2015包头市高中招生考试 （英语卷） 听力（略） 单选题： 1. Honey! Lets go out for supper! - _. I dont have to cook. A. Thats great! B. Why? C. Forget it! D. Never mind! 解析：情景交际2. Encourage your children to try new things, but try not to _them too hard. A. draw B. cry C. pass D. push 解析：v.词义辨析 draw drew drawn ；cry cries cried cried 1. 哭 2. 喊 （n. 哭） pass passed passed （pass away 去世; past 介 晚于/形 过去的/副 经过 超过/名 过往）push 推；给施压3. In order to find _better living environment, he decided to move to the west of the country. A. an B. a C. / D. the解析：冠词 environment 环境 ，但是此题为抽象名词具体化：1. 抽象名词表示具有某种特性、状态、感情情绪的人或事，如：抽象名词（不可数） 具体化（个体名词，可数名词）in surprise惊讶地 a surprise一件令人惊讶的事win success获得成功 a success一个(件)成功的人(事)win honor赢得荣誉 an honor一个(件)引以为荣的(事)Failure(失败)is the mother of success a failure失败者2. 抽象名词与a(an)连用，淡化了抽象概念，转化为似乎可以体验到的动作、行为或类别。如：A knowledge of English is a must in international trade.Would you like to have a walk(swim, bath, talk)with me?She made an apology to her mother for her wrong doings. 4. Im not finished with my dinner yet. - But our friends _for us. A. wait B. waited C. are waiting D. were waiting 解析：v. 时态 对话情景决定时态 做题方法v. 谓语 5. The large grassland, reaching out far away, looks extremely beautiful _the blue and clean sky. A. against B. above C. through D. past 解析：介词 against 1. 反对 反义词 for 2. 倚，靠 3. 撞击e.g. The rain was beating the windows.雨点拍打着窗户。4. 映衬 对照e.g. Red flags stand out brightly against the blue sky.红旗在蓝天的衬托下显得分外鲜艳. 做题方法：排除法 though为（空间）通过 past 为 晚于 6. If you can speak English well, you will have a great _over others while looking for a job. A. activity B. article C. agreement D. advantage 解析：n. 词义辨析 activity 活动 扩展：词根 active adj. 积极的 actively adv. 积极地 article 文章 agreement共识 reach the agreement 达成共识 advantage 优势 。4个均为可数名词 7. To get more information about the topic today, use the internet or go to the library, or _. A. neither B. both C. some D. all 解析：情景交际8. I didnt do well in the last English exam. How about you? - _. A. Ill do better next time B. Me too C. Even worse D. I like English, though 解析：情景交际 9. When you get home, please call me to let us know that you _safely. A. would arrive B. have arrived C. had arrived D. will arrive 解析：情景交际10. Its very _to feel nervous when you go to a new school. A. natural B. dangerous C. soft D. cool 解析：情景交际11. You have to be fairly good speaker to _listeners interest for over an hour. A. hold B. make C. improve D. receive 解析：情景交际 12. We had to wait half an hour _we had already booked a table. A. or B. once C. although D. as 解析：情景交际 13. Is your homework done? - _. I need at least another two hours. A. Exactly B. Far from it C. Not a little D. No wonder 解析：情景交际14. Mike, can you go and _how many flights there are from our city to London every day? A. work out B. look out C. give out D. find out 解析：情景交际15. Its said that the new highway has been completed. - Yes, but we dont know _its to be opened to traffic soon. A. which B. when C. whether D. since 解析：情景交际完形填空： Frank was a very talkative little boy. He never saw a new thing _1_ asking a great many questions about it. His _2_was very patient and kind. When it was _3_to answer his questions, she would do so. Sometimes she would say, “You are not _4_enough to understand that, my son. When you are ten years old, you many ask me about it, and I will tell you.” The first time Frank saw an hourglass(沙漏),he was very much interested, but he did not know _5_it was. His mother said, An hourglass is made in the _6_of the figure 8. The sand is put in at one end, and runs through a small hole in the _7_. As much sand is put into the glass as will run through in an hour. When Frank watched the little stream of sand, he was impatient, _8_it would not run faster. “Let me _9_it, mother,” said Frank:“it is lazy, and will never get through.” “Oh yes, it will, my son, ”said his mother. “The sand moves down little by little, but it moves all the time. “ “When you look at the _10_of the clock, you think they go very slowly, and so they do; but they never _11_.” “While you are playing, the sand is running, grain(颗粒) by grain. The hands of the clock are moving, second by second. At night, the sand in the hourglass has run through twelve times. The hour hand of the clock has moved all around its face. This is because they keep working every _12_. They do not stop to think how much they have to do, or how long it will _13_them to do it. Now Franks mother wanted him to learn a little poem, but he said, “Mother, I can _14