宜昌一中
沙市中学2017年秋季高一年级期中考试英语试卷
公安一中
命题学校：宜昌一中
审题学校：沙市中学 公安一中
考试时间：2017年11月16日上午8:00 —10:00 试卷满分：150分
第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）
做题时，先将答案划在试卷上。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。每段对话仅读一遍。
What do we know about the woman?
A. She has her own house.
B. She lives at her parents’ house.
C. She rents a house.
2. What seats are available?
A. The window ones.
B. The front row ones.
C. The back row ones.
3. What is the weather like?
A. Hot. B. Cold. C. Warm.
4. What happened to the man this morning?
A. He lost the key to his house.
B. He was locked in his house.
C. He locked his roommate in his house.
5. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. James’ life.
B. James’ family.
C. James’ business.
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。
6. Why does the boy want a credit card?
A. Lots of his friends have credit cards.
B. He thinks he is able to pay the bill himself.
C. The credit card company wants him to have one.
7. What is the woman’s attitude towards the boy’s behavior?
A. She is worried about it.
B. She is satisfied with it.
C. She is against it.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. How does the man suggest the woman go at first?
A. By taxi.
B. By bus.
C. On foot.
9. Where is the No. 4 bus stop?
A. In front of a parking lot.
B. Next to a ticket counter.
C. Opposite a ticket counter.
10. How much is the bus ticket?
A. $1.
B. $1.70.
C. $1.75.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. Why did Mr. Cervantes call the woman?
A. To order some stoves.
B. To report a problem about the stoves.
C. To get some information about the stoves.
12. What relation is Mr. Cervantes to the speakers?
A. Their shopper.
B. Their workmate.
C. Their partner.
13. What will the speakers probably do?
A. Reduce the price of the stoves.
B. Send some stoves with new glass.
C. Make it up to Mr. Cervantes.
听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。
14. How does the woman often get books?
A. She borrows them from a library.
B. Her friends give them to her.
C. She buys them.
15. What do we know about the library in Greenville?
A. More than 5 books can be checked out.
B. Books can be kept for 5 weeks.
C. It is free to join.
16. What does the woman do first when she chooses books?
A. She looks over the titles.
B. She checks by her favorite writers.
C. She reads the first page of the books.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. When is the best time to go to Cairo?
A. In summer.
B. In autumn.
C. In winter.
18. How does the man suggest getting to the Red Sea from Qena?
A. By train.
B. By bus.
C. By ship.
19. What does the man say about the coast in Red Sea?
A. It has a lot to see and to do.
B. It’s not good for a seaside holiday.
C. It’s very busy and interesting.
20. What can visitors do in Port Said?
A. Watch boats.
B. Enjoy the beaches.
C. Visit a temple.
第二部分：词汇知识运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节：多项选择（共10小题；每题1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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。Halloween has become more popular in China, but some of its frightening clothes cause ________ that they may affect children in a bad way.
A. command B. concern C. conversation D. consideration
22. After chatting with his net-friend for a long time, they decided to meet each other, however, they were shocked to discover each other’s true ________.
A. item B. insurance C. identity D. introduction
23. I agree that he is an independent person, but sometimes he is too ________ to accept others’ opinion even if he knows what he is doing is not right.
A. stubborn B. selfish C. stupid D. sincere
24. They are trying to provide ________ information to show a close relation between global warming and industrial development through their hard work.
A. interesting B. common C. fluent D. reliable
25. With time and patience, you’ll ________ come to realize that the Southern America football is different from the European football in many ways.
A. frequently B. regularly C. gradually D. extremely
26. Neither side of the two countries was willing to ________ at all when it had something to do with the future of their countries. As a result, no agreement was reached.
A. give in B. give up C. give out D. give off
27. In fact, you’ll both lose if you let your fight ________ your friendship, and you’ll both win if you find a way to fix the problem.
A. determine B. suffer C. shelter D. ruin
28. Teachers should encourage their students to ________ different opinions in discussions, to work out problems by themselves, and to draw conclusions of their own.
A. end up with
B. catch up with
C. keep pace with
D. come up with
29. Have you ever watched the film which tells a story of a girl who survived a school bus accident and her teachers who help her ________ physically and mentally?
A. recognize B. recover C. rescue D. realize
30. With the popularity of microblog (WeiBo in Chinese), people are losing the pleasure of tasting delicious food and communicating with others ________, because they are busy uploading pictures.
A. back on back B. side by side C. face to face D. hand in hand
第二节：完型填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、 B、 C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑My husband Sid and I were never able to have children. I had always wanted a family and that
31 ?deepened?after his death. He was all I had. When he died, I felt like I had
32
my entire family.
On my journey to
33 , I never
34 ?I would finally get the family I had always wished for. A few years later after Sid’s death I
35
Tom. We fell in love and when we married, I ?36
got four grown children and eight grandchildren.
