瓯海中学提前模拟试题英语

瓯海中学提前招生模拟试题温馨提示：本试题满分100分，考试时间80分钟。

一：阅读理解（共两节，15小题，满分30分）第一节：阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

AIt warmed my heart today to walk into the Thirsty Camel downtown in the Thanksgiving Day, fora quick lunch before a haircut and library trip. Ihan, a food shop owner, said that he was refusing to take money today because it was Buy Nothing Day. To increase awareness(意识) of the strange over spending nature of our society, Ilan suggested a trade for food today. He simply asked that you offer something of equal personal value for the meal you received.At first I was really uncomfortable, wondering if it would be fair to exchange a yet to be determined “I Owe You” (IOU) for food? What could I give him of equal value? After all, his food is the best in the town! We ended up writing our IOU's with promises of a book, some paintings and the offer of work in a variety of ways if he needs it.thought into our offer and we had an even greater understanding for the meals we ate.We don't buy a lot, especially at this upcoming time of year. We don't give gifts at all in fact. The holiday time is spent enjoying each other's company and doing things together with family and friends. This is what seems most sensible.Ilan is a good person. We are all lucky to have someone like this in our community.1. Ilan did not take any money that day in order to_________.A. have a quick lunch before a haircut and library tripB. buy nothing that day to save some moneyC. make people aware of their over spendingD. trade for something of equal value in return2. For the meal, the author finally offered Ilan ________.A. some promisesB. a bookC. some paintingsD. work in different ways3. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word “transaction”?A. transportB. tradeC. mealD. giving4. What is the author’s attitude to Buy Nothing Day?A. DisagreeableB. Meaningless.C. Supportive.D. Doubtful.BThe Tories would allow children to go to school for ten hours a day and on Saturday mornings to improve the performance of poorer pupils and help working parents. Schoolsspokesman Michael Gove declared plans yesterday to give disadvantaged children moreclassroom time to help them catch up. Longer school days could also be popular with parents whostruggle to fit 3pm school finishing times around work, he said.Mr. Gove gave out the success of a U.S. plan where teenagers from poor backgrounds attend schoo l from 7.30 am to 5pm. “I believe that ha ving children in school for longer, particularly ifthey come from disadvantaged backgrounds can help them to achieve more in academy, ” he toldthe annual conference of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers in Manchester. He pointed out that it was up to schools alone to decide whether to open longer, or at weekends. But he was greeted with laughter from delegates （代表）when he said the plan would really work only with the active support of teachers.ATL general secretary, Dr Mary Bousted, said, “The last thing we need to be doing at the present time is increasing teachers’ working hours. Teachers already work the most unpaid overtime of any public sector profession. If we want Saturday schools then we need more teachers doing the extra hours, not the same teachers working longer and becoming tired.”Meanwhile Mr Gove's idea is likely to alarm those concerned about the erosion（侵蚀）of family time. Margaret Morrissey, founder of the lobby group Parents Outloud, said, “What we should be doing is supporting these children within the school week.”5. What’s the main idea of Paragraph 1?A. The Tories required all students to stay longer at school.B. Some parents didn’t support the arrangement.C. A new plan was used to help the disabled children.D. A plan was to meet some students’ and parents’ needs.6. The successful example given by Mr. Gove suggests that having children in school for longer, can improve their___________.A. studiesB. healthC. confidenceD. communication7. According to the passage, which of the following is true?A. Each school in that area has to open longer or work at weekends.B. Parents who can’t pick up their children on time support the action.C. According to Gove, the teachers there agree to longer school days.D. The new plan will undoubtedly help poorer pupils catch up with others.CTreasure hunts have excited people’s imagination for hundreds of years both in real life and in books such as Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. Kit Williams, a modern writer, had the idea of combining the real excitement of a treasure hunt with clues found in a book when he wrote a children’s story, Masquerade, in 1979. The book was about a hare (兔子), and a month before it came out Williams buried a gold hare in a park in Bedfordshire. The book contained a large number of clues to help readers find the hare, but Williams put in a lot of “red herrings”, or false clues, to mislead them.Ken Roberts, the man who found the hare, had been looking for it for nearly two years. Although he had been searching in the wrong area most of the time, he found it by logic (逻辑), not by luck. His success came from the fact that he had gained an important clue at the start. He had realized that the words: “One of Six to Eight” under the first picture in the book connected the hare in some way to Katherine of Aragon, the first of Henry VIII’s six wives. Even here, however, Williams had succeeded in misleading him. Ken knew that Katherine of Aragon had died at Kimbolton in Cambridgeshire in 1536 and thought that Williams had buried the hare there. He had been digging there for over a year before a new idea occurred to him. He found out that Kit Williams had spent his childhood near Ampthill, in Bedfordshire, and thought that he must have buried the hare in a place he knew well, but he still could not see the connection with Katherine of Aragon, until one day he came across two stone crosses in Ampthill Park and learnt that they had been built in her honor in 1773.Even then his search had not come to an end. It was only after he had spent several nights digging around the cross that he decided to write to Kit Williams to find out if he was wasting his time there. Williams encouraged him continue, and on February 24th, 1982, he found the treasure. It was worth £ 3000 in the beginning, but the excitement it had caused since its burial made it much more valuable.8. The underlined word “them”（paragraph 1）refers to _______.A. red herringsB. treasure huntsC. Henry VIII’s six wivesD. readers of Masquerade9. What is the most important clue in the story to help Ken Roberts find the hare?A. Two stone crosses in AmpthillB. Stevenson’s Treasure IslandC. Katherine of AragonD. Williams’ hometown10. Which of the following describes Roberts’ logic in searching for the hare?a. Henry VIII’s six wivesb. Katherine’s burial place at Kimboltonc. W illiams’ childhood in Ampthilld. Katherine of Aragone. stone crosses in Ampthill ParkA. a – b – c – e – dB. d – b – c – e – aC. a – d – b – c – eD. b – a – e – c – d11. What is the subject discussed in the text?A. An exciting historical eventB. A modern treasure huntC. The attraction of MasqueradeD. The importance of logical thinking 第二节（本节共4小题；每小题2分，共8分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。