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入学考试
英语试卷
(高中卷)
Part ONE Reading(40 points)
Section 1 (10 points)
Questions 1-10
Look at the sentences below about Orkney Islands.
Read the text on the opposite page to decide if each sentence is correct or incorrect.
If it is correct, mark A on your answer sheet.
If it is not correct, mark B on your answer sheet.
1. Some of the islands are home to animals rather than people.
2. Farming on the Orkney Islands has increased in importance over the years.
3. There are some ruins on one of the islands.
4. There is an Arts Centre in the capital of the Orkney Islands.
5. If you go to the Arts Centre, you can see some examples of modern art.
6. The fishing industry has changed what it catches.
7. To get the most from an Orkney holiday, it is necessary to go to several islands.
8. A taxi can take you to all the tourist places on Hoy.
9. You can fly direct from London Heathrow to Kirkwall.
10. One hotel includes tickets for the Arts Festival in its price.
The Ancient Islands of Orkney
Off the north coast of Scotland, there are seventy islands which form the Orkney Islands. Some are no more than tiny rocks with just sheep and sea birds on them; only sixteen have human populations. Apart from Rousay and Hoy, the islands are low-lying and good for farming. Although tourism is now the main industry, farming is still as important to island life as it was thousands of years ago. People have farmed here for more than 4,500 years and you can still see parts of a village from that time on the biggest island, which is called the Mainland. The strange stone box beds that are left show us that the inhabitants used to sleep sitting up rather than lying down!
THINGS TO DO
The Orkney Islands are great for walking and one of the best places in the British Isles for water sports. There are seven lochs, or lakes, to fish in and excellent sea fishing. The capital of the islands is the beautiful old town of Kirkwall, where there are shops offering special varieties of cheese and fish. The fishing port of Stromness has a museum, three bookshops and an Arts Centre, which has a good collection of late twentieth-century art. In the harbour there are plenty of fishing boats to see, although the boats no longer catch whales as they once did. Every year there is an Arts Festival in June, which has music, drama, dance, poetry and exhibitions of paintings.
It is best to spend most of your time in the Orkney Islands on the Mainland, as there is so much to see and do. However, you can also visit one or two of the other islands such as the island of Hoy, which is particularly famous for its high cliffs. Taxis are available to drive you round Hoy, but you will need to walk up to the top of the cliffs. When tourists reach the cliff edge, particularly in bad weather, they find the safest way to see the view is by lying down on their stomachs!
HOW TO GET THERE
BA Express flies to Kirkwall daily (except Sundays) from Glasgow and Edinburgh, and there are connecting services with London Heathrow. There is a ferry every day from Scrabster and weekly ferries from Aberdeen.
WHERE TO STAY
There are many excellent hotels and inns to choose from. Most do very good fish dishes in their restaurants. The Stromness Hotel also offers seven nights from ￡199 during the Arts Festival and the price includes a meal before or after the concerts.
Section 2 (14 points)
You are going to read an extract from a novel. For questions 11-17, choose the answer (A, B, C or D), which you think fits best according to the text.
There was a small breeze when Christine came out for her lunch as she usually did, even when it was raining, instead of going up to the store canteen. You could never get a table to yourself there, and whoever sat with you always wanted to complain about the shop, the customers, the management or the canteen food. Everyone at Goldwyn’s seemed to have a complaint of some kind, although it was one of the best London stores to work for, and many of the staff had been there for years – some of them were long past retiring age. This was because the management let them stay on even when they were really past it, like poor old Martha, who was always trying to sell people dresses that were much too old for them.
Christine herself had been in the book department for more than four years. She had started as a junior, knocking over piles of books and breaking the till once a week in her efforts to serve customers quickly. Now she was Head Salesperson and moved calmly around the department between the bright new paperbacks, knowing that book customers liked to take their time, unlike the people who stampeded through the other parts of the shop with never a moment to spare.
She knew every book in the place, and all about the new ones before they came out. She was said to be Mr. Parker’s right-hand person – and heaven knows he needed one – and was sometimes asked into his office to meet a favored publisher’s representative.
The book department, partly due to Mr. Parker’s weak administration and partly because it was thought to be sophisticated, was the only department in Goldwyn’s where you did not have to (line 19) wear black. This led to some confusion as to who was an assistant and who was a customer, not untypical of bookshops, and accounted for the distressed look of people who picked up a book they wanted but were afraid of having their elbows grasped by the store detective before they could find someone to take their money.
