高二英语第四套

After mom died, I began visiting my father every morning before I went to work. He was weak and moved slowly, but he always had a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice on the kitchen table for me, along with an unsigned note, reading, ‘Drink your juice.” Such a gesture, I knew, was as far as my father had ever been able to do in expressing his love. In fact, I remember, as a kid I had questioned mom, “Why doesn’t father love me?” Mom frowned, “Who said he doesn’t love you?” “Well , he never tells me,” I complained. “He never tells me either.” She said, smiling. “But look how hard he works to take care of us, to buy us food and clothes, and to pay for this house. That’s how your father tells us he loves us.”
I nodded slowly. I understood in my head, but not in my heart. I still wanted my father to put his arms around me and tell me he loved me. He owned and operated a small scrap metal (废旧金属) business, and after school I often hung around while he worked. He fed scrap steel into a device that chopped it as cleanly as a butcher chops a rack of ribs. The machine looked like a giant pair of scissors, with blades thicker than my father’s body. If he didn’t feed those terrifying blades just right, he risked serious injury. “Why don’t you hire someone to do that for you?” mom asked him one night as she bent over him and rubbed his aching shoulders with a strong smelling liniment. “Why don’t you hire a cook?” my father asked, giving her one of his rare smiles.
Many years later, during my first daily visit, after drinking the juice my father had squeezed for me, I walked over, hugged him and said, “I love you, father.” From then on I did this every morning. My father never told me how he felt about my hugs, and there was never any expression on his face when I gave them.
The author’s father always prepared a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice for him because      .

The author’s fathe didn’t hire a helper because      .

We can infer from the passage that      .

What’s the passage about?

I walked down the hall heading to see my 88-year-old grandma who had been in hospital. Each member of the family was taking turns sitting with her because of her dementia (痴呆). As I did I looked very carefully at some of the rooms on this wing of the hospital, and it seemed that almost every bed held an elderly person. Some appeared to be confused, and some just looked lonely. I couldn’t help but notice that there was no family there, no one to care them, and no one to reduce the ache of loneliness. My heart broke inside me.
They are aging, with withered (萎缩的) skin on their faces and hands, their eyes look tried, and yet no one notices them. Could it be that we are far too busy to slow down and give a moment of our time to anyone that may swerve (使突然转向) us off the course we are traveling on? Are we afraid of those who have come before us to pave the way, afraid that they carry some awful disease that if we get too close we might catch it?
Whatever the case may be, one day we will be those same people that we long to avoid. We pay thousands of dollars for staying young, and we may turn up the music to forget the thoughts of getting older. But, try as we might, time and age will catch up with us.
We seem to have come to detest (嫌恶) the elderly. While we once held them in high regard and honor, always enjoying their stories of history, we now see them as a pain, always in our way. Isn’t it time we wake up?
So, next time you see a withered hand extended in need, or peer into the eyes of a lonely aging face, don’t run or look away. Remember, it might just be you in that place one day.
What made the author deeply sad?

What’s people’s excuse for not visiting the old?

What can we learn from the passage?

What does the author advise us to do in the last paragraph?

The global population is living longer，and getting older，which presents new challenges. “The question becomes：who will take care of everyone? While people will always be the best caregivers for people，there just aren’t enough people. That’s where robotic technology can really make a difference,” says Professor Maja Mataric at the University of Southern California.
Her group is developing robots to work with stroke (中风) patients and elderly people. The research team has found that people react well to a robot gym instructor，and seem to get less frustrated with it than with instructions given on a computer screen. The robot can act as a perfect trainer，with infinite(极大的) patience.
“People say things like ‘I prefer this robot to my husband！Can I take it home?’” according to Professor Mataric. “In fact there’s a really important point here. As we create these care giving technologies，we’re helping not only the people that need the care，but also the people caring for them. We can give them a break，and help them avoid burnout.”
People are going to have to like，and importantly trust robots before they welcome them into their homes，and several groups around the world are working on making it easier to communicate with them.
Much of human communication takes place through body language. Gestures， eye contact , and concepts of personal space are all things that robots are being taught. In learning about how people interact(互动) with machines，researchers are also discovering new roles for robots in our lives. Robots can communicate with humans in ways that other technologies can not.
“If someone finds the robot to be more persuasive and more reliable，that’s going to affect how they interact with it,” says Dr Cynthia Breazeal, director of the Personal Robots Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “We can now start to think about fields where it’s the social interaction，which is the main means by which a robot helps someone.” Dr Breazeal says that means robots could be used in education，learning，and health care，where social support is important.
Professor Maja Mataric mainly focused on robots’ function of ________.

Why can robots be wonderful trainers in the gym?

The underlined word “burnout” in Paragraph 3 probably means “________”．

The scientists are presently working hard to help robots        .

