2017江苏英语高考试卷答案解析,2017江苏英语高考试题

1.2017高考英语动词不定式专项知识点

2.河北英语高考题2017年

3.高考领航2017英语答案大全

一、频度副词在句中的通常位置

频度副词通常位于实意动词之前，动词be、助动词、情态动词之后。如：

He often comes to see us. 他常来看我们。

He is seldom late for school. 他上学很少迟到。

有时为了强调，频度副词也可位于动词be、助动词等之前。如：

She always was late. 她老是迟到。

有的频度副词可位于句末(尤其受very, only修饰时)。如：

I get paid on Fridays usually. 我通常在星期五领工资。

We go out very seldom. 我们很少外出。

Do you go to the cinema very often? 你常去看**吗?

有的频度副词(如sometimes, often, usually, frequently, occasionally等)可位于句首(此时多半是因为强调或对比)。如：

Sometimes he went there by bus. 有时他坐公共汽车去那儿。

Very often the phone rings when I’m in the bath. 电话经常在我洗澡时响。

注：含有否定意义的频度副词置于句首时，其后要用倒装语序。如：

Never have I been there. 我从未去过那儿。

Seldom does he see a film. 他很少看**。

另外，频度副词always 和 never通常不位于句首，除非是祈使句：

Always remember this. 时刻记住这一点。

Never go out at night. 晚上千万不要出去。

2017高考英语动词不定式专项知识点

10）全国卷 (2)

假设你是育才中学学生会主席李华。你校将举办一次英语演讲比赛（speech contest），希望附近大学的外籍教师Smith 女生来做评委。请参照以下通知给她写一封信。

英语演讲比赛

主题：人与自然

时间：6月15日下午2：---5：

地点：501教室

参赛选手：10名

联系人：李华（电话44876655）

范文： Dear Ms. Smith ,

I’m Li Hua , the chairman of the Students’ Union of YuCai Middle School ,which is close to your university . I’m writing to invite you to be a judge at our English speech contest which will be held in our school on June 15. It will start at 2:00 pm and last for about three hours . Ten students will deliver their speeches on the given topic “Man and Nature”. We hope that you will accept our invitation if it is convenient for you. Please call me at 44876655 if you have any questions.

I’m looking forward to your reply .

With best wishes

Li Hua

11） 全国卷 (3)

假定你是李华，正在一所英国学校学习暑期课程，遇到一些困难，希望得到学校辅导中心（Learning Center）的帮助。根据学校规定，你需要书面预约，请按下列的要求写一封信：1.本人简介 2.求助内容 3.约定时间 4.你的****（Email: lihua@1236.com ; Phone:12345678）

范文： Dear Sir ,

I’m LiHua , a Chinese student taking summer course in your university . I’m writing to ask for help . I came here last month and found my courses interesting .But I have some difficulty with note-taking and I have no idea of how to use the library . I was told the learning center provides help for students and I’m anxious to get help from you. I have no class on Tuesdays mornings and Friday afternoons . Please let me know which day is ok with you. You may email or phone me . Here are my email address and phone number :lihua@1236.com ; 1234567.

Look forward to your reply .

Yours ,

Li Hua

09)安徽卷 (4)

假设你正在参加全省中学生演讲比赛，请你针对有些父母经常翻开孩子的日记或书包这一现象，写一篇演讲稿，陈述你的观点。 内容包括：1.认为同学们不必为此烦恼 2.希望能够体谅父母的苦衷 3.建议与父母进行交流沟通

范文： Good morning , ladies and gentlemen ,

Some of us are having problems with our parents , as they often look into our school bags or read our diaries . I fully understand why we are not comfortable about it , but there’s no need to feel too sad. Our parents are checking our bags or diaries to make sure we are not getting into any trouble . They have probably heard some horrible stories about other kids and thought we might do the same . Or perhaps they just want to connect with us but are doing it all wrong . My suggestion is : Tell them we want them to trust us as much as we’d like to trust them .If you don’t think you can talk to them , write them a letter and leave it lying around ---they are bound to read it .

