西交大少年班英语考试试题及答案

西交大少年班英语考试试题及答案

西安交通大学2009 年少年班选拔英语试题

注意：第一卷的试题请答在答题卡上，答最亲爱试卷上一律无效。

第I卷（选择题共65分）

第一部分：知识运用（共两节，35分）

第一节单项选择（共15小题：每小题1分，共15分）

1. Tom __A____ to Chinese food now.

A. is used

B. used to

C. is using

D. uses

2. You can take as many as you like because they are free of __A___.

A. charge

B. fare

C. money

D. pay

3. — I have decided to take the entrance examinations to college.

—Wish you ____C__.

A. a luck

B. a good luck

C. luck

D. a success

4.— Jim！Do you have a PC?

— Yes，I have ___C___. And I bought ______ last month.

A. it, that

B. it, one

C. one, it

D. one, this

5. This news sounded ___C__, and all of us were ______ by it.

A. encouraging, encouraging

B. encouraged, encouraging

C. encouraging, encouraged

D. encouraged, encouraged

6. The new D-type trains can run at speeds of 200 to 250 kilometers __B___ hour. The trip from Shanghai to Beijing only takes 10 hours now.

A. a

B. an

C. the

D./

7. — What do you think of his lecture?

—I think it is ____C__, but someone thinks it’s much too _____.

A. wonderful enough, bored

B. enough wonderful, boring

C. wonderful enough, boring

D. enough wonderful, bored

8. The boy with two dogs __B____ in the yard when the earthquake rocked the city.

A. is playing

B. was playing

C. are playing

D. were playing

9. —How well Anna dances! I can’t believe my eyes!

— ___D__.

A. So she does

B. So does she

C. Neither can she

D. So can I

10. —How do you like the concert given by the “Foxy Ladies”?

— Exciting, ___B___ one piece of the music wasn’t played quite well.

A. so

B. though

C. because

D. and

11.— The second book ____B__ I plan to read is Oliver Twist. What about you?

— Bill Ga tes’ Business@ the speed of Thought.

A. which

B. that

C. what

D.as

12. The war ___D___ many years.

A. was lasted

B. last

C. has been lasted

D. lasted

13. Come and see me whenever ___C___.

A. you are convenient

B. you will be convenient

C. it is convenient to you

D. it will convenient to you

14. Mother is always worried about her son. She often watches him ____A___ the street.

A. cross

B. to cross

C. crossing

D. across

15. We will visit the Olympic Village ____A__ it rains tomorrow.

A. unless

B. as soon as

C. when

D. since

第二节完形填空（共20小题：每小题1分，共20分）

阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A,B,C,D四个选项中，选出最佳选型，在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

“Fire! Fire!” what terrible words to hear when one wakes up in a strange house in the middle of the night. It was a large, old wooden house and my room was on the top floor. I 16 out of bed, opened the door and stepped 17 into the passage. It was full of thick 18 .

I began to run, but I was still 19 . Instead of going towards the stairs, I went into the 20 direction. The smoke grew 21 and I could see flames around. The floor became hot under my bare 22 . I found an open door and ran into a room to get the window. But 23 I could reach it, one of my feet caught in something 24 and I fell down. The thing I had fallen over felt like a bundle of clothes, and I picked it up to 25 my face from the smoke and heat. Just then the floor gave away under me and I fell to the floor below with pieces of 26 wood all around me.

I saw a flaming door-way in front, put the bundle over my face and ran. My feet burned me terribly, but I got 27 . As I reached the cold 28 outside, my bundle of clothes gave me thin cry. I nearly 29 it in my 30 . Then I saw a crowd got together in the street. A woman in a night dress and a 31 man’s coat screamed as she saw me and came 32 madly. “My baby!” she cried. The crowd 33 madly as she took the smoke blackened bundle out of my arms. I had some difficulty in 34 her. She was the Mayor’s wife, and I had35 her baby.

16. A. jumped B. stood C. got D. fell

17. A. out B. down C. up D. back