1、同学们，大家好！今天我们来同分析一下2008年4月份的英语二试题。经过了这么多次的讲解，希望同学们能把练就好的眼神儿应用到真正的试题当中。.Vocabulary and Structure(10 points)1、The government finally all the documents relating to the war.A. released B. specialized C. realized D. supposed解析：A是“释放，发布消息”，B是“使专门化”，C是“认识到”，D是“认为”。从整个句子含义上分析，“政府最终发布了与战争相关的全部文件。”因此选择A。2、Anxi
2、ety can with childrens performance at school.A. refer B. prefer C. infer D. interfere解析：一看这题我首先排除A，B，C，就D不认识。来吧，选D。为什么？横线后面的with告诉我需要填的词一定是与之搭配形成词组含义的。A和B都搭配to，C属于“13不靠”，D与with形成固定搭配“妨碍，打扰”，这在我们之前的词汇讲解中出现过。3、New drivers are far more to have accidents than experienced drivers.A. possible B. likely C.
3、 probable D. unlikely解析：这题一看横线后面的to就知道已经排除了A和C，因为morethan已经形成了比较级的概念，中间出现介词一定有它深刻的含义。B和D就是意思上的差别了，新手和老司机哪个更容易出交通事故你自己琢磨去吧！选B，搭配为be likely to=可能做某事情，我们之前专门强调过这个词组的重要性。4、That proposal is essentially irrelevant the issue at hand.A. with B. from C. in D. to解析：横线前面的词一定和答案中的介词形成固定搭配，立刻打开你大脑中的搜索引擎。选D。5、The
4、 vehicle was taveling at speeds 90 miles per hour.A. in addition to B. in view of C. in excess of D. in search of解析：首先排除了A和D，A表示“除外”，D表示“寻找，寻求”。B表示“考虑到，由于”，而C表示“超过”，这些词组我们在总结的时候都要求大家强行记忆过。选C。6、Fish is and expensive at this time of the year in this area.A. in large measure B. to the minimum C. in sho
5、rt supply D. to the maximum解析：“一年中这个地区的这个时间鱼既？又贵。”？代表了什么你能琢磨出来吗？多则贱，少则贵！选C。7、To understand the sentence, you should analyze its parts .A. functionally B. widely C. largely D. remarkably解析：从句意分析，我们应该分析句子的xxx部分，而xxx代表什么？B和C显然不对，A是“起重要作用的，有功能性的”，D是“最显著的”，因此选择A。8、The cloth had a natural look which perfe
6、ctly the image Laura sought.A. turned out B. set down C. thought over D. coincided with解析：A表示“结果是”，B表示“放下，记下”，C表示“考虑”，D表示“一致，相符，恰好重合”。这属于硬道理，会就对，不会连懵的条件都不存在。选D。9、This farming methods have been improved with the invention of the new machine.A. efficiently B. proficiently C. professionally D. intentio
7、nally解析：分析如上题，硬道理，会则对！选A。10、It has been found that a strong helps overcome the effects of distraction.A. interruption B. motivation C. evaluation D. destination解析：分析如上，干吧！选B。.Cloze Test(10 points)Have you ever seen the man in the moon? If you look 11 at the moon on some nights, you can see the face
8、of the man in the moon. Some people say that they can see an old man 12 sticks. Others say a girl reading. These pictures are made by the mountains and plains of the moon.Long ago people in England used to tell their children that the moon was 13 green cheese. Everone knows that this is not true. Th
9、e moon is a large round rock. It is completely 14 .There are no trees and plants of any kind on the moon. There are no rivers and seas. There are no living things. It never rains on the moon, and everything is covered with 15 ,white dust. Not even a 16 can be heard on the moon.Where the sun 17 on it
10、, the moon is very hot. In the dark, however, it is cold 18 ice. The moon is much smaller than the earth. It does not weigh as 19 as the earth. If you 20 to the moon, you would weigh six times less than you do. Even a fat man would be able to jump high off the ground.11. A. closely B. scarcely C. da
11、ily D. immediately解析：看月亮时你怎么看？而且后面那句话说明你看到了一个人的脸。B，C，D就被排除了，选A。12.A. to carry B. carrying C. carried D. carries解析：一看前面see sb.，就知道它要考我什么，see.sb.doing，找有ing的，选B。13.A. made up B. made out C. made of D. made over解析：月亮是green cheese做的？根据四个备选答案只有这样理解了。A表示“编成，组成”，B“理解，辨认出”，C表示“由构成的”，D表示“移交”。我让大家总结过所有与make有关
12、的词组的含义，这时候用上了。选C。14.A. hollow B. vacant C. empty D. bare解析：根据后面的意思说明月亮上是光突的。A表示“空洞的”，B表示“空白的”，D表示“光突的”。15.A. damp B. dry C. weighty D.colored解析：前面说从不下雨，那后面认识事物肯定是干燥的。选B。16.A. volume B. voice C. sound D. scream解析：横线后面的be heard是“被听见”，选C。17. A. shines B. glitters C. burns D. lights解析：太阳来了，普照大地，选A。18.A.
