河北省承德联校高二下期末英语试卷
When I was about 10, I was walking down the street with my mother. She stopped to speak to MrLee. I knew I could see Mr Lee anytime around the neighborhood, so I just stood there. After we passed him, my mother stopped and said something unforgettable, "You let that be the last time you ever walk by somebody you know without opening your mouth to speak, because even a dog can wag its tail when it passes you on the street." That sentence sounds simple but it made me become who I am.
At work, I used to say hello to the president of the company and ask him how our business was doing. But I also spoke to the people in the cafe? and people who cleaned the buildings, and asked them how their children were doing, for every single person deserves to be accepted, no mater how humble they are. I remember that after a few years of passing by the president, I had the courage to ask him for a chat. We had a great talk. At some point, when I asked him how far he thought I could go in his company, he said that if I wanted to, I could get all the way to his seat.
I've become vice-president, but that hasn't changed how I treat people. I speak to people wherever I am. Speaking to people creates a pathway into their world, and it lets them come into mine, too.
The day you speak to someone who has his head down and then see him lift it up and smile, you will realize how powerful it is just to open your mouth and say hello.
What can we learn from the second paragraph?
A.The writer didn’t say hello to anyone in the company. |
B.The president of the company actually didn’t like the writer at all. |
C.The writer made a very good impression on the president of the company. |
D.The president of the company thought the writer was much better than him. |
For the writer,saying hello to others____________.
A.is a way to get what he wants |
B.has become a habit and a way of life |
C.is a way to show respect for his mother |
D.is important in making him remembered |
The underlined sentence suggests that speaking to others can____________.
A.make our world much better |
B.help people work much better |
C.make people much happier every day |
D.help people understand each other better |
What is the best title for this passage?
A.The influence of the unforgettable experience |
B.The power of being talkative |
C.The power of saying hello |
D.The road to success |
Every university has a Students’Union. If students are the lifeblood of a university,the union is surely its beating heart.
For students,by students
A Students’Union is run by students and acts independently. At the end of each academic year,it will find six students to hold a sabbatical (带有休假的)position managing the Union for the coming year. That the six successful sabbatical officers have only recently experienced issues affecting students ensures that your needs are very well understood.
Letting your hair down
Although the university is spread across a fairly wide area,the Union is centrally located and is only a short walk from any of the main buildings. This makes it very easy to catch up with friends who might be on a different course.
At night,the place really comes alive—we have three different bars to suit every occasion. The venues are student-only so you can be sure of meeting people with a similar outlook and we throw in a transport service to make sure you get home safely.
The Union also organizes various formal balls throughout the year,with the highlight being the end-of-year ball.
Supporting you
Beyond having fun, we also make sure some of the more serious issues are effectively dealt with. If you have a problem with your course, another sabbatical officer is trained to help you. Being independent from the university means we can represent and support you to the best of our ability,and once you reach the university you may find that you know about more national or political issues.
What does the underlined phrase probably mean?
A.Stopping being self-centered. |
B.Relaxing and enjoying yourself. |
C.Telling others your feelings and secrets. |
D.Cutting your hair and letting it fall freely. |
According to the third paragraph,we can learn that___________.
A.a Students’Union is close to the home |
B.a Students’Union is far away from the university |
C.a Students’Union is in the central part of the university |
D.a Students’Union has different courses for all the students |
The person who takes up a certain post of the Students’Union_____________.
A.is very happy and easy |
B.learns what the students need |
C.can affect the life of any student |
D.has understood everything of the university |
Twelve years ago,a young traveler named Rhett Butler from San Francisco,California, visited the Sabah rainforest on Malaysian Borneo. In one area of the rainforest,he watched a bird flying through the trees. The beautiful sight lett quite an impression on him. But weeks later,back home, Rhett Butler got the news that trees had been cut down in the area hevisi1ed.
That experience led Rhett Butler to begin writing a book about rainforests and threats to their existence. But he did not publish the book. Instead, in 1999, he used his research for the book to create a website,Mongabay. com. His purpose was to inform the public about tropical rainforests. But the subject quickly developed. As a former businessman,he became a respected writer of science and environmental stories.
