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2014年第一学期高二英语强化(1)

2014.9

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第一节 主谓一致（共20题 每题1.5分，满分30分）

1. A poet and artist _____ coming to speak to us about Chinese literature and painting tomorrow

afternoon.

A. is

A. is

A. is

B. are C. was

D. were

D. were

D. be

but one _____ here just now.

B. was

B. are

C. has been

C. am

only I but also Jane and Mary _____ tired of having one examination after another.

4. The basketball coach, as well as his team, ______ interviewed shortly after the match for their

outstanding performance.

A. were B. was C. is D. are

and where to build the new factory _____ yet.

A. is not decided B. are not decided C. has not decided D. have not decided

number of people invited _____ fifty， but a number of them _____ absent for different

reasons.

A. were, was B. was, was C. was, were D. were, were

7._____ of the land in that district _____ covered with trees and grass.

A. Two fifth, is B. Two fifth, are C. Two fifths, is D. Two fifths, are

is one of the most interesting questions that _____ asked.

A. have B. has C. have been D. has been

n the two rows of trees _____ the teaching building.

A. stand B. stands C. standing D. are

10. Every possible means _____ to prevent the air pollution, but the sky is still not clear.

A. uses B. are used C. has been used D. have been used

population in America _____ not large, 12.4% of which _____ black and 2% _____

farmers.

A. is , is, is

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B. is, are, is C. is, is, are

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D. is, are, are 12. Generally, students‘ inner motivation with high expectations from others ______ essential to

their development.

A. is B. are C. was D. were

13. We live day by day, but in the great things, the time of days and weeks _____ so small that a

day is unimportant.

A. is B. are C. has been

good for one‘s health.

A. show; are B. shows; is C. show; is

published in America.

A. are; were B. is; were C. are; was D. is; was

16. We each _____ strong points and each of us on the other hand _____ weak points.

A. have; have B. has; have C. has; has D. have; has

17. Such poets as Shakespeare ______ widely read，of whose works，however，some _____

difficult to understand．

A. are；are

A. wear

purposes.

A. is B. are C. was D. were

20. The university estimates that living expenses for international students ______ around $8,450

a year, which ______ a burden for some of them.

A. are；is

第二节 完形填空（共20题 每题2分，满分40分）

A 12-year-old boy saw something in a shop window that set his heart racing. But the

price—five dollars—was far beyond Reuben Earle‘s wealth. Five dollars would buy almost a

week‘s groceries for his family.

But hearing the sound of hammering from a side street, Reuben had an idea.

He ran towards the __21__and stopped at a construction site. People built their own homes in

Bay Roberts, using nails __22__in hessian sacks(麻袋)from a local factory. Sometimes the sacks

were __23__, and Reuben knew he could sell them back to the __24__for five cents a piece.

Back home, he looked at his mother Dora and __25__. Sunlight from the window gilded her

shoulder-length blonde hair. Slim and beautiful, she was the center of the home, the glue that held

it together.

Every day after school, Reuben walked down the town, __26__ the hessian nail bags. On the

day the school closed for the summer, no student was more __27__ than Reuben. Now he would

have more time for his __28__. All summer long, __29__chores at home weeding and watering

the garden, cutting wood and fetching water—Reuben kept to his secret task. Often he was tired

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D. have been

14. A survey of the opinions of experts _____ that three hours of outdoor exercise a week _____

D. shows; are

teacher together with the students ______ discussing Reading Skills that ______ newly

B. is；is C. are；is D. is：are

D. have worn

18. Barbara is easy to recognize as she‘s the only one of the women who_____ evening dress.

B. wears C. has worn

19. The factory used 65 percent of the raw materials, the rest of which _____ saved for other

B. are；are C. is；are D. is；is and hungry, but the thought of the object in the shop window sustained him.

Then one day the __30__ had come.

Reuben ran down Water Street to the factory. ―Please, Mister. I have to sell the sacks now.‖

The man took the sacks, __31__ his pocket and put four coins in Reuben‘s hand. Reuben

murmured a thank you and __32__ home.

