福建省泉州市高三质检英语试卷

一What’s the problem with your mountain bike Thomas?
一 _______．I can manage it and catch up with you

Although at times learning to play the piano Was tiring for me，it was well worth he_______.

Hi, Mike. I’ve to borrow your car this afternoon mine _______ in the garage.

I often have a hard time _______myself from my bed or even rolling over to write everything have dreamt in my notebook.

If it hadn’t rained so hard last night，it_______ so  cold today.

Taxis outside hotels are usually safer，but more_______ for the day hires，which charge more than the passing ones. 

Of my five favorite novels，one was written by an  American writer．Mark twain and_______ by an English writer ,Charles Dickens.

As the interview rule goes，you can take some time to think through answers_______ you make a reply.

_______ the right to correct his difficult question，the teacher of English was pleased and praised me in front of the class.

A CD was_______ to the front of the magazine to encourage people to buy it.

Andy was crying in his room just now，but he wouldn’t tell me_______ made him so sad.

The company has recently taken on fifty new workers some of_______ have just graduated from university.

You may know better about Jack London if you have read a book_______ the name of The Call of the Wild.

In the end Jack decided to drive back to town because he  would not_______ for the night at the hotel.

I think Quanzhou City and Xiamen City are similar in_______ both 0f the two cities are located on the seaside.

Every one of us, rich or poor，should at least have one or two good friends. I learned that a true friend is the most important in my life after I had gone         so many terrible things. I felt
upset when I was told that I would have to         the company . As I had a very big family to __ ___   
and was in great need of money，what I was         about was how to find another new  job .In order to          this problem, I rushed from place to place like crazy. I read almost all the newspapers and          almost all the telephone numbers in the newspaper___     in my notebook and tried to call almost a11 the companies that  needed new  _ ___．Not until I found a job in a small town near  Townsville had I         down .My new boss ,Mr. Johnson , was one of my good friends since primary school.“Why didn’t you         me until now ? Was it          to do that ? Explain to me the reason ,”he said ,       me a cup of hot coffee. Both of us were overjoyed to see each other and we           the whole afternoon talking about things and persons that we        at school .John asked me to give him some  advice about           to enlarge his present business and he was entirely happy about my       .To my great surprise，he offered me a          which didn’t need much experience because  I was not          with this field but the pay l got was much more man          .The moment I saw my           ，the sum of money given by the company，I cried for the first time — that was the first time for me to do so since I grew up.

A．over B．through C．around D．for

A．leave B．desert C．choose D．operate

A．care B．protect C．love D．support

A．particular B．curious C．concerned D．excited

A．analyze B．raise C．explain D．solve

A．took down B．turned down C．looked for D．stood for

A．comments B．surveys C．reports D．advertisements

A．customers B．bosses C．clerks D．applicants

A．broken B．slowed C．sunk D．calmed

A．contact B．trust C．overlook D．find

A．desperate B．harmful C．worthy D．significant

A．awarding B．sharing C．handing D．showing

A．spent B．wasted C．spared D．saved

A．discussed B．debated C．remembered D．imagined

A．what B．how C．which D．when

A．ability B．courage C．interests D．suggestions

A．position B．chance C．fortune D．service

A．popular B．familiar C．patient D．content

A．offered B．required C．expected D．needed

A．tip B．share C．fund D．salary

Tasha Tudor(August 28，1919 — June 18，2008) was an American illustrator(插画家)and writer of children’s books. She received many awards and honors for her contributions to children’s literature. When people talk about her creativity in artwork，she said,“I do it to support my dogs and my four children.”Her great publishing record, the number of magazine stories that have been written about her over the years, and her admirers have no effects on her at all.

