内蒙古赤峰市宁城县高三12月月考英语试卷

— It’s such a pity. I didn’t get the first place in the exam.
— Come on. __________

Not only my mother but also Aunt Mary and her family ______ happy with the prize.

Chinese people spent many years ______ freedom and in the end a new country was born.

Many students listened to the lecture, but I wondered how much they took ______.

A suggestion was made ________ Jane should have a chance to try as well as the others.

When I returned to my study, I found the floor thoroughly ____ and all my books ____ according to the types of books.

He was left out when they ____ choosing a new manager, which came as a complete surprise to him.

Unfortunately the restaurant he recommended fell short of our ____.

— She doesn’t play the piano, but she likes singing and dancing.
— ____.

— Who do you intend to have ____ your computer?
— I haven’t decided yet. I wonder if you could help me.

They desired that they_______ the right to vote.

Nick is looking for another job because he feels that nothing he does_______ his boss.

One side of the board should be painted yellow, and_______

—Hi , Tracy , you look tired.
—I'm tried. I ______ the living room all day.

His wife, to whom he_______ for 20 years , was childless.

A hospital is needed by every living person at the time of birth, death, physical injuries, or sickness. It is always a       place where family members can gather around the person who needs the       of well trained medical doctors and nurses.
As Nicole Hagen and Ricky Beebe were born into the Hagen family in 1998, the parents were both in the delivery (分娩) room. This is a       as the tradition has been for the father to be in the next room.        hospitals have a birthing room where there is an extra sofa and a chair for the father to either sit or even to sleep on next to his wife. Many        are taken of the new baby within a few minutes of his or her       . Even a video can be made with the proud father taking pictures of the doctor, nurses, mother, and baby. A nurse may take a        picture of the father, mother, and baby. Young children will not see the baby        the doctor and nurses allow them into the room many hours later.
At the death of Grandma Hagen, the adult children        at her bedside. As she was dying, her children talked to her, read the Bible, and even sang some of her        songs. The nurses would check on her very often and the doctor came as his time       . She was given pain pills       her last few hours would be as        as possible. When she died the family cried together in sorrow for the loss of their mother. Grandpa Hagen had died fourteen years        . Grandma Hagen was 82 when she died.
Doctors operate on broken bones        by accidents in factories or car accidents. Children sometimes fall down stairs where an arm is       . Athletes get hurt in      of football, basketball, baseball, track, and soccer. Most injuries are repaired very successfully      the great skill of the doctor.
Illness from disease, alcohol, or smoking often requires a person to stay a long period in the hospital. People like to recover        . However, if medical care is needed, a hospital may be the      home for some patients.

A．beautiful B．big C．quiet D．nice

A．operation B．help C．check D．medicine

A．development B．fact C．question D．try

A．Modern B．New C．Many D．Large

A．things B．gifts C．people D．pictures

A．chance B．falling C．birth D．sight

A．valuable B．necessary C．family D．hospital

A．until B．as C．if D．when

A．gathered B．looked C．pointed D．smiled

A．old B．favorite C．own D．new

A．went by B．arrived C．remained D．allowed

A．so that B．even though C．as if D．that

A．happy B．pleased C．comfortable D．lucky

A．ago B．faster C．later D．earlier

A．made B．caused C．controlled D．brought

A．broken B．raised C．pained D．stretched

A．cases B．conditions C．games D．playground

A．in the form of B．thanks to C．out of D．from

A．at once B．at home C．easily D．as well

A．usual B．common C．second D．free

Michael is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say.
One day I went up to Michael and asked him, “I don’t get it. You can’t be positive all the time. How do you do it?” Michael replied, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself ‘Mike, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood.’ I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining（抱怨） I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.”
I often thought about that when I made a choice about life. Several years later, Michael was involved in a serious accident, falling off 60 feet from a communica－tion tower. After l8 hours of operation, and weeks of intensive care, Michael was re－leased from the hospital with rods placed in his back.I asked him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place.
“The first thing that went through my mind was the well being of my soon-to-born daughter,” Michael replied. “Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered I had two choices: I could choose to live or I could choose to die. In the operation room, I told the doctors and nurses, ‘I’m choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead’.”
Michael lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude.
The underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 really means that Michael is a person ______.

Each time something bad happens, Michael chooses to ______.

From the passage we can infer that ______.

With another invention in use, viewers will be also able to watch TV while walking to the office, taking a bus or simply waiting in line for lunch.
A Beijing-based company named Innofidei Inc. claims to have developed the first mobile TV chip for the market, which can change hundreds of thousands of mobiles into micro-TVs.
With this chip, people can receive TV signals on their phones and watch programs without any time or space limitations.“As long as the handset terminal（接收终端设备） has a colored screen and a battery, our chip can turn it into a mobile TV,” said Meng Fei, director of Innofidei’s business development department. The chip can be placed into a cell phone, a PDA, an MP4, a digital camera or even a laptop. He said that this, together with plans by China’s state broadcaster, would ensure the 2008 Games lives up to its promise as a “People’s Olympics”.
“Our chips are cheap so that cell phones with them will not be much different in price from regular phones,” Meng said. “CCTV will offer some free channels during the Games, so people can enjoy the Olympics for free.”
SARFT（国家广播电影电视总局） is planning to build a regional test network in Beijing and hopes to start trials as soon as possible. The goal is to deploy CMMB (部署中国移动多媒体广播) on a national level by the first half of 2008.
Innofidei is now busy selling their chips to cell phone makers so that the new generation of phones reaches the market in early 2008.
“Our invention successfully combines the good points of the two best-selling consumer products in history—TV sets and cell phones, ” said Meng. “In the near future, soccer fans won’t be tearing their hair out because they are stuck in traffic and missing the chance to see their favorite team’s play.”
Local baseball fans, meanwhile, will be able to draw comfort from the knowledge that—both at the Olympics and afterwards—their teams will be playing on a field designed to help recycle water.
Which of the following CANNOT be turned into a mobile TV according to the passage?
A. A cell phone.  B. A PDA.
C. An MP3.         D. A laptop.
Which of the following would possibly happen with the invention of the chip?
A. Sports fans watch Olympic Games on cell phones in 2008.
B. People watch video CDs on the MP4.
C. A game addict plays 3D games on a PDA.
D. Listening to news broadcast on radio.
We can infer from the passage that _______.