When he got home, Reuben __33__ the tin can. He poured the coins out and began to__34__.

He had enough.

Then, he headed for the shop, ―I have the __35__,‖ he told the owner.

The man went to the window and took out Reuben‘s __36__. He wiped the dust off and gently

wrapped it in brown paper. Then he placed it in Reuben‘s hands.

Racing home, Reuben __37__ the front door. ―Here, Mum! Here!‖ He placed a small box in

her work-roughened hands.

She __38__ it carefully. A jewel box appeared. Dora lifted the cover, __39__ beginning to

blur(模糊)her vision. In gold lettering on a small, almond-shaped brooch was the word Mother. It

was Mother's Day.

Dora had never received such a gift; __40__, she smiled and gathered her son into her arms.

21. A. window

B. sound

B. produced

B. set aside

B. site

B. selling

B. hesitated

B. delighted

B. schedule

B. despite

B. possibility

B. walked

B. buried

B. count

B. box

B. coins

C. store

D. school

22. A. delivered

23. A. taken apart

24. A. factory

25. A. wept

C. purchased

C. sorted out

C. people

C. smiled

C. determined

C. except

D. packed

D. thrown away

D. shop

D. murmured

D. carrying

D. devoted

D. mission

D. even if

D. opportunity

D. stared at

D. arrived

D. uncovered

D. observe

D. ring

D. sacks

D. burst through

D. fastened

D. sunlight

D. Speechless

26. A. collecting

27. A. disappointed

28. A. mother

29. A. although

C. recycling

C. burden

C. time

C. left

C. broke

C. judge

C. present

C. unfolded

C. dust

30. A. challenge

31. A. searched for

32. A. ran

33. A. sought

34. A. laugh

35. A. jewel

36. A. treasure

37. A. got in

38. A. opened

39. A. tears

B. reached into C. glanced through

C. money

B. slid into

B. unwrapped

B. fog

B. Breathless

C. squeezed out

40. A. Thankful C. Unexpected

第三节 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

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‗Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness,‘ wrote Samuel Johnson，a

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famous British writer and lexicographer（词典编写者）of the eighteenth century．

Today, amid the large amount of worldly temptations and material sources of modern-day

enjoyment, people from all walks of life are still searching for the key to happiness．The question

‗How can we be happy? ‘seems to worry everyone．Indeed, in this day and age of scientific

advancement and heavenly comforts, people still do not seem able to find a definite answer to the

age-old problem of finding happiness．Happiness seems to be a very difficult thing．Solon‘s

dictum‗ count no man happy until he is dead‘ seems to present both, the poor and the rich with a

continual threat causing them no end of anxiety．

In Oxford，England，a noted psychology professor, Dr Michael Argyle，has succeeded in his

quest for happiness．Over the past eight years, he has been researching the mysterious antithesis（对立而）of depression，and has found convincing clues which he has embodied in his

books．‗The Psychology of Happiness‘，and ‗The Social Psychology of Everyday Life‘．

Dr Argyle explains that happiness comprises three essential elements—first，positive

emotions 1ike joy；second，the absence of negative emotions like anxiety；and lastly, the

non-emotional element which means a general，more profound satisfaction with life．

―The bigger source of happiness is a happy marriage,‖ Dr Argyle explains．―Job

satisfaction．‖he continues，―is another essential ingredient of happiness．‖Do you feel you are

doing a useful job? Do you feel you are achieving, or stand a chance of achieving your ambitions?

If you honestly have positive answers to these questions，then eventually，you will be happy；if not，then you can still be happy by reducing your ambitions and lowering your expectations in

order to achieve happiness．‘The fact is, the higher your ambitions and dreams are，the more

difficult it will be for you to achieve your goals and therefore it will be harder to achieve

satisfaction and happiness．

Dr Argyle offers other avenues people can take to find real happiness．Music, games or sports，a drink with a friend，a simple gathering at tea，lunch or dinner with loved ones, or simply thinking

of nice things, can give a person happiness, if only for a few hours．Surprisingly, television

programmers, especially soap operas offers nothing but a bit of pleasurable moments． Often,

television viewers are so carried away emotionally that they feel depressed or emotionally tired.