But would his children like and
37
me? I was worried?about my first meeting with his children. My
38
disappeared when I realized that they liked?me and were
39
willing to bring me into their family as a stepmother. And when his daughters?asked?me if their children could call me “Mimi,” I was
40 . Tom was divorced, and
41 ?I was also
42
about the fact?that the children already had two grandmothers. Would the little ones understand
43 ?I fit into the family?
At our first family gathering, I ?44 ?our six-year-old grandson Jim staring at me with a ?45 ?look. He seemed to be thinking about something serious. Suddenly,
46 , he jumped and said, “I know who you are! You are our extra?grandma!”
47 , I know it was time to just relax and enjoy my new
48 .
I always thought I would have children and then grandchildren in the
49
manner. I have heard people say when a door closes, God opens a window. Now I know what that means. I lost so much
50
when Sid died, but?now I have a new happy life.
31.
A. feeling B. taste C. experience D. mind
32.
A. found B. raised C. lost D. deserted
33.
A. recovery B. freedom C. success D. interest
34. A. forgot B. dreamed C. regretted D. got
35.
A. missed B. liked C. owned D. met
36.
A. surely B. naturally C. suddenly D. merely
37. A. receive B. accept C. attract D. support
38. A. fear B. joy C. courage D. suffering
39.
A. less than B. more than C. rather than D. other than
40. A. surprised B. worried C. excited D. frightened
41. A. in other words B. from then on
C. in the end D. as a result
42. A. concerned B. hopeful C. sad D. angry
43.
A. when B. where C. why D. what
44. A. realized B. treated C. recognized D. noticed
45. A. doubtful B. confused C. delighted D. funny
46. A. shouting B. smiling C. pointing D. looking
47. A. At the same time B. In the end
C. In that way D. At that moment
48.
A. personality B. job C. role D. life
49.
A. standard B. different C. correct D. usual
50. A. happiness B. fortune C. treasure D. wealth
第三部分：阅读理解(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)
阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。There are three different kinds of friends in our life. I classify(分类) them according to how well I know them and how well they know me.
The first type of friend is just an acquaintance(熟人). This means that you only know their names. You might not even remember what they look like if you go away for a short vacation. You don’t miss them when they are elsewhere. It is also this type of friend who gives you the most amount of aggravation(恼怒). Since most of the time you are placed in a position where you have to act friendly, you would not normally tell an acquaintance when he or she is doing something that makes you feel angry, such as tapping the fingers on a table or shouting loudly. I call them “pest friends”.
The second kind of friend is a “guest friend”. They are just social partners. You meet them at a certain location and at the end of the meeting you go your separate way and they go theirs. You don’t talk too often with this sort of friend, and you don’t share each other’s secrets. Lastly, we have “best friends”. This sort of friend is there when you need them. They know you as a person and they are there through thick and thin. Best friends are the ones that you can lean and depend on no matter what happens. If you need a listening ear, they will be the one to lend support.
Friends come in all different shapes and sizes. Every friend has an impact on our life.
51. What is this passage mainly about?
A. What a true friend is like.
B. Three kinds of friends in our life.
C. The role that friends play in our life.
D. Why there are different kinds of friends.
52. According to the writer, when a friend of the first type acts in an annoying way, you ________.
A. can tell him/her about it directly
B. should stay away from him/her
C. may find it hard to tell him/her not to do so
D. should advise him/her to correct his/her behavior
53. Which of the following statements is WRONG about the second type of friend?
A. They are called “pest friends” by the writer.
B. They are only social partners.
C. You don’t talk very often with them.
D. You don’t share your secrets with them.
54. If someone is with you through thick and thin, it means ________.
A. he/she supports you no matter what you do
B. he/she agrees with whatever you say
C. you spend most of your time together
D. he/she is with you even when there are difficulties
B
It’s well known that people in big cities live a busy life. Many people feel they are caught up with tight schedules. But things can be different. With a few helpful tips, you can enjoy an easy life in a busy city.
1. Write a list of what you need to finish each day and clearly state the amount of time given to each task. Follow the list and you will save time which might be wasted on choosing tasks. Use the time saved to take a rest when you finish each item, by drinking a cup of coffee, looking through some magazines, or just taking a break from your desk or computer by standing up, stretching(伸展) your body and looking out of the windows.
2. Find your own working style and don’t care too much about other people’s comments. If you need a quiet working environment but one of your colleagues just can’t stop talking, then go out to a coffee shop, finish your work and then come back. The most important thing is to finish your tasks on time, which is important to you.
3. Mind your own business. Avoid passing short messages, E-mails, or talking about a colleague behind his or her back. Try to do your task at hand.
4. Learn to say “No.” It’s nice to help a colleague when he asks you for help, but it gets tiring after he asks you to help solve the same problem many times. So learn to say “no” the third time when you have helped him twice.