Thank you!

10)安徽卷 (5)

假设你将参加某英文杂志开展的一次征文活动，内容要求你在电视，手机和网络三者中，放弃其中的一个并陈述理由。请你以“which would you give up: TV, cell or Web?” 为题，写一篇短文。

范文： Which would you give up : TV , cell or web?

We are now living in an information age , in which TV , cells and the web are widely used . It seems that many people can not enjoy themselves with them .

However , if I had to give up one of them , I would turn off TV rather than switch off my cell or cut off the internet . I could do without TV because few TV shows can take my fancy and there’re too many commercials . Besides , most programs on TV are also available elsewhere .

As for cells and the web , they are more necessary to me . I need a cell to keep in touch with my friends and family , and almost all information can be gathered on the internet .

11)安徽卷 (6)

某校英文报社开设了一个专栏：experience . 本期话题是如何解决学习中遇到的困难。请你以“my approach to difficulties in learning” 为题，用英语写一篇短文，谈谈自己的一些做法。

范文： My approach to difficulties in learning

As school students , we run into one difficulty after another in the process of learning . Everyone has their own ways to deal with them . Here I would like to share mine.

When I am faced with a difficulty , I usually choose to refer to relevant learning materials or web pages . In this way , I can not only work it out but also improve my ability to overcome problems all by myself .

However , when it is something beyond my competence , I turn to my classmates or teachers for help . Sometimes I also ask my parents for advice . As a result , I have made steady progress in my studies .

河北英语高考题2017年

1 不定式作宾语

　1) 动词+ 不定式

　afford, aim, appear, agree, arrange, ask, be, decide, bother, care, choose, come, dare, demand, desire, determine, expect, elect, endeavor, hope, fail, happen, help, hesitate, learn, long, mean, manage, offer, ought, plan, prepare, pretend, promise, refuse, seem, tend, wait, wish, undertake

　The driver failed to see the other car in time. 司机没能及时看见另一辆车。

　I happen to know the answer to your question. 我碰巧知道你那道问题的答案。

　2) 动词+不定式;动词+宾语+不定式

　ask, beg, choose, expect, hate, help intend like, love, need prefer, prepare, promise, want, wish

　I like to keep everything tidy. 我喜欢每件东西都保持整洁。

　I like you to keep everything tidy. 我喜欢你使每件东西都保持整洁。

　I want to speak to Tom. 我想和汤姆谈话。

　I want you to speak to Tom. 我想让你和汤姆谈话。

　3) 动词+疑问词+ to

　decide, know, consider forget, learn, remember, show, understand, see, wonder, hear, find out, explain, tell

　Please show us how to do that. 请演示给我们如何去做。

　There are so many kinds of tape-recorders on sale that I can't make up my mind which to buy.有这么多的录音机，我都拿不定主意买哪一种。

　注意

　疑问词带不定式在句中作成分时，谓语动词用单数。如：The question is how to put it into practice. 问题是怎样把它付诸实施。

　2. 不定式作补语

　1) 动词+宾语+不定式(to do)

　advise, allow, appoint, believe, cause, challenge, command, compel, consider, declare, drive, enable, encourage, find, forbid, force, guess, hire, imagine, impel, induce, inform, instruct, invite, judge, know, like, order, permit, persuade, remind, report, request, require, select, send, state, suppose, tell, think, train, trust, understand, urge, warn

　a.Father will not allow us to play on the street. 父亲不让我们在街上玩耍。

　b.We believe him to be guilty. 我们相信他是有罪的。

　Find 的特殊用法

　Find 后可用分词做宾补，或先加形式宾语，再加形容词，最后加带to 的动词不定式。find后也可带一个从句。此类动词还有get，have。

　I found him lying on the ground.

　I found it important to learn.

　I found that to learn English is important.

　典型例题

　The next morning she found the man ___ in bed，dead.

