江西赣州十三县市高一上期中联考英语试卷

I created a writing group at my school this year, and it has become a hit with all students who enjoy writing. Now students of the group make rapid progress in their writing. Let me share a few tips that you can use to start your own writing group.
Set up separate groups for different ability levels
You probably don’t want to mix a gifted eighth grader with a second grader who writes very little. In a larger school, you could have a beginner group, a more advanced group, and a publishing group. Members can move to more appropriate groups if they are not comfortable in the current one.
Advertise the group in different ways
Send advertisements home with students, and put an advertisement on the school website or in the school newsletter.
The first meeting should be very open
At the first meeting, you should tell the students that this group is all about them. It is not a class, not a grade and not a requirement. Then tell them what some other writing groups do, and ask what they would like to do.
Set up a time to meet once or twice a month
It is important that students bring their writing with them. The group could go in any direction: criticize each other’s work, read your writing aloud, read silently, publish your work in a booklet (小册子), play creativity games or do an online chat with a published author.
It will take a little while to find out what works best for your group
Search for creativity exercises and role plays. You might even be able to set up a special section of your school’s website just for your writing group.
The purpose of this passage is to ________.

What does the underlined word “hit” probably mean?

Which of the following is NOT the activity of a writing group?

Apple is known for offering the best customer service in the consumer technology market, such as Lenovo, Google and Nokia, in customer satisfaction surveys every year .
A particular story tells of how an Apple store manager broke a rule to earn a new, 10-year-old customer for life.
Matt tells us this touching story:
My daughter has been saving her birthday money and allowance for almost 9 months so that she could afford an iPod touch with a camera in it.
As of this morning, she had saved the amount needed and headed to an Apple store in Utah with my wife. They arrived at 10:30 am, not realizing that the store would be closed from 11 am to 2 am that day. As they approach the store, two friendly Apple employees greeted them and said they were sorry, but they were closed.
My wife pointed to my daughter who had a mason jar full of cash in her arms and explained why they were there and also pointed out that it was not quite 11 am yet. They again said they were sorry, but could not let them in. My wife and daughter were sad and regretful, but understood and made their way to another store in the mall.
About three stores down, an Apple employee raced after them and explained that the manager was going to make an exception and let them in. Every one of the employees stopped what they were doing as my daughter approached the register.
As she took all of the cash out of the mason jar, one employee stepped forward and said, “I don’t mean to bother you, but I have to tell you that this made my day wonderful.”
After the transaction(交易), my daughter and wife were on their way out, the store manager raised his voice and said to all of the employees, “Everyone, please give a round of applause for saving her money and buying an iPod today.”
What can we learn from the first paragraph?

According to the text, Matt’s daughter would like to have________.

According the passage, what is “a mason jar” ?

What is the text mainly about ?

I come to the United States ten year ago. I would always say that I was trying to study, but there were always things like work and my kids that would not allow me to start.
Now I realized that those were only excuses. What stopped me was that I was afraid to start studying again. I always believed I would learn by myself.
One day, however, my son told me that he was sad because his friends would come over and I didn’t understand them because I didn’t speak English. He was also sad because I could never help him with his homework. That same day, I told myself, “Rocio, you have to start believing in yourself and you will see you can make it.”
The next day, I went downtown to look for a big banner (横幅) in front of the school which said that they offered classes for adults. I came in to see if I could join, but the classes were closed  already. That night I took the kids to the movies, and on the way back, I told them we would take a new route. I ended up getting lost. That’s the way I found Chaffey College. The following Monday, I went to ask for information. They told me that summer school was starting that week.
That’s how I started studying English last summer. It is difficult, but I have had great rewards. My daughter had to write a story for school. It was about the female they most admired and why . She wrote that I was the person she most admired because I had started going to College. I will never forget this.
According to the passage, the author probably is a              .

What made the author make up her mind to study English?

How did they find Chaffey College?

Which of the following is NOT true?

Are people less happy or more happy the older they get ? A study found that people generally become happier and experience less worry after age 50. In fact, it found that by the age of 85, people are happier with their life than they were at 18.
The finding came from a Gallup survey of more than 340,000 adults in the United States in 2008. At that time, the people were between the age of 18 an 85.
Arthur Stone in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stony Brook University in New York led the study. His team found that levels of stress were highest among adults between the ages of 22 and 25. Stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their fifties.
Happiness was highest among the youngest adults and those in their early seventies. But the people least likely to report feeling negative emotions(消极情绪) were those in their seventies and eighties. The survey also found that men and women had similar emotional patterns as they grow older. However, women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men did.
The researchers also considered possible influences like having young children, being unemployed or being single. But they found that influences like these did not affect the levels of happiness and well-being related to age.
So why would happiness increase with age ? One theory is that, as people get older, they become more thankful for what they have and have better control of their emotions. They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences.
The original(最初的) goal of the study was to confirm the popular belief that aging is connected with increased sleep problems. The survey did find an increase during middle age, especially in women. But except for that , people reported that they felt their sleep quality improved as they got older.
Old people may be happier probably because _________

According to the survey, when will adults feel most stressful?

What may make Arthur Stone a bit surprised?

Which of the following may be the topic of this passage ?

