2012学年浙江省五校联考
英语试题卷
第I卷（选择题，共80分）
第一部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节：单项填空（共20小题；每小题0.5分，满分10分）
从A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该项选项的标号涂黑。
1. —Can I use your phone?
—______.
A. By any means B. My pleasure C. With pleasure D. Feel free
2. ______ city in Zhejiang Province, located on the river’s upper reaches, is believed to be ______ source of the dead pigs.
A. The; a B. The; the C. A; the D. A; a
3. This practice satisfies people of high moral standards psychologically and materially and ______ encourages other people’s enthusiasm.
A. on the contrary B. in the meantime C. from time to time D. all at once
4. In this section, we will briefly describe possible ways of reducing the costs and risks ______ in doing this.
A. involving B. involved C. to involve D. being involved
5. How can they learn anything ______ they spend all their spare time watching television?
A. when B. though C. while D. before
6. Johnson would have faced the music but he ______ doing things like that.
A. had stopped B. stopped C. was stopping D. has stopped
7. For most informal dinners, you should wear comfortable and ______ clothes.
A. official B. formal C. casual D. proper
8. More than 800,000 Chinese overseas students have returned in the last five years, with the annual number ______ by an average rate of 36 percent each year.
A. growing B. grown C. to grown D. having been grown
9. As President Xi Jinping put it in Moscow on Saturday, China’s development creates more ______ than threats.
A. changes B. opportunities C. positions D. shares
10. —I thought you ______ for vacation tomorrow.
—I had planned to, but I have a very important meeting to attend tomorrow.
A. will leave B. are leaving C. have left D. were leaving
11. As a result of the fog haze weather, nowadays many people are longing to live ______ the air is fresher.
A. that B. when C. where D. in which
12. I still remember ______ to the Science Museum for the first time when I was young.
A. to take B. having taken C. taking D. being taken
13. The people in the Kiss Nightclub were trying to escape from the fire but were ______ by smoke.
A. covered B. overcome C. arrested D. scared
14. The boy doesn’t like ______ when his mother compares him with the other children in the neighborhood.
A. one B. this C. that D. it
15. Women are more generous with their money and are ______ more likely to suffer from money problems.
A. otherwise B. also C. indeed D. then
16. The police investigation hasn’t ______ any new evidence, which really let the public down.
A. taken up B. made up C. came up D. turned up
17. To be ______ changing times you cannot have your body in the 21st century and your head back in the past.
A. in step with B. in front of C. together with D. apart from
18. —How old is Ms Jassica?
—Don’t ask her how old she is—she’s really ______ about it.
A. particular B. cautious C. sensitive D. anxious
19. You can make a ______ by turning off the light after you leave the house.
A. difference B. decision C. promise D. mistake
20. —How would you like your tea?
—______.
A. Very quickly B. As it comes, please C. Very much D. I don’t like tea
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，掌握其大意，然后从21～40各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该项选项的标号涂黑。
Now you’re a fool for helping. “I don’t want to get involved” seems to have become a national motto. One summer I was driving from my hometown of Tahoe City, California to New Orleans, Louisiana. In the middle of the desert, I passed a young man standing by the roadside. He had his 21 out and held a gas can in his other hand. I drove right by him. There was a time 22 you’d be called a jerk (混蛋) for passing by somebody 23 .
Several days later I was still 24 about the hitchhiker (搭便车的人), about how I didn’t even lift my foot 25 the accelerator (加速踏板) for him. “Does anyone stop any more?” I wondered. I recalled Blanche DuBois’s famous line—”I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.” Was that 26 these days? One way to test this would be for a person to journey 27 the US without any money, just 28 on the good will of others. What would happen? Would he find food, shelter and support?
The idea intrigued (激起兴趣) me.
The week I 29 37, I realized that I had never done something truly crazy. 30 I decided to really do it: travel from the Pacific to the Atlantic without a penny. I would only accept 31 of rides, food and places to sleep. For six weeks I hitched 82 rides and covered 4,223 miles across 14 states. I was treated kindly 32 I went. I was 33 by people’s readiness to help a stranger.