13、 like B. as C. with D. in解析：冷得象冰一样，直接+名词/名词短语=like，选A。19.A. much B. many C. plenty D. heavy解析：与一样多，前面出现了weigh，选择A。20.A. go B. will go C. going D. went解析：后面主句出现了would，前面的条件从句要与之时态相配，选择D。.Reading Comprehension(30 points)Passage OneIn March 2004, 21Joe Ryan got a notice from a billing agency for a hosp
14、ital near Denver, Colorado. The hospital wanted payment for surgery totally $41,188. Ryan had never set foot in that hospital. Obviously there was some mistake. “I thought it was a joke,”says Ryan.But when he called the billing agency, nobody laughed. Someone, whos also named Joe Ryan, using Ryans S
15、ocial Security number, had indeed been admitted for surgery. 22He figured clearing this up would take a just few phone calls.Two years later, Ryan continued to suffer from the damage to his credit rating and still doesnt know if his medical record has been cleared of wrong information.Joe Ryan was t
16、he victim of a little-known but frightening type of consumer cheating that is 23on the rise:medical identity theft, which involves using your name to get drugs, expensive medical treatment and even cheating insurance payments.24As Ryan discovered, money isnt the half of it. When someone steals your
17、name to receive health care, his medical history becomes part of your record-and setting the record straight can be extremely difficult. Thats because, in part, the information is handed out among dozens of caregivers, from doctors to medicine stores to insurance companies and labs.“I wanted to help
18、 straighten this out,”says Ryan , “so I went to the hospital, and they had a three-inch-thick record for me, but they wouldnt let me see it. I showed them my ID, and they said thats not Joe Ryans signature. Well, of course not ! They had this other guys signature.”Ryan had fallen into a victims Catc
19、h-22: 24If your record doesnt appear to be yours, you may not have the right to read it, much less change it.Ryans next step was a visit to the police department. But the police said that there was not much they could do, that the local law enforcement has little experience with 25medical ID theft,
20、and cases like this can end up being considered a civil matter.21.The billing agency sent Joe Ryan a notice to .A. play a joke on him for medical treatmentB. inform him of the payment for his surgeryC. clear up the wrong infromation in his medical recordD. correct the mistake about payment for his s
21、urgery.解析：首先找到billing agency+人名的地方，答案就在旁边，选B。22.Joe Ryan initially thought his problem was .A. easy to settle B. difficult to settle C. impossible to solve D. unnecessary to solve解析：关键是这个initially，它表达的是“最初”，也就是“他认为最初这个问题应该是”。文章的第二段说明了答案。选A。23、The number of the medical identity theft cases is .A. inc
22、reasing B. decreasing C. countable D. changeable解析：找到medical identity theft在哪里？旁边的on the rise就是答案。选A。24、An even worse consequence of medical ID theft is .A. some trouble in obtaining insurance paymentsB. a big loss of money and damage to credit ratingC.the widely spread medical information of the vi
23、ctimD. the difficulty in changing the wrong medical history.解析：随着第3题往下段阅读，A和B被排除了，倒数第二段也说明了答案所在。选D。25、It can be known that the medical ID theft is .A. a civil matter B. a medical case C. a political issue D. a domestic event解析：最后一题肯定在最后一段，同时找到medical ID theft出处，旁边就是答案，A。Passage Two26Rob Reiner, co-f
24、ounder of Castle Rock Entertainment, was greatly surprised when he saw his studios film Proof of Life. “Wow, why is Meg Ryan smoking up a storm? ” Reiner says,. ”It didnt add to to the plot.” Fourteen months later, Castle Rock has a policy of discouraging tobacco use. Any actor, director or screenwr
