浙江省宁波市高一下期末英语试卷

    --- Poor Steven! I could hardly recognize him just now!
---        . He has changed so much.

       wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton has         attention of millions of people in the world.

--- What kind of house do you want to have? Something big?
--- Well, it         be big --- that’s not important.

After sailing for five months, they arrived at         they thought was the place they had been looking for.

On April 24, Tsinghua University         its 100^th anniversary at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

Sunglasses are sometimes worn to         the eyes         strong sunlight.

As the war in Libya goes on, an increasing number of people in the country         from their homes and         a safe place to stay.

It’s a long story and there is not much time left, so I’ll tell you about it        .

Some people have concerns over         the Disneyland in Shanghai will have a negative effect on the one in Hong Kong,         has been criticized for being too small.

It is reported that people are         likely to tell lies over the phone as they are in emails.

Swimmers must be very strong in order to build up speed because of the high resistance(阻力) of the water. Runners,        , must struggle against the heavy resistance of the air and ground.

To our great        , his parents were         at his mark.

  His promise         he would give away half of the year’s income to the earthquake-stricken area turned out a lie,         made the public feel cheated.

My sister met him at Ningbo Grand Theatre yesterday afternoon, so he         your lecture.

--- How much do I owe you for dinner?
---        . It’s nothing.

Many years ago I drove a taxi for extra money. I drove mainly from the downtown to the 16  , beside the Greenwood Racetrack which was in operation at that time.
Each time a taxi drove up to the station, many kids would run along the   17   to the passenger door. One   18    kid would open the passenger door and say, “  19   , sir.” The passenger would always say thanks and give the kid a   20    on his way from the taxi to the entrance of the track. It was a routine that everybody knew.
One day I noticed a boy, who was   21    than most of them but was pushed away by even the smallest kid. He never pushed back.   22   , he would even step aside when others pushed forward. But he never   23   .
Then one morning as I was   24    to the sidewalk, all the other kids were running after a taxi   25   mine. They didn’t notice mine.
The boy saw me and walked toward my taxi. As I pulled up I made sure that I stopped in a 26   with the passenger door right beside him. He   27   the passenger door with a flourish(夸张动作) and said, “Good luck at the track, sir.”
  28  , the man did not tip him a quarter. Instead he   29  , “Get out of my way!” He pushed him aside so   30   that the boy fell on the sidewalk and I knew he was badly hurt. I got out of my car quickly   31   find that the man disappeared in the crowd.
So I looked for the kid. I decided to give him $20 for all his   32  . But he was far up ahead, walking out of the station   33  . The traffic policeman waved at me to get my car going.   34  , I never saw him again. I’d like to find him one day and tell him that if only he had stuck around a little longer I would have given him a whole $20.
I learned an important lesson from the boy. When things seem so   35   that you are ready to give up, that is the time when things are most likely to turn around for you.
  

