河南省郑州市智林学校高三第一次月考英语试卷

Mr. Smith’s decision to attend       ceremony tomorrow can be seen as       gesture of his intention to improve         the relationship.

At the Copenhagen conference, all the countries were called on to do all they could to control greenhouse gas emissions        it was too late.

---Hi, Jane. Are you free at six this evening? I was wondering if you could come with me to see the movie “X-men”.
---I’m sorry but I         it already. Besides, I         my mother do the laundry.

---Mr. Parker is so ambitious. He is seeking any opportunity to get promoted.
---That’s understandable.       you are in our company determines how well you are paid and       you can do with your life.

---Do you mean to play the hero in the play?
---           . But it should be a character I like.

Many animals sleep a lot when young, but sleep much less when they get older, just      
is the case with human being.

The present financial crisis has greatly contributed to thousands of workers     and many factories           .

If the drought       in Southwest China, the crops will be ruined. Worse still, both people and animals will be threatened with a lack of drinking water.

---Waiter! How soon can I get my food? I just have half an hour left before my train leaves.
---It       be ready in five minutes.

The doctor advised her to wear flat shoes        her back problem.

Though they lost the game, a small but        crowd cheered as the players came off the court.

---Are we going sightseeing next week?
---No. The plan     at the second meeting.

Passengers, don’t occupy the chairs with your luggage,        ?

--- What do you think if we put both John and Jack in charge of the work?
--- Just John is OK.          , you know.

The poems said       by Sean Cannery will be published next year.

I was having my dinner at McDonald’s one evening when an old couple slowly walked in. They  36   their meal, took a table near the window and started  37 food out of the plate. There was one hamburger, one order of French fries(炸薯条) and one drink. The man  38_the food into two halves and carefully placed  39  before his wife.
He took a sop(一小口)of the drink. His wife also took one and then 40 the cup down between them.“That  41 old couple! All they can  42   is one meal for the two of them , ” thought I.  43   the man began to eat his French fries, I  44   to my feet, went over and said that I was  45   to buy another meal for them. But he  46  refused me and said that they made it a  47   to share everything.
48  , the lady didn’t take a bite. She sat there  49   her husband eat, and taking turns(轮流) sipping the drink. Again I  50   to buy them something but was refused. When the man finished eating and was  51   his face with a napkin(纸巾), I  52   no longer stand it. I made an offer to them a third time.  53   being politely refused, I asked the lady   54  ,“Ｍadam, why aren’t you eating? You said that you share everything.  55  is it that you are waitting for?”“The teeth,”she answered.

A．served B．requested C．collected D．ordered

A．carrying B．taking C．fetching D．bringing

A．divided B．cut C．changed D．formed

A．it B．this C．that D．one

A．got B．settled C．set D．turned

A．funny B．crazy C．strange D．poor

A．afford B．pay C．demand D．choose

A．While B．Since C．As D．Until

A．came B．struggled C．rushed D．rose

A．anxious B．willing C．satisfied D．quick

A．warmly B．proudly C．kindly D．seriously

A．way B．habit C．case D．model

A．Surprisingly B．Sadly C．Shockingly D．Bitterly

A．seeing B．noticing C．watching D．finding

A．wanted B．asked C．planned D．attempted

A．wiping B．touching C．bathing D．washing

A．should B．could C．might D．would

A．In B．Upon C．After D．With

A．curiously B．carefully C．naturally D．plainly

A．How B．Who C．Why D．What

The National Outline for Medium and Long Term Education Reform and Development (2010 - 20) was released over the weekend. Here are some of the highlights:
Four – percent effort
The government says spending on education will be 4 percent of GDP by 2012. globally, average spending on education is about 4.5% of GDP. China spend 3,33% in 2008. according to Hu Angang, of Tsinghua University’s Center for China Studies, even if China reaches that goal, it will only rank about 100 th out of 188 countries.
Administrative rank
Administrative rankings for school leaders are to be phased out to tackle the bureaucracy (官僚机构) problem that limits educational development, according to Cheng Fangping, of the national Institute for Educational Research. Areas like teaching programs, scientific research, and technological development will be more independent.
Vocational Education
The system will be free of charge. According to Wu Yan, of Beijing Institute of Educational Sciences, this will be key to developing China’s production capacity and will improve poor people’s lives dramatically.
Entering college
Universities could eventually have the freedom to choose some of their own high school applicants. Normally, students are accepted based on the uniform national exam scores. Also, students who agree to go to a remote area could be admitted to university under special circumstances. The most likely change could come on the college entrance English test, which might be modeled on the IELTS or TOEFL. Students will be able to take it several times and pick their best score.
56．Which of the following is true in the future according to the passage?

