I. Grammar and VocabularySection One1.
When you are on stage, you need to be heavily ______ so as to have a better visual effect.A. made up of2.
B. made from
C. made up
D. made of
The damaged church was _______ as a ________ of the horrors of war.A. served…remainC. reserved…ruin
B. represented…remarkD. preserved…reminder
3.The somber atmosphere in the changing room _________ the mood of the team after its defeat in the
final.
A. clapped4.
B. cued
C. reflected
D. suspended
He’s always trying to _________ my words and make me look bad.A. turn
B. bend
C. control
D. twist
5.In the contest, he _______ all the other contestants and ________ the championship.A. defeated…beatC. beat…won
B. won…wonD. defeated…beat
6.She’s now famous and successful, but you know all these cannot be ________ overnight.A. recorded
B. achieved
C. cheered
D. clapped
7.He was on the _________ of his seat, waiting for her arrival anxiously.A. boundary
B. edge
C. border
D. bound
8.With the development of digital technology, the entertainment industry has _______ a new look.A. taken back
B. taken up
C. taken off
D. taken on
9.Besides the traditional gladiatorial(斗剑者的) games, many other public spectacles were held in the
Colosseum, such as mock sea battles, animal hunts and dramas ________ on Classical mythology.
A. voted
B. based
C. remarked
D. depended
10.Chinese and foreigners alike have stressed the importance of _______ the decaying sections of the Great Wall and _______ stronger sections from being worn down by tourists and visitors.
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A. maintaining…remainingC. remaining…maintaining
B. preserving…preventingD. preventing…preserving
11.The popular writer specializes in _________ novels set in Italy in World War II.
A. historic
B. historical
C. history
D. historically
12.Which of the following sentences is improper?
A. You left the container open.
B. From the kitchen there is a door that is opened into the garden.C. The banks had closed so I couldn’t get any money out.
D. The flowers open in the morning but close again in the afternoon.
13.Although it is now in a severely ruined condition due to _______ caused by earthquakes and stone-robbers, the Colosseum has long been seen as an iconic symbol of Imperial Rome.
A. assistance
B. confusion
C. civilization
D. damage
14.Today the ______ of a 12th-century monastery can still be seen on the site.
A. temples
B. remains
C. sites
D. wonders
15.They had to ________ their attempt to climb the mountain because of the poor weather conditions.
A. abandon
B. advise
C. attract
D. admit
16.If something ________, it gets damaged or destroyed because no one is taking care of it.
A. takes shape
B. dries out
C. breaks out
D. falls into ruin
17.As the crowd began to disperse, my husband and I remain ________, absorbing what we had just witnessed.
A. seating
B. seated
C. to seat
D. to be seated
18.There is a self-service restaurant ________, where we might just as well stop for a snack.
A. next
B. close
C. near
D. nearby
19.A good storyteller must be able to hold his listeners’ curiosity _________ he reaches the end of the story.
A. when
B. unless
C. after
D. until
20.Really One-four-hundredths of a second. That is the amount of time it ________ Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal to capture a historic image on film.
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A. costB. spentC. paidD. took
21.It is said that egg yolks were mixed into the mortar to strengthen the __________ of Charles Bridge.
A. concentration
B. construction
C. reflection
D. suspension
22.Originally capable of seating 50,000 spectators, it was used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles. The underlined word in the sentence can be replaced by ________.
A. holding
B. containing
C. including
D. involving
23.She ________ to me, so I presumed it wasn’t common knowledge. “You see,” she said, lowering her voice, “he’s in trouble recently.”
A. boomed
B. whispered
C. guaranteed
D. applied
24.Not until he retired from teaching three years ago _______ a holiday abroad.
A. he had considered havingC. he considered to have
B. had he considered to haveD. did he consider having
25.Politically the Great Depression made possible the _________ of Nazism and the Second World War.
A. fall
B. rise
C. twist
D. turn
26.The Colosseum _________ in use for nearly 500 years with the last recorded games being held there as late as the 6th century – well after the traditional date of the fall of Rome in 476.
A. remains
B. remained
C. was remained
D. has remained
27.When you are having your photo taken, you have to keep _______.
A. calm
B. silent
C. tense
D. still
28.Which of the following sentences is improper?
A. The resort is easily accessible by road, rail, and air.B. You cannot access the database without a valid password.
C. The book ahs succeeded in making a wider audience accessible to philosophy.
D. Having such easy access to some of the best cinemas and theatres is one of the perks of living in Sydney.
29.The historical treasure of Prague ________ a maze of narrow cobbled stone streets and is situated between the Vltava River and the central business district.
A. makes up
B. consists of
C. composes of
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D. comprises of
Section Two
I __30__ (become) what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking(窥视) into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past __31__(claw) its way out. Looking back now, I realize I __32__ (peek) into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.