A．school B．station C．office D．hospital

A．sidewalk B．way C．track D．step

A．strong B．tall C．lucky D．active

A．Stop B．Welcome C．Help D．Good luck

A．smile B．tip C．hug D．prize

A．short B．bigger C．weaker D．smarter

A．In fact B．In general C．In total D．In case

A．gave in B．gave away C．gave up D．gave off

A．pushing up B．speeding up C．keeping up D．pulling up

A．above B．beside C．in front of D．over

A．position B．car C．tree D．situation

A．closed B．opened C．kicked D．knocked

A．Therefore B．So C．However D．Then

A．smiled B．wept C．advised D．shouted

A．hard B．softly C．sweetly D．slowly

A．and to B．but to C．only to D．so as to

A．strength B．efforts C．courage D．work

A．nervously B．anxiously C．madly D．silently

A．So far B．From then on C．Once more D．Just then

A．unavoidable B．poor C．hopeless D．challenging

Nowroz:  Iranian New Year or Nowroz is celebrated on the first day of spring sometime in March. Nowroz ceremonies are symbolic representations of good and evil. People sing, dance and parade as in a carnival through the streets with drums and trumpets to spread the news of the coming new year.
Rosh Hashanah:  The Jewish New Year is called “Rosh Hashanah”, and is celebrated in the month of September. It is a holy time when people think of the things they have done wrong in the past, and promise to do better in the future. Special prayers are held, and an instrument called a Shofar is played. Children are given new clothes, and New Year loaves are baked and fruits are consumed to remind people of harvest time.
Shogatsu:  In Japan, the New Year (Shogatsu) celebrations are from January 1 to January 3 and most Japanese don’t work during these days. In Japan, years are traditionally seen as completely separate from each other, and the New Year is a fresh start. This means that in December all duties should be completed. Parties are held to forget the worries and troubles of the old year. Homes and cars are decorated. On New Year’s Eve, most people spend their time with their families.
Bahai New Year:  The Bahai people have their own calendar consisting of nineteen months of nineteen days plus a couple of extra days between the eighteenth and nineteenth months. They have, however, adopted the Iranian custom of beginning the New Year in the spring equinox (春分). The day begins at sunset rather than midnight, and the New Year celebrations are held on the evening of March 20th.
During the Jewish New Year,        .

   Which of the following festivals are celebrated in the same month?

   What can we learn from the text?

A rat looked through a crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package. What food might it contain? He was alarmed to discover that it was a rat trap (捕鼠夹).
Going back to the farmyard the rat gave a warning: “There is a rat trap in the house, a rat trap in the house!” The chicken raised her head and said: “Excuse me, Mr Rat, I can tell this is a big concern to you, but it is of no business to me. I cannot be bothered with it.”
The rat turned to the pig and told him: “There is a rat trap in the house, a rat trap in the house!”“I am so very sorry, Mr. Rat,” sympathized the pig, “but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. I will make sure that you are in my prayers.”
The rat turned to the cow. She said, “Like wow, Mr. Rat. A rat trap. I am in grave danger. Duh?”
So the rat returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer’s rat trap alone.
That very night a sound was heard throughout the house, like the sound of a rat trap catching its prey (猎物). The farmer’s wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see that it was a poisonous snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer’s wife.
The farmer rushed her to the hospital. She returned home with a fever. Now everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet (短柄斧) to the farmyard for the soup’s main ingredient.
His wife’s sickness continued so that friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them the farmer killed the pig.
The farmer’s wife did not get well. She died, and so many people came for her funeral that the farmer had the cow killed to provide meat for all of them to eat.
So the next time you hear that someone is facing a problem and think that it does not concern you, remember that when there is a rat trap in the house, the whole farmyard is at risk.
The underlined word “dejected” in Paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to        .

   Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the article?

  We can conclude from the article that        .

   What message does the story intend to convey?

A person steps on what seems like solid ground but discovers with horror that the ground is giving way underfoot. The person struggles desperately but is trapped. There is no escape. Slowly the person sinks deeper and at last is gone. The solid ground was solid only in appearance. It was actually quicksand, which is a deep mass of fine sand mixed with water.
How is quicksand formed? Water pushes up from below the surface and is held by the sand. The grains of sand are forced apart by the water. They cannot hold any weight. The subsurface water may have come from a spring, a river, or a stream. Sometimes pools of water near beaches become filled with sand. When the soil under these pools does not allow for good drainage(排水), the sand can become stretches of quicksand.
Is it true that a person who steps into quicksand is doomed to die? No, for people have fought their way from quicksand to firm land again. It is panic(恐慌) that creates the condition that can result in death, for the more a person struggles, the worse matters become. Quick movements will make the sand yield for a time, but then it rushes back and settles solidly around the body.
People trapped in quicksand should either lie back with arms outstretched, or not move at all. When the weight of the sand around his body has displaced equals that person’s weight, the victim will stop sinking. With feet held still, and with slow movements of the arms, as in the backstroke(仰泳) in swimming, people have managed to roll to safety and reach firm ground.
Quick movements by a person trapped in quicksand will _______.

Quicksand is _______.

Which statement does the article lead you to believe?

The passage mainly tells about _______.

