People living in different countries made different kinds of words. Today there are about fifteen hundred different languages in the world. Each contains four or five hundred thousand words. But we do not need all these. Only a few thousand words are used in everyday life. The words you know are called your vocabulary (词汇). You should try to make your vocabulary larger. Read as many books as you can. There are plenty of books written in easy language. Your dictionary is your most useful book.
阅读短文，然后根据短文内容选择正确答案(5分) 46. What do we mean by language?
A. Sounds made by man. B. All the words made by man.
C. Different kinds of sound. D. The way man learns. 47. Form the passage we know that long long ago________ A. no one learned how to make sounds or words B. animals taught man to learn the language
C. man learned the language by lifting heavy things, falling to the ground, and so on D. man followed a lot of things in nature to make sounds and words 48. What is the number of languages spoken in the world today? A. 500. B. 5,000. C. 1,500. D. 15,000.
49. In which sentence can the word \ A. I________ several dictionaries. B. Sea water________ salt.
C. A dog _______ four legs. D. Mr Smith _____ glasses on his nose. 50. Which of the followings is the best if we want to make our vocabulary larger? A. To use the words in everyday life. B. To read more books. C. To use the words in class. D. To write the words.
第Ⅱ卷(非选择题，35分)
I．用所给词的正确形式填空(每空0.5分,共6分)
1. Here are some things they have learned from________ (science) studies. 2 Many ads are aimed _________ (special) at teenagers. 3. To work hard is the key to _______ (succeed). 4. Most of the elephants are in_______ (African).
5. Many people are________ (again) putting aggressive animals into cages. 6. I am________ at the_______ result, he scored in the match. (surprise) 7. Can rice ________ (grow) in water?
8. We are going to learn the ________ (twenty) unit next week. 9. Many foreign_______ (travel) come to visit China every year.
10. The wind blew so_______ (strong)last night that some windows were broken. 11. It's sometimes called_______ (recycle)material. Ⅱ．动词填空(每题0.5分，共6分)
根据短文内容，将括号中的动词变成适当的时态、语态或其他形式填空
A sudden ringing woke Peter up. He turned on the light, got up and went to answer the telephone.
\ 1 you still 1 (lie) on the bed? \ \
\ 2 your watch 2 (not work)? Open the window and look outside. I 3 (arrive)
at the bus stop already. \
Peter did as his friend said. It 4 (snow) heavily and it was white everywhere. Skiing was both Peter's favourite hobby and mine, too. I ran to the telephone and said, \
and I 5 (get) there in a quarter of an hour.
After half an hour Peter and his friends were on the bus. It was cold and the roads 6 (cover) with thick snow. The old driver seemed to be careful. He drove slowly and all the passengers 7 (understand) why he did so.
Suddenly a woman in the front of the bus called out. People 8 (not know) what happened and they looked ahead. A truck quickly approached our bus. We were too 9 (frighten)to say a word. At the last moment the driver 10 (larn) the bus said and it hit a tree by the road. The truck passed by quickly and 11 (fall) into the river. Luckily, none of the passengers 12 (hurt). But they were not happy, they had to save the truck driver! Ⅲ．按括号内的要求改写下列各句(8分)
1. It is 2313 kilometres by train from Guangzhou to Beijing．(就划线部分提问) _________ _______ by train________ it from Guangzhou to Beijing? 2. She takes the medicine three times a day. (就划线部分提问) _________ ______ _______ she take the medicine! 3. I was lucky to catch the last bus. (改为感叹句) _____ _______ I _______ to catch the last bus!
4. Two years ago that machine was used to make shoes for children. (改为主动语态) Two years ago we ______ that machine______ _______ shoes for children. 5. There was a knock on the door. (改写句子，句意不变) _________ _________ __________ the door.
