2016吉林省实验中学二模英语试题及答案(4)

In Pressure, everyone struggled to be the very best. When women___44___birth, they would compete to have the baby with the ___45___cry. There was violent competition in every aspect of life. Because___46___was the symbol of success, people were always ___47___making money, with no time for relaxation. Some young people couldn’t bear the intensity and chose to drive to escape.
___48___, over in Pleasure, the motto was “As long as you like it, do it.” People ___49___without pressure and could do anything ___50___liked. Children played computer games day and night. At school, teachers didn’t care ___51___students came or not. Workers might sit around the office ___52___drinking coffee and doing nothing. ___53___ the lack of regulations, nobody worried about losing their jobs. It was pleasure that mattered. No one had the slightest thought of moving ___54___, either for themselves or for the town. The computers they used ___55___old methods from the town of Pressure.
Some of the young were addicted to ___56___because of the emptiness of their lives. Then, people in the two towns began asking themselves.“What is life ___57___?” But just before life in the two towns completely failed, there came a great person--Mr.Reason. He went from door to door, ___58___ with people and giving advice. People in Pressure learnt to be content with what they had, while people in Pleasure began to make plans. They ___59___the wall between them and built a road to connect the two. The towns’ people ___60___ to realize the truth---there is no gap between Pressure and Pleasure if they don’t go to extremes.
41.A .anything B.nothing C.everything D.something
42.A.keep out       B.look out        C.work out         D.give out
43.A.another       B.any             C.every      D.other
44.A.gave          B.took            C.offered          D.brought
45.A.loud        B.louder           C.loudest          D.loudly
46.A.wealth        B.healthy          C.health           D.wealthy
47.A.lazy        B.busy          C.easy            D.hard
48.A.At that time    B.Meanwhile    C. At one time     D.Once in a while
49.A.got up        B.brought up       C.set up           D.grew up
50.A.we       B.you          C.they             D.it
51.A.whether       B.who          C.where        D.what
52.A.all day long   B.all night       C.all along       D.all the way
53.A.Because    B.Thanks to       C.Owe to          D.According to
54.A.backward     B.downward        C.upward          D.forward
55.A.was          B.are          C.is               D.were
56.A.drugs        B.money         C.work           D.books
57.A.in          B.to            C.for             D.to
58.A.talked       B.talking        C.talks          D.to talk
59.A.went down  B.put down     C.pulled down     D.wrote down
60.A.went         B.came      C.happened       D.returned

第二节  语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
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While thousands of college students headed for warm climate to enjoy sun and fun during their week off from classes, seven local students had other plans.
The Northern Essex Community College (NECC) students and one of their teachers spent part of their spring break in New York City, helping repair an area ___61____ (destroy) by the hurricane.
“I wanted to see for myself what happened,” said Terry. “I couldn’t imagine   ____62___it is like to lose your home and everything that you know and the___63___   (power) effect the hurricane had on those people. I wanted to do something, to understand their feeling of helplessness.”
The group headed into Brooklyn’s Red Hook district, which was hit hard by the hurricane. There they met people from other parts of the country,   64  had also volunteered to help. Together, those volunteers and the NECC students___65   (work) to clear rubbish out of a three-story building. They put on protective suits and gloves___66___   they entered the building.