　A. lying B. lie C. lay D. laying

　答案：A.find的宾语后面，用分词或分词短语，起宾语补足语作用。现在分词表达主动，也表达正在进行，过去分词表达被动。

　2) to + be 的不定式结构，作补语的动词。

　acknowledge, believe, consider, think, declare(声称), discover, fancy(设想), feel, find, guess, judge, imagine, know, prove, see(理解), show, suppose, take(以为), understand

　We consider Tom to be one of the best students in our class. 我们认为汤姆是班上的学生之一。

　典型例题

　Charles Babbage is generally considered ___ the first computer.

　A. to invent B. inventing C. to have invented D. having invented

　答案：A. 由consider to do sth. 排除B、D。. 此句只说明发明这一个事实，不定式后用原形即可。而C为现在完成时，发明为点动词一般不用完成时，且此处也不强调对现在的影响，因此不选C。

　3) to be +形容词

　seem, appear, be said, be supposed, be believed, be thought, be known, be reported, hope, wish, desire, want, plan, expect, mean

　The book is believed to be uninteresting. 人们认为这本书没什么意思。

　4) there be+不定式

　believe, expect, intend, like, love, mean, prefer, want, wish, undrstand

　We didn't expect there to be so many people there. 我们没料到会有那么多人在哪里。 注意

　有些动词需用as 短语做补语，如regard, think believe, take, consider.

　We regard Tom as our best teacher. 我们认为汤姆是我们的老师。

　Mary took him as her father . 玛丽把他当作自己的父亲。

　3. 不定式作主语

　1) It's easy (for me) to do that. 我做这事太容易了。

　easy, difficult, hard, important, possible, impossible, comfortable, necessary, better; the first, the next, the last, the best, too much, too little, not enough

　It's so nice to hear your voice. 听到你的声音真高兴。

　It's necessary for you to lock the car when you do not use it. 当你不用车的时候，锁车是有必要的。

　2) It's very kind of you to help us. 他帮助我们，他真好。

　kind, nice, stupid, rude, clever, foolish, thoughtful, thoughtless, brave, considerate(考虑周到的), silly, selfish(自私的)

　It was silly of us to believe him. 我们真愚蠢，竟然相信了他。

　It seemed selfish of him not to give them anything. 他不给他们任何东西，这显得太自私了。 注意

　1) 其他系动词如，look，appear等也可用于此句型

　2) 不定式作为句子成分时，动词用单数形式。

　3) 当不定式作主语的句子中又有一个不定式作表语时，不能用It is? to?的句型

　(对)To see is to believe. 百闻不如一见。(错)It is to believe to see.

　It's for sb.和 It's of sb.

　1) for sb. 常用于表示事物的特征特点，表示客观形式的形容词，如easy, hard, difficult, interesting, impossible等：

　It's very hard for him to study two languages. 对他来说学两门外语是很难的。

　2) of sb的句型一般用表示人物的性格，品德，表示主观感情或态度的形容词，如good, kind, nice, clever, foolish, right。

　It's very nice of you to help me. 你来帮助我，你真是太好了。

　for 与of 的辨别方法

　用介词后面的代词作主语，用介词前边的形容词作表语，造个句子。如果道理上通顺用of，不通则用for。如：You are nice. (通顺，所以应用of)。He is hard. (人是困难的，不通，因此应用for。)

　4. 不定式作表语

　不定式可放在be动词后面，形成表语。例如：

　My work is to clean the room every day.

　His dream is to be a doctor.

　5. 不定式作定语

　不定式做定语通常要放在被修饰的词后。例如：

　I have a lot of work to do.

　So he made some candles to give light.

　6. 不定式作状语

　1) 目的状语

　To? only to (仅仅为了), in order to, so as to, so(such)? as to? (如此?以便?) He ran so fast as to catch the first bus. 他飞快地跑以便赶上第一班车。

　I come here only to say good-bye to you. 我来仅仅是向你告别。

　2) 作结果状语，表事先没有预料到的，要放在句子后面。

　What have I said to make you angry.

　He searched the room only to find nothing.

　3) 表原因

　I'm glad to see you.

