[河北]2013届河北省五校联盟高三上学期调研考试英语试卷

As ______ unemployment is very high at the moment, it’s very difficult for people to find
______work.

— Who is making so much noise in the garden?
— ______ the children.

Yesterday I was walking downstairs when I missed my foot and had a bad fall, nothing serious, ______.

It’s said that there are plenty of hotels in that town. There ______ be any difficulty for you to find somewhere to stay.

It’s no longer a question now ______ man can land on the moon.

— If you like I can do some shopping for you.
— That’s very kind of you for your ______. 

Some plants can take in carbon dioxide we breathe out and give ______ oxygen to us.

The form cannot be signed by anyone ______ yourself. 

______ at failing in the math exam, John wouldn’t like to talk about it to his parents.

— Is Paul playing both soccer and tennis for the school?
— He ______. But now he has given up playing tennis.

— Put these glasses away before they______.
— OK, I’ll put them in the cupboard.

— Are you a member of the club?
—       . It’s years since I       .

— What do you mean        saying “The boy is overgrowing”?
— I mean that he is tall        his age.

— My son failed to be accepted by the firm after the interview.
— Now that he wasn’t well prepared, he might as well ______.

John has put on so much weight recently that his mother has to ______ all his trousers to his measure.

A little boy invited his mother to attend his school’s first teacher-parent meeting. To the little boy’s   36  , she said she would go. This would be the first time that his classmates and teacher   37   his mother and he felt   38   of her appearance. Although she was a beautiful woman, there was a severe scar that   39   nearly the entire right side of her face. The boy never wanted to   40   why or how she got the scar.
At the meeting, the people were   41   by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother   
  42   the scar, but the little boy was still embarrassed and   43   himself from everyone. He did, however, get within hearing of a conversation between his mother and his teacher.
The teacher asked   44   , “How did you get the scar on your face?”
The mother replied, “   45   my son was a baby, he was in a room that   46   fire. Everyone was   47   afraid to go in because the fire was   48  , so I went in. As I was running toward his bed, I saw a long piece of wood coming down and I placed myself   49   him trying to protect him. I was knocked   50   but fortunately, a fireman came in and saved both of us. ” She   51   the burned side of her face. “This scar will be   52  , but to this day, I have never   53   what I did.”
At this point, the little boy came out running toward his mother with tears in his eyes. He   54   her in his arms and felt a great sense of the sacrifice that his mother had made for him. He held her hand   55   for the rest of the day.

A．enjoyment B．disappointment C．sorrow D．joy

A．noticed B．greeted C．accepted D．met

A．sick B．ashamed C．afraid D．tired

A．included B．passed C．covered D．shaded

A．talk about B．think about C．care for D．hear about

A．impressed B．surprised C．excited D．comforted

A．in sight of B．by means of C．by way of D．in spite of

A．hid B．protected C．separated D．escaped

A．carefully B．seriously C．nervously D．anxiously

A．As B．When C．Since D．While

A．caught B．set C．lit D．made

A．so B．much C．quite D．too

A．out of control B．under control C．in control D．over control

A．under B．at C．to D．over

A．helpless B．hopeless C．senseless D．useless

A．pointed B．showed C．wiped D．touched

A．ugly B．lasting C．serious D．frightening

A．forgot B．recognized C．considered D．regretted

A．grasped B．held C．put D．caught

A．quietly B．slightly C．tightly D．suddenly

Imagine that you are in school, giving a speech to your class. Now think what it feels like when stammering (口吃) makes it a struggle to communicate your thoughts and feelings to other people.
The King’s Speech, which won the best picture at the Academy Awards in March, 2011, focuses on stammering along with other speech-related problems. The movie tells the story of Britain’s King George VI, who became king after his brother Edward VIII gave up the crown to marry an American woman.
As a result of British actor Colin Firth’s performance, people are starting to realize that stammering can damage a person’s self-confidence and cause him or her to escape from life.
“The serious problem is unseen and unheard,” said Norbert Lieckfeldt, an expert at the British Stammering Association, in an interview with a news reporter.
“Stammering masks your ability,” he said. “It's a serious disability.”
Most stammerers face bullying (欺负) in school, something that is “usually carried over into the workplace”.
George VI’s stammer took away his confidence as a speaker. But Samantha Mesango, a speech coach based in the UK, believes that speech problems are more common than most people realize. “Some simply don’t like the sound of their own voice; others are scared of speaking in public,” she said.
Travis Treats from St．Louis University praised The King’s Speech. He said it shows that “how one’s speech does not mean what one is inside”. He also added that people who stammer need to be heard and our society should recognize that they have a lot to give to the world.
The author writes the first 3 paragraphs to           .

