[河南]2012-2013学年河南省许昌市五校高二下学期第一次联考英语试卷

It is said that ____ wool produced in Australia is of ____ high quality.

—Kathy and her sister are so alike.
—I can’t tell one from ____.

A new report ____ on Monday by the Census Bureau ____ a sophisticated method to measure poverty rates has found that 46.6 million Americans are living in poverty.

Then ____ that the war was over.

The reason ____ their failure you know is _____ they didn’t get fully prepared for the experiment.

I am really worried about _____ I have hurt his feelings, though I didn’t mean to.

—Can I pay the bill by check?
—Sorry,sir.But it is the management rules of our hotel that payment ____ be made in cash.

There is a growing_____of interest between her position and her business activities.

We should make the world be aware of the fact that the land hunger ____ population growth before we carry out our population policy.

Amy insists that she ____ the secret to lose weight. But she won’t share it with us.

We met an old friend in New York ____ our expectation.She waved at us ____ the street when she saw us.

I don’t remember how many years ago____ State Street began its business in China.

What a great artist! It seemed only a couple of minutes ____ he had finished this wonderful painting!

Now young people like to go to the fast-food restaurant,____ ,as the name says,eating doesn’t take much time.

—Well,it’s getting late.I must be going.Thank you for inviting me to your birthday party.
—______.

When I was young, I wanted to be a teacher if I grew up，simply because I wanted to write on the chalkboard！My teachers seemed to be the   36   printers，curving their letters just so，and I wanted to do it   37  ！Now，after "higher education"，and three   38   career paths，I have come back to want to be a   39 ，but my reasons have changed. I was   40  in my years of high school，to have teachers that really   41   me as an individual, and I want to   42   this back.
A teacher's gentleness needs to be shown when    43    or encouraging the students. It is important to make the corrections in order for the students to learn.    44   ，this needs to be done in a    45    that will help to    46    the student to make the changes necessary,___47___  discouraging them from learning.Being patient is also extremely important，because the class needs to know what to    48    from the teacher.This will also help to build a better agreement with the students，and help both the teacher and students to learn more about each other.
If a teacher exhibits a true love of    49    and helping students learn，many of the qualities ___50___ above will just fall into place. The teacher that had the most    51    on me had the best fame in the school. She was strict，and she did demand a lot, but she was able to show us it was                 ___52___she cared for us. She knew each of us was worth it，and she knew we each could do it. She __53___ knowledge，gently, firmly, patiently，respectfully, and most effectively. She gently encouraged us to make    54    when we needed to，and    55    us when we did. She was a true teacher, not just someone who taught，and this is the kind of teacher I hope to be.

A．funniest B．greatest C．strangest D．cleverest

A．too B．either C．also D．hard

A．ordinary B．familiar C．difficult D．different

A．teacher B．doctor C．lawyer D．secretary

A．diligent B．active C．successful D．fortunate

A．cared about B．believed in C．longed for D．thought about

A．take B．keep C．give D．hold

A．talking B．working C．correcting D．stressing

A．Besides B．Moreover C．However D．Otherwise

A．sense B．class C．means D．manner

A．prevent B．motivate C．force D．forbid

A．beyond B．through C．without D．towards

A．result B．hear C．suffer D．expect

A．teaching B．learning C．considering D．treating

A．discussed B．referred C．mentioned D．engaged

A．goal B．impact C．affect D．duty

A．while B．although C．since D．because

A．passed on B．pulled on C．kept on D．turned on

A．decisions B．choices C．changes D．attempts

A．blamed B．ignored C．helped D．praised

I went through a training program and became a literacy volunteer last surnmen The training
I received, though excellent, did not tell me how it was to work with a real student, however. When I began to discover what other people's lives were like because they could not read, I realized the true importance of reading.
My first student Marie was a 44-year-old single mother of three. In the first lesson, I found out she walked two miles to the nearest supermarket twice a week because she didn't know which bus to take. When I told her I would get her a bus schedule, she told me it would not help because she could not  read it. She said she also had difficulty once she got to the supermarket,because she couldn't always remember what she needed. Since she did not know words, she could not write out a shopping list. Also, she could only recognize items by sight, so if the product had a different label, she would not recognize it as the product she wanted.
As we worked together, learning how to read built Marie's self-confidence,which encouraged her to continue her studies. She began to make rapid progress and was even able to take the bus to the supermarketelt. After this successful trip, she reported how self-confident she felt. At the end of the program, she began helping her youngest son,Tony, a shy first grader with his reading. She sat with him before he went to sleep and together they would read bedtime stories. When his eyes became wide with excitement as she read, pride was written all over her face. As she described this experience, I was proud of myself as well. I found that helping Marie to build her self-confidence was more rewarding than anything I had ever done before.
As a literacy volunteer, I learned a great deal about teaching and helping others. In fact, I may have learned more from the experience than Marie did.
What did the author do last summer?

Why didn’t Marie go to the supermarket by bus at first?

How did Marie use to find the goods she wanted in the supermarket?

What did the writer think of her work as a literacy volunteer?

"When speaking to a stranger, ask them where they are from and then make a connection with that place”can be used as a supporting sentence to _____.

If you are introduced to a woman called Pearl S. Buck, how should you address her usually?

