Ⅰ. 单项填空
1. John found it a challenge to meet the needs of the boss. , he had no way to satisfy him.
A. In need
B. In case
C. In no time
D. In other words
2. (2013·杭州模拟)Tong Hua’s novel “Bu Bu Jing Xin” has been for both television and computer games.
A. adopted
B. adapted
C. accompanied
D. annoyed
3. (2013·浏阳模拟)Another bridge built at the end of 2012 over Liu Yang River_______ many people.
A. benefits
B. benefits from
C. is beneficial for
D. is of benefit
4. A fantastic idea occurred to him that he could use a plastic bottle, with its top , as a container to grow young plants in.
A. cut in
B. cut down
C. cut up
D. cut out
5. (2013·温州模拟)—It’s really a surprise that the manager should have no idea about the plan.
—Of course he doesn’t, for the plan was made in his.
A. shortage
time in a bottleB. analysis
C. absence
D. presence
6. (2013·杭州模拟)—I’m afraid I’ve broken your chair.
—I can easily get it fixed.
A. You’re welcome.
B. Not at all.
C. With pleasure.
D. Never mind.
7. (2013·蚌埠模拟)Her ambition is that she wants to become Li Na.
A. as a great tennis player as
B. as great a tennis player as
C. the same great a player
D. a great tennis player the same as
8. John the other children who have no parents is being taken good care of in the centre.
A. as well as
B. and
C. or
D. as good as
9. (2013·台州模拟)The two countries agreed to their differences and work together for peace, which has a positive impact on the international situation.
A. set down
B. set out
C. set aside
D. set about
10. (2013·衡阳模拟)From time to time Jason as though to search for someone.
A. turned over
B. turned to
C. turned out
D. turned around
11. (2013·黄州模拟)An old lady came to the bus stop only the bus had gone.
A. to run; to find
B. running; to find
C. and ran; finding
D. running; finding
12. “I have been receiving letters of support, which keeps me my music, ” said Liu Wei, an armless pianist in “China’s Got Talent” competition.
A. to focus on
B. focus on
C. focusing on
D. focused on
13. —Do you know when Britain war on Germany during the Second World War? —In 1939, I suppose.
A. announced
B. declared
C. fought
D. attended
14. The film star has asked but the journalists just keep following him wherever he goes.
A. to leave alone
B. left alone
C. to be left alone
D. being left alone
15. —Can you hand in your composition tomorrow?
—Sure. it handed in on time, I’ll stay u p tonight.
A. To have got
B. To get
C. Getting
D. Having got
Ⅱ. 阅读理解
(A)
(2013·绍兴模拟)
I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a boxcar in a freight yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I am 32. I can slightly remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to see again, but a calamity(灾难)can do strange things to people. It occurred to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn’t been blind. I believe in life now. I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply, otherwise.
I don’t mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of sight made me appreciate the more what I had left.
Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustments to reality. The more readily a person is able to make these adjustments, the more meaningful his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never easy. I was totally confused and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me—a potential to live, you might call it—which I didn’t see, and they made me want to fight it out with blindness.
The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. That was basic. If I hadn’t been able to do that, I would have collapsed and become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life. When I say belief in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of self confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that： an assurance that I am, despite imperfections, a real, positive person; that somewhere in the sweeping, intricate(错综复杂的)pattern of people there is a special place where I can make myself fit.
It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance. It had to start with the simplest things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was making
fun of me and I was hurt. “I can’t use this. ” I said. “Take it with you, ” he urged me, “and roll it around. ” The words stuck in my head. “Roll it around! ” By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible: playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball.
All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to learn my limitations. It was no good to try for something I knew at the start was wildly out of reach because that only invited the bitterness of failure. I would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress. (494W)
1. We can learn from the beginning of the passage that .
A. the author lost his sight because of a car crash
B. the author wouldn’t love life if the disaster didn’t happen
C. the disaster made the author appreciate what he had
D. the disaster strengthened the author’s desire to see
2. What’s the most difficult thing for the author?
A. How to adjust himself to reality.
B. Building up assurance that he can find his place in life.
C. Learning to manage his life alone.
D. How to invent a successful variation of baseball.
3. According to the context, the underlined phrase “a chair rocker on the front porch” in Paragraph 3 means that the author.
A. would sit in a rocking chair and enjoy his life
B. would be unable to move and stay in a rocking chair
C. would lose his will to struggle against difficulties
D. would sit in a chair and stay at home
4.According to the passage, the baseball and encouragement offered by the man .
A. hurt the author’s feeling
B. gave the author a deep impression
C. directly led to the invention of ground ball
D. inspired the author
5. What is the best title for the passage?
A. A Miserable Life
B. Struggle Against Difficulties
C. A Disaster Makes a Strong Person
D. An Unforgettable Experience
(B)
February 4, 2012 saw the take-off of a new rising NBA star-Jeremy
Lin.
Among professional basketball players, Jeremy Lin’s background is
not typical. He graduated from Harvard University, which sends few
players to the NBA, and he is the only Chinese-American NBA player. But
when you watch him on the court, there is no doubt that he belongs there. He moves with speed and grace that demonstrate years of faithful practice, which is fueled by a love for basketball.
Lin’s enjoyment of basketball actually began in Taiwan. When Lin’s father moved to the U. S. , his interest in the sport only grew and he passed on this love of basketball to his son, introducing him to the game at the age of five. The young Lin spent much of his youth playing basketball for fun.
In high school, Lin dreamed of playing in the NBA. When he applied for college, he was not offered a single sports scholarship. However, after his admission to Harvard, he was offered a place on its college basketball team.
During Lin’s time at Harvard, his basketball career began to speed up. He scored 1, 482 points, making him one of the highest scorers in Ivy League history.
When he graduated, no professional teams offered Lin a contract, but he was invited to play in the NBA Summer League. He played well and ended up eagerly signing a contract with the Golden State Warriors.
At first, playing in professional games filled Lin with excitement. He treasured opportunities to meet players he had been watching on TV for years. But slowly, the excitement wore off and was replaced by anxiety. In a few very difficult months, he was cut by two teams before the New York Knicks picked him up.
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