We learn from the passage that           .

According to Norbert Lieckfeldt,           ．

The paragraph that follows the last will probably talk about           ．

Have you ever wished that you could make your little sister’s teddy bear talk to her? Or have you ever wanted to bring a puppet (木偶) to life? If so, you may be interested in learning the art of ventriloquism (腹语术). A ventriloquist can make an ordinary object seem to be alive by giving it a personality, movement, and speech.
Your object can be a puppet, or a doll. Give your new “friend” a name, and then decide on the personality that he will have. The next step is to give your friend movements that agree with the personality you have chosen.
Now you can learn to make your “friend” talk. A ventriloquist will control his mouth and lips so that it will appear that his voice is coming from the object he is using. This will take practice, but you can do it.
First, decide on a voice that is different from your own. It could be higher or lower than yours, or could even have a special accent. Then, find a clean teaspoon and hold the handle between your front teeth. Now, using the voice you created for your friend and holding the handle of the teaspoon tightly between your teeth, look into a mirror and talk. Practicing with the spoon in your mouth will help you learn to keep your mouth from moving. Now try telling a joke in your normal voice and have your friend speak in his voice. Practice those words until you can say them without your lips moving at all.
Ventriloquism is fun. It also requires hard work to become good at it. The most important thing to do is practice. But if you are willing to take the time to give your friend an interesting personality, to practice lively movements, and to work on good mouth control, then you will be well on your way to becoming a ventriloquist!
According to the text, a ventriloquist           .

You need to hold the handle of a teaspoon between your front teeth so that           .

If you want to be good at ventriloquism, you         .

What would be the best title for the text?

Weekend Miracles
Weekend Miracles give children aged 9 and older in the Children’s Center the opportunity to visit a host family who partners the child to find the child a permanent family. The host family arranges activities that the child will enjoy and introduces the child to their circle of friends—in order to develop a lasting connection with someone.
Organization: Kidsave International
Location: the United States
Duration: 2 days to 6 weeks
Web Designer Needed
We need the skills of a Web designer to help us redesign our website. The project will be fun and fulfilling, and give much needed visibility (能见性) to our grass-roots projects that are serving children and mothers in every corner of the world.
Organization: Children’s Fund
Location: the United States
Duration: 3 weeks to 2 months
Living Miracles
Doctors and dentists are needed as volunteers at Shechen Medical Clinic in Nepal for two months or longer. In Tibet, we need doctors for only 1-2 months. Dentists can come for one month or longer. Please understand that modern conveniences are not available here.
Organization: Dilgo Khyentse Fellowship
Location: Nepal
Duration: 21 days to 6 years
Teaching English to Children in India
The Salus Foundation, Inc. needs help from volunteers, teachers, college students or recent college graduates trained in ESL, or who are willing to be trained in ESL to teach English to the students at the Sulaxim School.
Organization: The Salus Foundation, Inc.
Location: India
Duration: 6 weeks to 9 months
Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Cameroon
In Defense of Animals in Africa needs help from highly motivated, mature volunteers who care about the conservation of great apes and are willing to live in an isolated, challenging, French-speaking environment for six months to benefit our future generation.
Organization: In Defense of Animals in Africa
Location: Cameroon
Duration: 6 months
We can infer from the passage that           .

Which of the following fields is NOT mentioned in the passage?

Which of the following is suitable for John, an American college student, who wants to learn about the lives of children in other countries?

The purpose of Weekend Miracles is mainly to help children           .

In my opinion, there is only one legitimate (合法的) handgun sport and that is aim practice. It is practiced at objects which are properly monitored and usually quite safe. Only certain handguns are true “sporting weapons”, seen as such by the sport’s lovers.
On the other hand, shooting at tin cans and other small objects in one’s backyard is not and should not be considered a serious sport. When uncontrolled, it can be a very dangerous practice.
Some opponents (反对者) of handgun control have stated that we are out to stop all hunting and that controlling the handgun would severely affect hunting. That is simply untrue. Handgun control would in no way limit the freedom of the true hunter. Few if any hunters consider the handgun an effective hunting weapon.
There are a few hunters who do hunt with handguns, but most states place restrictions (限制) on the type of guns that can be used in hunting, the reason is that killing of game should be done in as humane (人道的) a way as possible. Some small handguns are more likely to wound the animal rather than kill it at once. Only long guns, rifles and shotguns are effective arms of hunting.
People must understand that handguns and hunters are separate matters. Because most of the hunters use a rifle or shotgun, there is no reason why their search for game and sport should be affected by handgun control. Mixing the anti-hunting matter with the handgun matter confuses the killing of animals with killing of people.
In the writer’s opinion, people should use handguns only when           .