The popularity of Mongabay. com attracted advertisers. Small ads on the site pay for its operations. Mongabay. com has grown and led to other sites. For example,there is a site for children which is called Kids. Mongabay. com. Another one,WildMadangascar. o rg, is allabout the island nation that Rhett Butler calls his favorite place.
To keep his website going, he travels around the world on several major trips each year. His working tools are a laptop computer,cameras and sometimes diving equipment. He often calls on experts for information. For example,he interviewed Alison Jolly,a top expert on lemurs (狐猴). He interviewed Rodney Jackson,a biologist who established the Snow Leopard Conservancy.
Stories like these have made Mongabay a favorite place on the Internet for researchers, students and teachers. In April, Time, com named it one of the fifteen top climate and environment websites in the world.
Rhett Butler didn’t publish his book about rainforests because________.
A.he didn’t want to become a writer |
B.the book was not about rainforest protection |
C.he wanted to use the information to create a website |
D.making websites earned more money than writing books |
To keep his website going,Rhett Butler___________.
A.kept visiting rainforests |
B.raised rare snow leopards |
C.traveled around and interviewed experts |
D.produced a great number of advertisements |
We can learn from the text that ________.
A.Rodney Jackson was once a businessman |
B.Kids. Mongabay. com has many stories written by kids |
C.Mongabay. com is loved by researchers as well as students |
D.WildMadangascar. org is better known than Mongabay. com |
What’s the main idea of the text?
A.Rhett Butler and his website. |
B.Rainforests on Malaysian Borneo. |
C.How Rhett Butler protected rare animals. |
D.How Rhett Butler made his website popular. |
As the pace of life continues to increase, we are fast losing the art of relaxation. Once you are in the habit of rushing through life,being on the go from morning till night,it is hard to slow down. But relaxation is necessary for a healthy mind and body.
Stress is a natural part of everyday life and there is no way to avoid it. In fact,it is not the bad thing it is often supposed to be. A certain amount of stress is vital to provide motivation and give purpose to life. It is only when the stress gets out of control that it can lead to poor performance and ill health.
The amount of stress a person can bear depends very much on the individual. Some people are not afraid of stressand such characters are obviously important material for managerial responsibilities. Others lose heart at the first signs of unusual difficulties. When exposed to stressin whatever formwe react both chemically and physically. In fact we make choices between “fight” and “flight” and in more ancient days the choice made the difference between life and death. The crises (危机)we meet today are unlikely to be so extreme,but however little the stress,it involves the same response. It is when such a reaction lasts long,through continued exposure to stressthat health becomes endangered. Such serious conditions as high blood pressure and heart disease have established links with stress. Since we cannot remove stress from our lives(it would be unwise to do so even if we could),we need to find ways to deal with it.
People are finding less and less time for relaxing themselves because_________.
A.they are travelling fast all the time |
B.they are becoming busier with their work |
C.they do not know how to enjoy themselves |
D.they do not believe that relaxation is important for health |
In Paragraph 3,” such a reaction” refers to “___________”.
A.responding to crises quickly |
B.losing heart on seeing difficulties |
C.making a choice between ‘flight'and ‘fight' |
D.reacting to stress both chemically and physically |
We can learn from the text that _______.
A.stress is always harmful to people |
B.we can find some ways to avoidstress |
C.different people can bear different amounts of stress |
D.it is easy to change the habit of keeping oneself busy with work |
What would the passage deal with,if it were to continue?
A.How to keep mentally fit. |
B.Why we have a tight schedule. |
C.How to handle stress correctly. |
D.How we can benefit from stress. |
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。
Are you truly happy? Do you ever know what it means to be happy and what it takes to achieve happiness? ____ The following are a few tips that I follow to create happiness in my life.
"Make a plan for reaching goals that you believe will make you happy. Your moods willvery likely increase if you are going after something you value.
"Surround yourself with happy people. It is easy to begin to think negatively when you are surrounded by people who think that way.__
"When something goes wrong,try to figure out a solution instead of being absorbed in self-pity. Truly happy people don’t allow setbacks (挫折)to affect their mood because they know that with a little thought they can turn the circumstances back to their favor.
" _____ These few minutes will give you the opportunity to focus on the positive things in your life and will lead you to continuous happiness.
