2011学而思杯 初二年级英语综合能力测评

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2011学而思杯 初二年级英语综合能力测评

　　时间：10:35--11:20          分值：100分

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　　姓名__________             得分__________

　　一、单项填空 (每小题2分，共计40分)

　　(  ) 1. David comes from            European country and he is            honest boy.

　　A. an, a    B. a, an     C. the, an    D. a, the

　　(  ) 2. He dropped the _______ and broke it.

　　A. cup of coffee  B. coffee's cup   C. cup of coffee's  D. coffee cup

　　(  ) 3. ---How many elephants have you seen?

　　---_______.

　　A. None   B. Nothing   C. No one   D. No

　　(  ) 4. Neither Jack nor Li Lei and I            interested in playing computer games.

　　A. am    B. is     C. are     D. was

　　(  ) 5. Every boy and girl            the book and they each            to buy one.

　　A. likes, wants  B. likes, want   C. like, wants   D. like, want

　　(  ) 6. I hear someone             at the door. Please go and see who            is.

　　A. knock, he  B. knocking, he   C. knock, it    D. knocking, it

　　(  ) 7. ---Your monitor is never late for school, is he?

　　---          . He always comes to school earlier than others.

　　A. Yes, he is.  B. No, he isn't.　  C. Yes, of course.  D. No, sometimes.

　　(  ) 8. ---Must I give the dictionary back to the library now?

　　---No, you           . You can            it for another two weeks.

　　A. needn't, borrow      B. needn't, keep

　　C. mustn't, lend       D. mustn't, keep

　　(  ) 9. The doctor did what he could            the boy.

　　A. help    B. to help    C. helped    D. helping

　　(  ) 10. Mary is often heard            songs in the next room.

　　A. to sing   B. sing     C. sang     D. singing

　　(  ) 11. She was unhappy when she heard the news,           ?

　　A. was she   B. wasn't she   C. does she    D. didn't she

　　(  ) 12. Before going abroad he devoted all he could            his oral English.

　　A. improve   B. to improve   C. improving   D. to improving

　　(  ) 13. He knows nothing about it, so he can't help            any of your work.

　　A. doing   B. to do     C. being doing   D. to be done

　　(  ) 14. Can you tell me some famous books and writers ________ you know?

　　A. which   B. that    C. who    D. whom

　　(  ) 15. It is two years since I _______ my hometown.

　　A. leave   B. have left   C. left    D. had left

　　(  ) 16. ---Is there _______ in today's newspaper?

　　---Yes, it is raining heavily in the south of China.

　　A. anything new B. new something  C. new anything  D. everything

　　(  ) 17. --- He's got our tickets.

　　---That's good. I         afraid that he         them.

　　A. am, has forgotten     B. was, had forgotten

　　C. was, forget      D. am, will forget

　　(  ) 18. The room is so dirty that it needs ________ badly.

　　A. clean   B. to clean   C. being cleaned  D. cleaning

　　(  ) 19. ---Could you please tell us _________ the famous singer will come for his performance?

　　---Probably in weeks, and the tickets won't be expensive.

　　A. how often  B. how long   C. how soon   D. how much

　　(  ) 20. Millions of pounds' damage _________by the storm which swept across the east of England

　　last night.

　　A. had been caused     B. was caused

　　C. has been caused     D. would be caused

　　二、完形填空 (每小题2分，共计40分)

　　I ran into a stranger as he passed by. "I'm so sorry!" was my reply. Then he said. "Excuse me too---I wasn't   21   watching for you." We were very polite, this stranger and I. Then we went     22   our way after saying goodbye.

　　But at   23  , a different story is told. How we treat our loved ones, young and old. Later in the kitchen, as I   24   our meal, my daughter walked up to me, very still. When I turned, I   25   knocked her down. "Get out of the way!" I shouted with a frown. She stepped away silently, with her little heart   26  . I didn't realize how harshly I had spoken.

　　That night, when I lay   27   in bed, God's quiet voice spoke to me, "While   28   with a stranger, you are calm and polite, but with those you love, you are quick to excite---Go look around on the kitchen floor, you will find some flowers there by the   29  . Those are the flowers she brought for you. She   30   them herself---pink, yellow, and your favorite blue. She stood there quietly not to spoil the surprise, and you never saw the   31   in her eyes."

