河南省郑州智林学校高二英语月考试卷

With a lot of difficult problems ______, the newly-elected president is having a hard time.

The man will have to wait all day ______ the doctor works faster.

Who do you think the teacher will ______ the question?

The reason _____ he gave for not coming to your birthday party is ______ his mother was ill.

Shortly after we ______, a waiter came over to us with a smile.

They were ______ little children that they didn’t know what to do.

This is _______ I have come to Yuanyang.

— I'm very ________ with my own cooking. It looks nice and smells delicious.
—Mm. It does have a _________ smell.

The apartment caught fire last night. Fortunately, most of the people there _______ escape.      

I was about to go shopping _______ the telephone rang.

At last she made herself ______ by drawing a picture.

On _______ side of the river there are a lot of trees.

The book_______well.

He always works hard, but__________, he didn't pass the exam.

—Your sister nearly _____ all her spare time to her study during the three years.
—That's right, or she _____ the first place in her school in the College Entrance Examination.

     Mike had been delivering (送) newspaper for a week, but he was still not quite sure   36    he was going to like his first job. Today he was to   37    the month's money from his customers (顾客). At the first house, Mike walked past the Pierces' barking dog,   38    was tied up in the front yard. When he    39    the door he got up enough   40     to ring the bell. He told the man what he   41    . Mr Pierce didn't smile or say anything , but he handed Mike a bill. Mike   42    counted out the man's change.
 43    the time he got to the   44    house, Mike felt a little more  at ease. Mr Simon was repairing his   45    . He, too, gave Mike a   46    . but he smiled and talked    47    Mike gave him his   48    .
As Mike walked to the third house, he   49   a bit uneasy, Mr Swenson was just    50     home from the store, and he stopped   51    he saw  Mike. Mr Swenson paid Mike the exact amount in change. They stood   52   in front of the house   53    . This wasn't   54    to be such a difficult job    55     , thought Mike as he continued on his way.

A．what B．why C．whether D．which

A．fetch B．seize C．collect D．select

A．it B．he C．which D．who

A．arrived B．reached C．went D．got

A．courage B．money C．newspaper D．demand

A．liked B．believed C．wanted D．had

A．hardly B．lately C．carefully D．nearly

A．For B．In C．By D．On

A．third B．first C．second D．fourth

A．garden B．dog C．car D．job

A．money B．pay C．bill D．change

A．so B．for C．as D．because

A．newspaper B．help C．change D．smile

A．hadn't B．continue C．wasn't D．went

A．at B．in C．coming D．going

A．when B．thus C．where D．so

A．to talk B．talking C．back D．by

A．in no time B．at once C．for a while D．by and by

A．true B．happening C．going D．that

A．by far B．any longer C．after all D．at once

“Mom, can I bake some bread?” We were 15, my best friend, Hanna, and I, determined to try our hands at creating some beautiful bread.
“It’s not worth the trouble,” my mother said. “It takes lots of time and makes a big mess. Our bakery bread is delicious without all that effort.”
Begging was useless. Mom’s “no” meant “No!”
But several weeks later, opportunity knocked: My parents were going out for the evening. I immediately invited Hanna to be my partner in bread-baking crime.
We studied the recipe. That was easy. “Mix oil into flour then beat in four of the eggs, one at a time, with remaining sugar and salt.”
We were not good at breaking eggs. I tried to learn from my mother.
“Gradually add eight cups of flour. When dough (面团) holds together, squeeze it.”
We took turns working like that. “Is the dough ‘holding together’?” we asked each other.
I remembered my neighbor’s instructions: “If it’s too sticky, add some flour; if too dry, add water.”
We added water. Then more flour. Then more water. By then, the mass of our dough had grown very much.
“Place dough on floured surface and squeeze till smooth,” the recipe instructed.
We took turns burying our hands in the damp dough, pinching, squeezing, and feeling it leak between fingers.
“Clean and oil bowl, then return dough to bowl. Cover and let dough rise in warm place for 1 hour.”
This was good news --- we’d have a break. On dirtied kitchen chairs, we dreamed about our beautiful bread. “See?” we would tell my mom. “Isn’t it worth the work?”
Hanna and I couldn’t help glancing at the rising process every few minutes. But nothing was happening.
“Maybe something will happen in the hot oven,” I said.
Unfortunately, when we removed the loaves from the oven, they were like hard stones.
Mom was right; it takes time and effort. It sometimes makes a mess. But still it feels good, somehow, to be part of that long, ongoing chain of bread bakers. Since that night, both Hanna and I have learned to do it right.
To the writer, what her mother said was __________.

Which of the following can best describe the children’s feelings while making their first bread?

Which of the following did the writer do without instructions?

The passage mainly tells us ______________.

Women turn to online shopping
Women have jumped ahead of men for the first time in using the Internet to do their holiday shopping，according to a study published last week in the US.
For Years men have been more likely to shop on the Internet than women，but during the 2004 holiday season 58 percent of those making online purchases were women.
“It shows how mainstream the Internet is becoming”，said Lee Rainie，director of the Pew Internet and American Life Project group，which carried out the study.
Rainie said it was only a matter of time before women shoppers caught up with men. This is because women traditionally make decisions about spending.
Users were more likely to shop online to save time. Internet users between the ages of 18 and 29 were responsible for some of the most dramatic（显著的）increases in the online gift-buying population this time around.
However，three-quarters of the US Internet users did not buy holiday gifts online in 2004．They worried about credit card security，or just compared online prices with off-line prices，then dashed off to the shops to get the best deals.
“But even if shoppers don’t buy online，websites are becoming promotion tools for stores，”said Dan Hess，vice president of Comscore Networks Inc．Hess said that actually most stores’ websites can make customers fully believe the security of their credit card numbers. And most are able to ensure that gifts arrive on time.
“It’s all about making the shopping experience more efficient，more reliable and more comfortable，” Hess said.
Which of the following statements is true?

