湖北省孝感高中高二下学期期中考试英语试题

On the annual International Volunteers Day, the world _____ the work of millions of people who give their time to help others.

Fat on human beings is _____ in different ways.

Employees in a chemical factory should be given _____ training in safety.

.Children often have very _____ imaginations.

We bought the big house with the saving we had _____ for several years.

After changing the job , the girl still felt puzzled, making her wonder whether she could really _____ with the busy city life.

Luckily, the driver _____ missed hitting the tree by only several inches.

When we ran to the top of the hill, we were _____ .

He made a _____ of five thousand dollars on the deal.

People there now have no _____ to safe drinking water due to the Japanese Earthquake.

My father was in the navy, which meant that my mother was married to both my father and the sea．As was often the case, we had to pack our belongings into boxes and 31 those we had grown to love．We would arrive at our new home and find ourselves once again  32  at the pier （码头） waving good-bye to my father as his  33  pulled him away from us．My mother would turn my brother and I around before the ship was out of  34 , wipe our tears, and take us back home to start the process of  35  in the new environment again．
Throughout the years of changing  36 , schools and friends, there remained one constant in my childhood — my mother．For both my  37  and I, she was the cook, maid and teacher．She played these roles while  38  some type of part-time job．Leaving a promising career is just one of the  39  which my mother made for my family as we moved around the world with our father every three years or so． 40  she had to deal with only a small budget, my mother,  41 , managed to make each house to be the very home that is safe and  42 ．
This probably sounds like a depressing way to live,  43  with two small children: “single” parenthood, short-term friendships, and the inability （无能） to  44  a career or establish a home．But it was not for my mother．She turned this  45  into adventure for us all! Each relocation （变换位置） was a chance to  46  another part of the world．My mother greeted each new culture, climate and neighborhood．Each new house was a  47  to rearrange furniture, make curtains and  48  pictures．Every part-time job was an opportunity to learn something new and work with interesting people．
No matter how difficult the life was, she was always having a  49  attitude．She always had strength in the face of struggle and change．My mother was so  50  all those years during my childhood — she was my island in a sea of change．She is my hero．
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A．leave behind B．leave out C．leave off D．leave for

A．living B．staring C．standing D．going

A．car B．ship C．train D．plane

A．range B．shape C．sight D．control

A．adapting B．suiting C．matching D．fitting

A．names B．jobs C．addresses D．directions

A．father B．classmates C．brother D．relatives

A．performing B．seeking C．waiting D．applying

A．programs B．sacrifices C．contribution D．cooperation

A．Once B．While C．When D．Unless

A．somewhere B．somewhat C．sometime D．somehow

A．romantic B．comfortable C．mysterious D．wealthy

A．generally B．actually C．especially D．unfairly

A．desert B．develop C．affect D．limit

A．lifestyle B．value C．journey D．opportunity

A．acquire B．explore C．occupy D．realize

A．load B．sadness C．result D．challenge

A．hang B．draw C．take D．sell

A．changeable B．cautious C．positive D．negative

A．experience B．brave C．ordinary D．annoyed

A dog who chewed off his owner’s infected toe（脚趾）while he was passed-out drunk has been called a lifesaver. Jerry Douthett had been out drinking when his dog Kiko bit off a large part if his big toe. His wife, Rosee, rushed him to hospital where tests showed the 48-year-old musician had dangerous high blood-sugar levels. Doctors told him his toe would have had to be cut off anyway.
Mr Douthett said he had refused to get medical advice despite his toe being swollen for months. “I was hiding it from people, Rosee included,” he said. “It smelled , and I look back now and realize every time we’d visit someone with a dog, their dog would smell all over my foot.”
The night before Mr Douthett had agreed to see a doctor, he passed out at home after going out drinking. He said, “I woke up and the dog was lying along side by foot. I said, ‘Ah, there’s blood everywhere.’ I ran to the bathroom and started to scream.”
However, he believes Kiko could sense the disease coming from his big toe. “He’s a hero,” Mr Douthett said. “It wasn’t an aggressive attack. He just ate the infection. He saved my life. He ate it. I mean, he must have eaten it, because we couldn’t find it anywhere else in the house. I look down. There’s blood all over, and my toe is gone.”
Before the operation, Mr Douthett asked a nurse, “Is there any chance I can get whatever’s left of my toe, so I can give it to Kiko as a treat?” Kiko is still with the family but is under observation by authorities.
.Mr Douthett didn’t want to get medical treatment because ______ .