　　By this time, I felt sad and small and now my own tears had begun to fall. I quietly went and knelt by her   32  , "Wake up, my dear," I said. "Are these the flowers you picked up for me?" She smiled, "I found them out by the tree. I   33   them in a napkin, just for you. I knew you'd like them, especially the   34  ." I said, "I am so sorry that I missed them today---and I   35   have fussed（发牢骚）at you that way."

　　And she whispered, "Mommy, that's OK---I still love you   36  ." I hugged her and said, "I love you too, and I love the flowers."

　　Do you know that: if you die tomorrow, the   37   you are working for could easily replace you in a matter of days. But the family you leave   38   will feel the loss for the rest of their lives. And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more into our   39   than into our families---an unwise investment indeed.

　　Remember that   40   =（F）ATHER---（A）ND---（M）OTHER---（I）---（L）OVE---Y（OU）.

　　(  ) 21. A. ever   B. even    C. just    D. right

　　(  ) 22. A. to    B. in    C. on    D. for

　　(  ) 23. A. school   B. work    C. home    D. office

　　(  ) 24. A. cooked  B. had    C. ate    D. took

　　(  ) 25. A. already  B. hardly    C. rudely   D. nearly

　　(  ) 26. A. lost   B. missed   C. beaten   D. broken

　　(  ) 27. A. asleep   B. awake   C. afraid    D. alive

　　(  ) 28. A. standing  B. meeting   C. going    D. talking

　　(  ) 29. A. floor   B. kitchen   C. window   D. door

　　(  ) 30. A. grew   B. gave    C. picked   D. dropped

　　(  ) 31. A. tears   B. expressions  C. smiles   D. joy

　　(  ) 32. A. desk   B. bed    C. body    D. knees

　　(  ) 33. A. wrapped  B. covered   C. put    D. help

　　(  ) 34. A. pink   B. yellow   C. blue    D. black

　　(  ) 35. A. needn't  B. shouldn't   C. mustn't   D. can't

　　(  ) 36. A. however  B. besides   C. anything   D. anyway

　　(  ) 37. A. company  B. country   C. place    D. state

　　(  ) 38. A. for    B. with    C. behind   D. to

　　(  ) 39. A. stranger  B. loss    C. meal    D. work

　　(  ) 40. A. RESPECT  B. WARMTH   C. FAMILY   D. FRIEND

　　三、阅读理解 (每小题2分，共计20分)

　　A

　　Vacations are a chance to take a break from work, see the world and enjoy time with family. But do they make you happier?

　　Researchers from the Netherlands set out to measure the effect that vacations have on overall happiness and how long it lasts. They studied happiness levels among 1, 530 Dutch adults, 974 of whom took a vacation during the 32-week study period. The study showed that the largest lift in happiness comes from the simple act of planning a vacation. In the study, the effect of vacation anticipation lifted happiness for eight weeks.

　　After the vacation, happiness quickly dropped back to baseline levels for most people. How much stress or relaxation a traveler experienced on the trip appeared to influence post-vacation happiness. There was no post-trip happiness benefit for travelers who said the vacation was "neutral" or "stressful."

　　Surprisingly, even those travelers who described the trip as "relaxing" showed no additional jump in happiness after the trip. "They were no happier than people who had not been on holiday," said the lead author, Jeroen Nawijn, tourism research lecturer at Breda University. The only vacationers who experienced an increase in happiness after the trip were those who reported feeling "very relaxed" on their vacation. Among those people, the vacation happiness effect lasted for just two weeks after the trip before returning to baseline levels.

　　One reason vacations don't increase happiness after the trip may have to do with the stress of returning to work. And for some travelers, the holiday itself was stressful. "In comments from people, the thing they mentioned most referred to disagreements with a travel partner or being ill," Mr. Nawijn said.

　　The study didn't find any relationship between the length of the vacation and overall happiness. Since most of the happiness boost comes from planning and anticipating a vacation, the study suggests that people may get more out of several small trips a year than one big vacation, Mr. Nawijn said.