　典型例题

　The chair looks rather hard, but in fact it is very comfortable to ___.

　A. sit B. sit on C. be seat D. be sat on

　答案：B. 如果不定式为不及物动词，其后应有必要的介词。当动词与介词连用时，常位于"形容词+动词不定式"结构的末尾。

　用作介词的to

　to 有两种用法：一为不定式+动词原形; 一为介词+名词/动名词, to 在下面的用法中是第二种，即to+ 名词/动名词：admit to承认，confess to承认，be accustomed to 习惯于，be used to 习惯于，stick to 坚持，turn to开始，着手于，devote oneself to 献身于，be devoted to 致力于， look forward to 盼望，pay attention to

　注意

　省to 的动词不定式

　1) 情态动词 ( 除ought 外，ought to)：

　2) 使役动词 let, have, make：

　3) 感官动词 see, watch, look at, notice , observe, hear, listen to, smell, feel, find 等后作宾补，省略to。

　注意

　在被动语态中则to 不能省掉。

　I saw him dance. =He was seen to dance.

　The boss made them work the whole night.=They were made to work the whole night.

　4) would rather，had better：

　5) Why? / why not?：

　6) help 可带to，也可不带to, help sb (to) do sth：

　7) but和except：but前是动词do时，后面出现的动词用不带to的动词不定式。

　8) 由and, or和than连接的两个不定式，第二个to 可以省去：

　9) 通常在discover, imagine, suppose, think, understand等词后，可以省去to be：He is supposed (to be) nice. 他应该是个好人。举例：He wants to move to France and marry the girl. He wants to do nothing but go out. 比较：He wants to do nothing but go out. He wants to believe anything but to take the medicine.

　典型例题

　1) ---- I usually go there by train.

　---- Why not ___ by boat for a change?

　A. to try going B. trying to go C. to try and go D. try going

　答案：D. why not 后面接不带to 的不定式，因此选D。

　2) Paul doesn't have to be made ___. He always works hard.

　A. learn B. to learn C. learned D. learning

　答案：B. make后接不带to 的动词不定式，当其用于被动时，to 不可省略。

　动词不定式的否定式

　Tell him not to shut the window?

　She pretended not to see me when I passed by. 我走过的时候，她假装没看见。

　典型例题

　1) Tell him ___ the window.

　A. to shut not B. not to shut C. to not shut D. not shut

　答案：B。 tell sb to do sth 的否定形式为tell sb not to do sth.

　2) She pretended ___ me when I passed by.

　A. not to see B. not seeing C. to not see D. having not seen

　答案：A。 pretend 后应接不定式。其否定形式为pretend not to do sth.。

　3) Mrs. Smith warned her daughter ___ after drinking.

　A. never to drive B. to never driver C. never driving D. never drive

　答案：A。warn sb to do sth. 的否定形式为warn sb not to do sth. 此处用的是否定词never.

　4) The boy wanted to ride his bicycle in the street，but his mother told him ____.

　A. not to B. not to do C. not do it D. do not to

　答案：A。not to 为not to do it 的省略形式。可以只用to这个词，而不必重复整个不定式词组。及物动词do后应有名词、代词等，否则不对，因此B，D不对。

　5) The patient was warned ___ oily food after the operation.

　A. to eat no B. eating not C. not to eat D. not eating

　答案：C。warn一词要求后用不定式，此处为不定式的被动，否定形式为be warned not to do。 不定式的特殊句型too?to?

　1) too?to 太?以至于?

　He is too excited to speak. 他太激动了，说不出话来。

　---- Can I help you ? 需要我帮忙吗?