Christine was wearing her grey suit today. She liked the grey suit. She had liked it for a long time, because she had accepted her aunt’s advice that it was better to buy an expensive suit that would last than to keep buying cheap suits that looked very smart for a few weeks, until they began to wrinkle at the elbows and sag at the seat. The grey suit had been what the shop had called a ‘classic’, which meant that nobody would ever turn round in the street to look at it, but it would stand having its skirt taken up or let down according to the swings of fashion.
Christine liked her work, as much as one can like any job that imprisons one from nine till five-thirty. She liked Goldwyn’s, but she was always glad to get away from it at lunchtime, even though it meant queuing for a table at one of the restaurants and teashops that fed the local shop-workers. Here people tended to eat with one eye on their watches and had a taste for things like pasta and puddings which were the most filling at the least cost. But Christine, once seated, enjoyed a leisurely, if lonely, sandwich.
Alice, who was her junior, was always meeting people at lunchtime. Even if it was only a man who had picked up her handkerchief in the cafeteria, she made it sound exciting, like an adventure. Alice and the other junior, Helen, were always giggling in the classics section where the customers did not go much. If Christine came along, they would suddenly look serious and pretend to be straightening books. Christine thought this should have made her feel very old, but it didn’t. She was so much happier than she had been at the giggling age. She liked her authority in the book department. Sometimes, outside, she insecurely wondered how she stood in relation to the rest of the world. At Goldwyn’s she was someone.
11. Christine preferred not to have lunch at work because she wanted to avoid
A. her colleagues. B. the canteen food.
C. the management. D. the customers.
12. Christine was particularly valuable to Mr. Parker because
A. publishers’ representatives liked her. B. she knew which books would sell.
C. she had good relations with customers. D. she had knowledge which he lacked.
13. This (line 19) refers to
A. the book department. B. a confusing situation.
C. the assistants’ free choice of clothes. D. Mr. Parker’s attitude to customers.
14. Why did customers in the book department sometimes look uncomfortable?
A. It was unlike other bookshops. B. The assistants watched them closely.
C. They didn’t know who to pay.D. There were no prices on the books.
15. Which word most accurately describes Christine’s grey suit?
A. practical B. fashionable C. original D. inexpensive
16. What was the disadvantage for Christine of the places she went to for lunch?
A. the type of food they served B. the fact that they were crowded
C. the speed with which she had to eat D. the type of people who ate there
17. How did Christine regard the junior members of staff?
A .She found them annoying. B. They made her feel old.
C. She found them amusing. D. They made her feel important.
Keys： 11.A 12. D 13. C 14. C 15. A 16. B 17.D
Section 3 (16 points)
Read the text below and answer the following questions.
The Story of the Battery
When people consider today how indispensable the Internet is, they often overlook that without electricity, it would not function. Living without the Internet would be a significant inconvenience today, but without electricity, life as we know now it would collapse. Since we started using electricity, which was in the middle of the nineteenth century, we have worked on ways to moveand store it easily and efficiently and one of the most common ways of storing electricity has been the battery. A battery does not actually storeelectricity. A battery, which is actually an electric cell, is a device that produces electricity from a chemical reaction. The story of the battery is one of people trying to create different compounds to create an electric current. The two goals onimproving batteries have always been to create ones that can produce an electric current for a long time and to make them smaller and smaller.
Alessandro Volta is credited with creating in 1800 the first battery and the first practical method of generating electricity. Luigi Galvani, another Italian scientist and contemporary of Volta, almost made the discovery, but misinterpreted his research results. Using a frog’s leg in an experiment, Galvani concluded that the electric current was ‘animal electricity’ and did not come from the apparatus he had set up. Volta’s battery was made by piling up layers of silver and paper or cloth, soaked in salt, and zinc. These layers were assembled, without paper or cloth between the zinc and silver, until the current was created.
Volta’s battery was not good for delivering currents for any significant duration. This restriction was overcome in the Daniell Cell in 1820. Using different chemicals, John Daniell used a copper pot, copper sulphate, sulphuric acid and mercury to produce his electric current. Although we nowknow better than to put mercury into batteries, this battery, which produced about 1.1 volts, was used to power telegraphs, telephones, and even to ring doorbells in homes for over 100 years. Although many other chemical combinations were used in batteries over the years, the lead acid battery is one that stands out. First made in 1859, it was further improved in 1881 and this designeven now forms the basis of the modern lead acid battery found in cars.
