湖北省武汉市2012届高中毕业生四月调研测试
英语试卷
2012 4. 20
第二部分：词汇知识运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节：多项选择（共10小题，每小题1分；满分10分）
21. Operate the electrical appliance following the _____ attached in the box, or you'll be at risk.
A. instructions B. explanations C. introductions D. descriptions
答案：A 考察名词。Instruction 说明书，操作指南（instructions are clear and detailed information on how to do something.）explanation解释，说明。Introduction 介绍，引言，入门书。Description 描述，叙述，形容。
22. The 2008 financial crisis has been far away from us, but there's no _____ that the world economy will not suffer from another similar strike.
A. guarantee B. insurance C. commitment D. circumstance
答案：A 考察名词。Guarantee 保证（something that is a guarantee of something else makes it certain that it will happen or that it is true.）。insurance 保险（if you do something as insurance against something unpleasant happening , you do it to protect yourself in case the unpleasant thing happens.）。commitment 承诺，责任，义务。Circumstance 情形，情况，经济情况。
23. In a formal football match, each team can have three players to _____ their teammates when necessary.
A. replace B. substitute C. represent D. exchange
答案：B 考察动词。Substitute 取代，替换（if one thing substitute for another, it takes the place or performs the function of the other thing.）。replace 代替（if one thing or person replace another, the first is used or acts instead of the second）。Represent 代表；exchange 交换。本题中足球替补队员只是起替补作用，而不是代替主力队员上场，因此，substitute正确，replace不恰当。
24. With tourism having _____ the economy a great deal，the local government has passed a new law to invest double the amount in the past year to benefit more from it.
A. exaggerated B. disadvantaged C. accumulated D. embarrassed
答案：C 考察动词。Accumulate 积累，积聚（when you accumulate things or when they accumulate, they collect or are gathered over a period of time）。本题中accumulate economy 是积累财富的意思。Exaggerate 夸大，夸张；disadvantage 不利，短处，损失；embarrass窘迫，困难；均不符合题意。
25. Due to the fact that the operating system is not _____ enough，Windows 7 is not very popular with the computer fans.
A. easy B. stable C. firm D. smooth
答案：B 考察形容词。Stable 稳定，本题题意是window 7的系统不稳定。Easy简单；firm牢固，smooth光滑，流畅；均不符合题意。
26. More and more teachers tend to think that teaching is really a _____ job, so they have to devote a lot to it.
A. rewarding B. blessing C. demanding TK depressing
答案：C 考察形容词。Demanding job requires a lot of time, energy, and attention 教师的职业正是这样一种职业，十分劳神，费时，工作要求高。Rewarding is things give you satisfactions or bring you benefits有意义的，令人满意的；blessing 幸事，福分；depressing 令人抑郁的，让人消沉的，均不符合题意。
27. With time and patience, you'll _____ come to realize that the Southern American football is different from the European football in many ways.
A. sensitively B. immediately C. automatically D. gradually
答案：D 考察副词。本题大意为：只要你有时间和耐心，你会逐渐认识到南非足球杯与欧洲杯在很多方面都不同。Sensitively敏感的；immediately立即的；automatically 自动的，均不符合题意。
28. Despite the fact that his words often fail to _____ when he sings, Jay Zhou enjoys a very large number of admires in the mainland.
A. get through B. get out C. get across D. get over
答案：C 考察动词短语。周杰伦唱歌虽然歌词含糊不清，但他在大陆仍然很受欢迎。Get across 把…讲清楚，被理解，符合题意。Get through 用电话联系上；考试通过；完成任务；使明白（if you get through to someone, you succeed in making them understand something you are trying to tell them）；题干中没有“to sb”，因此get through 不对。get out 退出；泄露；get over 克服，恢复；使明白（要加get sth over to sb）。
29. Since the United States of America is a multicultural country, you’ll find it easy to _____the life there within a couple of months.
A. put up with B. get along with C. team up with D. fit in with
答案：D 考察动词短语。本题大意：美国是个多文化国家，你很快就能融入。Fit in with 与…想适应，符合题意。Put up with 容忍，忍受；get along with 与…和睦相处，但是后面跟sb，而题干中动词短语后面跟的是life，因此本题不选它；team up with 与…协力从事，不符合题意。
30. In order not to get disturbed，I spent three hours locked in my study，_____ the next day's interview.
A. in anxiety for B. in preparation for C. in exchange for D. in answer for
答案：B 考察介词短语。本题大意：为了避免打扰，我发自己反锁在房间里埋头学习，认真准备明天的面试。In preparation for 准备，符合题意。In anxiety for 无此种表达；in exchange for交换； in answer for 无此表达。
第二节：完形填空(共20小题,每小题1分；满分20分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
When I was 17 , I read a quote that went something like： “If you live each day as if it was your last，someday you'll most certainly be right. ” It made a( n) 31 _____ on me，and since then，for the past 33 years，I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself： ‘‘ If today were the 32 _____ day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a 33 _____ , I know I need to change something.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. The doctors told me this was almost 34 _____ a type of cancer that is incurable，and that I should 35 _____ to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs 36 _____ , which is doctor's code for preparing to die.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy (活组织检查)，it 37 _____ to be a very rare form of cancer that is 38 _____ with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to 39 _____ don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the 40 _____ we all share. No one has ever 41 _____ it. And that is as it should be, because 42 _____ is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It 43 _____ _____ out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you， 44 _____ someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so 45 _____ , but it is quite 46 _____
Your 47 _____ is limited，so don't waste it 48 _____ _ someone else's life. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner 49 _____ . And most important, have the courage to 50 _____ your heart and