浙江温州八校高一下学期期末联考英语试卷

.—Shall I begin the lecture?
－I’m afraid we have to wait for a while. John is coming with a microphone.
－_________.I can do without the microphone.

Our kitchen needs to be equipped with a special fan to _________ the smell of cooking.

How can the students carry on with the listening test with all that loud noise _________?

Now people all over the world are _________the terrible H1N1 flu.

The twins are of similar _________ in music, though they are quite different in character.

His best movie, _________ won several awards, was about the life of Gandhi.

He found it hard for Alan to focus on his teachers for longer than five minutes, _________ if the lecture was boring.

----Don’t you think telling the truth and being honest are good qualities?
----Yes , of course. Those who lie and cheat will never _________ it.

All of us must remember that we are here to add_________ we can to life, not to get _________ we want from it.

Please write your composition _________ line to leave space for the teacher’s correction.

We all think _________ impossible that he should be so impolite.

The world has been shaken by a huge financial crisis since 2007; thanks to each country’s powerful policies, the international trade is improving _________ day by day.

---The exam was easy, wasn’t it?
---Yes, but I don’t think _________ could pass it.

We collected a lot of books to get the necessary information but only half _________helpful, so we failed to finish the work.

Sometimes he was made in an embarrassing situation because he was always too_________ in his work.

阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。
Two travelling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family. The angels were   26   a small space in the cold basement instead of in the comfortable guestroom. As they made their   27   on the hard floor, the older angel saw a   28   in the wall and repaired it. When the younger angel asked   29  , the older angel replied, "Things aren’t always what they seem."
The next night the pair came to he house of a very poor but  30 farmer and his wife. After   31   what little food they had, the couple let the angels sleep in their bed where they   32   have a good night’s rest. When the sun   33  the next morning, the angels found the farmer and his wife   34 . Their cow, whose milk had been their only   35   , lay dead in the field. The younger angel was angry and asked the older angel, “How could you   36   this happen? The first man had everything,   37   you helped him. The second family had   38   but was willing to share everything, and you let the cow die   39   help them. ”
"Things aren’t always what they seem," the older angel replied. "When we   40   in the basement, I   41   there was gold stored in that hole in the wall.   42  the owner was greedy and unwilling to share, I covered the wall so that he wouldn’t   43   it."
"Then last night as we slept in the farmer’s bed, the angel of death came   44   his wife. I gave him the cow instead. Things aren’t always what they seem."
Sometimes that is   45  what happens when things don’t turn out the way they should.

A．supplied B．supported C．provided D．given

A．food B．rest C．bed D．room

A．hole B．window C．spot D．circle

A．what B．how C．why D．where

A．gentle B．generous C．modest D．devoted

A．sharing B．cooking C．buying D．delivering

A．should B．must C．could D．may

A．turned up B．came up C．brought up D．sent up

A．in danger B．in rags C．in defence D．in tears

A．food B．budget C．income D．output

A．have permitted B．have got C．have let D．have caused

A．so B．yet C．however D．or

A．none B．much C．some D．little

A．less than B．other than C．more than D．rather than

A．repaired B．stayed C．lived D．settled

A．realized B．recognized C．noticed D．looked

A．Since B．Although C．If D．While

A．discover B．search C．seek D．research

A．to B．for C．over D．around

A．hardly B．exactly C．obviously D．fortunately

A new study shows that fat people in the United States suffer direct economic and social effects because of their size. The findings are from an 8-year study of about 100,000 people. The people who were studied were between the age of 18 and 24 when the research began.
The researchers who carried out the study say they consider the people fat if they are in the top of 5% of the measurement in which weight is linked to height. For example, fat women in the study were about 160 centimeters tall and weighed about 90 kilograms. Fat men in the study were about 175 centimeters tall and weighed 100 kilograms. The researchers say that more than 1,000,000 Americans are that big. The researchers found that fat young women were from wealthy families. The fat women also were 20% less likely to get married and they earned an average of about $6,700 a year less than other women. The study showed less severe effects on fat men. They earned an average of about $3,000 a year less than other men. Fat men also were 11% less likely to get married.

The passage mainly tells us __________.

From this study we know fat people in America __________.

. The underlined word "severe" here means __________.

The researchers consider the people fat if __________.