In Oregon, a house painter named Mike 34 the cold weather and asked if I had a coat. I didn’t, so he gave me a big green army-style jacket. A lumber-mill worker in Michigan named Tim invited me to a 35 dinner with his family in their shabby house. Then he offered me a tent. I refused, but Tim insisted, packing it into my bag himself. I found people were generally compassionate. Hearing I had no money and would take none, people bought me food or 36 with them whatever they happened to have. Those who had the 37 to give often gave the most.
I’m 38 to all the people I met for their rides, their food, their shelter and their gifts. My faith in ordinary folks was 39 . I was proud to live in a country where people were still willing to help. In spite of everything, you can still depend on the 40 of strangers.
21. A. thumb B. finger C. foot D. hand
22. A. that B. where C. which D. when
23. A. in danger B. in need C. in trouble D. in favor
24. A. worrying B. considering C. bringing D. thinking
25. A. off B. on C. away D. from
26. A. interesting B. possible C. necessary D. important
27. A. across B. through C. in D. over
28. A. basing B. relying C. insisting D. relating
29. A. seemed B. got C. became D. turned
30. A. But B. So C. And D. However
31. A. jobs B. supplies C. helps D. offers
32. A. nowhere B. everywhere C. anywhere D. somewhere
33. A. frightened B. annoyed C. disappointed D. amazed
34. A. noted B. saw C. felt D. sensed
35. A. simple B. rich C. delicious D. interesting
36. A. supplied B. offered C. shared D. provided
37. A. fewest B. most C. least D. best
38. A. careful B. grateful C. hopeful D. helpful
39. A. created B. reminded C. renewed D. returned
40. A. kindness B. happiness C. fairness D. brightness
第二部分：阅读理解（第一节20小题，第二节5小题；每小题2分，满分50分）
第一节：阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该项选项的标号涂黑。
A
While taking my boat down the inland waterway to Florida a few weeks ago, I decided to tie up at Georgetown, South Carolina, for the night and visit with an old friend. As we approached the Esso dock, I saw him through my binoculars(望远镜) standing there awaiting us. Tall and straight as an arrow he stood, facing a cold, biting wind—truly a picture of a sturdy(强健的) man, even though his next birthday will make him eighty-two. Yes, the man was our elder statesman, Bernard Baruch.
He loaded us into his station wagon and we were off to his famous Hobcaw Barony for dinner. We sat and talked in the great living room where many celebrities and statesmen, including Roosevelt and Churchill, have sat and taken their cues. In his eighty-second year, still a human dynamic person, Mr. Baruch talks not of the past but of present problems and the future, disapproving of and criticizing our ignorance of history, economics, and psychology. His only reference to the past was to tell me, with a wonderful sparkle in his eye, that he was only able to get eight quail (鹌鹑) out of the ten shots the day before. What is the secret of this great man’s value to the world at eighty-one? The answer is his unsatisfied desire to keep being productive.
Two of the hardest things to accomplish in this world are to acquire wealth by honest effort and, having gained it, to learn how to use it properly. Recently I walked into the locker room of a rather well-known golf club after finishing a round. It was in the late afternoon and most of the members had left for their homes. But a half-dozen or so men past middle age were still seated at tables talking aimlessly and drinking more than was good for them. These same men can be found there day after day and, strangely enough, each one of these men had been a man of affairs and wealth, successful in business and respected in the community. If material prosperity were the chief necessity for happiness, then each one should have been happy. Yet, it seemed to me, something very important was missing, else there would not have been the constant effort to escape the realities of life through Scotch and soda. They knew, each one of them, that their productivity had ceased(停止). When a fruit tree ceases to bear its fruit, it is dying. And it is even so with man.
What is the answer to a long and happy existence in this world of ours? I think I found it long ago in a passage from the book of Genesis which caught my eye while I was thumbing through my Bible. The words were few, but they became memorably impressed on my mind: “In the sweat of the face shall you eat the bread.”
To me, that has been a challenge from my earliest recollections(memories). In fact, the battle of life, of existence, is a challenge to everyone. The immortal words of St. Paul, too, have been and always will be a great inspiration to me. At the end of the road I want to be able to feel that I have fought a good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith.