25、iter who wants to depict 28it must first meet with Reiner. “They have to make a really good case,” he says. “Movies are basically advertising cigarettes to kids.”Movie characters light up more often than people do in real life, argues 27Stanton Glantz, a professor of medicine who has launched a “Smo
26、ke-Free Movies” newspaper ad campaign. His study found that on average the 20 top-grossing films featured 50% more instances of smoking an hour in 2000 than in 1960. And an American Lung Association survey discovered that 61% of the tobacco use in films last year occurred in movies rated G, PG and P
27、G-13. With teen smoking up dramatically in the past decade, a movement is building to hold Hollywood accountable. So Glantz says, “The entertainment industry is in denial.”But its getting an education. Susan Moses, deputy director of Harvards Center for Health Communication, and Lindsay Doran, forme
28、r head of United Artists, have been going from one studio to another. They hit the bosses with hard facts: a million teens a year become daily smokers, and a third of those will eventually die from tobacco-related illness. When Doran and Moses met with 29executives from Imagine Pictures, says Doran,
29、 “They said, Smoking is not in any of our scripts. But then they called the next day and said, We looked, and its everywhere.” Karen Kehela, co-chairman of Imagine, recalls trying to take smoking out of one script after the meeting, “but the actor insisted on smoking,” she says. In fact, many movie
30、stars cant leave their cigarettes in the dressing room. “Actors who smoke look for any reason to integrate it into their characters,” Reiner says. 30“You have directors who dont care about the social implications or are yielding to the actors.”26. Reiner was astonished at the film Proof of Life made
31、 in his studio because _.A. one of the characters smoked a lotB. smoking added something to the plotC. smoking in the film resulted in a stormD. tobacco use was prohibited from films解析：找到Reiner+斜体字出现的地方，答案就是那句话。选A。27. Glantz found that the number of smoking scenes in hit movies were _ highter than 4
32、0 years ago.A. 20% B.50% C. 61% D.80%解析：找到姓名+40年出处，答案很明显，选B。28. The word “it” in Line 4, Para, 1 refers to _.A. film B. plot C. smoking D. advertising解析：肯定it说明的是前句的内容，选C。29. Executives from Imagine Pictures _.A. failed to tell actors about the seriousness of tobacco useB. should have informed actors
33、 of the bad effects of smokingC. didnt admit the existence of tobacco use scnes in their filmsD. didnt know there were smoking scenes in their movies at first解析：找到Executives from，答案就在旁边，30. In Reiners opinion, _ should be held mainly responsible for smoking scenes in movies.A. bosses B. actors C dir
34、ectors D. screenwriters解析：文章最后部分找出Reiner说的话，答案就在里面，选C。Passage ThreeI met him on the Internet and we chatted for several months. Every time I suggested we meet in person, he would come up with an excuse. I thought it was strange-but he told me that he had not gotten over the death of his wife and he
35、was still grieving for her.I thouht that he needed a friend and decided that I could be that friend. We sent cards, exchanged gifts, talked on the phone and I was sure that we would meet someday. I had spoken with his children so I was sure that what he told me was true. I could not wait for the day