Much of Tasha’s artwork and her reading are done in the wintertime.“I love winter. It’s delightful，”she says.“I don’t have to go anywhere because I work at home. If I’m snowed in，I can stay this way for months.”She hopes for early, deep snow to protect her garden from the hardship of the New England winter，and when it comes she puts on snowshoes when she needs to get down the mile-long dirt path that leads to the road.
Given her enjoyment of winter and her fantasy(梦幻)way of life，it’s not surprising that Tasha’s  Christmas is a storybook holiday. She hangs flowers over the front door. Her tree comes from the woods,
and it goes up on Christmas Eve，lit by homemade candles and decorated with her great- grandmother’s collection that dates from 1850. In a place of honor on the tree are large cookies cut into the shapes of her animals.
The grandchildren and friends get presents from Tasha’s old dolls；so do the animals and they
have their own Christmas tree. “Of course，it’s a known fact that all the animals talk on Christmas
Eve,”she has written. Small, handmade gifts fill a big wooden box
At the end 0f each year, Tasha can look back and know that her life is perfect，that she has
again ignored the twentieth century，and that the magic continues. And for the rest of us，here’s
a bit of advice, Tasha style：“Nowadays, people are so restless．If they took some tea anti spent more time rocking on the porch(门廊)in the evening listening to light music，they might enjoy life more.”
Tasha loved winter because it allowed her to ____________．

From the passage, we can learn that Tasha’s life is ____________．

Which of the following is TRUE about Tasha?

In which section of a paper can you probably read the article?

Will online courses transform world of education?
Some may wonder what it feels like to attend a class at Stanford University. The recently popular MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) can satisfy this desire. But they are also most likely to change the situation of higher education. Only last month，both Peking University and Tsinghua University announced plans to start open online course on the edX platform，one of the world’s major providers of MOOCs，to explore this new form of online education.
Gaining momentum(势头)
“It’s not only a change of platforms from offline to online. It’s more about a reform of
teaching methods，even the whole education system，”said Chen Jining，president of Tsinghua University.
The potential of MOOCs to reform education has been obvious in the US ever since the immediate popularity of the course Artificial Intelligence，taught by Stanford University professor Sebastian Thrun, who later co-founded Udacity, a platform with 1.6 million enrolled(注册) students in 200 countries. According to Nature magazine，by June 2013，74 percent of universities in the US offered some type of online course. Lu Fang, vice-president of Fudan University，explains the appeal of MOOCs as a simple case of supply and demand：“The demand for high quality educational resources from both enrolled students and professionals is feeding the rise of MOOCs，in which classes usually taught by top teachers are available to everyone，”said Lu.
Too early to replace
With easy access and free of charge, MOOCs are said to have the potential to change the present education system. But there are barriers，because hardly any universities offer degree certificates, as college administrators point out, it’s difficult to confirm if students are foaming anything in MOOCs，reposed USA Today．
The Wall Street Journal also reposed that，presently，a typical MOOC student is likely to have
already graduated from college and is using the course to explore an interest or acquire professional
skills. Even so, an increasing number of undergraduates are signing up.
“What we are really establishing(创建)are educational pathways for people who want skills that are related to contemporary jobs，”Thrun told The Wall Street Journal．
MOOCs have been considered likely to reform education since___________．

According to Lu Fang, MOOCs have become popular because___________．

What can we learn from the passage?

The author’s attitude towards MOOCs is___________．

Hong Kong plays host to exciting events ranging from colourful festivals to world class arts and sports events. When planning your next visit，be sure to include these signature events in your plans.




Where can sport lovers order tickets for sports events?

How much should you pay at least to attend both the jazz concert and Writer’s Block?

In which event can audience see Woody Allen in person?