.From Paragraph 3 we can infer that ______ .

.What did Mr Douthett think of his dog ?

Britain’s symbolic red phone boxes have become out of date in the age of the mobile, but villages across the country are stepping in to save them, with creative intelligence. Whether as a place to exhibit art, poetry, or even as a tiny library, hundreds of phone boxes have been given a new life by local communities determined to preserve a typical part of British life. In Waterperry, a small village near Oxford, the 120 residents have filled the phone box next to the old house with a pot of flowers, piles of gardening and cooking magazines, and stuck poems on the walls.
They took control of the phone box when telecoms operator BT said it was going to pull it down, an announcement that caused such dissatisfaction that one local woman threatened to chain herself to the box to save it. “I’d have done it,”insisted Kendall Turner. “It would have been heartbreaking for the village.”Local councilor Tricia Hallam, who came up with the idea for the phone box’s change, said quite a few people would have joined her, adding, “We couldn’t let it go because it’s a British symbol.”
Only three feet by three feet wide, and standing 2.51-meter tall, the phone boxes were designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in 1936 for the 25^th anniversary of the reign of King George V.Painted in “Post Office red” to match the post boxes, they were once a typical image of England and the backdrop（背景）to millions of tourist photographs.
Eight years ago there were about 17,000 across Britain, but today, in a country where almost everybody has a mobile phone, 58 percent are no longer profitable and ten percent are only used once a month. “On average, maintaining them costs $800 a year per phone box — about ￡44 million annually,” said John Lunb, general manager for BT Payphones.
.Some red phone boxes in Britain have been used for ______ .
a.selling flowers     b.cooking           c.reading       d.exhibiting art or poetry

.Why do the villagers want to keep the red phone boxes ?

.What is the color of the British post boxes according to the passage ?

.What is John Lumb’s attitude towards pulling down the red phone boxes ?

In bringing up children, every parent watches eagerly the child’s acquisition of each new skill-the first spoken words, the first independent steps, or the beginning of reading and writing．It is often tempting to hurry the child beyond his natural learning rate, but this can set up dangerous feelings of failure and states of worry in the child: This might happen at any stage．A baby might be forced to use a toilet too early, a young child might be encouraged to learn to read before he knows the meaning of the words he reads．On the other hand, though, if a child is left alone too much, or without any learning opportunities, he loses his natural enthusiasm for life and his desire to find out new things for himself．
Patents vary greatly in their degree of strictness towards their children．Some may be especially strict in money matters．Others are severe over times of coming home at night or punctuality for meals．In general, the controls imposed represent the needs of the parents and the values of the community as much as the child’s own happiness．
As regards the development of moral standards in the growing child, consistency is very important in parental teaching．To forbid a thing one day and excuse it the next is no foundation for morality．Also, parents should realize that “example is better than precept”．If they are not sincere and do not practice what they teach, their children may grow confused, and emotionally insecure when they grow old enough to think for themselves, and realize they have been to some extent fooled．
A sudden awareness of a marked difference between their parents’ principles and their morals can be a dangerous disappointment．
.Eagerly watching the child’s acquisition of new skills _________．