Surtsey was born in 1963. Scientists saw the birth of this island．It began at 7：30 am . on 14th November . A fishing boat was near Iceland．The boat moved under the captain's (船长的) feet . He noticed a strange smell．He saw some black smoke ．A volcano (火山) was breaking out . Red hot rocks，fire and smoke were rushing up from the bottom of the sea . The island grew quickly．It was 10 metres high the next day and 60 metres high on 18th November. Scientists flew there to watch．It was exciting．Smoke and fire were still rushing up. Pieces of red hot rock were flying into the air and falling into the sea. The sea was boiling and there was a strange light in the sky. Surtsey grew and grew. Then it stopped in June 1967. It was 175 metres high and 2 kilometres 1ong．And life was already coming to Surtsey. Plants grew．Birds came．Some scientists built a house．They wanted to learn about this young island．
A new island is like a new world．
When did scientists fly there to watch the birth of the island?

Put the following sentences in correct order      .
a. Some scientists built a house on Surtsey to learn about this island .
b. The captain saw fire , smoke and rocks rushing up .
c. The sea was boiling .
d. A fishing boat was near Iceland .
e. A new island appeared in the sea .

The best title of the text is      .

完型填空(共20题，每题1.5分，满分30分）
As a young girl, I remember a very special doctor named Dr William R. Vincent. When I was eight years old, I was with a serious heart    and I needed heart surgery(手术). My mom did not have the    to have it done, and    the surgery I would not live to be thirteen years old. After     several organizations Dr Vincent was    to get financial help for me through United Way, a Crippled Children’s Organization.
Dr Vincent was very    and caring. I remember when I was in hospital for a(n)    before surgery, I was crying hysterically(歇斯底里地). So the medical workers    Dr Vincent to calm me down, and he was able to    me when no one else could.    , the time came for me to have heart surgery; there was a fifty-percent    that I would not make it through the surgery. At that time I was only the second or third person to have it. I was really    , and again Dr Vincent reassured me he would see that      would be all right.
, the surgery was extremely painful but very successful. Dr Vincent came to see me and    me a toy animal. I was so surprised to get this    from Dr Vincent; I gave him a hug. I had a wonderful doctor who     time helping a scared little girl who felt all   . This was twenty-eight years ago. So wherever you are, Dr Vincent, I want to thank you for not only    my life, but also helping me live a(n)    life.

A．problem B．question C．matter D．puzzle

A．condition B．situation C．money D．time

A．beyond B．without C．through D．beside

A．joining B．seeing C．reaching D．contacting

A．able B．ready C．willing D．happy

A．carefull B．clever C．honest D．gentle

A．check B．exam C．test D．watch

A．depended on B．searched for C．woke up D．called in

A．prevent B．comfort C．protect D．move

A．Later B．Now C．Instead D．However

A．hope B．choice C．chance D．effect

A．satisfied B．frightened C．pleased D．moved

A．nothing B．something C．none D．everything

A．Fortunately B．Specially C．Fairly D．Hardly

A．lent B．carried C．brought D．held

A．regret B．award C．support D．gift

A．made B．spent C．lost D．wasted

A．alone B．strange C．comfortable D．sick

A．giving B．saving C．sending D．passing

A．exciting B．ordinary C．normal D．rich

单句改错（共10小题，每题1分，满分10分）
请修改下面的短文。短文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^），并在此符号下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（／）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Dear John,
How’s everything? We haven’t seen each other for long. I’m very exciting to receive an e-mail from you. I’m glad you have made so great progress that you can write your e-mail with good Chinese. I read your e-mail to my parent and showed them the photos you’d sent to me. What time flies! Our friendship lasted for several months. We have got to know and learned a lot of from each other. Yes, it’s obviously that the life in Australia is quite different from one in China. I’m looking forward to hear from you soon and I hope you will come to China in the near future.
Best wishes to you!
Yours,
Zhang Yang

七选五 （共5小题，每题2分，满分10分）
Good morning everyone! Today I want to talk about how to deal with our children’s homework. As we know, homework is a great way for children to develop learning skill. So as parents, you should pay attention to it.
____________
Avoid having your child do homework with the television on or in places with different noises, such as people coming and going.
Make sure your child has all the materials he needs.
Ask your child if special materials will be needed for some subjects and get them in advance.  _________.
Help your child use time properly.
Tell them not to watch TV unless they finish their homework in time. _________Don’t let your child leave homework until just before bedtime.
When your child asks for help, provide guidance（提供指导）, not answers.
Giving answers means your child will not learn the material. __________At the same time, you should keep in touch with teachers, which shows your child that the school and home are a team.
_____________
If your child has been successful in homework and is working hard, celebrate that success with a special event to make him happy.
I am sure your child will be interested in doing homework if you take my advice.
Thank you!

E. Make a set time each day for doing homework
F. Be positive about homework.
G. Too much help is bad for your child’s study.

作文（满分20分）
假如你是李华，你的笔友Tom发来电子邮件询问你的音乐喜好和你在新年晚会上的表现。请你给他写封电子邮件，回答他的所有问题。

注意：1．词数100左右；
2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3．信的抬头与结尾已为你写好，但不计入总词数。
Hi, Tom，
As you know, I’m music mad. _______________________________________________
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By the way, do you love music as well?