The best title for this passage would be “_______”.

Why do we call the sounds of birds, whales and insects songs? Because something about what we hear seems to have beauty, and some mellifluous (动听的) structure that touches us more than any possible message. Though for many years science has cautioned against hearing too much of what we humans would like to hear when we are trying to understand animal sounds, the musicality in some sounds is now starting to have an effect on the science of animal communication itself.
Many specific animal sounds express aggression(进攻), warning, or food, but such practical explanations are tough to apply to the long songs. Some whale songs can go on for up to 24 hours. The usual explanation for birdsong is that the birds are singing to attract mates or to announce the limits of their area. But the audience is not always evident for these long love songs, which have many of the elements related to human music: rhythm, melody (旋律), themes, repeating patterns, organization, variety, interest — all adding up to something humans have found beautiful for thousands of years. “Birds taught man,” wrote Roman poet and philosopher (哲学家) Lucretius, “and taught them songs before their art began.”
What is the scientific value of such sounds? The advantage of hearing music in nature and trying to reach out to nature through music is that though we don’t fully understand it, it is so accessible.
Music refuses explanation, but it clearly expresses something deep and important, which humans can’t live without. Finding music in the sound of birds, whales and other animals makes the farther frontiers(边缘) of nature see much closer to us.
The underlined phrase “cautioned against” in Paragraph 1 probably means “_______”.

According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?

By saying “Birds taught man”, what did Lucretius mean?

From the passage we know that music in nature ________.

Try imagining what the world will be like in the year 3000. Some serious thinkers are starting to imagine just that.
Bart: I don’t know that present-day electronic chips are, but some sort of chips — I’d guess maybe plastic. Our three-pound brain is definitely a wonder, perhaps the greatest wonder of natural biology. In this coming century, we’ll be re-engineering the brain a piece at a time, first with implants（植入物） and finally engineering an complete replacement. There’s no question that in the distant future we’ll play the music of the mind on instruments different from the current ones. So, yes, chips are our destiny (命运).
Edward: In 3000 perhaps the biggest difference from today is that there will be no more men. Females can have female children, without any need for men. In about ten years, we’ll find the cocktail that women can take to have female children. There’ll be no need for men at all.
Greg: What is Heaven? Heaven’s a place where you can create worlds at will, and the ideal Heaven is where you run the whole thing yourself. The current means of getting to Heaven involve various supernatural systems for which, at this point, there’s no scientific evidence. So I think we can reduce Heaven to an engineering project which we’re doing. The demand for Heaven is great—witness the desire of every human heart, from the people who built the ancient pyramids to modern society, to live beyond one’s given time. Our plan is to change human consciousness from the brain to bits of information in a computer chip, or some other kind of computational medium, so that just by thinking we’ll be able to create our own personal world. And I think the first stage of Heaven will be the feeling world, and beyond that I think we’d find a higher, more spiritual plane.
According to Bart, the brain may be the greatest wonder in the future because _______.

What does Bart refer to by saying “chips are our destiny”?

In 3000, what about the population of the world?

According to Greg, Heaven in the future is a place where ________.

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Getting your children to study can be a little like getting them to eat their vegetables.     Make a study time and have it at the same time every day.This will help your kids to learn to schedule their days and will give them a sense of control over how they spend their time.
Allow them to study in blocks of time, such as for half an hour with a fiveminute break in the middle.     Ideal (理想的)study times are after dinner or right after school before dinner.
Never allow your children to study in front of the television, as that will encourage passive activities.  
You’ll also need to help your kids find the right place to study.After you’ve set up a good study time for little learners, set up a good place where they can get those creative juices flowing.    Make sure there is a table or a desk and a comfortable chair.
  This includes helping them out with their homework sometimes and being there for them with the answers to any questions.The input you give your children during study periods will help form a bond and help make studying enjoyable.

E．Instead, use TV as a treat or a reward when the homework is completed.
F．Try to stop this bad habit by offering some sort of reward.
G．One of the best ways to form good study habits for your kids is to design a schedule that they keep to.

短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线（ ），并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及修改均仅限一词;
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
"Ten steps from the gate and twenty steps from rose bushes," A man spoke at a low voice in Jimmy’s dream one night. "There is treasure there!" So the next day Jimmy began dig. He dug before the hole was not any deeper and the dirt pile was at its highest. He sighed, "I’m very tired  to dig anymore." Then he discovered anything. It was a dog bone. He thought, "That man lied to me!" But when Jimmy’s mother saw what he has done, she clapped with her hands and smiled. "Oh, thank you, Jimmy. I always wanted another rose bush planting just there. Here’s $5.00 with digging that hole."

随着人们生活水平的提高，越来越多的家庭拥有了私家车。你们班同学就此现象展开了一次讨论，提出两种不同的观点和看法。假如你是赵凯，请你根据下表提供的信息，给《学生双语》报社写一封信，客观介绍这两种看法。

注意：1. 信的开头和结尾已给出。 2. 词数：120左右。3. 参考词汇：危及endanger
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