One day last summer, my friend Rahim Khan called from Pakistan. He asked me to come see him. Standing in the kitchen with the receiver to my ear, I knew it wasn’t just Rahim Khan on the line. It was my past of unatoned sins. After I hung up, I went for a walk along Spreckels Lake on the northern edge of Golden Gate Park. The early-afternoon sun sparkled on the water where dozens of miniature boats sailed, propelled by a crisp breeze. Then I glanced up and saw a pair of kites, red with long blue tails, __33__ (soar) in the sky. They danced high above the trees on the west end of the park, over the windmills, floating side by side like a pair of eyes looking down on San Francisco, the city I now call Home. And suddenly Hassan’s voice whispered in my head:
Hassan, the harelipped kite runner.
I sat on a park bench near a willow tree. I thought about something Rahim Khan said just before he __34__ (hang) up, almost as an afterthought. There is a way to be good again. I looked up at those twin kites. I thought about Hassan. Thought about Baba. Ali. Kabul. I t hought of the life I __35__ (live) until the winter of 1975 came and changed everything. And made me what I am today.
II. Reading ComprehensionSection A
New Part of China’s Great Wall Found
The Great Wall of China just got a little bit greater. A new 50-mile section of China’s iconic structure has been __36__ in northwestern China, centuries after being buried by the __37__ that move across the arid area each year.
The segment, on the southern slope of Helan Mountain in the Ningxia region, __38__ about twenty-five miles west of the regional capital of Yinchuan. That part of the wall was built in 1531 and gradually buried by moving sand. When the section was __39__ in 1540, three watchtowers were added at different parts of the section, which __40__ from east to west.
The 21-foot-high chunk of wall is 20 feet wide at its __41__ and 11 feet wide at the top. It has seven drainage ditches and parapets(低墙) at both sides of the wall. Some parts were more fortified than others, being __42__ by stone segments that formed a “double-layered wall”.
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The Great Wall, from its starting point in the northwestern province of Gansu to Shanghaiguan Pass on the shores of Bohai Bay along China’s east coast, __43__ to span up to 3,700 miles through the north, which dynastic China’s emperors __44__ most vulnerable to attack.
A series of dynasties built the Great Wall over the course of centuries to protect China from __45__ invasions. But the Ningxia region in particular long has been China’s front line and a place deemed worthy of special fortification(筑城).
The freshly uncovered portion is near Great Wall sections built in __46__ was known as the Period of the Warning States (475 B.C.-221 B.C.) and the following Qin, Han, Sui and Ming dynasties. Wall sections in that area were built with materials including sand, mud, stone and criedly fashioned bricks. The surfacing of a new portion of the Great Wall is not unheard of.
In August, archaeologists said they __47__ 2,000-year-old sections of the wall in the desert northwest, __48__ two fortified castles dating to the Han dynasty, which lasted from 206 B.C. to A.D. 220.
The wall’s modern sections around the Chinese capital date from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Some parts have been __49__ since the Communist Party took power in 1949, and several including the most popular, Badaling, just north of Beijing __50__ hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.
36.A. founded37.A. sands38.A. locates39.A. ruined40.A. twists41.A. height42.A. profited43.A. believes44.A. reflected45.A. indoor46.A. that47.A. unfastened48.A. including49.A. refreshed
B. discoveredB. stonesB. situatesB. overlookedB. suspendsB. baseB. protectedB. to believeB. surroundedB. outdoorB. whatB. undidB. includedB. restored
C. establishedC. rocksC. sitsC. recoveredC. turnsC. tipC. preventedC. is believedC. consideredC. insideC. whichC. uncoveredC. containingC. recreated
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D. constructedD. snowsD. laysD. repairedD. fallsD. basisD. providedD. believedD. regardedD. outsideD. itD. undefinedD. containedD. recycled
50.A. attractB. attackC. attachD. attend
Section B
(A)
Fifteen years ago, I took a summer vacation in Lecce in southern Italy. After climbing up a hill for a panoramic(全景的) view of the blue sea, white buildings and green olive trees, I paused to catch my breath and then positioned myself to take the best photo of this panorama.
Unfortunately, just as I took out my camera, a woman approached from behind, and planted herself right in front of my view. Like me, this woman was here to stop, sigh and appreciate the view.
Patient as I was, after about 15 minutes, my camera scanning the sun and reviewing the shot I would eventually take, I grew frustrated. Was it too much to ask her to move so I could take just one picture of the landscape? Sure, I could have asked her, but something prevented me from doing so. She seemed so content in her observation. I didn’t want to mess with that.