Non-soap programmers，on the other hand，bore many viewers or sometimes deepen their

misery．Dr Argyle further explains that wealth and worldly success do contribute to happiness．But

in the ultimate analysis, Dr Argyle says, it is the person‘s temperament（性情）that makes him

happy or unhappy．―There are in our midst people who are naturally happy, and there are the sad

ones．‖

Happiness is indeed mysterious．As one wise man put it, ‗Few are those who have never had

the chance to achieve happiness，but fewer those who have never taken that chance．‘

41．The writer quotes Solon‘s dictum in paragraph 2 to prove that ．

A．happiness is everyone‘s business

C．man is generally hard．

A．Happy marriage．

C．High ambitions．

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B．the dead are happier than the living

D．happiness is not easy to find

B．Entertainment．

D．Wealth and power．

42．Which of the following is NOT mentioned as an ingredient of happiness? 43．The writer believes that television programmes ．

A．do more harm than good

B．offer only limited enjoyment

C．should be avoided altogether by viewers

D．are a genuine source of enjoyment

44．Dr argyle believes that ．

A．the temperament of a person is largely affected by his working environment

B．there are people who are by nature happy or unhappy

C．there are people who blame others for their low self-esteem

D．most people often feel depressed because they worry about what other people think of

them．

45．In the last paragraph，the writer implies that ．

A．happiness is false

B．people may not know it but they are, in fact ,happy

C．people should not bother seeking happiness

D．most people have been happy at least once in their life

B

Women are friends, I once would have said, when they totally love and support and trust each

other, and tell each other the secrets of their souls, and run no questions asked to help each other,

and tell unpleasant truths to each other (no, you can't wear that dress unless you lose ten pounds

first) when unpleasant truths must be told.

A woman friend is a friend all the way, I once would have said, but now I believe that‘s a

narrow point of view. For the friendships I have and the friendships I see are conducted at many

levels of closeness, serve many different functions, meet different needs and range from the soul

sisters to the most casual playmates.

Consider these varieties of friendship:

Convenience friends

They‘ll lend us their cups for a party. They‘ll drive our kids to school when we‘re sick…As

we will do for them. But we don‘t, with convenience friends, ever come too close or tell too much;

we maintain our public face and emotional distance.

Special-interest friends

These friendships aren‘t close, and they needn‘t involve kids or cups. Their value lies in some

interest commonly shared. And so we may have an office friend or a yoga friend or a tennis friend.

“I’d say that what we’re doing is doing together, not being together.”

Historical friends

We all have a friend who knew us when maybe way back in Miss Meltzer‘s second grade,

when our family lived in that three-room flat .The years have gone by and we‘ve gone separate

ways and we‘ve little in common now, but we‘re still a close part of each other‘s past.

Crossroads friends

Crossroads friends form powerful links, links strong enough to last with just communication of

a once-a-year letter at Christmas. And out of respect for those crossroads years, for those dreams

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and dreams we once shared, we will always be friends.

Cross-generational friends

The friendship exists across generations in what one woman calls her daughter–mother and her

mother-daughter relationships.

There are medium(中等的), pretty good, and such good friends indeed, and these friendships

are decided by their level of closeness. For example, we might tell a medium friend that yesterday

we had a fight with our husband. And we might tell a pretty good friend that this fight with our

husband made us so mad that we slept on the sofa. And we might tell a such good friend that the

reason why we got so mad in that fight that we slept on the sofa — he had a love affair with that

girl who works in his office. But it‘s only to our very best friends that we‘re willing to tell all, to

tell what‘s going on with that girl in his office.

The best of friends, I still believe, totally love and support and trust each other, and tell each

other the secrets of their souls, and tell unpleasant truths to each other when they must be told.

46. According to the passage, convenience friends ______.

A. are those who are easily available to make friends with

B. never tell each other their deepest feelings

C. are not valuable enough

D. discuss family budgets together

47. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 means ______.