　---- Well, I'm afraid the box is too heavy for you to carry it, but thank you all the same. 不用了。这箱子太重，恐怕你搬不动。谢谢您。

　2) 如在too前有否定词，则整个句子用否定词表达肯定， too 后那个词表达一种委婉含义，意 为"不太"。

　It's never too late to mend. (谚语) 改过不嫌晚。

　3) 当too 前面有only, all, but时，意思是：非常? 等于very。

　I'm only too pleased to be able to help you. 我非常高兴能帮助你。

　He was but too eager to get home. 他非常想回家。

　不定式的特殊句型so as to

　1) 表示目的;它的否定式是so as not to do。

　Tom kept quiet about the accident so as not to lose his job. 汤姆对事故保持沉默是为了不丢掉他的工作。

　Go in quietly so as not to wake the baby. 轻点进去，别惊醒了婴儿。

　2) so kind as to ---劳驾

　Would you be so kind as to tell me the time? 劳驾，现在几点了。

　不定式的特殊句型Why not

　"Why not +动词原形"表达向某人提出建议，翻译为："为什么不" "干吗不"

　例如：Why not take a holiday? 干吗不去度假?

高考领航2017英语答案大全

　许多在眼前看来天大的事，都不是人生一战，而只是人生一站。确实高考备战让你们很辛苦，可是已经坚持了这么久，这就已经是胜利。祝高考成功!下面是我为大家推荐的河北英语高考题2017年，仅供大家参考!

河北英语高考题2017年

　第I卷

　注意事项：

　1.答第I卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上

　2.选出每小题答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在本试卷上，否则无效

　第一部分听力(共两节，满分30分)

　做题时，先将答案标在试卷上，录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上

　第一节(共5小题;每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)

　听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题题。每段对话仅读一遍。

　例：How much is the shirt?

　A.￡19.15. B.￡9.18. C.￡9.15.

　答案是C。

　1. Where is Mary?

　A. In the classroom. B. In the library. C. On the playground.

　2. How much should the man pay for the tickets?

　A. $16. B. $12. C. $6

　3. Why can?t the woman give the man some help?

　A. She is quite busy now.

　B. She doesn?t like grammar.

　C. She is poor in grammar，too.

　4. What happened to Marx?

　A. He lost his way.

　B. He found his bike missing.

　C. He lost his wallet.

　5. Why did the man fail to attend the party?

　A. He forgot it.

　B. He didn?t know about the party.

　C. He wasn?t invited to the party.

　第二节(共15小题;每小题1.5分，满分22.5分)

　听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟;听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。

　听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

　6. Why must the man drive to work?

　A. It is the quickest way.

　B. He has to use his car after work.

　C. He lives too far from the subway.

　7. What?s the relationship between the speakers?

　A. Boss and employee.

　B. Grandmother and grandson.

　C. Teacher and student.

　听第7段材料，回答第8～9题。

　8. When is Alice?s birthday?

　A. Tomorrow. B. The day after tomorrow. C. Today.

　9. What will the two speakers buy for Alice?

　A. A recorder. B. Some flowers. C. A box of chocolates.

　听第8段材料，回答第10~12题。

　10. What does the woman do in the group?

　A. Play the piano. B. Play the violin. C. Sing for the group.

　11. Who is Miss Pearson?

　A. Leader of the group.B. Director of the group. C. Teacher of the group.

　12. How often does the group meet?

　A. Once a week. B. Twice a week. C. Every third week.

　听第9段材料，回答第13~16题。

　13. Who possibly is the woman?

　A. An air hostess. B. A native Indian. C. A travel agent.

　14. How long does the trip last?

　A. Seven days. B. Eight days. C. Nine days.

　15. What will the man probably do at the second stage?

　A. Do some shopping. B. Visit the Taj Mabal. C. See wild animals.

　16. What will the speakers do next?

　A. Say goodbye to each other.B. Find out the price. C. Go to India by air.

　听第10段材料，回答第17~20题。

　17. In what way does Jack like to travel?

　A. With a lot of people.

　B. With one or two good friends.

　C. All by himself.

　18. What does Helen prefer on holiday?

　A. Staying at home.

　B. Seeing famous places.

　C. Enjoying nature quietly.

　19. What does Bob like the best about travel?

　A. Making more friends. B. Buying what he wants. C. Seeing and learning.

　20. Who prefers to do shopping while traveling?

　A. Jack. B. Helen. C. Bob.

　第二部分阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)

　第一节(共15小题;每小题2分，满分30分)

　阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

　A

　We have designed all our bank cards to make your life easier.

