江苏省2016年2月南师附中淮阴天一英语四校联考.doc

江苏省2月南师附中、淮阴、天一、海门英语四校联考第二部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分35分）第一节 单选（共15 小题: 每题1分，满分15分）21. ----What do you think about that new librarian? ----She is ______ of a good clerk, for she even doesn’t know how to classify the books.A. somebody B. nothing C. something D. nobody 22. ---- I’ve had a bad cough recently. ----Me too. I’ve never experienced ______ of air pollution in cities before.A. an acute problem B. a more acute problem C. a most acute problem D. the most acute problem 23. According to the Ministry of Environmental Protection, many cities in China suffered ______ air pollution during the third quarter of this year. A. meaningful B. amusing C. significant D. fundamental24. Fame and wealth can be attractive, but ______ will they give you permanent happiness. A. in no time B. at a time C. at all times D. at no time 25. With the pressure of being off work ______, Mary seemed to be going crazy. A. making up B. taking up C. picking up D. building up 26. Floyd Landis made several lame excuses blaming medicine he had been takingfor an injury, but these were all ______. A. in progress B. in vain C. in turn D. in tune 27. Many of the creatures in the movie “Avatar” are not real, but much of ______ happens is still attractive. A. which B. what C. that D. them 28. Leonardo da Vinci ______ a scientist if he had not been so skilled in other areas. A. would be B. must be C. might have been D. should have been 29. ----Hurry! There’s no time to waste. ----OK. But I’m afraid that ______ I work around the clock, I can’t catch up withthose straight A students. A. even if B. as C. until D. as though 30. ----You should have told her about the meaning of the gesture.----I meant ______, but I had some unexpected guests. A. to B. to have C. to do so D. doing so 31. Emotional conflict may shake the ______ of even the strongest relationship, e.g.between husband and wife, parents and children. A. proportion B. foundation C. innovation D. interaction32. It is reported that China will not buy the Euro debt until some thorough research ______. A. has been done B. will have been done C. will be done D. had been done33. ----Anything special about this device?----Well, it can ______ between the cancerous and the normal cells under certainconditions. A. conclude B. exclude C. discriminate D. undergo34. News of the world was gone, shut down after ______ in the biggest newspaper scandal ever to hit Britain. A. catching B. caught C. being caught D. having caught 35. ---- I was reading A Dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin yesterday, but I couldn’t understand it.---- ______. It is classical literature, so take your time to enjoy it.A. Don’t fly off the handle B. You got me thereC. Nothing is impossible to a willing heart D. More haste, less speed第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每题1分，满分20分）Learning a second language fuels children’s intelligence and makes their job prospects brighter. 36 the fact is, in U.S.A, as in many other English speaking countries, speakers of two or more languages are in the 37 . Eighty-four per cent of US people are monolingual (speakers of only one language). This leaves a small number who 38 to speak two or more languages.No matter how proud people are of their cultural roots, to speak anything ___39 English is a marker of difference here. That’s why fourteen-year-old Umar is 40 when people comment on the fact that he is able to speak Arabic. Umar’s mother points out: “In U.S.A, it’s not 41 for kids to be bilingual. But, if you speak another language to your children in U.S.A, it is thought that you are not helping them to 42 society.”But in fact, the general 43 among experts is that learning a second language is good for children. Experts believe that bilinguals – people who speak __44 languages – have a clear learning advantage 45 their monolingual schoolmates. This 46 on how much of each language they can speak, not on which language is used, 47 they are learning Arabic, French, Chinese or any other language.Vinss Millon, a professor of Foreign Language Training, says: “A lot of studies have 48 that children who speak more than one language sometimes learn one language more 49 , but in the end they do as well as their monolingual schoolmates, and often better, in other subjects.”The view is that there is a(n) 50 from the effort of learning another language. A few other 51 agree that “Bilinguals tend to use language better as a whole. They also 52 greater creativity and problem-solving ability, and they learn further languages more easily”.With all of the benefits, why do we not show more 53 for 。