The first outstanding deaf teacher in America was a Frenchman Laurent Clerc. He and Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet founded America’s first school for the deaf.
When Laurent Clerc was one year old, he fell into a fire. As a result, he lost both his hearing and his sense of smell. At the age of 12, Laurent entered the Royal Institution for the Deaf in Paris. After he graduated, the school asked him to stay on as an assistant teacher.
Meanwhile, in America, Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet was studying to be a minister when he met a young deaf girl, Alice Cogswell. He was upset to learn that there were no schools for the deaf in America. Therefore, in 1815, Gallaudet sailed to London to seek ideas on how to teach deaf people. However, he was unable to get help. He met a French educator of the deaf who invited him to Paris to learn at the Royal Institution for the Deaf.
Gallaudet went to the Royal Institution for the Deaf, where Clerc became his Sign Language teacher. The two worked and studied well together. When the time came for Gallaudet to return to America, he asked Clerc to come with him.
The two men set sail on June 18, 1816. The voyage across the Atlantic Ocean took 52 days; however, Clerc and Gallaudet put the time to good use. They discussed the school for the deaf which they planned to open. On the long trip, they had many conversations about education and deafness. The year after they arrived, they founded a school for the deaf in Harford, Connecticut.

America’s first school for the deaf was founded __________.

Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet sailed to London because __________.

." After he graduated, the school asked him to stay on as an assistant teacher." From this
sentence we can infer that __________.

The main idea of this passage could best be stated as __________.

Many people think that the BBC news programs are better than those on other channels because the BBC is not a commercial company. It pays for its programs from the television license money which everyone must pay if they have a television.
The BBC, which is often known as "Auntie", is the biggest news collecting operation in the world. It has the world’s largest network of foreign correspondents (通讯员；记者）. Ten percent of the BBC’s annual budget is spent on news collecting, reporting and presenting. More than 1,700 people work for the BBC news service.
The BBC produces more than 214 hours of news and current affairs programs for radio and television each week. Each television news program costs about £78,000 per hour and each radio news program costs approximately £4,800 per hour. In the UK, about 19 million people ― almost 35% of the total population, watch the BBC television news progams every day.
Developments in technology are improving news collection and presentation every year. The BBC now uses special cameras in the TV news studios to film the news presenters, and captions― the words and sentences at the bottom of the screen, are now produced automatically by computer.

According to the first paragraph, we can learn that __________.

Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

We can infer from the passage that the UK has a population of about __________.

What’s the best title for the passage?

BUY A JOINT TICKET AND VISIT THE HISTORIC ROYAL PALACES
THE TOWER OF LONDON
Royal Palace and fortress for over 900 years, scene of mystery, murder and home to the Crown Jewels.
KENSINGTON PALACE
Birthplace of Queen Victoria, this royal retreat is home to magnificent State Apartments and the stunning Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection, which includes dresses worn by HM Queen Elizabeth II and Diana, Princess of Wales.
HISTORIC ROYAL PALACES
Hampton Court Palace is part of Historic Royal Palaces, a registered charity ( No: 1068852 ) that receives no public funding. We rely on the income from admission tickets to the palaces to pay for vital protection work, necessary for the preservation of these national monuments and collections for future generations. Please ask at the ticket office for more information or visit www.hrp.org.uk.
VISITOR INFORMATION
CARRIAGE RIDES
Take a trip around Home Park in a horse-drawn carriage. Rides begin and end in Home Park at the entrance by the East Front Gardens. Available all day. 20 minutes duration. £10.00 per carriage. Subject to weather and ground conditions.
ENQUIRIES
For details of admission charges, group rates, the Friends of Hampton Court Palace and facilities for disabled visitors, call 0870-752-7777 or visit www. Hampton-court-palace.org.uk.
RESTAURANTS & SHOPS
Choose from the Tiltyard Tearooms or the Privy Kitchen Coffee Shop. There are also a number of ice-cream kiosks open in the summer. The palace shops offer a wide range of gifts and souvenirs.
AUDIO GUIDES
Audio guides are included in the palace ticket and are available in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese.

If you want to take a look at the dresses worn by some royal members, you go to __________.

You have to pay extra money if you want to __________.

Which of the following information is NOT given in the passage?

If you want to take your disabled sister for a visit, you can __________.

As a child, I took the school as fairly beautiful garden. I went                _______
straight to school happily and excitedly with a lovely school bag. How         
_______
time flying! Now I’m studying at a senior middle school. I have a lot of             
_______
homework to do every day. Some of my classmates are often stay up late            
_______
and don’t get enough sleep so that they can’t focus at their lessons.                     
_______
But I enjoy putting my heart into listening to the teachers. Get up                 
_______
early and reading aloud helps me memorize what I had learned easily.                  
_______
During breaks between class, I often relax myself. I’m certain                            
_______
I ’ll never forget the wonderful time at school.

王平是浙江大学的学生，今年7月份将从浙大毕业。前几天他在报纸上看到一家大公司的招聘广告，有意去应聘。请你结合下列信息替他写一封求职信：
1. 男，23岁 
2. 2005年考入浙江大学，主修物理专业
3. 精通英语, 成绩优异，连续三年获得奖学金
4. 爱好广泛，人缘好
注意：
1. 字数100左右。
2. 信的开头与结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
3. 可根据要点适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
4. 参考词汇：主修课程 major奖学金 scholarship
Mr. Zhao,
I have learned from the newspaper that you are employing a manager.