[北京]2014届北京市朝阳区高三上学期期中考试英语试卷

The sign reads "In case of_______fire, break the glass and push______red button. "

The medicine is on sale everywhere. You can get it at _______ chemist's.

________ you ought to do now is to see a doctor at once.

I'm going to spend the winter vacation in Shanghai,_______I have relatives.

Please give Jim the schedule for tomorrow's conference when he _______ back. He is to chairthe conference.

Though ______in a big city, Peter always prefers to paint the beautiful scenes of country     life.

A1l flights _________ because of the heavy storm, so we decided to take the train.

According to IQ scores, you are smartest from 18 t0 25, but you're wiser and more                        experienced _______ increasing age.

My grandma noticed that the girl ________ a short-sleeved dress, so she gave the girl a new  sweater.

If the building project_______ by the end of this month is delayed, the construction      company will be fined.

Anyone can get into the club, _______ he is a member there.

Only by practising a few hours every day ________ be able to play the piano well.

You _____ me because I didn't say that.

If we ______ day before yesterday, we would have done the job.

The policeman kept his eyes________on the screen of the computer to identify the criminal's footprints.

A lesson of life
" Everything happens for the best, "  my mother said whenever I faced disappointment. "If you can carry on, one day something       will happen. And you'll      that it wouldn't have happened if not for that previous disappointment. "
After graduating from college, I        that mother was right. I had decided to try for a job in radio, then work my way up to sports announcer. I travelled to Chicago by getting         rides from drivers of passing cars and knocked on the door of every station-and got turned       every time.
In one studio, a kind lady told me that big stations couldn't      hiring inexperienced person-"Go out in the countryside and find a small station that'll give you a         , " she said.
I returned home to Dixon, Illinois. While there was no radio-announcing jobs in Dixon, my father said Montgomery Ward had opened a store and wanted a       athlete to manage its sports department. Since Dixon was where I had played high school football, I       .  The job sounded just        for me. But I wasn't       .
My       must have shown. "Everything happens for the best," Mom       me. Dad       me the car to job hunt. I tried WOC Radio in Davenport, Iowa. The program director, a wonderful Scotsman named Peter MacArthur, told me they had already hired an announcer.
As I left his office,  I felt extremely        .I asked        ,  " How can a fellow get to be a sport announcer if he can't get a job in a radio station?"
I was waiting for the elevator          I heard MacArthur calling,  " What was that you said about sports? Do you know anything about football?" Then he stood me        a microphone (麦克风) and asked me to broadcast an       game.
On my way home, as I have many times since,  I thought of my mother's words: " Keep on trying until some day you succeed. Something wouldn't have happened if not for that previous failure. " I often wonder what        my life might have taken if I'd got the job at Montgomery