　　(  )41. What's the best title for this passage?

　　A. Post-vacation happiness           B. Pre-vacation planning

　　C. Influence to vacations             D. Research on vacations

　　(  )42. The study implies that _________.

　　A. The longer the vacation is, the happier the travelers will be.

　　B. The better you get your vacation planned, the more happiness you will get.

　　C. It will make you happier if you divide a big vacation into small ones.

　　D. None of the travelers were happier than those who had not been on holiday,

　　(  )43. Which of the statements is not mentioned in the passage?

　　A. People never have additional jump in happiness after the trip.

　　B. For most people, happiness quickly dropped back to baseline levels after the vacation.

　　C. The largest lift in happiness comes from the simple act of planning a vacation.

　　D. Vacations are a chance to get relaxed from work.

　　(  )44. Which of the following is NOT the reason for not increasing happiness after a trip?

　　A. You got different ideas with your partners on holiday.

　　B. You caught a bad cold during the trip.

　　C. The worry about whether you could return to work or not.

　　D. The holiday itself could get you stressed.

　　(  )45. During the 32-week study period _______of the people involved took a vacation.

　　A. about one seconds                 B. about two thirds

　　C. more than one third                D. less than three fifth

　　B

　　I had an experience some years ago, which taught me something about the ways in which people make a bad situation worse by blaming themselves. One January, I had to hold two funerals on successive days for two elderly women in my community. Both had died "full of years", as the Bible would say. Their homes happened to be near each other, so I paid condolence(吊唁) calls on the two families on the same afternoon.

　　At the first home, the son of the deceased woman said to me, "If only I sent my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow, she would be alive today. It's my fault that she died." At the second home, the son of the other deceased woman said, "If only I hadn't insisted on my mother's going to Florida, she would be alive today. That long airplane ride, the sudden change of climate, was more than she could take. It's my fault that she's dead."

　　You see that any time there is a death, the survivors will feel guilty. Because the course of action they took turned out bad, they believe that the opposite course---keeping Mother at home, putting off the operation--- would have turned out better. After all, how could it have turned out any worse?

　　There seem to be two elements involved in our willingness to feel guilty. The first is our pressing need to believe that the world makes sense, that there is a cause for every effect and a reason for everything that happens. That leads us to find patterns and connections both where they really exist and where they exist only in our minds.

　　The second element is the view that we are the cause of what happens, especially the bad things that happen. It seems to be a short step from believing that every event has a cause to believing that every disaster is our fault. The roots of this feeling may lie in our childhood.

　　A baby comes to think that the world exists to meet his needs, and that he makes everything happen in it. He wakes up in the morning and summons the rest of the world to his tasks. He cries, and someone comes to attend to him. When he is hungry, people feed him, and when he is wet, people change him. Very often, we do not completely outgrow that childish view that our wishes cause things to happen.

　　(  )46. What is said about the two deceased elderly women?

　　A. They lived out a natural life.

　　B. They died of exhaustion after the long plane ride.

　　C. They weren't used to the change in weather.

　　D. They died due to lack of care by family members.

　　(  )47. The author had to conduct the two women's funerals probably because________.

　　A. he wanted to comfort the two families

　　B. he was an official from the community

　　C. he had great pity for the deceased

　　D. he was minister of the local church

　　(  )48. People feel guilty for the death of their loved ones because ________.

　　A. they couldn't find a better way to express their sorrow

　　B. they believed that they were responsible

　　C. they had neglected the natural course of events

　　D. they didn't know things often turn in the opposite direction

　　(  )49. According to the passage, the underlined part in paragraph 4 probably means that ________.

　　A. everything in the world is predetermined

　　B. the world can be interpreted in different ways

　　C. there's an explanation for everything in the world

　　D. we have to be sensible in order to understand the world

　　(  )50. What's the idea of the message?

　　A. Life and death is an unsolved mystery

　　B. Every story should have a happy ending

　　C. Never feel guilty all the time because not every disaster is our fault

　　D. In general, the survivors will feel guilty about the people who passed away