The underlined word “acquaintance” in the table may probably mean______.

We can infer from the text that ______.

Anais Nin was a famous writer. Nin was born French-Cuban but lived in the United States in her later years of life till she died. Nin’s works had her relationships with authors，artists，and other figures as the main subject. Some of her writings were made into films. Nin was also a visiting lecturer in several colleges and promoted Women's Movement with her strong writings.
Anais Nin was born in France in 1903. Her father was a Spanish artist and a composer living in Cuba（古巴）where he met her mother, a French singer working in Cuba. As a child Nin was brought up in Spain. When her parents separated, Nin and her two brothers moved to New York with their mother. At the age of 16 Nin decided to give up studying and started to work as a dancer and model to reduce the financial burden on her mother so that her brothers could go on with their studies.
In 1923 Nin got married to her husband，Hugh Parker Guiler in Cuba. In 1924 Nin and Hugh moved to Paris where Hugh continued with his banking career and Nin started writing. Nin wrote her first book in print, D. H. Lawrence：An Unprofessional Study in 16 days. In 1939 Nin left Paris as it was a French government's request to its residents to leave Paris because of the coming war. Nin returned to New York with Hugh and sent her written books to Frances Steloff of the Gotham Book Mart in New York for safekeeping.
In 1931 Nin wrote her book Henry and June from the Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin. In 1936 Nin published House of Incest which was a 72-page fiction novel.
Nin also appeared and was a part of various films. In 1973 Anais Nin was awarded an honorary doctorate（荣誉博士学位）by the Philadelphia College of Art. In 1974 Nin was elected to the United States National Institute of Arts and Letters.
In 1977 Nin died in her Los Angeles home after battling with cancer for three years.
What information can we get from Paragraph one?

Why did Nin and her husband move back to New York in 1939?

We can infer from the passage that＿．

Does being rich make you happy? Many studies on happiness give negative answers. Here are some points in being happy.
Basic Human Needs Must Be Met
People whose basic needs for shelter, clothing and food are not met will find it very difficult to feel happy. Of course，there are exceptions，but for most of us，we can only be happy once our basic needs are met.
The Joneses Cannot Be Escaped
People's happiness is not determined by how much they have, but by how much people around them have. So, we tend to feel happy once our basic needs are met and we have more than the people surrounding us.
This means that while keeping up with the Joneses could be destructive if we let it go too far, it is also part of human nature to want to feel at least on the same level，financially，as those surrounding us.
You Should Escape The Rat Race
We should know the importance of staying out of the rat race. So yes, you need to work hard，get the education you need to land a good job and work long enough and hard enough to get to a place where you can easily meet your basic needs. What are basic needs? For most middle or upper middle class Americans, basic needs are not very basic anymore.
For most of us，once our basic needs have been met, happiness is achieved when we engage in activities we like，spend time with friends and family and stay active. Making money for the sake of making money does not make people happy.
Ideally, these questions should be answered when you're still young and just starting out. Don't wait until your midlife crisis to realize that half your life has passed you by and you're still unhappy.
What is the main idea of the passage?

What does "the Joneses" in Paragraph 4 probably stand for？

From the passage，what people probably do in "the rat race"？

What's the attitude of the author towards the 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。选项中有两项为多余选项。
There's an old saying, “You can put more salt in the soup，but once it's in there，you can't get it out.”__1__ And your child can help！Here's an exciting experiment for your child to try：
Start by helping your child to mix salt into the water in the mixing bowl and stirring until it is fully dissolved溶解）．
___2__ Make sure that you don't let any of the salty water into it.
___3__ Then take a small rock，and place it right on top of the center of the plastic wrap，so that all of the plastic leans slightly toward the middle of the bowl where the cup is.
Put the whole setup in full，hot sun，and wait. Within an hour, you should see water droplets begin to form on the underside of the plastic. __4___
Wait, and then take the plastic off. A good amount of water should be in the small cup.
__5__ Guess what? No salt！The water vaporized蒸发）in the heat of the sun，and then returned to its liquid state. Salt doesn't do that一it stayed behind. You really can take the salt out of salt water！
As it happens，this is an excellent lesson in the way matter can change states.

E．Then place a cup or a smaller bowl into the center of the bowl.
F．They'll flow and drip into the center of the bowl，and into the cup.
G.．Today, scientists are busy exploring ways to take the salt out of salt water in large quantities.

假如英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改同桌写的以下作文。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：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（），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。
My name is Bruce Hall. I'm happy to being your English teacher. First, I'd like to tell you
something about myself. I was born in Paris which the winter is cold. So I went to a warm place—Egypt and lead camels for tourists under the pyramids. Before some time，I went to study at California State University，with the money I had earned it in Egypt. Late，I went to Salt Lake City and became high school teacher. It is five years since I came to China as a teacher of English. My classes are designed special to meet the needs of each student whether they want to prepare for various exam or generally learn to speak English. So if you have any difficulties in learning English，please don't hesitate to come to me.

目前许多学校对学生采取封闭式管理，学生对此看法不一。请根据下表所提供的信息，写一篇短文，谈谈自己的看法。

注意：1．词数100左右；
2.短文开头已给出，不计人总词数。
Nowadays a lot of schools keep their students in school all day long.