2023年天津市南开区高考英语质检试卷（一）
发布：2024/4/20 14:35:0
单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出一个可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
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1．— I've been promoted to the director of sales department and I'm wondering whether I can ask for a big pay rise.
—__________.After all，the economy is struggling these days.（ ）组卷：73引用：2难度：0.5 -
2．Currently，almost 50 percent of jobs，including journalism，______with technology that can operate automatically.（ ）
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3．Why do so many students stick to private tutoring，______they could easily master such knowledge at school？（ ）
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4．Since it has been only partially successful to just adopt______treatments for this condition，something needs improving urgently.（ ）
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5．---Jenny is becoming slimmer and slimmer．
I tis said that she hired a fitness instructor last year and _____ since．（ ）组卷：226引用：3难度：0.8 -
6．Given that the theme of the Expo was______cultural exchange and strengthen mutual cooperation，Dunhuang was the ideal place.（ ）
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7．At that time we had to make the______that the disease was spreading and take action to stop it.（ ）
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阅读下面短文，按照要求用英语回答问题。
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21．When I told my father that I was moving to Des Moines，Iowa，he told me about the only time he had been there.It was in the 1930s，when he was an editor of the literary magazine of Southern Methodist University （SMU） in Dallas，Texas.He also worked as a professor at SMU，and there was a girl student in his class who suffered from a serious back disease.She couldn't afford the operation because her family was poor.
Her mother ran a boarding house in Galveston，a seaside town near Houston，Texas.She was cleaning out the attic （阁楼） one day when she came across an old dusty manuscript （手稿）.On its top page were the words， "By O.Henry".It was a nice story，and she sent it to her daughter at SMU，who showed it to my father.My father had never read the story before，but it sounded like O.Henry，and he knew
that O.Henry had once lived in Houston.So，it was possible that the famous author had gone to the beach and stayed in the Galveston boarding house，and had written the story there and left the manuscript behind by accident.My father visited an O.Henry expert at Columbia University in New York，who authenticated the story as O.Henry's.
My father then set out to sell it.Eventually，he found himself in Des Moines，meeting with Gardner Cowles，a top editor at the Des Moines Register.Cowles loved the story and bought it on the spot.My father took the money to the girl.It was just enough for her to have the operation she so desperately needed.
My father never told me what the O.Henry story was about.But I doubt that it could have been better than his own story.
（1）What did the author's father do at SMU？ （no more than 12 words）
（2）Why was O.Henry's manuscript found in the attic？ （no more than 20 words）
（3）What does the underlined word "authenticated" in Paragraph 2 mean？ （1 word）
（4）Why did the author's father set out to sell the manuscript？ （no more than 10 words）
（5）What do you think of the author's intention of writing such a story of his father？Please explain. （no more than 25 words）组卷：22引用：1难度：0.5
书面表达（满分25分）
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22．假如你是晨光中学的李津，你最近收到英国好友Chris的邮件。信中提到他将于4月中旬随学访团到天津交流学习，希望你给他推荐一下最值得去的景点。请你给他回一封邮件，内容包括：
（1）表示欢迎；
（2）简单介绍天津；
（3）推荐一处旅游景点并给出理由。
注意：
（1）词数不少于100；
（2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
（3）开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。
Dear Chris，
I'm so glad to receive your email and______
I hope this is helpful.Can't wait to meet you!
Yours，
Li Jin组卷：22引用：1难度：0.5