　Using your NatWest Service Card

　As a Switch card, it lets you pay for all sorts of goods and services, whenever you see the Switch logo. The money comes straight out of your account, so you can spend as much as you like as long as you have enough money (or an agreed overdraft (透支) to cover it). It is also a cheque guarantee card for up to the amount shown on the card. And it gives you free access to your money from over 31,000 cash machines across the UK.

　Using your NatWest Cash Card

　You can use your Cash Card as a Solo card to pay for goods and services wherever you see the Solo logo. It can also give you access to your account and your cash from over 31,000 cash machines nationwide. You can spend or withdraw what you have in your account, or as much as your agreed overdraft limit.

　Using your cards abroad

　You can also use your Service Card and Cash Card when you?re abroad. You can withdraw cash at cash machines and pay for goods and services wherever you see the Cirrus or Maestro logo displayed.

　We take a commission charge (手续费) of 2.25% of each cash withdrawal you make (up to￡4) and a commission charge of 75 pence every time you use Maestro to pay for goods or services. We also apply a foreign-exchange transaction fee of 2.65%.

　Using your NatWest Credit Card

　With your credit card you can do the following:

　* Pay for goods and services and enjoy up to 56 days? interest-free credit.

　* Pay in over 24 million shops worldwide that display the MasterCard or Visa logos.

　* Collect one AIR MILE for every￡20 of spending that appears on your statement (结算单). (This does not include foreign currency or traveler?s cheques bought, interest and other charges.)

　21. If you carry the Service Card or the Cash Card, ________.

　A. you can use it to guarantee things as you wish

　B. you can draw your money from cash machines conveniently

　C. you can spend as much money as you like without a limit

　D. you have to pay some extra money when you pay for services in the UK

　22. If you withdraw￡200 from a cash machine abroad, you will be charged ________.

　A. ￡4 B. ￡4.5 C. ￡5.25 D. ￡5.3

　23. Which of the following is TRUE about using your NatWest Credit Card?

　A. You have to pay back with interest within 56 days.

　B. You can use the card in any shop across the world.

　C. You will be charged some interest beyond two months.

　D. You will gain one air mile if you spend ￡20 on traveller?s cheques.

　24. The purpose of the passage is to show you how to ________.

　A. pay for goods with your cards B. use your cards abroad

　C. draw cash with your cards D. play your cards right

　B

　Once when I was facing a decision that involved high risk, I went to a friend. He looked at me for a moment, and then wrote a sentence containing the best advice I?ve ever had: Be bold and brave ? and mighty (强大的) forces will come to your aid.

　Those words made me see clearly that when I had fallen short in the past, it was seldom because I had tried and failed. It was usually because I had let fear of failure stop me from trying at all. On the other hand, whenever I had plunged into deep water, forced by courage or circumstance, I had always been able to swim until I got my feet on the ground again.

　Boldness means a decision to bite off more than you can eat. And there is nothing mysterious about the mighty forces. They are potential powers we possess: energy, skill, sound judgment, creative ideas ? even physical strength greater than most of us realize.

　Admittedly, those mighty forces are spiritual ones. But they are more important than physical ones. A college classmate of mine, Tim, was an excellent football player, even though he weighed much less than the average player. ?In one game I suddenly found myself confronting a huge player, who had nothing but me between him and our goal line,? said Tim. ?I was so frightened that I closed my eyes and desperately threw myself at that guy like a bullet ? and stopped him cold.?

　Boldness ? a willingness to extend yourself to the extreme?is not one that can be acquired overnight. But it can be taught to children and developed in adults. Confidence builds up. Surely, there will be setbacks (挫折) and disappointments in life; boldness in itself is no guarantee of success. But the person who tries to do something and fails is a lot better off than the person who tries to do nothing and succeeds.

　So, always try to live a little bit beyond your abilities?and you?ll find your abilities are greater than you ever dreamed.