36、 when we would meet. I was so looking forward to being able to reach out and touch him. To hug him, to hold him and feel his big strong arms around me.After almost two years of time, thousands of dollars on long distance phone calls, I was very frustrated at the endless stream of excuses as to why w
37、e could never seem to make a time to meet. Finally, I contacted the website 32WhoisH and asked if they could check out the man who had taken up so much of my heart, my energy and my life. I had enough information about him and felt that if I could confirm what he had been telling me I could feel oka
38、y about these delays. I had hopes that I didnt want to dash if he was telling the truth. I believed I could wait a little while longer.Well, I am glad that I decided to have him checked out-he was nothing he claimed to be. He was first and foremost a married man. He was not a man grieving fo the los
39、s of his wife. He was a man cheating on his wife, with meand 31I found out later, with countless others on the “net”. He did not care that he had hurt me in a very deep and pathetic way. He talked of spending his life together with me. He told my son that he wanted to make me happy. Basically, he ju
40、st lied. He was such a good liar. I did not see it coming. It was as if he had been able to worm his way into my heartand he didnt care about the effect he had on my hopes and dreams.35Each of us should look at the signs that are so clear if we are willing to see them. Do not let someone keep making
41、 excuse after excuse. If something feels wronglikely it is. It is good to know the truth and be able to deal with it. Next time I will pay more attention. I may never be able to trust someone online again.31.It can be inferred from Para. 4 that _.A. the man was a single person in realityB.the woman
42、was he mans only girlfriendC.the man had too many girlfriends on the netD.the woman had countless online boyfriends解析：第四段开始作者就查出了真实情况，选C。32.The job of WhoisH is to _.A.help people find true loveB.write single mens biographiesC.verify the truth of friends wordsD.ofter information about single men解析：找
43、到关键词，阅读本句应该可以理解答案出处，选D。33.It can be concluded from the passage that_.A.the man loved his wife passionatelyB.the woman loved the man deeplyC.the man dearly loved the womanD.the woman hated tha mans wife解析：首段含义+尾段末句=答案，选择B。34. The woman felt badly hurt because she _A. gave many giftes to the manB. spe
44、nt a lot of time with the manC.failed to find true love from the manD. spent too much money on the phone解析：其实从前面段落中我们发现，A、B、D均符合这位女性的做法，但女人要的是真正爱情！所以最让她伤感的就是没有找到自己的真爱。选C。35. The last paragraph probably indicates that the woman_.A. was outraged at the truthB. was used to being cheatedC. found the tru
45、th at the beginningD. came to know she was cheated解析：阅读最后一段，其实真正的含义并不是太难，选择A。特别是要注意outrage这个词真正的含义。翻译1.人们越来越重视生活质量了。People are increasingly concerned with the quality of life .2.他对保险业的了解很有限。He knows little about insurance. His knowledge about insurance is rather limited.3.尽管你很生气，但讲话还是要礼貌，自然。Although
46、 you are very angry, you should speak politely and naturely.4. 他们几乎没有意识到已经完成了一个重要的科学发现。Scarcely/little did they realize that they had finished /accomplishe/made an important scientific discovery. 5. 因为造价高,大部分人反对在市中心建新宾馆Because of the high cost, most people object to building new hotel in city centre.同学们，这套题目我感觉并不难。我们在经历了8次的讲解，已经能够自然地进入考试状态了。大家不妨回去用我们平时所讲的方式进入试题，你会觉得只要时间充足，通过不成问题。那么，就让我们在有限的时间内，利用我们的头脑作出迅速的反应，在快、准、稳上多下功夫。最后，预祝华夏大地重点班的学员能在7月份的英语二考试中全部通过，也希望你们通过之后别忘了给华夏大地和我做一个小小的宣传，因为华夏大地全体工作人员和我真诚希望你们成为社会的骄子。同学们，我们7月份重点班的课程到此就结束了，祝大家学习和考试愉快、顺利。再见！