5. Turn down unnecessary appointments(约会). Communication is important for work as well as life, yet you don’t need to attend every event. Learn to say “Sorry, I have already had an appointment tonight,” or “Sorry, I’m busy. Would you mind next time?” Keep some time for yourself, even just for daydreaming.
55. The aim to write the passage is to show us _________.
A. how to work to make you happy
B. how to enjoy an easy life in a busy city
C. that city people live a busy life
D. that many city people are tired of a busy life
56. What does the second paragraph tell us?
A. How to work to make your boss happy.
B. What we can do while we’re working.
C. The good of planning what you will do.
D. The good of working in an office.
57. If someone in your office keeps talking, which troubles you a lot, you should ________.
A. report to the boss
B. prevent him at once
C. join in the talk
D. find another place
58. What can we learn from the passage?
A. The author doesn’t like sending E-mails in his life.
B. Communicating with others is unnecessary.
C. Be kind to others when they’re in trouble.
D. Not every appointment is necessary.
C
Two thieves came to a house to steal something. They dug a hole in the wall of the house.
There lived many mice in the house. The woman in the moonlight saw a mouse crawl(爬行) into the house. “Look! In comes one,” she said to the man in the house. The thief was so frightened that he hurriedly crawled out of the house and said to the one waiting outside, “She found me when I was just in.” But the thief outside didn’t believe him, so he said, “Let us two try to crawl into the house together.” At that time two mice happened to crawl into the house, too. The woman saw the mice and shouted. The man in the house said, “You saw them come in but where are they? I will catch them tonight.” The two thieves started running away at once.
The two thieves wanted to make it clear whether they had been found or not the night before. The next day they acted as men selling sweet potatoes and came before the house. The man and the woman were ploughing in their fields. The rein(缰绳) broke and the woman came home for a rope. She saw two men selling sweet potatoes and wanted to buy some. She picked out two which looked like mice. At the time the man couldn’t wait for her any longer in the fields and he ran back from the fields to hurry her up. The woman showed the sweet potatoes to the man and said, “How they look like the two of last night!” The man said, “I asked you to fetch a rope; why don’t hurry for it?” The two thieves ran away very quickly without their sweet potatoes.
59. The two thieves failed to steal anything from the house because ________ .
A. they were found out
B. they were frightened by what they had heard in the house
C. they didn’t work together well with each other
D. mice stopped them from doing so
60. From the last paragraph, we know that ________.
A. the two thieves were famous for selling sweet potatoes
B. the woman recognized the two thieves
C. the woman pretended to know nothing about the two thieves and made fun of them
D. the two thieves didn’t know that they were not found at all
61. When the woman said, “How they look like the two of last night!”________ .
A. She referred to the two thieves
B. She meant nothing
C. She said it on purpose
D. She referred to the mice
62.
is the best title for this passage.
A. Two Clever Thieves
B. Terrible Mice
C. Hit the Mark by a Fluke(偶然)
D. A Clever Couple
D
We keep reading that TV is bad for you. If this is true, how come the current generation of TV-addicted kids is much smarter than we are? In my home, the only people who can work the remote control are the children.
Perhaps TV does educate you. For example, you learn a useful medical fact: A person who has been shot always has time to speak an incomplete sentence before he dies. “The killer was…”
But I guess the biggest things we learn from TV can be regarded as “Life Skills”. Bad things only happen on dark and stormy nights. Emotional breakdowns cause people to wander in the heavy rain without umbrellas. And contrary to what scientists say, the crack of lightning and the accompanying flash happen at exactly the same time, wherever you are.
I’ve even acquired useful geographical facts from science-fiction shows: Aliens speak English no matter which planet they come from.
Making use of what we learn from TV can improve our security. Consider these truths. If you are ever attacked by 20 bad guys, don’t worry about being outnumbered. The criminals will hang back and take turns to approach (靠近) you in ones and twos just so you can conveniently defeat them all. Bad guys who are completely covered in black clothes always remove their black masks to reveal that they are in fact, aha, women.
TV also teaches us important information about escaping from danger. Watch and learn. If anyone is running after you down a passage, you will find that boxes have been conveniently placed near all the walls you need to jump over. If you are tall and handsome, you can run from any number of armed criminals, and every shot will miss you.
Be warned, however. If your name card says “henchman” (帮凶) and you are part of a group of plain-looking people trying to catch a handsome individual, a single shot will kill you. But don’t be anxious: TV also offers useful information for bad guys. All cars are inflammable (易燃的) and have amazing shock absorbers that enable them to fly into the air and land without damage — except police cars.
TV even teaches us about TV. Whenever anyone turns on a TV, it shows a news flash about someone they know. They then turn the box off immediately after that news item.
63. By saying “A person who has been shot always has time to speak an incomplete sentence before he dies” (Paragraph 2), the writer shows his________.