41. The passage above is most probably taken from ____________.
A. an autobiography B. a photography book
C. a science fiction D. a USA travel brochure
42. We learn from the passage that Bernard Baruch ____________.
A. was a statesman in Florida
B. held a positive attitude towards an active life
C. was fond of associating with such celebrities as Roosevelt and Churchill
D. kept a secret of the reason why he was so sturdy to be able to stand like an arrow
43. Which of the following is indicated in the 3rd and 4th paragraph?
A. Wealth results from honest effort.
B. The men seated at tables in the locker room are lost in the significance of life.
C. No way can be found to escape the realities of life other than Scotch and soda.
D. Bread tastes delicious when sweat pours off your face.
44. The writer develops the passage mainly by means of ____________.
A. explanation and argument
B. description and explanation
C. comparison and comment
D. argument and explanation
45. What is implied in the passage by the writer?
A. To use wealth properly, eat, drink and be merry.
B. Where there is a will, there is a way.
C. As life is but like a dream, a man is like a fruit tree.
D. If you cease to struggle, you cease to live.
B
Although travelers can try dishes from around China and the globe in well-known food cities like Beijing and Shanghai, it is outside these major metropolises where a world of exciting Chinese cuisine(中国菜) awaits the true foodie(美食家). With this in mind and after three years of living in China and writing about Chinese food, I started a six-month journey with my husband and two daughters.
Here are four of the eight most amazing Chinese food cities I’ve come across so far. The list is in no particular order.
1. Chengdu, Sichuan Province
Crowned as Asia’s first UNESCO City of Gastronomy(美食学) in 2010, Chengdu is best-known for its fiery hot pot and spicy dishes, which are characterized by the use of Sichuan pepper and are usually layered with salty, sour and sweet flavors. There are also dishes that aren’t spicy at all, such as beer-braised duck.
Hot pot is as ubiquitous in the city as the smell of chili. At Zigong Delicious Hotpot, the house specialty(招牌菜) tiaoshui wa is a cauldron(大锅) of fiery chili(辣椒) to which vegetables, noodles or other meats can be added.
For a real taste of Sichuan’s signature（招牌）pepper, hua jiao, spend a morning at the Chengdu Spice Market where the locals sell and buy it by the sack.
2. Lanzhou, Gansu Province
Synonymous in the minds of food-lovers with hand-pulled beef noodles, Lanzhou also has one of the liveliest street food night markets in China.
Just west of the city center, the buzzing Zhengning Road bazaar（集市）houses more than 100 street food stalls. Available is a broad selection of hot and cold dishes with emphasis on local Hui cuisine.
No trip to Lanzhou is complete without feasting on noodles at Wumule Penhui, the 2012 winners of Lanzhou’s annual pulled noodle competition. The halal restaurant makes noodles spicy enough to satisfy even the most hardened heat-seekers.
3. Guangzhou, Guangdong Province
The birthplace of Cantonese food, Guangzhou is thought by many as the best place to eat in China. The city of 12 million has a passionate food culture, with equal excitement reserved for the opening of a hole-in-the-wall congee joint（粥店）and a high-end restaurant.
The local cuisine is characterized by fresh clean flavors（口味）, seafood, barbecued meats and the wonderful tradition of yum cha, which is tea drinking accompanied by dumplings and small dishes.
Congee is the way locals love to start their day, and one of the most popular vendors is Ru Xuan Sha Guo Zhou. Here, one can get a bowl of signature seafood congee any hour of the day.
Roast meats are Bing Sheng’s most popular order—their roast goose is marinated（腌制）with five-spice, boiled, air-dried, then roasted by a flame oven to give a crisp skin.
For something more home style and removed from the madness of downtown, head to Ji Cun for steamed chicken and simple farmer-style dishes.
4. Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province
This ancient canal city is home to huangjiu, an amber-colored rice wine that’s important in Chinese cooking.
Open since 1894, the dining chain is known by almost every Chinese for its appearance in early 20th century novels by Chinese literati Lu Xun.
Xianheng’s delicacies（佳肴）include crispy-skinned chicken, smoked red dates in rice wine, beans flavored with fennel(茴香), and crispy bream in rice wine.
Fried fermented（发酵的）tofu is also a local specialty, which is available all over town at small street stalls including one just outside Xianheng.