Another 15 minutes passed and I grew bored. The woman was still there. I decided to take the photo anyway. And now when I look at it, I think her presence in the photo is what makes the image interesting. The landscape, beautiful on its own, somehow comes to life and breathes because this woman is engaging with it.
This photo, with the unique beauty that unfolded before me and that woman who “ruined” it, now hangs on a wall in my bedroom. What would she think if she knew that her figure is captured and frozen on some stranger’s bedroom wall? A bedroom, after all, is a very private space, in which some woman I don’t even know has been immortalized(使……永存). In some ways, she lives in my house.
Perhaps we all live in each other’s spaces. Perhaps this is what photos are for: to remind us that we all appreciate beauty, that we all share a common desire for pleasure, for connection, for something that is greater than us.
That photo is a reminder, a captured moment, an unspoken conversation between two women, separated only by a thin square of glass.
51.What happened when the author was about to take a photo?
A. Her camera stopped working.C. Someone asked her to leave.
B. A woman blocked her view.D. A friend approached from behind.
52.According to the author, the woman was probably ________.
A. enjoying herself
B. losing her patience
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C. waiting for the sunsetD. thinking about her past
53.In the author’s opinion, what makes the photo so alive?
A. The rich color of the landscape.B. The perfect positioning of the camera.C. The woman’s existence in the photoD. The soft sunlight that summer day.
(B)
Space exploration has always been the province of dreamers: The human imagination readily soars where human ingenuity (创造力) struggles to follow. A Voyage to the Moon, often cited as the first science fiction story, was written by Cyrano de Bergerac in 1649. Cyrano was dead and buried for a good three centuries before the first manned rockets started to fly.
In 1961, when President Kennedy declared that America would send a man to the moon by the decade’s end, those words, too, had a dreamlike quality. They resonated with optimism and ambition in much the same way as the most famous dream speech of all, delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. two years later. By the end of the decade, both visions had yielded concrete results and transformed American society. And yet in many ways the two dreams ended up at odds with each other. The fight for racial and economic equality is intensely pragmatic (讲求实用的) and immediate in its impact. The urge to explore space is just the opposite. It is figuratively and literally otherworldly in its aims.
When the dust settled, the space dreamers lost out. There was no grand follow-up to the Apollo missions. The technologically compromised space shuttle program has just come to an end, with no successor. The perpetual argument is that funds are tight, that we have more pressing problems here on Earth. Amid the current concerns about the federal deficit, reaching toward the stars seems a dispensable luxury—as if saving one-thousandth of a single year’s budget would solve our problems.
But human ingenuity struggles on. NASA is developing a series of robotic probes that will get the most bang from a buck. They will serve as modem Magellans, mapping out the solar system for whatever explorers follow, whether man or machine. On the flip side, companies like Virgin Galactic are plotting a bottom-up assault on the space dream by making it a reality to the public. Private spaceflight could lie within reach of rich civilians in a few years. Another decade or two and it could go mainstream.
The space dreamers end up benefiting all of us—not just because of the way they expand human knowledge, or because of the spin-off technologies they produce, but because the two types of dreams feed off each other. Both Martin Luther King and John Kennedy appealed to the idea that humans can transcend 第 7 页 / 共 9 页
what were once considered inherent limitations. Today we face seeming challenges in energy, the environment, health care. Tomorrow we will transcend these as well, and the dreamers will deserve a lot of the credit. The more evidence we collect that our species is capable of greatness, the more we will actually achieve it.
54.The author mentions Cyrano de Bergerac in order to show that ________.
A. imagination is the mother of inventionB. ingenuity is essential for science fiction writersC. it takes patience for humans to realize their dreamsD. dreamers have always been interested in science fiction55.How did the general public view Kennedy’s space exploration plan?
A. It symbolized the American dream.C. It sounded very much like a dream.
B. It was as urgent as racial equality.D. It made an ancient dream come true.
56.What does the author say about America’s aim to explore space?
A. It may not bring about immediate economic gains.B. It cannot be realized without technological innovation.C. It will not help the realization of racial and economic equality.D. It cannot be achieved without a good knowledge of the other worlds.
57.Which of the following is the closest to the underlined phrase “feed off” in the last paragraph?A. support
B. contradict
C. weaken
D. substitute for
58.What is the author’s attitude toward space programs?
A. Critical.III. Translation
59.我们小区里的新公园逐渐成形了。 (shape)60.这条河蜿蜒曲折穿过绿油油的田地。 (twist)
61.为保证游客安全，游客在晚上九点之后不得入园。 (admit)62.东方明珠电视塔依旧是俯瞰全上海的最佳地点之一。 (remain)
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B. Reserved.C. Unbiased.D. Supportive.
63.读一下这本书的介绍，你就会被这个国家的悠久历史和丰富的文化深深地吸引。 (attract)
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