" __ Whether you treat yourself to lunch,take a long,relaxing bath or simply spend a few extra minutes on your appearance,you will be subconsciously (下意识地)putting yourself in a better mood.
"Finding the humor in situations can also lead to happiness. Humor is everywhere. There is irony (反语)in just about any thing a human does.
"Keeping healthy is another way to achieve happiness. ______
A.There are some tips in life that lead to happiness. |
B.Spend a few minutes each day thinking about the things that make you happy. |
C.It’s also important to take some time each day to do something nice for yourself. |
D.These are important questions for anyone who is seeking happiness to ask themselves. |
E. Being overweight or not eating nutritious foods can have a negative effect on your mood.
F. What makes one person happy may be very different from what makes someone else happy.
G. On the contrary,if you are around people who are happy,your emotional state will also beinfluenced.
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最 佳选项。
A Japanese farmer bought a big foreign tractor to grow his corn and apples in northern Japan. The giant tractor __ _the waste land into fields at an amazing speed.___ __, he was troubled by the damage caused by raccoon dogs .Just when the sweet corn was ready to be____ __,it was ruined.
“I placed___ ___in several places around the fields,but ended up trapping a young raccoon dog. The mother stayed next to it,and didn’t_____ __when I approached. When I tried _____ ___ out to release the trap,the young raccoon dog bared its _____ ___and got really upset. It seems cruel,but I held its head down with my rubber boot _____ ____I released it from the trap. It didn’t run away,though. Right in front of ____ __, the mother started licking the young one’s ___ ____ leg. Seeing that, I felt committed an awful crime. “
“I_____ ____told them ‘Stop eating our corny But then I started leaving small piles of second rate corn around the ____ __of the fields. They’re not good enough to sell. The next morning when I went to the fields, they’d completely _____ __. But the raccoon dogs had caused ___ ___more damage at all. So at harvest time I decided to ____ ___using the traps and put out the corncobs without kernels .After that,__ ___ by the raccoon dogs stopped almost completely. So I figured that farmers suffer this sort of damage because they ___ _ _everything. After all,we,d turned what used to__ _ the raccoon dogs into fields. I worried that if I actually fed them,the raccoon dogs would even more __ _ ,but that didn’t happen.
I suppose you could say that my eyes were opened to the mysteries of nature. Anyway,I realized that nature didn’t work in the __ _ that most people thought.”
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阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词$或括号内单词的正确形式。
Last week,our class was on duty in the cafeteria. On the first day,I was shocked to see so much leftover food (throw) away by students. What waste! Being concerned about it,my classmates and I had a heated discussion on how (solve) the problem. Lots of good ideas came up,such as holding class meetings,putting up a wall newspaper and charging a fine for wasting food. (final),we all agreed that putting up a wall newspaper would be a good (choose).
The next day, we put our idea into reality. Towards lunch time, we put up a wall newspaper outside the school cafeteria, (call) on students not to waste food. Many students gathered around to read and express their support. my great delight, there were changes soon. In the cafeteria, I (find) the plates returned after lunch all empty without any leftover. Food (save) and the dining hall was cleaner. Seeing this, I felt proud of we had done.
短文改错(共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分)
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文,请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有 10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(^ ),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。
I couldn’t believe my ears when I heard my name calling. I was chosen to play a role of the heroine (女主角)in the play, what was my dream. As a shy and thin girl, I was used to be quite afraid of speaking in public. But my parents and teachers always encourage me to do so. Now I have changed great. In class, I am often the last one to stand up and answer question even if I may make some mistakes. No pains, no gains. Now I am always brave enough overcome the difficulty in front of me and have changed into a lively girl. So my experience shows that we should not be afraid of losing face and only in this way can they make progresses.
假如你是新华中学的学生李华,偶然看到在你市求学的美国学生Tom在网上发帖,要大家 给他推荐一本学习汉语的书。你手头正好有一本合适的书可以借给他。请你给他发一封电子 邮件,要点如下:
1.说明写信原因;
2.描述书的情况;
3. 约定见面时间和地点。
注意:
1.词数100左右"
2.可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯"
3.开头和结尾已给出,不计入总词数。
Dear Tom,
I’m Li Hua, a student of Xinhua Middle School.
Yours,
Li Hua