A．good B．bad C．interesting D．important

A．hope B．declare C．realize D．explain

A．announced B．discovered C．suggested D．expected

A．smooth B．short C．comfortable D．free

A．on B．down C．in D．up

A．advise B．mind C．risk D．practise

A．choice B．promise C．result D．chance

A．professional B．natural C．local D．top

A．volunteered B．responded C．registered D．applied

A．right B．special C．difficult D．correct

A．fired B．identified C．hired D．interviewed

A．astonishment B．disappointment C．ambition D．appreciation

A．admired B．undersood C．blamed D．reminded

A．offered B．made C．showed D．returned

A．discouraged B．delighted C．embarrassed D．frightened

A．anxiously B．aloud C．carefully D．politely

A．if B．as C．while D．when

A．on B．in C．before D．over

A．imaginary B．interesting C．important D．intemational

A．effect B．direction C．aim D．pleasure

Online Degrees
Today, you can earn a degree from a major university without ever having sat in one of their classrooms. Many colleges and universities are offering online courses and degree programs now.
Online Learning Programs
With a computer and an Internet connection, you can earn a degree from home, work, or anywhere else for that matter. Online degree programs follow much the same routines as traditional learning, with a few twists. There are lectures, but they won't be in person. There are assignments (作业) , but you won't hand them to your instructor. In most situations, you are free to "go to class" when it fits your"schedule. If you get a phone call during class, you don't have to miss anything. If you get sick, you don't have to ask for someone's notes, and you just visit the lecture later.
You'll communicate with your instructor by e-mail, chat room and instant messaging. Your  classroom will live in a special software program. Contrary to popular belief, you will have close  contact with other students and the instructor.
Evaluating the Program
There are a lot of questions to ask before you make your selection, such as:
How do students interact with each other?
★Online programs can use chat rooms, instant messaging, teleconferencing, and video conferencing to communicate. The key is to find a program that has this interaction built into it and even requires it.
★What kind of reputation does the school have?
It may seem simple-a good school will have a good online program. This reputation,however, may not be as straightforward as you think. It's not uncommon for a great school to have a weak program or two. So you'd better look at the overall quality of the school and make a judgment.
The Employers' View
As more and more employees get online degrees and use them in the workforce(职场) ,  hiring managers will begin to feel more secure about the quality of education these people have.
In which way is online education special?

What is the most important part of online communication?

For whom is the passage probably written?

As a high school athletics coach, I gave a speech about football to students and parents, aiming at getting new team members :I talked  about how"everyone  can benefit from football. This year, a worried-looking couple approached me. Their son, who had a sickly childhood, really wanted to play football. They'd tried to talk him out of it, but he had his heart set on joining the team.
When they told me his name , my heart sank. Michael was short and thin. He was a lonely kid and the constant target of other kids' jokes. I knew Michael would never make it. But so close to my  "football is for everyone"  speech,  I told them we could give it a try.
On the opening day of practice, Michael was the first player on the field. We started a one-mile jog around the track. Repeatedly he fell, each time picking himself up. The same thing happened for weeks. But Michael put his whole heart into the training. Cradually, Michael gained strength both socially and physically. He began to laugh and most of the teammates became friendly. By the last week of practice Michael could run the mile without falling. He asked me to add a few more exercises he could work on his own. Soon ,  Michael ran the opening mile faster than anyone.
One day after practice, the team captain, Steve, came up to me. He was talented but lazy.He was popular with students even though he could be heartless. Steve pointed to the field where Michael was jogging all alone and asked me why he was still out there. I told Steve to ask him. The next night, I was surprised to see Steve exercising right next to Michael.
Finally our big game came-at first we were losing by twelve points. I could see that some kids  had already lost heart. But Michael was playing as hard as he could ,  begging the team to keep trying. Finally we won the game by one point in the final ten seconds.
At our celebration dinner, we always gave a big award to the most productive player. Steve had scored the most points that season,  and everyone cheered as he received his award. " There's someone who deserves it more than I do,"  Steve said,  " Everything I accomplished,  and everything the team accomplished this season, is thanks to one person-Michael. " The entire team cheered as Steve turned the prize over to the player who had inspired them all.
The author gave a speech to the students and parents in order to ____.

How did the author react after the couple told him their son's name?

What happened to Michael after a few weeks' training?

Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?

Baekeland and Hartmann report that the " short sleepers"  had been more or less average in  their sleep needs until the men were in their teens. But at about age 15 0r so, the men voluntarily  began cutting down their nightly sleep time because of pressures from school, work, and other  activities. These men tended to regard their nightly periods of unconsciousness as bothersome interruptions in their daily routines.
In general, these "short sleepers" appeared ambitious, active, energetic and cheerful. They  stuck to their opinions, and were very sure about their job choices..They often held several jobs at  once, or worked full-or part-time while going to school. And many of them had a strong urge to appear "normal"  or " acceptable"  to their friends and colleagues.
When asked to remember their dreams,  the " short sleepers"  did poorly. More than this,  they seemed to prefer not remembering. Similarly, their usual way of dealing with psychological problems was not to admit that the problem existed, and then to keep busy in the hope that the trouble would go away.
The sleep patterns of the " short sleepers"  were similar to,  but less extreme than,  sleep patterns shown by many mental patients categorized as manic  (躁狂者).
The "long sleepers" were quite different indeed. Baekeland and Hanmann report that these young men have been lengthy sleepers since childhood. They seemed to enjoy their sleep, protected it, and were quite concemed when sometimes they didn't have their desired 9 hours of nightly bed rest. They tended to remember their dreams much better than the  " short sleepers".      Many of the "long sleepers" were shy, anxious, quiet, nervous, passive, mildly depressed, and unsure of themselves ( particularly in social situations) . Several openly stated that sleep was an escape from their daily problems.
From the passage, we can leam that           .