One very common battery used today is the lithium-ion battery, which was developed by theUnited States’ Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as a part of their efforts during the Cold War. Theidea surrounding the lithium-ion battery was to create a power source that could provide a longduration,high-density energy supply in a small package. In the early 1960’s, both the private andpublic sectors were experimenting with creating batteries using lithium, but the breakthrough in thechemistry was achieved by adding the ion into the equation. Not long after its invention, the CIAshared the lithium-ion battery concept with the public and a company working on an exploratoryproject developed and created the first patent for the lithium-ion battery forcommercial use in1968. Used for a variety of different applications, the first lithium-ion battery was a game-changerin the medical industry, where it is used as the power source in heart pacemakers.
Questions 18-22
Complete the table below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the text for each answer.
Some Older BatteriesBattery / Notes
Volta’s Battery / * Invented in 1800
* Beat his contemporary, Galvani, who
made errors with his (18) ______
* Used silver, paper or cloth, salt and
zinc in (19) ______
* Not good for long (20) ______
Daniell’s Battery / * Made using different chemicals
* Used (21) ______, which is not
used any more
* Produced just over 1 volt and was used
for over 100 years
The Lead Acid Battery / * A significant development from 1859
that still is used in (22) ______today
Questions 23-25
Complete the sentences below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the text for each answer.
23. The lithium-ion battery was invented as part of the United States’contribution to the ______.
24. The ______that allowed the success of the lithium-ion battery was the chemical addition of the ion to the equation.
25.Not long after his invention, the CIA created the first______forthe lithium-ion battery for commercial use in 1968.
Part TWO-Grammar and Vocabulary (40 points)
Section 1: Cloze完形填空 (20 points)
Tick，tock，tick，tock. I’msitting here，watching the movements of my existence pass slowly away. My house has been 1 for such a long time，and I’m lonely and forgotten. Sitting here, by myself, all that I can do is 2 and think about my past. I could tell you stories that only 3 would know. But walls can’t speak.
I came to this place many years ago，along with an old man…. 4 ,he waswith me for on1y three short years before he passed on….
For a time，I was left alone，while people came and 5 the house…. Then，one day a nice couple moved in with a young son. 6, their son Danny liked to stay with me，and I was completely 7 with him. He always looked as if heloved the stories I told，most of which began with. ‘‘Backin my day…”and‘‘When Iwas 8 .…”I sometimes had the kind of idea that he didn’t really understandwhat I was saying，but it felt good to be 9 ．When Danny went off tocollege, my heart broke. Soon afterward, 10 sold the house.…
New owners came and 11. Then，One day it so happened thatI was in whena new family was moving into the house. You can’t even imagine my 12 when，unexpectedly, Danny walked through the front door. He had a 13 and kids now.I was so overjoyed when I saw him that I put all my 14 into my daily activities. ... I spent the next twenty years watching his kids grow up, with a mixture of pride and 15 about what would happen next.
The kids finally became 16 and Danny sold the house. That was about fiveyears ago…. Some of the local kids have started the rumor that the house ishaunted (闹鬼的)--- and，in a way，it is. It is haunted by 17 of all the people whohave lived in it. Every second has 18 me so much. I have been 19 themdown and they are almost up for me.... I hope that someday somebody will 20 me, and drop in on me again. Maybe then I’ll get a new home and an opportunity fora whole new set of memories.
1 / A. crowded / B. empty / C. painted / D. sold2 / A. look back / B. enjoy food / C. have a dream / D. chat with friends
3 / A. friends / B. learners / C. neighbors / D. walls
4 / A. Luckily / B. Happily / C. Sadly / D. Surprisingly
5 / A. looked at / B. settled in / C. bought in / D. sold out
6 / A. At last / B. At one time / C. In the end / D. From the beginning
7 / A. tired / B. friendly / C. taken / D. fond
8 / A. older / B. healthier / C. better / D. younger
9 / A. loved / B. told / C. disliked / D. believed
10 / A .Danny / B. I / C. his parents / D. the old man
11 / A. settled / B. went / C. lived / D. greeted
12 / A. pity / B. pride / C. surprise / D. sadness
13 / A. friend / B. daughter / C. son / D. wife
14 / A. energy / B. time / C. life / D. ideas
15 / A. happiness / B. dream / C. anxiety / D. disappointment
16 / A. old / B. impatient / C. adults / D. tired
17 / A. families / B . furniture / C. houses / D. memories
18 / A. impressed / B. surprised / C. encouraged / D. inspired
19 / A. putting / B. copying / C. counting / D. taking
20 / A. call / B. remember / C. visit / D. attend
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