安徽省安庆市示范高中三校高一上学期期末联考（英语）

By my third day in the hospital, I realized Owen didn’t visit. I couldn’t understand（21）______ my best friend wouldn’t come to see me. Struggling against the pain, I called his house. His Mom（22）______, and when I asked for Owen, she got quiet. “He’s not here right now,” she said. I thought it was（23）______ that she didn’t tell me where he was or offer to have him call me. But I was so weak, I just let it（24）______.I fount out later that Owen’s mom telephoned my parents right（25）______we rang off. My phone call really made her anxious, and she insisted they talked to me. Later that night, my mom （26）______ . Did I remember drinking? Did I remember being in a car? I had no idea what she was talking about, so she finally told me the news: I’d hit a tree. Owen, in the passenger seat, was thrown from the（27）______and killed instantly. The only reason I’d lived was because of my（28）______ .
My first（29）______was of shock. I’d been drink-driving? Hit a tree? Killed Owen? I felt like the worst person in the world. Even after I was able to go home several weeks later, I didn’t want to eat, I didn’t want to talk. I just（30）______at the wall in my bedroom and cried. The only person I wanted to see was Owen. I didn’t feel like hanging out with any of my old friends.

“What is the saddest case you ever knew of ?”I asked the matron （护士长）of a hospital just retired. She thought for a minute______two and then replied, “It was a nurse I had, one of the most beautiful girls I ever saw. But she had a car accident and her face was so disfigured（毁容）______ she realized she would have to give up______（nurse）at least until she had had a long series of operations. She was engaged to be married but broke it______.”
The matron shook her head, remembering, “She was so miserable and______（depress）I feared for her sanity（心智健全）,”breaking into a smile. “Then I had______ idea. I took her one day to the `Blind Children’s Home`, and that afternoon she played with the children and for the first time I saw her happy. Just as we were leaving, a little blind girl put her arms______ her neck and said,` I do like your voice and I know you must have a lovely face, too.’ The nurse cried all the way home in the car, but it was with______（happy）, for she had found her life work with the blind children______came to call her their `lovely lady’.”
A sad case? Well, in a way, But______ a joyful ending!

On November18, 1995, Itzhak Perlman, the world famous violinist, came on stage to give a concert at Lincoln Centre in New York City. If you have ever been to a Perlman concert, you know that getting on stage is not easy for him. He got polio（小儿麻痹症）as a child, and has to walk with the aid of two crutches（拐杖）now.
That night Perlman walked slowly to his chair. Then he sat down and began to play. But, suddenly, one of the strings on his violin broke. You could hear it break---it broke with a loud noise.
People thought to themselves, “He would have to get up to either find another violin or find another string for this one.”
But he didn’t. Instead, he waited a moment, closed his eyes and then signaled the conductor to begin again. The orchestra（管弦乐队）began, and he played from where he had stopped. He played with such passion and such power.
Of course, everyone knows that it is impossible to play a symphonic work with just three strings. But that night Itzhak Perlman refused to know that. You could see him changing and recomposing（重新作曲）the piece in his head.
When he finished, there was a silence in the room. Then people rose and cheered. We were all on our feet, doing everything we could to show how much we appreciated what he had done.
He smiled and then he said in a quiet tone, “You know, sometimes it is the artist’s task to find out how much music you can make with what you have left.”
His words have stayed in my mind ever since I heard them. That is also the way of life. Perhaps our task in this quickly changing world in which we live is to make music, at first with all that we have, and then, when that is no longer possible, to make music with what we have left.
Holding a concert is challenging for Perlman because ______.

When Perlman had just begun playing, ______.

If one of the strings suddenly broke, what would an ordinary player do?

The audience rose and cheered ______.

The lesson we draw from the story is that ______.

Alan took an early interest in gardening---first on his grandfather’s Yorkshire allotment in Ilkley, and then in his parents’ back garden. Small polythene（聚乙烯）greenhouses appeared in the back garden, and cacti（仙人掌）were bought from church markets.
Alan left school at fifteen with one `O’ level in Art and took a job as an apprentice（学徒）gardener in Ilkley Parks Department nursery, studying for his City and Guilds in Horticulture（园艺）in the evening.
He went on to horticultural college at Oaklands in Hertfordshire where he studied for one year full-time, being awarded the National Certificate in Horticultural. This was followed by three years at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, resulting in the award of the Kew Diploma.
After two years as supervisor of staff training at Kew, Alan entered journalism where he became first a gardening books editor, and then Deputy Editor of Amateur Gardening magazine. He appeared regularly on BBC Radio and Television in programs such as Nationwide , Breakfast Time, Open Air, Pebble Mill, Songs of Praise, Titchmarsh’s Travels, and the Chelsea Flower Show. He presented the 100th edition of The Word for Channel 4, and hosted the quiz show Ask the Family.
Gardeners’ World and the hugely popular Ground Force, second only to Easterners in the BBC1 ratings, are broadcast as far as Australia, New Zealand and North America. After leaving both programs, Alan worked on two other series for the BBC to be transmitted in 2003 and 2004, one of them a landmark series on the natural history of Britain. Alan writes for the Daily Express, Sunday Express, Radio Times and BBC Gardeners’ World magazine, and has more than thirty gardening books to his credit. His four novels, as well as a book about his own life, have been best sellers.
Alan, 53, gardens organically, and lives with his wife, two daughters and a medley of animals.
We know that Alan ______in his school days.

