新起点英语热身演练（四）

（满分：70 分）

一、完形填空（共15 小题，每小题1 分，满分15 分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项

At thirteen， I was already as tall as I am now， and had a lot of （雀斑）. Ireached the age when I began to really 1 my looks， and I was the perfect exampleof someone that was not 2 at all.

I couldn’t help thinking about how to make my （皮肤） perfect andlife 3 . Then， in a magazine， I found the 4 ： an advertisement for a- （祛斑霜）. I knew I could afford it if I saved money. AndI 5 it. In the following days， I went to the mail box every day secretly.Finally， after three weeks of 6 ， my freckle-remover cream came.

I went to my room with it， sat on bedside， and opened it carefully as if itwas a 7 . I was sure that my freckles would 8 so I used the cream allover my body. Later that day I went 9 as I was asked to do it every day insummer. But there was something important I hadn’t 10 about freckle re鄄mover. That is， if you wear it in the sun， it seems to have a（n） 11 effect. Insteadof 12 a perfect skin， you just get more and darker freckles.

My mother knew nothing about the cream. When I returned from the field， she beganto say things like，“I’ve never seen you with that many freckles before.”Lookingat myself in the mirror， I cried and 13 in the bathroom.

My mother came and ordered me to 14 and sat. I didn’t follow her order，rushed out of the door and ran by her， to the well house， crying. My grandfathercame， and I told him about the freckle remover and why. He looked at me in surpriseand said， “But child， all kinds of flowers are 15 .”I cried， “I’ve never seen aflower with freckles！ ”and ran back to my room.

I cried myself to sleep that night. When I opened my eyes the next morning， thefirst thing I saw， was a （虎百合）， pretty even with all the freckles！

（ ）1. A. look down on B. get used to C. make fun of D. pay attention to

（ ）2. A. lucky B. friendly C. confident D. independent

（ ）3. A. useful B. different C. comfortable D. interesting

（ ）4. A. truth B. reason C. purpose D. answer

（ ）5. A. shared B. managed C. accepted D. remembered

（ ）6. A. working B. trading C. waiting D. guarding

（ ）7. A. treasure B. present C. manner D. discovery

（ ）8. A. fall B. fail C. remain D. disappear

（ ）9. A. dancing B. fishing C. farming D. swimming

（ ）10. A. dreamed B. realized C. achieved D. decided

（ ）11. A. simple B. active C. similar D. opposite

（ ）12. A. growing B. matching C. inventing D. developing

（ ）13. A. hid B. laughed C. changed D. prepared

（ ）14. A. get up B. dress up C. read out D. come out

（ ）15. A. fresh B. useful C. important D. beautiful

二、阅读理解（共15 小题，每小题2 分，满分30 分）

阅读下面三篇材料，从每题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项

A

For a few days in March， much of Spain has been coveredwith （灰尘）， and the skies in some cities turned bright orange.A huge cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert caused thestrange weather. Weather experts warn that climate changecould make dust storms even stronger in the future.

Ocean Is Singing

Ecuador is taking actions to protect the ocean. It providesa long“underwater highway”which will allow animalsto travel in protected waters from Ecuador all the way upthrough waters controlled by three other countries. And anew （保护区） has been set up. It will be divided intotwo sections. No fishing will be allowed in one of thesections. Some fishing will be allowed in the other section.But“long line”fishing will not be allowed.

“Bike Bus”to School

In Spain， many children and their families are ridingbikes to school together in large groups. The program iscalled “bike bus”. They think that the bike buses help cutdown on pollution. The path it will follow is always postedahead of time， so everyone knows where to join. On busystreets， the local police are helping stop traffic by riding infront of the bike bus and behind it.

（ ）16. All the news above has something to do with _______.

A. environment B. ocean C. lifestyle D. health

（ ）17. What would be the best heading for the first news？

A. The Dance of Dust B. The Voice of Sahara

C. The Weather Changes D. Warning from Orange Sky

（ ）18. The Spain’s skies turned orange because of _______.

A. the too few trees B. the dust from Sahara Desert

C. the change of lifestyle D. long days of strange weather

（ ）19. The actions Ecuador is taking to protect the ocean don’t include _______.

A. building underwater highway

B. setting up a new reserve

C. not allowing fishing in the whole reserve

D. allowing some fishing in one section of the reserve

（ ）20. If you want to take the bike bus to school in Spain， you _______.

A. have to go with your family

B. will know ahead of time where to join

C. will not ride on busy streets

D. don’t have to follow the traffic rules

B

In the space there is a space station. Living here are some of the smartest scientistsand their families. After traveling miles and miles， two scientists， Clyde andKlara Klosno， and their kids Kelvin and Bula， are the newest members of the spacestation. This is a story told in the new book， ， written by ScottSeegert and the （插画家） was John Martin.