Many "short sleepers" are likely to hold the view that _____.

It can be learned from the passage that the"short sleepers" _____.

When sometimes they cannot enjoy adequate sleep, the "long sleepers" might ______.

Black Box
You never see them, but they're with you every time you fly. They record where you're going,how fast you're traveling and whether everything on your airplane is functioning normally. Their ability to resist almost any disaster makes them seem like something out of a comic (漫画)  book.They're known as the black box.
When planes fall from the sky, as a Yemeni airliner did on its way to the Comoros Islands in the Indian Ocean on June 30, 2009, the black box is the best method for identifying what went wrong. So when a French submarine(潜水艇)  discovered its homing signal five days later, it marked a huge step toward determining the cause of the disaster in which 152 passengers were killed.
In 1958. Australian scientist David Warren developed a flight-memory recorder that would track basic information like altitude and direction. That was the first model for a black box, which became a requirement on all US commercial flights by 1960. Early models often failed to resist crashes, however, so in 1965 it was completely redesigned. That same year, the Federal Aviation Authority required that the boxes, which were never actually black, be painted orange or yellow to be easier to see.
Modem airplanes have two black boxes: a voice recorder, which tracks pilots' conversations, and a flight-data recorder, which monitors fuel levels, engine noises and other operating functions that help experts reconstruct the aircraft's final moments. The boxes can resist powerful force and temperatures up t0 2,OOOoF. They're also able to send out signals from depths of 20,000 ft. Experts believe the boxes from Air France Flight 447 ,  which crashed near Brazil on June 1 , 2009 ,  are in water nearly that deep, but statistics say they're still likely to turn up. In the approximately 20 deep-sea crashes over the past 30 years, only one plane's black boxes were never recovered.
What can we leam about the black box from the passage?

From the black box on the Yemeni airliner we can get information about _____.

The Federal Aviation Authority required the black boxes be painted orange or yellow to

What do we know about the black boxes from Air France Flight 447?

根据短文内容，从短文后的七个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。
Family Values
To understand a nation, you should first get to know its minimum unit-family.  
In the US, upon reaching an appropriate age (usually between 18 and 21 years) , children are encouraged, but not forced, to "leave the nest" and begin an independent life.   Parents do not arrange marriages for their children, nor do children usually ask permission of their parents to get married. Youn g adults meet their future spouses  (配偶)  through other friends,  at jobs, and in organizations and religious institutions. Although children choose their own spouses,
they still hope their parents will approve of their choices.
Parents feel that children should make major life decisions by themselves in many families. A parent may try to influence a child to follow a particular profession but the child is free to choose another job.      A son may deliberately decide not to go into his father's business because of a fear that he will lose his independence in his father's workplace. This independence from parents is not an indication that parents and children do not love each other. Strong love between parents and children is universal and this is no exception in the American family.
   It is not like we Chinese. Parents are rulers and masters. We Chinese love our parents with fear and total respect. In America, children always have their own opinions and even can talk about some sensitive problems with their parents, like family financial situation, the relationship between mother and father, and even sex.
    Therefore, it is contrary that, on one hand, Americans admire independence and equality that they don't want to make sacrifice to make up a family, but on the other hand, Americans think highly of family in their value system.

E. Although Americans pay much attention to independence and equality, they don't believe in making sacrifice.
F. Sometimes children do precisely the opposite of what their parents wish in order to declare their independence.
G. Many of them are expected to leave what could be life's most important decision-marriage-almost entirely up to luck.

假设你是红星中学高三(1)班的学生李华，你校于10月8日举行了50周年校庆活动。作为学校英语报刊的一名记者，请你根据下列信息为校报写一篇短文，报道此次活动的主要内容。

注意：1．可适当增加细节；
2．词数不少于60。

请根据下面提示，写一篇短文。词数不少于50。
You are discussing the following picture with your English friend Jim. Now you are telling him how you understand the picture and what makes you think so.
参考词汇：松鼠squirrel；尾巴tail