　25. Why was the author sometimes unable to reach his goal in the past?

　A. He faced huge risks. B. He lacked mighty forces.

　C. Fear prevented him from trying. D. Failure blocked his way to success.

　26. What is the implied meaning of the underlined part?

　A. Swallow more than you can digest. B. Act slightly above your abilities.

　C. Develop more mysterious powers. D. Learn to make creative decisions.

　27. What can be learned from Paragraph 5?

　A. Confidence grows more rapidly in adults. B. Trying without success is meaningless.

　C. Repeated failure creates a better life. D. Boldness can be gained little by little.

　C

　The wallet is heading for extinction. As a day-to-day essential, it will die off with the generation who read print newspapers. The kind of shopping-where you hand over notes and count out change in return?now happens only in the most minor of our retail encounters，like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk from a corner shop. At the shops where you spend any real money, that money is increasingly abstracted. And this is more and more true, the higher up the scale you go. At the most cutting-edge retail stores?Victoria Beckham on Dover Street, for instance?you don't go and stand at any kind of cash register when you decide to pay. The staff are equipped with iPads to take your payment while you relax on a sofa.

　Which is nothing more or less than excellent service, if you have the money. But across society, the abstraction(抽象) of the idea of cash makes me uneasy. Maybe I'm just old-fashioned. But earning money isn't quick or easy for most of us. Isn't it a bit incredible that spending it should happen in half a blink(眨眼)of an eye? Doesn't a wallet?that time-honoured Friday-night feeling of pleasing, promising fatness?represent something that matters?

　But I'll leave the economics to the experts. What bothers me about the death of the wallet is the change it represents in our physical environment. Everything about the look and feel of a wallet?the way the fastenings and materials wear and tear and loosen with age, the plastic and paper and gold and silver, and handwritten phone numbers and printed cinema tickets?is the very opposite of what our world is becoming. The opposite of a wallet is a smartphone or an iPad. The rounded edges, cool glass, smooth and unknowable as pebble(鹅卵石). Instead of digging through pieces of paper and peering into corners, we move our fingers left and right. No more counting out coins. Show your wallet, if you still have one. It may not be here much longer.

　28. What is happening to the wallet?

　A. It is disappearing. B. It is being fattened.

　C. It is becoming costly. D. It is changing in style.

　29. What makes the author feel uncomfortable nowadays?

　A. Saving money is becoming a thing of the past.

　B. The pleasing Friday-night feeling is fading.

　C. Earning money is getting more difficult.

　D. Spending money is so fast and easy.

　30. Why does the author choose to write about what's happening to the wallet?

　A. It represents a change in the modern world.

　B. It has something to do with everybody's life.

　C. It marks the end of a time-honoured tradition.

　D. It is the concern of contemporary economists.

　31. What can we infer from the passage about the author?

　A. He is resistant to social changes.

　B. He is against technological progress.

　C. He feels reluctant to part with the traditional wallet.

　D. He feels insecure in the ever-changing modern world.

一、。 1.A 2.C 3.A 4. B 5. D

二、 1. Have you ever swum 2. he hasn’t visited 3. hasn’t won any prizes 4. I’ve alwayswanted to help you 5. has already invite us to travel 三、 1. It’s over 550metres. 2. To take in thebreath-taking view. 3. By rotating once every 72 minutes. 4. Three. / 3. 5. Some information about the CN Tower.

四、。 1.D 2.B 3.D 4.A 5.B 6.B 7.D 8.A 9.B 10.B

五、

Dear Tony, How are you? I’m having a wonderful timein Beijing now. I have done many interesting things here. I have been to manyplaces of interest. I have visited the Tian’anmen Square, the Palace Museumand the Great Wall. I have taken many nice photos of these famous places. I’llsend some to you with this email. I have also enjoyed different kinds ofChinese food. I’ve tried dumplings, noodles and roast duck. They are all verydelicious. I think Beijing is one of the biggest and busiestcities in the world. There’s a lot to see and do here. I hope we can visit Beijing together nexttime. Yours, Tom