A. humor
B. pity
C. deep concern
D. medical knowledge
64. We can infer from Paragraph 3 that in the real world_______.
A. bad things cause people to break down in the rain
B. bad things never happen on dark and stormy nights
C. people with emotional problems like to walk in the rain without umbrellas
D. the crack of lightning and the accompanying flash don’t happen at the same time
65. On TV what usually happens when a person turns it on?
A. The news shown is always about someone the person knows.
B. The person always turns off the TV when it’s time for news.
C. The program shown is always about the importance of TV.
D. TV always shows news about people around.
66. What’s the main idea of this passage?
A. Life skills can be learned from TV.
B. TV plays an important role in society.
C. Watching TV makes people more creative.
D. What happens in TV is very different from reality.
E
A woman from Japan was telling a friend about her trip to the United States. The woman had visited major businesses and investment companies in New York City and Chicago.
“I studied English before I left home,” she said. “But I still was not sure that people were speaking English.”
Her problem is easy to understand. Americans in business are like people who are in business anywhere. They have a language of their own. Some of the words and expressions deal with the special areas of their work. Other expressions are borrowed from different kinds of work such as the theater and movie industry.
One such saying is “get your act together”.
When things go wrong in a business, an employer may get angry. He may shout, “Stop making mistakes. Get your act together.”
Or, if the employer is calmer, he may say, “Let us get our act together.”
Either way, the meaning is the same. Getting your act together is getting organized. In business, it usually means to develop a calm and orderly plan of action.
It is difficult to tell exactly where the saying began. But, it is probable that it was in the theater or movie industry. Perhaps one of the actors was nervous and made a lot of mistakes. The director may have said, “Calm down, now. Get your act together.”
Word expert James Rogers says the expression was common by the late 1970s. Mister Rogers says the Manchester Guardian newspaper used it in 1978. The newspaper said a reform policy required that the British government get its act together.
Now, this expression is heard often when officials of a company meet. One company even called its yearly report, “Getting Our Act Together.”
The Japanese visitor was confused by another expression used by American business people. It is “cut to the chase”.
She heard that expression when she attended an important meeting of one company. One official was giving a very long report. It was not very interesting. In fact, some people at the meeting were falling asleep.
Finally, the president of the company said, “Cut to the chase.”
Cutting to the chase means stopping spending so much time on details or unimportant material. Hurry and get to the good part.
Naturally, this saying was started by people who make movies. Hollywood movie producers believe that most Americans want to see action movies. Many of their movies show scenes in which the actors chase each other in cars, or in airplanes or on foot.
Cut is the director’s word for stop. The director means to stop filming, leave out some material, and get to the chase scene now.
So, if your employer tells you to cut to the chase, be sure to get to the main point of your story quickly.
67. After the woman visited the Untied States she might feel that __________.
A. her English was poor
B. It’s easy to master English
C. it’s difficult to make money
D. people there weren’t very friendly
68. In which situation could the words “get your act together” be used?
A. A task is completed successfully.
B. Players perform badly in a match.
C. Audience is satisfied with the actor’s performance in a movie.
D. Visitors make a tiresome and unpleasant trip to someplace.
69. According to the text, the expression “get one’s act together” __________.
A. was first used by a Japanese business woman
B. was forbidden to be used in the government policy
C. originally came from a yearly report of a company
D. was commonly read by readers in a newspaper in 1978
70. What do the sayings “get your act together” and “cut to the chase” have in common?
A. Their uses
B. Their meanings
C. their origins (起源)
D. their popularities
第四部分：书面表达(满分0分)第节：完成句子共10小题；每小题分，满分分阅读下列各小题，根据括号内的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子，并将答案写在答题卡上的相应题号后。It was from his disappointed expression ____________________ my mistake.
(recognize)
从他失望的眼神中我才认识到我的错误。Don’t believe him; he ____________________.
(change)
不要相信他。他总是改变主意。Don’t refer to the dictionary every time you come across new words ____________________. (whose)
不要每次一碰到你不知道意思的新单词就去查字典。
74. I never give in to any difficulty, .
(neither)
我从来都不向任何困难低头，他也是。
75. In that research, scientists
not everything went as they had expected. (surprised)
在那个实验中，科学家们吃惊地发现并非每件事情都如他们想象地发展。
76. It is commanded that all the stolen items before the show is on. (recover)
据命令，所有被偷的物品都要在展览前找回来。
77. We held a party to celebrate our success and that was the first time .
(enjoy)
我们举行了一个晚会来庆祝我们的成功，那是我们第一次玩得很开心。
78.
his accent, he comes from a small town in northern England. (judge)
从他的口音判断，他来自英国北部的一个小镇。
79. , the party went like clockwork.
(organize)
每件事都组织好了，这台晚会进展很顺利。
80. .
(bury)
一旦专注于读书，他就会忘了周围的一切。
第二节书面表达(满分分)
“Books are our best friends” 为题，写一篇短文。
要求：1、至少列举三个理由说明读书的好处；
2、呼吁大家多读书；
3、词数120左右。
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宜昌一中
沙市中学2017年秋季高一年级期中考试英语试卷
公安一中
命题学校：宜昌一中
审题学校：沙市中学 公安一中
考试时间：2017年11月16日上午8:00 —10:00 试卷满分：150分
第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）
做题时，先将答案划在试卷上。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。每段对话仅读一遍。
What do we know about the woman?