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，并将答案写在试卷的答题卷上。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Americans use many expressions with the word “dog”. People in the United States love their dogs and treat them well.      However, dogs without owners to care for them lead a different kind of life. The expression, to lead a dog's life, describes a person who has an unhappy existence.
Some people say we live in a dog-eat-dog world.       They say that to be successful, a person has to work like a dog. This means they have to work very, very hard. Such hard work can make people dog-tired. And, the situation would be even worse if they became sick as a dog.
 This means that every person enjoys a successful period during his or her life. To be successful, people often have to learn new skills. Yet, some people say that you can never teach an old dog new tricks. They believe that older people do not like to learn new things and will not change the way they do things.
   People who are unkind or uncaring can be described as meaner than a junkyard dog. Junkyard dogs live in places where people throw away things they do not want. Mean dogs are often used to guard this property. They bark or attack people who try to enter the property. However, sometimes a person who appears to be mean and threatening is really not so bad. We say his bark is worse than his bite.
Dog expressions are also used to describe the weather. The dog days of summer are the hottest days of the year. A rainstorm may cool the weather. But we do not want it to rain too hard.    .

E. There are many other expressions waiting for you to explore.
F. Some people are compared to dogs in bad ways.
G. They take their dogs for walks, let them play outside and give them good food and medical care.

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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
My father was a music teacher who traveled to farm homes or homes in smaller communities to teach his students. He was     home in the evening because he left home very early to start teaching and would       after everyone, except my mother, was fast asleep. Mom was a(n)     taskmaster at home. She demanded that we all     the rules without any excuses. When we didn’t, there were always      punishments.
One day I got myself into a real    . But this time, my mother told me that my father would      me. It was clear that my improper behavior was being referred to my      .
But I knew I would be in bed       he got home.
I went to bed       just in case my dad came home. I      I would sleep when he got home so he wouldn’t wake me up to       me, and by the time morning rolled around, I would probably     being punished.
I was quite    . I got up thinking all was well but instead, Dad called me in to the playroom. He told me to sit down in the chair directly      him and then told me how disappointed he was because he          me to do what my mother asked when he wasn’t home. He then told me that I would      the privilege(特权) of playing with any of my       for two days.
I always remember that     even after all these years have gone by. The reason I remember it so well is that it       me a good lesson. And, that lesson is that consequences will befall(降临到) you no matter how much you don’t want them.

A．frequently B．ever C．never D．usually

A．return B．leave C．begin D．wake

A．kind B．busy C．honest D．strict

A．make B．obey C．allow D．break

A．immediate B．important C．ordinary D．special

A．argument B．joke C．game D．trouble

A．join in B．look after C．deal with D．turn to

A．teacher B．father C．brother D．mother

A．before B．after C．until D．when

A．final B．late C．early D．gradually

A．thought B．agreed C．promised D．remembered

A．comfort B．remind C．frighten D．punish

A．finished B．escaped C．enjoyed D．refused

A．sorry B．right C．lucky D．wrong

A．behind B．through C．beside D．on

A．invited B．expected C．inspired D．forced

A．gain B．accept C．find D．lose

A．toys B．games C．cards D．books

A．trick B．incident C．challenge D．trade

A．passed B．offered C．taught D．served

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。
Mrs. Wilson invited some friends to lunch. She was eager to try a new way of    (cook)a fish dish, and she was very pleased      herself when the dish was ready. She put it near the window    (cool) it for a few minutes because the dish was hot. When she came back for it, she was     (surprise) to find the neighbor’s cat by the dish.     (fortunate), she came in time to stop the cat. That afternoon was a great      (succeed) and they talked and laughed  four o’clock. At the end of the afternoon, when she was alone again, she felt tired but happy. She was sitting near the window    she was frightened to see her neighbor carrying the cat, dead. What had happened to her friends? She at once called the family doctor. He told her to phone each of her visitors to meet him. After all the phones, just as she sat down, the telephone rang.  was from her neighbor ,“I am so sad. My cat  (kill) by a car.”

短文改错(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。增加：在缺词处下加一个漏子符号（/\），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. 每处错误仅限1词；2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
One day in her way to school, Fang Fang found a wallet near the bus station. She open  it and found a lot of money and a calling card. So she knew the owner name, address or telephone number. She thought the owner must be worrying. She went to a public telephone and called the owner. Then she waited at the bus station. The owner came by a taxi very soon and Fang Fang gave the wallet to her. The owner was very thankful that she took out a 100-yuan notes to reward Fang Fang .But Fang Fang polite refused it and went on school.

假如你是李华，你的澳大利亚朋友Peter来信询问你如何才能学好汉语。请你根据下列信息写封回信。词数100词左右。回信应包括如下内容：
1. 多看汉语电视剧，常读汉语报纸和书刊；
2. 学唱汉语歌曲，多和中国人交流；
3. 常来中国，身临其境，交中国朋友；
4. 留学到中国，必要时参加汉语学习培训班。
注意：1. 不必逐字逐句翻译； 2. 开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数。
Dear Peter,
I’m delighted to receive your letter asking for my advice on how to learn Chinese very well.
                                                                       
                                                                       
                                                                       
Best wishes,
Li Hua