According to this passage, we can learn that______.

Though the author doesn’t tell us directly, we can conclude that______.

Which of the following four programs is more popular than Ground Force in the BBC1 ratings?

What’s the best title for the passage?

Forgiving someone who has hurt you or let you down is never an easy thing. Several new studies, however, say that it could have a lot of health benefits. When you think of forgiveness, you probably don’t think of it as being a health or medical problem. Studies from Stanford University, on the other hand, show that something like anger can change your well-being.
When cartoon book characters like the Incredible Hulk get angry, they change colours and often gain special power. In the real world, anger is less obvious and may be more dangerous. That’s why Professor Fred Luskin, founder of the Stanford Forgiveness Project and author of Forgive for Good, says holding on to anger and hatred can harm your physical and mental health. Two new studies seem to show the same idea.
The studies find that people who are able to forgive feel less stress, less back pain, and less depression. They also have fewer headaches, lower blood pressure, and fewer problems on sleeping.
So it doesn’t matter if your anger is caused by the traffic or other things. Learning to let it go is important. Techniques such as deep breath or thought can help. Or just ask yourself if it’s worth hurting yourself by staying angry with someone else.
Forgiveness does not mean that you simply accept what happened and say it’s OK. Instead, it’s a way of making peace with yourself about what happened in the past.
The author of the passage tries to make his viewpoint clear ______.

The example of the cartoon book characters is taken in the passage to______.

The underlined phrase“holding on to”in this passage possibly means“______”.

Which of the following is NOT mentioned in this passage?

The best title for this passage is probably _______.

下面是一篇应用文及其应用场合的信息，请阅读下列应用文和相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。
请根据A至F各课程的介绍和个各人的情况说明，选出符合各人要求的最佳选项。
A. A Look at American Literature
A Look at American Literature is a course which gives us a brief outline of American Literature.
B. Works of Some Famous American Writers
Works of Some Famous American Writers show us the introductions to eleven famous writers and their works and also give us some comments on the works.
C. Detailed Reading of American Literature
Detailed Reading of American Literature is a course which focuses on some important and moving details in the works of American literature. It will analyse the detail.
D. Story and Plot
It’s a course which analyses the setting of the main plots in some famous stories. The aim of this course is to help those who want to become writers in the future.
E. Characters and Life
As you know, literature comes from our life, but it’s more than our life. This course will analyze the personalities of some important characters in the world literature, and combine the analysis with our life. It will help us gain wisdom from the characters.
F. Literature Comments
The course is a study of how to write literature comments through some vivid examples.
请阅读以下学生的相关信息，然后匹配他/她和拟要选择的课：
Helen wants to become a famous writer in the future. She is eager to take a course which can help her realize her dream.
Peter was ill last term and missed a lot of lessons in American literature. He wants to take a course which can give him an outline of it.
Kate likes to read literature works and she has many opinions after reading, but she doesn’t know how to express her ideas properly.
Tommy has the basic knowledge of American literature. He wants to take a course which can help him read more famous works about American literature.
Jerry wants to write some articles to show the significance of researching literature today. He is looking for a course which can help him.
待选课程学生                        课程名称
Helen              A.  A Look at American Literature
Peter               B.  Works of Some Famous American Writers
Kate               C.  Detailed Reading of American Literature
Tommy              D.  Story and Plot
Jerry               E.  Characters and Life
F.  Literature Comments

基础写作（共1 小题；满分15分）（请将该部分答案写在答题纸上）
[写作内容]
现在许多中小学学生都带手机上学。假如你是李东，请给你的弟弟通过email写一封信，建议他不要带手机上学。内容包括：
1. 带手机上学的现象很普遍；
2. 有些学生不能正确使用手机，结果影响休息和学习；
3. 作为中学生，平时不宜和外面的“朋友”联系；
4. 希望弟弟能从别人的教训中学到一点东西，正确处理学习和生活之间的关系。
[写作要求]
1．必须使用5个句子介绍全部所给内容。
2．将5个句子组成连贯的短文。

阅读下面的短文，然后按要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
There are all kinds of stress in our daily lives such as stress from work, stress from study and stress from examinations. How to manage stress is thus a very important problem that we have to deal with properly. I think stress itself doesn’t exist. It’s only because we consider things to be bad and regard all of them as our own fault and won’t forgive ourselves. As we all know, there is nothing you can do without error. So it’s impossible to expect everything to be perfect. If we have done our best,  although not successfully, there is nothing to regret. And we don’t need to blame ourselves continuously. In fact we have done a quite good job. Then we will feel the stress less. We will stay healthy and do well in the future. Eventually we will be successful.
[写作内容]
1．概括短文内容要点，该部分的字数大约30词左右；
2．就“如何化解心理压力”这个主题发表你的看法，至少包括以下的内容要点，该部分的字数大约120词左右。
a）简述你生活学习中遇到过造成较大心理压力的困难；
b）你是如何化解心理压力的；
c）谈谈你对化解心理压力的体会。
[写作要求]
你可以参照阅读材料的篇章结构、有关内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子。
[评分标准]
概括准确、语言规范、内容合适、篇章连贯。
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