dripping wet in drafty room. Some wore wet socks all day while others exercised in the rain until close to exhaustion. Not one of the volunteers came down with a cold unless a cold virus was actually dropped in his nose.
    If, then, cold and wet have nothing to do with catching colds, why are they more frequent in the winter? Despite the most pains-taking research, no one has yet found the answer. One explanation offered by scientists is that people tend to stay together indoors more in cold weather than at other times, and this makes it easier for cold viruses to be passed on. No one has yet found a cure for the cold. There are drugs and pain suppressors, such as aspirin, but all they do is relieve the symptoms.

五、补全对话（共5句；每句满分为3分，共15分。）

根据中文提示，把对话中缺少的内容写在线上。这些句子必须符合英语表达习惯。打句号的地方，用陈述句；打问号的地方，用疑问句。
提示：Tom和Jane初次见面，聊天中Tom让Jane讲一讲有关她家庭的一些情况。Jane有三个姐妹，没有兄弟。老大25岁，已婚并有两个孩子；老二22岁，在大学里学计算机；最小的17岁，念高中。父亲是律师，母亲是记者。
Tom: So, tell me about your family. Have you got any brothers or sisters?
Jane: Yeah.    51     .
Tom: Three sisters. How old are they?
Jane: Well,     52     . The second oldest is twenty-two, and the youngest is seventeen.
Tom: And what do they do?
Jane: The oldest one—that’s Ellen—is married and has two children, and they keep her pretty busy. Janice,     53    . She’s studying computer science. And the other one, Cindy, is still in high school.
Tom:      54     .
Jane: Oh, he’s a lawyer.
Tom: Oh, really? And your mom?     55     ?
Jane: Yeah, she’s a journalist. She works for a travel magazine.

    六、书面表达：满分30分。
写一篇记述在海滨度周末的日记，内容包括以下几点：初夏，风和日丽；有很多游人和小船；我们捡贝壳 (shell)，进行日光浴 (sun bathe)，玩得很愉快。

注意：
(1)行文要流畅；
(2)要符合日记的格式；
(3)词数为100左右。

    June 15, 2016, Saturday, Fine
    Some of my classmates and I spent our weekend at the seaside.
    It was sunny and a little hot, but the water was cool. The sea was blue and calm. It shone merrily under the bright sun. There were boats floating here and there. People in them laughed and sang happily.
    We took off our shoes and went into the cool water. We walked along the beach in the water. Some girls looked for shells on the shore. Then we lay down and bathed in the sun or played games until it was time to go home.
    We all enjoyed a pleasant time at the seaside.