A. She has her own house.
B. She lives at her parents’ house.
C. She rents a house.
2. What seats are available?
A. The window ones.
B. The front row ones.
C. The back row ones.
3. What is the weather like?
A. Hot. B. Cold. C. Warm.
4. What happened to the man this morning?
A. He lost the key to his house.
B. He was locked in his house.
C. He locked his roommate in his house.
5. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A. James’ life.
B. James’ family.
C. James’ business.
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。
6. Why does the boy want a credit card?
A. Lots of his friends have credit cards.
B. He thinks he is able to pay the bill himself.
C. The credit card company wants him to have one.
7. What is the woman’s attitude towards the boy’s behavior?
A. She is worried about it.
B. She is satisfied with it.
C. She is against it.
听第7段材料，回答第8至10题。
8. How does the man suggest the woman go at first?
A. By taxi.
B. By bus.
C. On foot.
9. Where is the No. 4 bus stop?
A. In front of a parking lot.
B. Next to a ticket counter.
C. Opposite a ticket counter.
10. How much is the bus ticket?
A. $1.
B. $1.70.
C. $1.75.
听第8段材料，回答第11至13题。
11. Why did Mr. Cervantes call the woman?
A. To order some stoves.
B. To report a problem about the stoves.
C. To get some information about the stoves.
12. What relation is Mr. Cervantes to the speakers?
A. Their shopper.
B. Their workmate.
C. Their partner.
13. What will the speakers probably do?
A. Reduce the price of the stoves.
B. Send some stoves with new glass.
C. Make it up to Mr. Cervantes.
听第9段材料，回答第14至16题。
14. How does the woman often get books?
A. She borrows them from a library.
B. Her friends give them to her.
C. She buys them.
15. What do we know about the library in Greenville?
A. More than 5 books can be checked out.
B. Books can be kept for 5 weeks.
C. It is free to join.
16. What does the woman do first when she chooses books?
A. She looks over the titles.
B. She checks by her favorite writers.
C. She reads the first page of the books.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20题。
17. When is the best time to go to Cairo?
A. In summer.
B. In autumn.
C. In winter.
18. How does the man suggest getting to the Red Sea from Qena?
A. By train.
B. By bus.
C. By ship.
19. What does the man say about the coast in Red Sea?
A. It has a lot to see and to do.
B. It’s not good for a seaside holiday.
C. It’s very busy and interesting.
20. What can visitors do in Port Said?
A. Watch boats.
B. Enjoy the beaches.
C. Visit a temple.
第二部分：词汇知识运用（共两节，满分30分）
第一节：多项选择（共10小题；每题1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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。Halloween has become more popular in China, but some of its frightening clothes cause ________ that they may affect children in a bad way.
A. command B. concern C. conversation D. consideration
22. After chatting with his net-friend for a long time, they decided to meet each other, however, they were shocked to discover each other’s true ________.
A. item B. insurance C. identity D. introduction
23. I agree that he is an independent person, but sometimes he is too ________ to accept others’ opinion even if he knows what he is doing is not right.
A. stubborn B. selfish C. stupid D. sincere
24. They are trying to provide ________ information to show a close relation between global warming and industrial development through their hard work.
A. interesting B. common C. fluent D. reliable
25. With time and patience, you’ll ________ come to realize that the Southern America football is different from the European football in many ways.
A. frequently B. regularly C. gradually D. extremely
26. Neither side of the two countries was willing to ________ at all when it had something to do with the future of their countries. As a result, no agreement was reached.
A. give in B. give up C. give out D. give off
27. In fact, you’ll both lose if you let your fight ________ your friendship, and you’ll both win if you find a way to fix the problem.
A. determine B. suffer C. shelter D. ruin
28. Teachers should encourage their students to ________ different opinions in discussions, to work out problems by themselves, and to draw conclusions of their own.
A. end up with
B. catch up with
C. keep pace with
D. come up with
29. Have you ever watched the film which tells a story of a girl who survived a school bus accident and her teachers who help her ________ physically and mentally?
A. recognize B. recover C. rescue D. realize
30. With the popularity of microblog (WeiBo in Chinese), people are losing the pleasure of tasting delicious food and communicating with others ________, because they are busy uploading pictures.
A. back on back B. side by side C. face to face D. hand in hand
第二节：完型填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、 B、 C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑My husband Sid and I were never able to have children. I had always wanted a family and that
31 ?deepened?after his death. He was all I had. When he died, I felt like I had
32
my entire family.
On my journey to
33 , I never
34 ?I would finally get the family I had always wished for. A few years later after Sid’s death I
35
Tom. We fell in love and when we married, I ?36
got four grown children and eight grandchildren.