6. What about going out for a walk? (改写句子，句意不变) _______ go out for a walk,________ ________? 7. She found that it was difficult. (改为简单句)
8. Mike left England three years ago. (改写句子，句意不变)
Mike _______ _______ ________ ________ England for three years. Ⅳ．书面表达(15分)
明天有两位英国朋友到你校参观，校长让你到接待室去，一起接待外宾。请根据下面简图，用英语给外宾简略地介绍你校情况。 注意：
1．教工150人，学生1800人。
2．把下图的基本情况介绍一下，可略加一些话，使介绍完整。 3．生词：体育馆gym；宿舍dormitory 4．词数：100左右。
Units 11~15综合能力评估（参考答案）
I. A. 1~5 BCDEA B. 6 ~ 10 ABCAD C. 11~15 AABBA
D. 16. the importance of water 17. how to answer the question 18. looks black
19. the river is too dirty 20. make water clean
II. 1—5 BCAAC 6—10 BCACA 11—15 CBDDC
III. 16. B 17. C 18. B 19. A 20. B 21. D 22. A 23. B 24. C 25. D
IV. A. 26. C 27. A 28. B 29. D 30. C B. 31. B 32. A 33. B 34. A 35. A C. 36. × 37. √ 38. × 39. × 40. × 41. ×
42. × 43. × 44. √ 45. √ D. 46~50 BDCBB
第II卷
I. 1. scientific 2. specially 3. success 4. Africa 5. against 6. surprised; surprising 7. be grown 8. twentieth 9. travellers 10. strongly 11. recycled II. 1. Are; lying 2. Doesn't; work 3. have arrived
4. was snowing 5. will get 6. were covered 7. understood 8. didn't know 9. frightened 10. turned 11. fell 12. was/ were hurt
III. 1. How far; is 2. How often; does 3. How; lucky; was 4. used; to make 5. Someone knocked at 6. Let's, shall we 7. it 8. has been away from
IV. Welcome to our school. Please allow me to introduce our school to you.
We have 150 teachers and workers, and 1800 students in our school. There is a teaching building with130 classrooms in it behind the gate in the south of the school. Behind it, stand four buildings, the reading room and library on the left, and the lab and gym on the right. Three basketball fields are behind the four. Our football ground is at the back of the school. We have two teachers' dormitories in the east and two for the students in the west.
All the teachers and students in our school are working hard for our motherland.
附：听力原文
1 . A. 1. I wonder if you could hold this ladder while I get my cat out of this tree, please? 2. There's a basketball player who is seven feet tall. He's the tallest player I've ever seen. 3. Mrs. Brown likes singing, but she doesn't have a good voice and nobody likes to listen to her.
4. When Tina came, Don was painting the fence.
5. Would you please help me upstairs with the pack- ages? B. 6. M: Do you live in the building? W: Yes, I do.
M: Where do you work?
W: I'm teaching in a middle school.
Question: What does the woman do for a living? 7. W : How many languages can you speak? M: I can speak French and German. W: How well can you speak them?
M..I can speak German quite well, but I can't speak French very well. Question: What languages can the man speak? 8. M: Have you ever been to New York?
W: No, I haven't. I've never been to the States. Have you? M: Yes, I've been there three times. Which city are you from? W : Sydney.
Question: Where does the woman come from? 9. M: What are you going to do this afternoon? M : I've no idea.
M: Shall we play basketball? W: No. Let's go to see a film. M: I'm sorry. I don't like that.
Question: What does the man want to do?
10. M: Excuse me. This is my first time in Shanghai. Could you tell me the way to the History Museum?
W: Keep going straight for about 500 metres. You'll see the stop for the bus No. 24. It will take you there.
M: How far is it from the stop to the Museum? W: About 5.5 kilometers.
Question: How far is it from here to the History Museum? C. Girl: What can I do for you?
Man: I'm looking for a pair of black shoes.
Girl: What size do you want? Man: Size eight.
Girl: I'm afraid we haven't' got any black shoes in that size at the moment. We've only got brown ones. What about those shoes over there?
Man.. Well, that pair looks nice. How much do they cost? Girl : Fifty-five yuan.
Man: Hmm! That's a bit expensive. But I still want to buy them. Questions:
11. What does the man want to buy? 12. What size shoes does the man want?
13. Are there any black shoes in size eight in the shop? 14. What colour shoes does the girl show the man? 15. The man will buy the brown shoes, won't he?
D. A science lesson was going on in the classroom. A young teacher, Mr. Smith, was explaining the importance of water. The students were listening to him very carefully.
After ten minutes, Mr. Smith asked a question, \another. None of them wanted to answer. \said Mr. Smith.
Just then a boy in the back row of the classroom put up his hand and said: \tell us that water has no colour and no smell. Where can we see such kind of water? The water in the river behind my house is black and has a bad smell. All of the fish in the river are dying. The water isn't fit to drink now. We can't swim there as before. \
\should keep in mind that it is the duty of everybody to make water clean. \