From the passage we can infer that________.

According to Dan Hess，shopping online___________.

What can we know from the passage?

Most, if not all, Chinese have become richer thanks to 28 years of reform and opening up. But are we any happier?
　　Various surveys attempt to answer this question. Though experts have presented varying percentages based on different standards, their answers tend to find we are generally happier, and the number of optimists rises each year. The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences’ 2006 Blue Book on social progress says 70 per cent of rural and urban citizens surveyed in 2005 reported a feeling of happiness and were optimistic about their futures.
　　But each survey shows a worrisome fact that 10 per cent, at the lowest, of citizens were not content with their lives or not hopeful about the future. We cannot be content with the fact that at least 130 million of our countrymen are not happy.
　　Although a sense of happiness remains a luxury（奢望）for many of our countrymen because of poverty, we agree wealth is not the only factor of happiness. For most of us, except the extremely rich and naturally born optimists, there simply are too many variables (可变物) that may kill the feeling of happiness. These include, but are not limited to, rising housing prices, tight and instable job market, back-breaking schooling expenses and medical bills.
The most common one, however, is a low sense of security (安全). Some experts pointed that in the low-and-middle income group there was too much uncertainty regarding employment, income, housing, medical situations, and education. How can you feel happy when you always have to prepare yourself for the unexpected?
It may be beyond the government’s reach, not to mention duty, to guarantee (保证) higher income for every citizen. But it does have a burden to create an environment where all citizens can feel a reasonable level of security.
From the second paragraph we learn _____________________.

The following factors of happiness are mentioned in the passage EXCEPT _________.

The underlined word “countrymen” in Paragraph 3 refers to ___________.

According to the passage, the author tends to hold the view that _________.

Testing has taken the place of teaching in most public schools. Pretests, drills, tests, and retests. They know that the best way to read a textbook is to look at the questions at the end of the chapter and then read the text quickly for the answers. I believe that my daughter Erica, who gets excellent marks, has never read a chapter of any of her school textbooks all the way through. And teachers are often heard to say proudly and openly that they teach to the test.
Teaching to the test is a curious phenomenon（现象）. Instead of deciding what skills students ought to learn, helping students learn them, and then using some methods of assessment（评价） to discover whether students have mastered the skills, teachers are encouraged to teach the students in the opposite way. First one looks at a test. Then one chooses the skills needed not to master reading, but to do well in the test. Finally, the test skills are taught.
The ability to read or write might suggest the ability to do reasonably well on standardized tests. However, neither reading nor writing develops simply through being taught to take tests. We must be careful to avoid mistaking preparations for a test of a skill with the acquisition（习得）of that skill. Too many discussions of basic skills make this misunderstanding because people are tested rather than concerned with the nature and quality of what is taught.
Recently, many schools have faced what could be called the crisis of comprehension or, in simple words, the phenomenon of students with grammar skills still being unable to understand what they read. These students are quite good at test taking and filling in workbooks. However, they have little or no experience reading or thinking, and talking about what they read. They know the details but can’t see or understand the whole. They are taught to be so concerned with grades that they have no time to think about meaning, and reread things if necessary.
The author mentions Erica’s performance in her study in order to show_________.

Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

In the author’s opinion, __________.

By “crisis of comprehension” (in Paragraph 4) the author means many students ______.

Reading is very important to help you learn English. To learn as much as you can from reading, you need to read different kinds of English. This book provides not only different kinds of English but also a good way to check your reading ability.
There are four parts in the book:
Part 1 is Messages: In this part somebody wants to send information in writing to somebody else .There is a test on timetables and a test on text messages.
Part 2 is People: In this part all the tests are about people. For example, there is an informal letter between friends. There is formal English in biography (传记) . There is a job application as a model to help with your writing, as well as testing your reading.
Part 3 is Places: In this part, too, many different kinds of English are shown, some informal and some formal. There is the informal English of a holiday postcard. There is also the formal English in a letter of complaint.
Part 4 is Things: You will find some descriptive writing in this part. There are descriptions of clothes and of a computer.
You can do these tests in any order you like, or you can do all the tests with a formal or informal text .I enjoyed writing this book and I hope you enjoy using it .
We can find the introduction to a product in         .

Which of the following is most probably written in informal English ?

The passage is most probably written for         .

What is the best title of the book ?

短文改错（共10题；每小题1分，满分10分）
After supper Li Hua came and asked me go                    
and see a film with him. In our way to                         
the cinema we saw the little girl sitting by                    
the roadside cry. We bought her a cake to                             
stop her crying. But when we asked where she              
had lived , she said she did not know . So           
when we took her to the police station and                   
asked the police to take care for her . After                 
this we went to the cinema, But when we                   
got there the movie was near at its end.                     
Though we missed the movie , we did a good deed.
We felt very happy.

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注意： 1．发言的开头和结尾已给出。         2．词数：100左右。
Attention, please, I’m going to give you a summary of today’s discussion
about whether we should go online in our spare time．
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