Nowadays, there’s a lot of debate about single sex education since it has begun to regain its popularity recently. According to long term studies of children from around the world, students achieve more and learn better in single sex schools.
An Australian study of 270,000 students found that both boys and girls performed much higher on standardized(标准化) tests when they attended separate schools. During an experiment in Virginia in 1995, 100 eighth graders were separated just for math and science courses. Almost immediately, the girls began to achieve more, become more confident and take part more often in class activities.
In 2001, a British study concluded that nearly every girl regardless of (不论) her ability or socio-economic status performed better in single sex classrooms than co-ed ones. The study of 2,954 high schools and 979 primary schools showed that while boys at the lowest levels in study improved the most in single sex schools, single sex education was particularly beneficial (有益的) to girls. Every one of the top 50 private elementary schools and top 20 private high schools in Britain are single sex schools.
Girls became more confident in themselves as students and earned higher scores on their College Board and Advanced Placement examinations. A quarter of the female members of the US Congress and one-third of all female members of Fortune 100 boards graduated from all-women’s colleges.
While the statistics are not as dramatic for boys, however, boys tend to soften their competitive edge and become more cooperative in a single sex setting. They can just be boys and not worry about what the girls might think.
Single sex education has a pleasant way of encouraging children to be fearless, to be curious, to be enthusiastic --- in short, to just be themselves. Children are subjected (屈从于) to pressures from every quarter to become adults before they are ready to do so. They grow up too quickly. Why not let them be children for a few more years? Single sex education with its gentler, more controlled social atmosphere is just the right answer for many children.
   With the experiment in Virginia in 1995, the writer wants to show that        .

According to the article, which of the following statements about single sex education is TRUE?

  In the article, the underlined phrase “soften their competitive edge” probably means        .

  What is the main point of the article?

Lily，Susan, David, Chris和Michael分别计划假期去景点旅游，阅读下面旅游杂志上的6个旅游广告（A、B、C、D、E和F），从中找出符合5位兴趣爱好的最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。选项中有一项是多余选项。
Lily：I enjoy shopping, dining and nightlife. I want to surf and learn about Hawaiian culture.
Susan：I like a relaxed lifestyle. I want to take a scenic helicopter and watch the amazing eruptions( 火山喷发) of red-hot lava.
David：I like a relaxed and simple lifestyle. 
Chris：I like surfing and mountain-climbing and enjoy shopping, dining and nightlife.
Michael：I love outdoor activities and want to take a scenic helicopter.

Wang Peng sat in his empty restaurant feeling very f      (56). He didn’t know why customers didn’t come to his restaurant. He then f      (57) his friend Li Chang to Yong Hui’s slimming restaurant and went inside out of c      (58). Wang Peng was a      (59) at the menu and especially at the prices. He decided to do some research.
At the library Wang Peng found that his restaurant served far too much fat and Yong Hui’s far too little. He wanted to w      (60) his customers back with a d      (61) and a new sign advertising the b      (62) of his food. The competition between the two restaurants was on!
A week later, Yong Hui came to question Wang Peng and Wang Peng e      (63). They sat down and discussed about the advantages and disadvantages of their menus. As a result, they decided to combine their ideas and provide a b      (64) menu together. It proved to be a s_______(65) and their business cooperation turned into a personal one.

下面短文中有10处语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加，删除或修改某个单词。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（^），并在其下面写上该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下面划一横线（_），并在该词下面写上修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Today is Mother’s Day. I love Mother too much that I’ve done many things for her.
In the morning I bought many flowers with pocket money and put it in the vase as soon as I returned to home. In the afternoon I went to the market to buy different kind of vegetables and cooked a simple and delicious dinner for my family. After supper, I gave Mother the card that I made by myself and said “Happy Mother’s Day” to her. Then I tell her to pay more attention to her healthy and not to overwork. I also promised to help her do some housework from today on. Hear the words, Mother moved to tears.
Today is the special day, warm and meaningful.

最近，很多中学生都纷纷开起了自己的博客。对于这一现象，存在两种不同的观点：

   请根据以上提示，写一篇120词左右的短文，涵盖表中全部内容，可适当增加细节，并简要阐述自己的观点。文章开头已给出，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：开博客open one’s blog
Nowadays, there is a common phenomenon(现象) that more and more high school students open their own blogs on the Internet.                                                                                                                             
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