But would his children like and
37
me? I was worried?about my first meeting with his children. My
38
disappeared when I realized that they liked?me and were
39
willing to bring me into their family as a stepmother. And when his daughters?asked?me if their children could call me “Mimi,” I was
40 . Tom was divorced, and
41 ?I was also
42
about the fact?that the children already had two grandmothers. Would the little ones understand
43 ?I fit into the family?
At our first family gathering, I ?44 ?our six-year-old grandson Jim staring at me with a ?45 ?look. He seemed to be thinking about something serious. Suddenly,
46 , he jumped and said, “I know who you are! You are our extra?grandma!”
47 , I know it was time to just relax and enjoy my new
48 .
I always thought I would have children and then grandchildren in the
49
manner. I have heard people say when a door closes, God opens a window. Now I know what that means. I lost so much
50
when Sid died, but?now I have a new happy life.
31.
A. feeling B. taste C. experience D. mind
32.
A. found B. raised C. lost D. deserted
33.
A. recovery B. freedom C. success D. interest
34. A. forgot B. dreamed C. regretted D. got
35.
A. missed B. liked C. owned D. met
36.
A. surely B. naturally C. suddenly D. merely
37. A. receive B. accept C. attract D. support
38. A. fear B. joy C. courage D. suffering
39.
A. less than B. more than C. rather than D. other than
40. A. surprised B. worried C. excited D. frightened
41. A. in other words B. from then on
C. in the end D. as a result
42. A. concerned B. hopeful C. sad D. angry
43.
A. when B. where C. why D. what
44. A. realized B. treated C. recognized D. noticed
45. A. doubtful B. confused C. delighted D. funny
46. A. shouting B. smiling C. pointing D. looking
47. A. At the same time B. In the end
C. In that way D. At that moment
48.
A. personality B. job C. role D. life
49.
A. standard B. different C. correct D. usual
50. A. happiness B. fortune C. treasure D. wealth
第三部分：阅读理解(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)
阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。There are three different kinds of friends in our life. I classify(分类) them according to how well I know them and how well they know me.
The first type of friend is just an acquaintance(熟人). This means that you only know their names. You might not even remember what they look like if you go away for a short vacation. You don’t miss them when they are elsewhere. It is also this type of friend who gives you the most amount of aggravation(恼怒). Since most of the time you are placed in a position where you have to act friendly, you would not normally tell an acquaintance when he or she is doing something that makes you feel angry, such as tapping the fingers on a table or shouting loudly. I call them “pest friends”.
The second kind of friend is a “guest friend”. They are just social partners. You meet them at a certain location and at the end of the meeting you go your separate way and they go theirs. You don’t talk too often with this sort of friend, and you don’t share each other’s secrets. Lastly, we have “best friends”. This sort of friend is there when you need them. They know you as a person and they are there through thick and thin. Best friends are the ones that you can lean and depend on no matter what happens. If you need a listening ear, they will be the one to lend support.
Friends come in all different shapes and sizes. Every friend has an impact on our life.
51. What is this passage mainly about?
A. What a true friend is like.
B. Three kinds of friends in our life.
C. The role that friends play in our life.
D. Why there are different kinds of friends.
52. According to the writer, when a friend of the first type acts in an annoying way, you ________.
A. can tell him/her about it directly
B. should stay away from him/her
C. may find it hard to tell him/her not to do so
D. should advise him/her to correct his/her behavior
53. Which of the following statements is WRONG about the second type of friend?
A. They are called “pest friends” by the writer.
B. They are only social partners.
C. You don’t talk very often with them.
D. You don’t share your secrets with them.
54. If someone is with you through thick and thin, it means ________.
A. he/she supports you no matter what you do
B. he/she agrees with whatever you say
C. you spend most of your time together
D. he/she is with you even when there are difficulties
B
It’s well known that people in big cities live a busy life. Many people feel they are caught up with tight schedules. But things can be different. With a few helpful tips, you can enjoy an easy life in a busy city.
1. Write a list of what you need to finish each day and clearly state the amount of time given to each task. Follow the list and you will save time which might be wasted on choosing tasks. Use the time saved to take a rest when you finish each item, by drinking a cup of coffee, looking through some magazines, or just taking a break from your desk or computer by standing up, stretching(伸展) your body and looking out of the windows.
2. Find your own working style and don’t care too much about other people’s comments. If you need a quiet working environment but one of your colleagues just can’t stop talking, then go out to a coffee shop, finish your work and then come back. The most important thing is to finish your tasks on time, which is important to you.
3. Mind your own business. Avoid passing short messages, E-mails, or talking about a colleague behind his or her back. Try to do your task at hand.
4. Learn to say “No.” It’s nice to help a colleague when he asks you for help, but it gets tiring after he asks you to help solve the same problem many times. So learn to say “no” the third time when you have helped him twice.