According to the writer, hunting is not affected by handgun control because         .

This passage mainly talks about           .

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。注意：涂卡时，如答题卡上没有E、F、G选项，请按如下方式填涂：选E涂AB；选F涂BC；选G涂CD。
Before going outside in the morning, many of us check a window thermometer (温度计) for the temperature. This helps us decide what to wear.    1    We want our food to be a certain coldness in the refrigerator. We want it a certain hotness in the oven. If we don’t feel well, we use a thermometer to see if we have a fever. We keep our rooms a certain warmth in the winter and a certain coolness in the summer.
Not all the thermometers use the same system to measure temperature. We use a system called the Fahrenheit scale. But most other countries use the Centigrade scale.
Both systems use the freezing and boiling points of water as their guide.     2    
The most common kind of thermometer is made with mercury (水银) inside a clear glass tube. As mercury ( or any other liquid ) becomes hot, it expands. As it gets colder, it contracts (收缩) . That is why on hot days the mercury line is high in the glass tube.     3       
First, take a clear glass juice bottle that has a cap; fill the bottle with colored water. Tap a hole in the center of the cap using a hammer and thick nail. Put the cap on the jar. Then stick a plastic straw (吸管) through the nail hole.
     4    
Finally, place a white card on the outside of the bottle and behind the straw. Now you can see the water level easily.
     5     
As the temperature goes down, the water will contract, and the level in the straw will come down. Perhaps you will want to keep a record of the water level in the straw each morning for a week.
A.      We use and depend on thermometers to measure the temperature of many other things in our daily lives.
B.      Thermometers measure temperature, by using materials that change in the same way when they are heated or cooled.
C.      Now that you know this rule you can make a thermometer of your own that will work.
D.      The water will rise in the straw. As the temperature of the air goes up, the water will expand and rise even higher.
E.      They label these in different ways. On the Fahrenheit scale water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees. On the Celsius scale water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees.
F.      Take wax ( you may use an old candle if you have one ) and melt some of it right where the straw is stuck into the cap to seal them together. 
G.      People use thermometers which are made by themselves when travelling around the world.

单词拼写 (共10小题; 每小题1分,满分10分)
Yet the _____ (大多数) of these employees have no voice, especially when it comes to their own safety.
The idea _____ (被想到) to him in a dream.
So if someone asks you out, never ______ (犹豫).
There are some obvious ______ (实际的) applications of the research.
She was shocked by the violent scenes she had _____ (目击).   
The plan was so _____ (肤浅) that no serious attempt was ever made to realize it.
We received a letter of ______ (道歉).
The exhibition is held ______ (每年).
The bank is ______ (在…对面) the supermarket.
I had to join a _____ (队，行列) for the toilets.

下面短文中有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。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（ ），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下面画一横线，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。
There are different train ticket for people to choose from when traveled by train.
They may want to buy a single ticket and a return ticket. A single ticket allows them
enjoy more freedom at their destination while a return one not only is cheaper but
also save them the trouble of buying the ticket when they decide to return. Some
people prefer hard seats to soft one. Young people like to have hard seats because
enjoy the company of other passengers is what they need during a journey.
Businessmen would not like to have soft seats. They want to have a good rest. When
they get off the train, they were still energetic and can rapid go on to do their jobs.

假设你是高三学生李华，开学之初，你们新换了英语老师Ms Li。 她希望了解每位同学的英语学习情况，并征求教学建议。请按以下要点用英语给她写一封信。
1、对英语学习的认识;
　2、自己目前的英语水平;
3、自己英语学习存在的主要问题;
4、对英语教学的两点建议。
注意：
1、词数100左右;
2、信的开头和结尾已给出。
Dear Ms Li,
I’m very happy to have you as our English teacher.
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Thank you!
Li Hua