英语试题
(满分120分,考试时间90分钟)
一、选择题:(本题共20小题,每小题3分,共60
1. Hot metal ________ as it grows cooler.
A. contracts B. reduces C. condenses D. compresses
2. Although the pay is not good, people usually find social work ________ in other ways.
A. payable B. respectful C. grateful D. rewarding
3. I'm in no ________ this evening to listen to popular music.
A. feeling B. attitude C. mood D. tendency
4. He is one of the most ________ singers in his country.
A. preferred B. known C. favorable D. popular
5. _____ many times, but he still couldn’t understand it.(  )
A. Having been told    B. Though had been told
C. He was told      D. Having told
6. The farm ____we visited last week is the one ___ LiLei’s father once worked.(  )
A. where, that    B. that, where
C. on which, where    D. that, that
7. Leave here at once, or you will ___ the police.(  )
A. call in      B. call on    C. call for  D. call up
8. Once _____, the show can never be forgotten.(  )
A. see so    B. seeing      C. to see      D. seen on
9. The reason ______ his being late is _____ he didn’t catch the early bus.(  )
A. for, because    B. of , that    C. for, that    D. of, because
10. It is required that the money _____ paid immediately.(  )
A. will be  B. must be      C. be      D. it is
11. The food tastes _____ and sells _____.
A. well; well B. good; good C. good; well D. well; good
12. The sun was shining brightly, _____ everything there _____ more beautiful.
A. making; look B. to make; looked C. and made; looking D. and making; be looked
13. It' s too late to go out now. _____, it's starting to rain.四川考试教育院自考
A. Besides B. Meanwhile C. However D. Anyhow
14. Everybody in the little town knew my first teacher, so we had no _____ finding his home.
A. difficulties in B. difficulty with C. difficulty D. difficulty to
15. Lily____ four languages including English.(  )
A. Tells is
B. speaks
C. Says one
D. Talks is
16. If you can make it Friday, we won't invite__else.(  )
A. Nobody bat  B. somebody on C. everybody  D. anybody
17. Peter was recognized as___ a gift for playing the piano.(  )
A. Have is B. having C. to have D. had has
18.-Did Jane return your money?(  )
She said__but she didn't.
A. Could on  B. would  C. must is  D. should
19. My grandfather is in hospital,__ from a heart a tack.(  )
A. to recover  B. recovers to  C. recovered  D. recovering
20. Actually it was not until midnight the___ plane a rived there.(  )
A. Before of  B. when has  C. which of  D. that
二、单词拼写(共计15分)
1.Only by working hard ______________   (你才能完成目标). (根据中文提示填空)
2.Moved by what she said,he could hardly _____ (平静下来). (根据中文提示填空)
3.________(是常见的) for people to wear masks in foggy days. (根据中文提示填空)
4.I found it astonishing that the young couple ________ (进行了激烈的争吵) in public. (根据中文提示填空)
5.Their kids ____________ (长高了) since I last saw them. (根据中文提示填空)
三、阅读理解(30分)
阅读理解(一)
I had just gone to bed after a very hard day when the phone rang.It was an eccentric(怪僻的)farmer.I had never met him before although I had often heard people talk about him. He sounded quite nervous and he had been talking for a minute or so before I understood anything.Even then all I could make out was that someone called Milly had had a very bad accident.I hadn't the slightest idea who she was but I obviously had to go .
It had been snowing heavily that day and I didn't know the way. I had been driving for at lea
st an hour .When I finally found his place, he was standing there, waiting for me. It seemed Milly had died. “She meant more to me than anyone…even my own wife!” he said.I could see that he had been crying.I thought something terrible had taken place, a possible scandal(丑闻).I was even more shocked when he told me he had put her in the barn(厩).“I wouldn't leave her out in the cold!” he said.
Milly had clearly been a secret lover of his. I was about to tell him he could not expect me to cover anything up when he opened the barn door .He lifted his candle and I saw a dark figure on the ground." She was such a good cow! I wouldn't let anyone but a doctor touch her!" he said, and burst into tears again.
1.The underlined phrase “make out” in the first paragraph means    .
A.expect  B.understand    C.see clearly   D.hear clearly
2.Before he arrived at the farmer's house, the writer expected to see Milly lying.
A.on the ground of a barn    B.on the floor of a room.
C.in bed in a room        D.in bed in a barn
3.What do we know about Milly from he story?
A.She had met with an accident.
B.She had caused a scandal
C.She was seriously ill.
D.She was hidden somewhere.
4.The farmer wished that the writer might.