5. Turn down unnecessary appointments(约会). Communication is important for work as well as life, yet you don’t need to attend every event. Learn to say “Sorry, I have already had an appointment tonight,” or “Sorry, I’m busy. Would you mind next time?” Keep some time for yourself, even just for daydreaming.
55. The aim to write the passage is to show us _________.
A. how to work to make you happy
B. how to enjoy an easy life in a busy city
C. that city people live a busy life
D. that many city people are tired of a busy life
56. What does the second paragraph tell us?
A. How to work to make your boss happy.
B. What we can do while we’re working.
C. The good of planning what you will do.
D. The good of working in an office.
57. If someone in your office keeps talking, which troubles you a lot, you should ________.
A. report to the boss
B. prevent him at once
C. join in the talk
D. find another place
58. What can we learn from the passage?
A. The author doesn’t like sending E-mails in his life.
B. Communicating with others is unnecessary.
C. Be kind to others when they’re in trouble.
D. Not every appointment is necessary.
C
Two thieves came to a house to steal something. They dug a hole in the wall of the house.
There lived many mice in the house. The woman in the moonlight saw a mouse crawl(爬行) into the house. “Look! In comes one,” she said to the man in the house. The thief was so frightened that he hurriedly crawled out of the house and said to the one waiting outside, “She found me when I was just in.” But the thief outside didn’t believe him, so he said, “Let us two try to crawl into the house together.” At that time two mice happened to crawl into the house, too. The woman saw the mice and shouted. The man in the house said, “You saw them come in but where are they? I will catch them tonight.” The two thieves started running away at once.
The two thieves wanted to make it clear whether they had been found or not the night before. The next day they acted as men selling sweet potatoes and came before the house. The man and the woman were ploughing in their fields. The rein(缰绳) broke and the woman came home for a rope. She saw two men selling sweet potatoes and wanted to buy some. She picked out two which looked like mice. At the time the man couldn’t wait for her any longer in the fields and he ran back from the fields to hurry her up. The woman showed the sweet potatoes to the man and said, “How they look like the two of last night!” The man said, “I asked you to fetch a rope; why don’t hurry for it?” The two thieves ran away very quickly without their sweet potatoes.
59. The two thieves failed to steal anything from the house because ________ .
A. they were found out
B. they were frightened by what they had heard in the house
C. they didn’t work together well with each other
D. mice stopped them from doing so
60. From the last paragraph, we know that ________.
A. the two thieves were famous for selling sweet potatoes
B. the woman recognized the two thieves
C. the woman pretended to know nothing about the two thieves and made fun of them
D. the two thieves didn’t know that they were not found at all
61. When the woman said, “How they look like the two of last night!”________ .
A. She referred to the two thieves
B. She meant nothing
C. She said it on purpose
D. She referred to the mice
62.
is the best title for this passage.
A. Two Clever Thieves
B. Terrible Mice
C. Hit the Mark by a Fluke(偶然)
D. A Clever Couple
D
We keep reading that TV is bad for you. If this is true, how come the current generation of TV-addicted kids is much smarter than we are? In my home, the only people who can work the remote control are the children.
Perhaps TV does educate you. For example, you learn a useful medical fact: A person who has been shot always has time to speak an incomplete sentence before he dies. “The killer was…”
But I guess the biggest things we learn from TV can be regarded as “Life Skills”. Bad things only happen on dark and stormy nights. Emotional breakdowns cause people to wander in the heavy rain without umbrellas. And contrary to what scientists say, the crack of lightning and the accompanying flash happen at exactly the same time, wherever you are.
I’ve even acquired useful geographical facts from science-fiction shows: Aliens speak English no matter which planet they come from.
Making use of what we learn from TV can improve our security. Consider these truths. If you are ever attacked by 20 bad guys, don’t worry about being outnumbered. The criminals will hang back and take turns to approach (靠近) you in ones and twos just so you can conveniently defeat them all. Bad guys who are completely covered in black clothes always remove their black masks to reveal that they are in fact, aha, women.
TV also teaches us important information about escaping from danger. Watch and learn. If anyone is running after you down a passage, you will find that boxes have been conveniently placed near all the walls you need to jump over. If you are tall and handsome, you can run from any number of armed criminals, and every shot will miss you.
Be warned, however. If your name card says “henchman” (帮凶) and you are part of a group of plain-looking people trying to catch a handsome individual, a single shot will kill you. But don’t be anxious: TV also offers useful information for bad guys. All cars are inflammable (易燃的) and have amazing shock absorbers that enable them to fly into the air and land without damage — except police cars.
TV even teaches us about TV. Whenever anyone turns on a TV, it shows a news flash about someone they know. They then turn the box off immediately after that news item.
63. By saying “A person who has been shot always has time to speak an incomplete sentence before he dies” (Paragraph 2), the writer shows his________.