.In the process of children’s learning new skills, parents ______．

.The second paragraph mainly tells us that __________．

.In moral matters, parents should __________．

At about 4 am, after hours of being unable to sleep, of shivering in the cold mountain air and trying to silence my crying kids who kept waking up, of attempting to find a comfortable sleeping position, of listening to whether there might have been a bear outside our tent, I finally couldn’t stand it any more. I complained, “Everything has gone wrong.”
My wife and I were in one tent with our two young kids. A hundred yards east away was Summit Lake, where the glorious early morning mist was shimmering（闪烁）off the water. A couple miles to the southwest was the base of the Lassen Peak Trail. The base was 8,000 feet above sea level, and huge snow dotted the scenery even in mid August. Further west still was Bumpass Hell, with steam rising up.
As the sun crept up over the edge of the Lassen peak, we fired up the camp stove and had breakfast. Half an hour later, my six-year-old daughter and I were in the parking lot of the Lassen peak trail, getting ready to go up the mountainside. We wouldn’t make it all the way, but it didn’t matter. We would see nature at its extremes: the volcanic ash that layered on the earth turning the melting snow a mysterious pink as the sun struck it; the blues of the sky shading into the blues of distant lakes, which in turn shaded into the whites and grays of the snow.
My daughter grabbed my camera. She wanted to take a photo of “the composite（混合物）”of colors. Looking out over that scenery, and seeing my daughter fascinated by nature, I felt stupid about my morning complaints.
Yes, camping is uncomfortable. And yes, there’s a lot to be said for getting out a credit card,reserving a room in a nice hotel, and going out for a fancy meal. But there’s also something wonderful about being so close to raw nature. And , as important, there’s something vital about getting young children out of their increasingly modern comfort zones and forcing them to meet the world around them.
.According to the passage, what contributed to the author’s sleeplessness ?
①the cold weather       ②his crying children          ③fear of bears            
④sounds of bears      ⑤the aches of his lower back      ⑥his own complaints

.Which of the following maps correctly shows the places ?

.The underlined word “colors” in Paragraph 4 refers to ______ .

.How did the author’s feeling change from the beginning to the end ?

.Which of the following statements can be inferred from the passage ?

A new study has found that it may be possible to train people to be more intelligent, increasing the brainpower they had at birth．
Until now，it has been widely assumed that the kind of mental ability that allows us to solve new problems without having any relevant previous experience—what psychologists call fluid intelligence—is innate and cannot be taught（though people can raise their grades on tests of it by practicing）．
But in the new study，researchers describe a method for improving this skill，along with experiments to prove it works．
The key, researchers found, was carefully structured training in working memory—the kind that allows memorization of a telephone number just long enough to dial it．This type of memory is closely related to fluid intelligence，so the researchers reasoned that improving it might lead to improvements in fluid intelligence．
First they measured fluid intelligence of volunteers using standard tests．Then they trained each in a complicated memory task—the child’s card game，in which they had to recall a card they saw and heard．During the course, they needed to ignore irrelevant items, monitor ongoing performance，manage two tasks at the same time and connect related items to one another in space and time．
The four groups experienced a half-hour of training daily for 8, 12, 17 and 19 days, respectively．To make sure they were not just improving their test-taking skills，the researchers compared them with control groups that took the tests without the training．
The results, published Monday in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences，were striking．Improvement in the trained groups was a lot greater．Moreover，the longer they trained, the higher their scores were．All performers，from the weakest to the strongest，showed significant improvement．
“Our results show you can increase your intelligence with proper training．” said Dr Jaeggi, a co-author of the paper．“No one knows how long the gains will last after training stops,” he added, “and the experiment’s design did not allow the researchers to determine whether more training would continue to produce further gains．”
.The researchers thought the key to improving the intelligence was ______________．

.The following aspects of the training help increase intelligence EXCEPT___________．

.When the experiment was conducted, the researchers______________．

.By writing the article，the writer intends to ______________．

.As far as I know, Mr Black _________________（回到）Australia before you went to
America.(come)
.My suggestion is that ___________________________（你适应）the new life.(adjust)
.Tom, as well as his classmates, __________________（已意识到）the importance of English.(aware)
.The old man is said _____________（参加）the election, but we haven’t got further information until now.(participate)
.______________________（后面跟着他的妻子）, Professor Smith entered the hall.(follow)
.Hardly _______________（他们到达）the farm when they began to work.(arrive)
.As far as I’m concerned, it was what you said at the meeting ______________（使她生气）.(angry)
.The reason ______________（她放弃）the chance of studying abroad is that she has to look after her ill mother.(give)
.Something must be done to prevent the river _______________（受污染）.(pollute)
.__________________________（收到她的信）is a great pleasure to him.(hear)

据报道，为了应对网络有害信息，北京展开了一项活动，选出60个母亲为“Mom Jury”，让她们参与到整顿不良网站的活动中。请你根据下表提供的有关信息，用英语写一篇短文。
背景   网民日益年轻化；网上不良信息很多
任务   举报不良网站；提出建议；督促政府部门采取措施等
效果   一个月后，许多不良网站被关闭
你的看法   ……
注意：
1.逐一陈述以上所给要点，可适当发挥，不要简单翻译；
2.词数：120左右；
3.参考词汇：网民netizen.