46. The writer’s purpose of the passage is to ____________.
A. share her story and impression on Chinese cuisines
B. tell readers how to comment on amazing Chinese food cities
C. talk the readers into enjoying the signature food such as hand-pulled noodles
D. express her preference for fiery hot pot and spicy dishes in Chengdu.
47. The underlined word “ubiquitous” can be replaced by ____________.
A. charming and attractive B. smelly and disgusting
C. common and popular D. fiery and spicy
48. If a fresh clean flavor is to a foodie’s taste, which couple of cities is he likely to make a trip to?
A. Chengdu, Lanzhou B. Lanzhou, Guangzhou
C. Guangzhou, Shaoxing D. Shaoxing, Chengdu
49. According to the writer, what message of food culture is brought out in the passage?
A. Cantonese food is characterized by a sea of marinated dishes.
B. Huangjiu is widely believed to be essential in Chinese cooking.
C. Pepper, chili and huajiao play an important role in all Sichuan dishes.
D. Hand-pulled beef noodle is a speciality in local Hui cuisine.
C
The other day an acquaintance of mine, an outgoing and charming man, told me he had found himself unexpectedly alone in New York for an hour or two between appointments. He went to the Whitney and spent the “empty” time looking at things in solitary(独自的) happiness. For him it proved to be a shock nearly as great as falling in love to discover that he could enjoy himself so much alone.
What had he been afraid of, I asked myself? That, suddenly alone, he would discover that he bored himself, or that there was, quite simply, no self there to meet? But having taken a decisive step, he is now on the edge of adventure; he is about to be launched into his own inner space to the astronaut.
His every perception(感受) will come to him with a new freshness and, for a time, seem surprisingly original. For anyone who can see things for himself with a naked eye becomes, for a moment or two, something of a genius.
With another human being present, vision becomes double vision, unavoidably. We are busy wondering, what does my companion see or think of this, and what do I think of it? The original impact gets lost.
“Music I heard with you was more than music.” Exactly. And therefore music itself can only be heard alone. Solitude(孤独) is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.
“Alone one is never lonely: the spirit adventures, walking in a quiet garden, in a cool house, staying single there.”
Loneliness is very strongly felt with other people, for with others, even with a lover sometimes, we suffer from our differences of taste, temperament and mood. Human intercourse(人际交往) often demands that we soften the edge of perception, or withdraw at the very instant of personal truth for fear of hurting, or of being inappropriately present, which is to say naked, in a social situation. Alone we can afford to be wholly whatever we are, and to feel whatever we feel absolutely. That is a great luxury!
For me the most interesting thing about a solitary life, and mine has been that for the last twenty years, is that it becomes increasingly rewarding. When I can wake up and watch the sun rise over the ocean, as I do most days, and know that I have an entire day ahead, uninterrupted, in which to write a few pages, take a walk with my dog, lie down in the afternoon for a long think (why does one think better in a horizontal position?), read and listen to music, I am flooded with happiness.
I’m lonely only when I am overtired, when I have worked too long without a break, when from the time being I feel empty and need filling up. And I am lonely sometimes when I come back home after a lecture trip, when I have seen a lot of people and talked a lot, and am full to the brim(边缘) with experience that needs to be sorted out.
Then for a little while the house feels huge and empty, and I wonder where my self is hiding. It has to be recaptured(重新获得) slowly by watering the plants and perhaps, by looking again at each one as though it were a person.
It takes a while, as I watch the surf blowing up in fountains at the end of the field, but the moment comes when the world falls away, and the self emerges again from the deep unconscious, bringing back all I have recently experienced to be explored and slowly understood, when I can converse(交谈) again with my hidden powers, and so grow, and so be renewed, till death do us part.