57．Which of the following words is closest in meaning to “uniform” in the last paragraph?

58．We can learn from the passage even though our country spends 4% of GDP on education in 2012,          .

59．From the third paragraph, we can infer that         .

Nothing says love like a dozen long – stemmed roses on Valentine’s Day. More than a million roses will be sold during this festival for lovers, the biggest day of the year for the nation’s rose industry. It’s going to remain the most popular flower because love never goes out of style.
Yes, a rose is a rose is a rose. But selling them is no longer a beautiful experience for traditional flower shops. Supermarkets now offer convenience to the busy and discount rose shops help those hopelessly in love save money. Roses only is a good example of a discount rose retailer that was transformed from a traditional shop to answer the challenge in the’ 90s.
Inside this store on Sixth Avenue near 40 th Street, contemporary white furniture and wall – to – wall mirrors give it an expensive look. Customers move about freely among the counters, looking eagerly at the roses in more than 50 colors from shelf to shelf. Some customers say it’s the high quality of the roses that attracts them there. “I spent $ 20 but the flowers looked like I paid 60 or 70 dollars,” says one customer.
Studies show more people are buying roses in ones, two and threes these days. In fact, more than half of all roses are sold in bunches of fewer than a dozen. But Roses Only's low prices encourage people to spend. Even on Valentine's Day, when the price of a dozen roses and delivery can soar as high as $150, 12 of Roses Only's most expensive flowers sell for just $35. The company's key to success is to hold prices down by controlling every link in the rose chain. It grows its own roses in the sunshine of the Andes Mountains. In addition, the company also sells other items such as ballons and stuffed animals.    
While discount rose retailers are witnessing their business bloom, U.S. rose growers aren’t able to compete with the fierce foreign competition. More than 57% of roses sold in the USA are grown in other countries. The biggest foreign producers are Colombia and Ecuador, which accounted for almost 90% of the total imported last year. The trend has hurt domestic rose growers such as Johnson Flowers of California, considered to be this country's leading producer.
Now, instead of fighting overseas rivals, the Johnsons are trying to work with them. "We have a few big fighting overseas rivals, the Johnsons are trying to work with them. “We may also widen our business to include the service area and be a representative for overseas flower producers.”
As a result of severe competition, those in the rose business long for the good old days, whereas ordinary people benefit from the low price.
60．What is the central theme of this text?

61．How does Roses Only obtain success in the discount rose retailing field?

62．Which of the following shows the structure of the passage?(①to ⑦ represent paragraphs 1 to 7)

      Sports medicine experts have observed for  years that athletes such as long distance runners, especially women athletes, often display a lack of iron. Now a new study by a team of Purdue University researchers suggests that even moderate exercise may lead to reduced iron in the blood of women.
"We found that women who were normally inactive and then started a program of moderate exercise of middle degree showed sings of iron loss," says Roseanne M. Lyle, associate professor at Purdue. Her study of 62 formerly inactive women who began exercising three times a week for six months was published in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.
Iron deficiency is very common among women in general, affecting one in four female teenagers and one in five women aged 18 to 45, respectively. But the ratio is even greater among active women, affecting up to 80 percent of female endurance athletes. This means, Lyle says, that "too many women ignore the amount of iron they take in". Women of child-bearing age are at greatest risk, since their monthly bleeding is a major source of iron loss. Plus, many health-conscious women increase their risk by rejecting red meat, which contains the most easily absorbed form of iron. And because women often restrict their diet in an effort to control weight, they may not consume enough iron-rich food, and are liable to experience a deficiency.
Exercise can result in iron loss through a variety of mechanisms. Some iron is lost in sweat, and, for unknown reasons, intense endurance exercise is sometimes associated with bleeding of the digestive system. Athletes in high-impact sports such as running may also lose iron through a phenomenon where small blood vessels in the feet leak blood.
There are three stages of iron deficiency. The first and most common is having low iron reserves, a condition that typically has no symptoms. Fatigue and poor performance may begin to appear in the second stage of deficiency, when not enough iron is present to form the molecules(分子) of blood protein that transport oxygen to the working muscles. In the third and final stage, people often feel weak, tired, and out of breath - and exercise performance is severely compromised.
"People think that if they're not at the third stage, nothing is wrong, but that's not true," says John L. Beard, who helped design the Purdue study. "You're not stage 3 until your iron reserves go to zero, and if you wait until that point, you're in trouble."
Beard and other experts say it’s advisable for people to have a yearly blood test. If iron levels are low, talk with a physician to see if the deficiency should be corrected by changing your diet and taking iron-rich foods or by taking iron-added pills.
“Select breads and cereals with the words ‘iron-added’ on the label,” writes sports diet expert Nancy Clark. “This added iron supplements the small amount that naturally occurs in grains.” Clark also recommends cooking in iron pans, as food can obtain iron from the pan during the cooking process.
64．Which of the following may be the title for the passage?

