required standard.(这件工作没有达到需要的标准。)

catch up with 赶上;add up to总计;go in for 从事，致力于，追求，沉溺于。

10. I broke my relationship with John because he always found _____ with me.

A. error B. mistake C. fault D. failure

[答案] C. fault.

[注释]find fault with 挑剔，找.....的岔子。例如：

1)She tries to please him, but he always finds fault. (=He finds something wrong with everything she does.)

2)They found fault with every box I made. (=They found something wrong or something they did not like in every box I made.)

[答案] D. lasted.

[注释]last vi. (for) 持续

高考英语真题电子版

第一部分： 英语知识运用(共两节，满分30分)

第一节 单项填空(共20小题;每小题0.5分，满分10分)

从A.B.C.D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡该项标号涂黑。

1.——Hey , yohaven’t been acting like yourself. Everything OK ?

—— .

A. I’m fine, thanks B Sure, it is C. That’s good D It’s OK

2. I don't understand what the engineer means, but I’ve got rough idea of

Project plan.

A. the; a B. 不填; the C. the;不填 D. a ; the

3.______ and short of breath, Andy and Ruby were the first to reach the top of Mount Tai.

A. To be tried B. Tired C. Tiring D. Being tired

4.——I’ve read another book this week .

——Well, maybe is not how much yoread but what yoread that counts .

A .this B. that C. there D. it

5. The incomes of skilled workers went up. , unskilled workers saw their earnings fall.

A. Moreover B. Therefore C. Meanwhile D. Otherwise

6. The system has been designed to give students quick and easy to the digital resources of the library.

A. access B. passage C. way D. approach

7. There is a great deal of evidence that music activities engage different parts of the brain .

A. indicate B. indicating C. to indicate D. to be indicating

8. The medicine works more effectively yodrink some hot water after taking it.

A as B until C although D if

9. Over the past decades, sea ice in the Arctic as a result of global warming.

A . had decreased B decreased C has been decreasing D is decreasing

10. It took building supplies to construct these energy-saving houses. It took brains, too.

A other than B more than C rather than D less than

11. The good thing about children is that they very easily to new environments.

A adapt B appeal C attach D apply

12.—Is there any possibility yocould pick me up at the airport ?