50. The first paragraph in the article is written to ____________.
A. attract the readers’ interest and show the importance of being alone
B. raise the topic of solitude by telling a kind of experience
C. give a proof that being solitary is a state everyone can come across
D. provide a vivid example on how to deal with loneliness
51. Which of the following is the writer’s opinion about being alone?
A. Being alone is actually an adventure of exploring one’s outer space.
B. People are lonely because they lack communication between each other.
C. One can enjoy the authentic flavor of every experience when he is alone.
D. People need to be alone because only then do they have double vision.
52. To the writer, a solitary life is a kind of ____________.
A. sacrifice B. dream C. reward D. challenge
53. From the last paragraph, we can find that ____________.
A. the writer often gets renewed by talking with the hidden self
B. the writer is afraid of meeting herself
C. the writer can not find anyone to talk to
D. the surroundings make the writer regain her power
54. The writer’s purpose for writing this article is to ____________.
A. persuade people to live alone and pursue the true meaning of life
B. teach the young in the modern society to focus on their inner space
C. advocate people to have a simple way of living
D. share her understanding of solitude with the readers
D
You went to the butcher’s for meat, the pharmacy for aspirin, and the grocery store for food. But when I spent the summer with my Grandmother in Warwick, N.Y., she sent me down to the general store with a list. How could I hope to find anything on the packed, messy shelves around me?
I walked up to the counter. Behind it was a lady like no one I’d ever seen. Fake-jewel-encrusted glasses teetered(摇摇欲坠) on the tip of her nose, gray hair was piled on her head.
“Excuse me,” I said. She looked up.
“You’re that Clements kid,” she said. “I’m Miss Bee. Come closer and let me get a look at you.” She pushed her glasses up her nose. “I want to be able to describe you to the sheriff(警长) if something goes missing from the store.”
“I’m not a thief!” I was shocked. I was seven years old, too young to be a thief!
“From what I can see you’re not much of anything. But I can tell you’ve got potential.” She went back to reading her newspaper.
“I need to get these.” I said, holding up my list.
“So? Go get them.” Miss Bee pointed to a sign on the screen door. “There’s no one here except you and me and I’m not your servant, so I suggest you get yourself a basket from that pile over there and start filling. If you’re lucky you’ll be home by sundown.”
Sundown was five hours away. I wasn’t sure I would make it.
I scanned the nearest shelf for the first item on my list: pork and beans. It took me three wall-to-wall searches before I found a can nestled between boxes of cereal and bread. Next up was toilet paper, found under the daily newspaper. Band-Aids(创口贴)—where had I seen them? Oh, ye next to the face cream. The store was a puzzle, but it held some surprises too. I found a new Superman comic tucked(折叠) behind the peanut butter.
I visited Miss Bee a couple of times a week that summer. Sometimes she short-changed me. Other times she overcharged. Or sold me an old newspaper instead of one that was current. Going to the store was more like going into battle. I left my Grandma’s house armed with my list—memorized to the letter—and marched into Miss Bee’s like General Patton marching into North Africa.
“That can of beans is only twenty-nine cents!” I corrected her one afternoon. I had watched the numbers change on the cash register closely, and Miss Bee had added 35 cents. She didn’t seem embarrassed that I had caught her overcharging. She just looked at me over her glasses and fixed the price.
Not that she ever let me declare victory. All summer long she found ways to trip me up. No sooner had I learned how to pronounce bicarbonate of soda(小苏打) and memorized its location on the shelf than Miss Bee rearranged the shelves and made me hunt for it all over again. By summer’s end the shopping trip that had once taken me an hour was done in 15 minutes. The morning I was to return to Brooklyn, I stopped in to get a packet of gum.
“All right, Miss Potential,” she said. “What did you learn this summer?” That you’re a meany! I pressed my lips together. To my amazement, Miss Bee laughed. “I know what you think of me,” she said. “Well, here’s a news flash: I don’t care! Each of us is put on this earth for a reason. I believe my job is to teach every child I meet ten life lessons to help them. Think what you will, Miss Potential, but when you get older you’ll be glad our paths crossed!” Glad I met Miss Bee? Ha! The idea was absurd.
Until one day my daughter came to me with homework troubles.
“It’s too hard,” she said. “Could you finish my math problems for me?”
“If I do it for you how will you ever learn to do it yourself?” I said. Suddenly, I was back at that general store where I had learned the hard way to tally up(结算) my bill along with the cashier. Had I ever been overcharged since?
As my daughter went back to her homework, I wondered: Had Miss Bee really taught me something all those years ago? I took out some scrap paper(便条纸) and started writing.
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