A. humor
B. pity
C. deep concern
D. medical knowledge
64. We can infer from Paragraph 3 that in the real world_______.
A. bad things cause people to break down in the rain
B. bad things never happen on dark and stormy nights
C. people with emotional problems like to walk in the rain without umbrellas
D. the crack of lightning and the accompanying flash don’t happen at the same time
65. On TV what usually happens when a person turns it on?
A. The news shown is always about someone the person knows.
B. The person always turns off the TV when it’s time for news.
C. The program shown is always about the importance of TV.
D. TV always shows news about people around.
66. What’s the main idea of this passage?
A. Life skills can be learned from TV.
B. TV plays an important role in society.
C. Watching TV makes people more creative.
D. What happens in TV is very different from reality.
E
A woman from Japan was telling a friend about her trip to the United States. The woman had visited major businesses and investment companies in New York City and Chicago.
“I studied English before I left home,” she said. “But I still was not sure that people were speaking English.”
Her problem is easy to understand. Americans in business are like people who are in business anywhere. They have a language of their own. Some of the words and expressions deal with the special areas of their work. Other expressions are borrowed from different kinds of work such as the theater and movie industry.
One such saying is “get your act together”.
When things go wrong in a business, an employer may get angry. He may shout, “Stop making mistakes. Get your act together.”
Or, if the employer is calmer, he may say, “Let us get our act together.”
Either way, the meaning is the same. Getting your act together is getting organized. In business, it usually means to develop a calm and orderly plan of action.
It is difficult to tell exactly where the saying began. But, it is probable that it was in the theater or movie industry. Perhaps one of the actors was nervous and made a lot of mistakes. The director may have said, “Calm down, now. Get your act together.”
Word expert James Rogers says the expression was common by the late 1970s. Mister Rogers says the Manchester Guardian newspaper used it in 1978. The newspaper said a reform policy required that the British government get its act together.
Now, this expression is heard often when officials of a company meet. One company even called its yearly report, “Getting Our Act Together.”
The Japanese visitor was confused by another expression used by American business people. It is “cut to the chase”.
She heard that expression when she attended an important meeting of one company. One official was giving a very long report. It was not very interesting. In fact, some people at the meeting were falling asleep.
Finally, the president of the company said, “Cut to the chase.”
Cutting to the chase means stopping spending so much time on details or unimportant material. Hurry and get to the good part.
Naturally, this saying was started by people who make movies. Hollywood movie producers believe that most Americans want to see action movies. Many of their movies show scenes in which the actors chase each other in cars, or in airplanes or on foot.
Cut is the director’s word for stop. The director means to stop filming, leave out some material, and get to the chase scene now.
So, if your employer tells you to cut to the chase, be sure to get to the main point of your story quickly.
67. After the woman visited the Untied States she might feel that __________.
A. her English was poor
B. It’s easy to master English
C. it’s difficult to make money
D. people there weren’t very friendly
68. In which situation could the words “get your act together” be used?
A. A task is completed successfully.
B. Players perform badly in a match.
C. Audience is satisfied with the actor’s performance in a movie.
D. Visitors make a tiresome and unpleasant trip to someplace.
69. According to the text, the expression “get one’s act together” __________.
A. was first used by a Japanese business woman
B. was forbidden to be used in the government policy
C. originally came from a yearly report of a company
D. was commonly read by readers in a newspaper in 1978
70. What do the sayings “get your act together” and “cut to the chase” have in common?
A. Their uses
B. Their meanings
C. their origins (起源)
D. their popularities
第四部分：书面表达(满分0分)第节：完成句子共10小题；每小题分，满分分阅读下列各小题，根据括号内的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子，并将答案写在答题卡上的相应题号后。It was from his disappointed expression ____________________ my mistake.
(recognize)
从他失望的眼神中我才认识到我的错误。Don’t believe him; he ____________________.
(change)
不要相信他。他总是改变主意。Don’t refer to the dictionary every time you come across new words ____________________. (whose)
不要每次一碰到你不知道意思的新单词就去查字典。
74. I never give in to any difficulty, .
(neither)
我从来都不向任何困难低头，他也是。
75. In that research, scientists
not everything went as they had expected. (surprised)
在那个实验中，科学家们吃惊地发现并非每件事情都如他们想象地发展。
76. It is commanded that all the stolen items before the show is on. (recover)
据命令，所有被偷的物品都要在展览前找回来。
77. We held a party to celebrate our success and that was the first time .
(enjoy)
我们举行了一个晚会来庆祝我们的成功，那是我们第一次玩得很开心。
78.
his accent, he comes from a small town in northern England. (judge)
从他的口音判断，他来自英国北部的一个小镇。
79. , the party went like clockwork.
(organize)
每件事都组织好了，这台晚会进展很顺利。
80. .
(bury)
一旦专注于读书，他就会忘了周围的一切。
第二节书面表达(满分分)
“Books are our best friends” 为题，写一篇短文。
要求：1、至少列举三个理由说明读书的好处；
2、呼吁大家多读书；
3、词数120左右。
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