英语试卷

第一部分 英 语

一、完形填空，共 10 个小题，10 分。

Mark Twain, a famous American writer, was once traveling in France. He went by train to Dijion. He was very tired and wanted to 1 . He asked the conductor to wake him up 2 the train got to Dijon. But he first said that he was heavy 3 .

“I may possibly protest (抗议) loudly when you try to wake me up” He said to the conductor. “But do not 4 me, just put me off the train.”

Then Mark Train went to sleep, later, when he waked up, it was night time and the train had 5 Paris already. He realized (意识到) at once that the conductor

had 6 to wake him up to Dijion. He was so 7 that he ran up to the

conductor and began to 8 him.

“I have never been so angry 9 .” Mark Twain said. The conductor looked

at him 10 . “You are not so angry as the American who put off the train at Dijion,” he said.

( ) 1. A. read B. write C. drink D. sleep ( ) 2.A. while B. after C. when D. before

( ) 3.A. sleeper B. writer C. man D. American ( ) 4. A. look at B. listen to C. notice D. watch ( ) 5. A. got B. arrived C. reached D. stopped ( ) 6. A. forgotten B. remembered C. tried D. wished ( ) 7. A. happy B. worried C. angry D. interested ( ) 8. A. laugh at B. talk to C. speak to D. shout at

( ) 9. A. right now B. all my life C. in the past D. all the time ( )10. A. quietly B. angrily C. happily D. kindly

二、阅读理解 20 小题，20分。

（一）阅读下列短文，从各题中选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。

(A)

A meteorite (陨石) almost hit an 80-year-old man named Arthur Pettiffer in Britain when he was working in his garden. The meteorite was the biggest in the past 26 years in Britain.

The meteorite weighed (重) on kilo, and might be over four thousand million (百万) years old. “I hear the big noise in the air. I looked up and I saw the tops of the trees coming and going.” He said, “I didn’t know what it was.”

Meteorites are small things from the small planets in space. About 3,500 meteorites may fall on earth every year, but only very few are found. Mr. Pettiffer’s meteorite is the fifth to fall in Britain since the Second World War.

Mr. Pettifier is glad. “When you think about it coming from so far away, it really is something

strange.”

11. The meteorite was ______ Mr. Pettifier when it fell down. A. close to B. far from C. hitting D. coming to 12. The meteorite was already ______ years old. A. 40,000,000,000 B. 40,000,000 C. 400,000,000 D. 4,000,000,000

13. Mr. Pettiffer found the tops of the trees coming and going because ______. A. the trees were afraid

B. the fast falling meteorite kept the tree tops moving C. it was going to train

D. the moving was made by wind

14. ______ people see a meteorite fall through they visit the earth often each year. A. Quite a few B. Some C. Few D. Many

15. Mr. Pettiffer was ______ to see the falling of the meteorite. A. happy B. afraid C. sorry D. angry

(B)

A young man worked very hard at his lessons. He was too busy to have a rest. At last, he became ill and he couldn’t go to sleep. Every night, when he went to bed, he closed his eyes and tried to sleep. But the more he tried, the more he stayed awake.

Then he went to see the doctor. The doctor told him: “Try counting number by the time your reach one hundred, you’ll be asleep, I’m sure of it.”

The next day the man returned to the doctor’s. “Well,” said the doctor, “How are you today? did you have a try?”

The man still looked tired. “Yes,” he said, “I tried counting one, two, three … up to one thousand. But when I reached five hundred and sixty-nine, I began to feel sleepy. I had to get up and drink some tea so that I could go on counting up to one hundred. But then, I still couldn’t fall asleep.”

16. The young man couldn’t go to sleep because ______. A. he hadn’t finished doing his lesson B. he had worked too hard and became ill C. he was about his homework D. here was a lot of noise there.

17. The doctor asked the young man ______. A. to count numbers before he went to bed B. to put all numbers from 1 to 100 together C. to count numbers while he was lying in bed D. to take some medicine and go to bed earlier

18. The young man returned the next day because ______. A. he wanted to thank the doctor B. he wanted some medicine

C. he wanted to ask the doctor how to count the numbers D. he still couldn’t go to sleep at night

19.When the man counted to five hundred and sixty-nine, he ______. A. went to sleep

B. felt sleep and drank some tea to go on counting C. was more awake than before D. got up and took some medicine 20. The young man ______.

A. didn’t really understand what the doctor said B. was not able to count numbers

C. didn’t try what the doctor asked him to do D. wasn’t ill at all

(C)

Have you thought about what might have happen if American President Kennedy was saved in 1963? Impossible, you’ll say. Kennedy was killed in Dallas, Texas on November, 1963, and that’s an end to it.

But what would happen if he came back to his life? That’s what the “stuff books” are made of. In 1988 an American named George Bernan wrote a book of this kind.

The book is called “Promises to Keep”. It was thought of as the best one of the kind. He made the book like real life. The story was so interesting that it kept readers turning the page till the end though it had over 800 pages. In fact we know that John F. Kennedy was killed and never came back to life. In his book, he comes back to life, and the story begins from there. The book set readers thinking, not especially about Kenndy’s killing, but about what would happen after.

21.What kind of a book is Promises to Keep? A. A kind of study of Kennedy’s killing B. An American horror novel C. A life study about Kennedy

D. A story book developed from a true story 22. The book Promises to Keep tells us ______.

A. how to write a “stuff book” like the one written by Jone Bernau B. how to write about history

C. what would happen when Kennedy was brought back to life D. how to make up a story about the presidents.

23. Although the story is ______, readers like to read it very much. A. not interesting B. long C. sad D. not exciting

24. The book not only keeps the readers interested until the end, but also makes them ______.

A. feel terrible B. stop things

C. laugh at something D. thinking about something 25. The phrase “come back to life” means ______. A. never die again B. become alive again C. know one is stilling living D. live for ever