65．The third paragraph is developed mainly by             .

66．What does it mean when you are in the third stage of iron defieiency?

67．What is the writer’s attitude in writing this passage?

       Harald Kaas was sixty. His back became rounded, and he bent a little. His forehead, always of the broadest－no one else’s hat would fit him － was now one of the highest, that is to say, he had lost all his teeth, which were strong though small, and blackened by smoking. Now, instead of “deuce take it” he said “deush take it”. He had always held his hands half closed as though grasping something; now they stiffened so that he could never open them fully. The little finger of his ldft hand had been bitten off. According to Harald’s version of the story, the fellow swallowed the piece on the spot.
He was fond of showing off the ldft part, and it often served as an introduction to the history of brave adventures, which became greater and greater and greater as he grew older and quieter. His small sharp eyes were deep set and looked at one with great intensity. There wsa power in his individuality. He has no lack of self-respect.
His house, raised on an old foundation, looked out to the south over many islands; farther out were more islands and the open sea. Its eastern wing was barely half furnished, and the western inhabited by Harald Kaas. These wings were connected by a gallery, behind which were the fields and woods to the north.
In the gallery itself were heads of bears, wolves, foxes and lynxes and stuffed birds from land and sea. Skins and guns hung on the walls of the front room. The inner rooms were also full of skins and filled with the smell of wild animals and tobacco-smoke. Harald himself called it “man-smell”; no one who had once put his nose inside could ever forget it. Valuable and beautiful skins hung on the walls and sat, and walked on skins, and each one of them was a subject of conversation. Harald Kaas, seated in his log chair by the fireside, his feet on the bearskin, opened his shirt to show the scars on his hairy chest (and what scars they were) which had been made by a bears teeth, when he had driven his knife, right up to the end, into the monster’s heart. All the tables, and cupboards, and carved chairs listened in their silence.
68．Who or what most probably bit harald Kaass’ little finger off?

69．Which of the following pictures shows the right description of Harald Kaas’ home?

America is grooving older. Fify years ago, only 4 out of every 100 people in the United Satates were 65 or older. Today, 10 out of every 100 Americans are over 65. The aging of the population will affect American society in many ways - education, medicine, and business. Quietly, the graying of America has made us a very different society-one in which people have a quite different idea of what kind of behavior(行为) is suitable at various ages.
A person’s age no longer tells you anything about his/her social position, marriage or health. There’s no longer a particular year in which one goes to school or goes to work or gets married or starts a family. The social clock that kept us on time tells ads it used to be. It doesn’t surprise us to hear of a 29 -year-old man who has become a father for the first time. Public ideas are changing. Many people say, “I’m much younger than my mother or my father was at my age.” No one says “act your Age” anymore. We’ve stopped looking with surprise at older people who act in youthful ways.
72. It can be learnt from the text that the aging of the population in America _____.

73. The underlined word “one” refers to_______ .

74. “Act your age” means people should ____ .

75. If a 25-year-old man becomes general manager of a big firm the writer of the text would most probably consider it _________.

短文改错（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
Are the years you spent at school best years of your life?         
Personally , I found most lesson rather uninteresting. We had to                
sit at our desks in silence and paid attention to what the teachers                    
were saying. They were used to write on the blackboard and ask                    
us difficult questions. We also had to do piles of homework , and                   
hand it on time. We had to wear school uniforms and obey lots of                  
rules. I left school as soon as I can and started work. I read books                 
at the public library , and late I decided to attend college. Now                   
I really enjoy study because I’m growing old and know what I                   
want it. When I was at school , I was just the wrong age!               

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