A. we should never sit and wait for something to happen

B. we join each other because we do something together

C. we complete something together rather than enjoy ourselves

D. cooperation is of great importance if we want to succeed

48. We can learn from the passage that ______.

A. special-interest friends will drive your kids to school

B. historical friends remind each other of their shameful past

C. crossroads friends can maintain their friendship by writing to each other once a year

D. cross-generational friends seem to maintain friendship forever

49. According to the author, a woman only tell her best friend that ______.

A. she is on a diet because she wants to lose weight

B. she has been upset these days because of financial problems

C. her husband has fallen in love with a girl in his office

D. she has lost her job because she isn‘t really qualified enough

50. Which can be the best title of this passage?

A. Value of friendship

B. Friendship: being together

C. The qualities of a good friend

D. Friends, good friends and such good friends

C

Are you a compulsive spender, or do you hold on to your money as long as possible? Are you

a bargain hunter? Would you rather use charge accounts than pay cash? Your answers to these

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questions will reflect your personality. According to psychologists, our individual money habits

not only show our beliefs and values, but can also stem from past problems.

Experts in psychology believe that for many people, money is an important symbol of strength

and influence. Husbands who complain about their wives‘ spending habits may be afraid that they

are losing power in their marriage. Wives, on the other hand, may waste huge amounts of money

because they are angry at their husbands. In addition, many people consider money a symbol of

love. They spend it on their family and friends to express love, or they buy themselves expensive

presents because they need love.

People can be addicted to different things — for example, alcohol, drugs, certain foods, or

even television. They are compulsive in their addictions, i.e. they must satisfy these needs to feel

comfortable. In the same way, according to psychologists, compulsive spenders must spend money.

For people who buy on credit, furthermore, charge accounts are even more exciting than money:

in other words, they feel that with credit, they can do anything. Their pleasures in spending

enormous amounts are actually greater than those they get from the things they buy.

There is even a special psychology of bargain hunting. To save money, of course, most people

for sales, low prices, and discounts. Compulsive bargain hunters, however, often buy things that

they don‘t need just because they are cheap. They want to believe that they are helping their

budgets, but they are really playing an exciting game: when they can buy something for less than

other people, they feel that they are winning. Most people, experts claim, have two reasons for

their behavior: a good reason for the things that they do and the real reason.

It is not only scientists, of course, who understand the psychology of spending habits, but also

business people. Stores, companies, and advertisers use psychology to increase business: they

consider people‘s needs for love, power, or influence, their basic values, their beliefs and opinions,

etc. in their advertising and sales methods.

Psychologists often use a method called ―behavior therapy(疗法)‖ to help individuals solve

their personality problems. In the same way, they can help people who feel that they have

problems with money: they give them ―assignments‖. If a person buys something in every store

that he enters, for instance, a therapist might teach him self-discipline in this way: on the first day

of his therapy, he must go into a store, stay five minutes, and then leave. On the second day, he

should stay for ten minutes and try something on. On the third day, he stays for fifteen minutes,

asks the salesclerk a question, but does not buy anything. Soon he will learn that nothing bad will

happen to him if he doesn‘t buy anything, and he can solve the problem of his compulsive buying.

51. If you use charge accounts, ______.

A. you pay in cash B. you pay with credit card

C. you pay less than you should D. you pay more than you should

52. Compulsive bargain hunters buy things for all the following reasons except that ______.

A. the things they buy are cheap

B. they believe they can balance their budgets

C. they get psychological satisfaction

D. they really need the things they buy

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53. Behavior therapy in this case aims at ______.

A. helping businessmen to increase their business

B. helping compulsive spenders to buy less

C. finding out how people will react if they are allowed to buy

D. finding out what people will do in front of a bargain

54. The underlined word ―those‖ in Paragraph 3 refers to ______.

A. different things B. their addictions

C. charge accounts D. their pleasures

55. From the passage we can conclude that ______.

A. how you spend money reveals if you are psychologically healthy

B. money is a necessity and will bring you happiness if you have much

C. compulsive buying problems can be solved by taking some medicine

D. all businessmen understand well the psychology of customers

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