What’s the greenest place in America? If you answered something like the warm sunlight of Santa Barbara, you’d be wrong. The greenest place in America has almost no sign of nature— the buildings outnumber the trees— and the air isn’t all that great. What it has is density(密度)and efficiency— the twin qualities that finally define green in the global warming time. Applying those standards，the greenest place in America is New York City— particularly，the overcrowded，overpriced island of Manhattan, which produces 30％ less per-capita(人均)greenhouse gas than that of the nation．
It’s that density that makes Manhattan so green. Manhattan’s population density is 800 times the national average. Density comes with negatives，certainly— small living spaces，air pollution— but it also enables amazing efficiencies．Over 80％ of Manhattanites travel to work by public transport, by bike or on foot— compared to an average of about 8％ everywhere else in the country. Manhattan’s apartment buildings are far more energy-efficient than the houses in the suburbs.
What’s true of New York City is more or less true of other American urban areas, which explains why a growing part of the environmental movement now focuses on greening cities, hoping to attract more Americans back downtown. There’s an effort to make cities more sustainable(可持续的)，by improving public transport，reducing air pollution and upgrading energy efficiency. But even more important, it is quite urgent to change decades of government policies that have been in favor of the suburbs，with disastrous consequences for energy，the environment and the climate.
That’s exactly the difficult point. For all the high efficiency and convenience and richness of living in a city，there are disadvantages too．New York，for example，has some of the highest childhood asthma(哮喘)rates in the U.S.
So it’s welcome news that New York has continued to push its P1aNYC scheme, a long-term program to make the city greener and more sustainable over the next decades. Recently it announced an update to the plan that includes phasing out heavy heating oils in New York City apartment buildings by 2030，to be replaced with cleaner natural gas.
Manhattan is considered as the greenest place in America because of its__________

We can infer from the passage that___________.

The underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refers to___________.

The underlined part “phasing out” in the last paragraph probably means___________.

What would be the best title for the passage?

For many centuries，countless scholars have asked the question：What is beauty? As designers update the latest fashions and artists create their masterpieces, what is considered beautiful changes at an alarming pace.
Fifty years ago，the full-figured Marilyn Monroe was a symbol of the American aesthetic(美学的)value；today，many Hollywood actresses different in appearance from Marilyn’s have taken her place. However，aesthetic values not only differ from generation to generation，but do so along cultural lines as well. Often, what is considered disgusting to one civilization is just the aesthetic appeal in another. Thus it is difficult to give an absolute definition(定义)of beauty.
As fundamental(基础的)physicists，my colleagues and I like to believe that we are involved in a search for a beauty that affects definition. The beauty that we search for is not what is set up through the work of people and subject to the tastes, but rather what has been laid down by nature Physics allows its students to look past outer appearances，into a deeper beauty. As a human being，I am attracted by the visual appeal of a wave crashing on the beach. As a physicist, however I am able to see the deeper beauty of the physical laws that govern such a phenomenon.
In truth，since Albert Einstein put forward the idea that there might be one main physical theory that governs the universe，aesthetics have become a driving force in modern physics. Einstein and other later physicists have discovered that：Nature, as its most fundamental level，is beautifully constructed. The extraordinary simplicity of the laws that govern the universe is really breathtaking . As Einstein said, it would seem more likely that we should find ourselves living in a“chaotic(无秩序曲)world，in no way graspable through thinking”. Yet we are now closer than ever to a full understanding of the universe’s beautiful clockwork. As new discoveries and technologies allow us to examine the physical world on deeper and deeper levels，we find that the beauty itself becomes much deeper.
The reference to“Marilyn Monroe”in Paragraph 2 mainly serves to___________.

When appreciating a wave crashing on the beach，a physicist sees the beauty of___________.

Why are Albert Einstein’s words mentioned in Paragraph 3?

The passage is mainly to___________.

阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：1)汉语提示；2)首字母提示；3)语境提示，在每个空格内填人一个适当的英语单词，并将该词完整地写在右边相对应的横线上。所填单词要求意义准确、拼写正确。
A boy trembled in the cold winter, wrapping his arms around himself on a bus stop bench. He
wasn’t_______ (穿着)warm clothes and the temperature was -10^oC. A heartbreaking scene! But the good d_______ of the ordinary people who witnessed the 11-year-old Johannes were both joyous________inspiring. A woman，sitting next to the boy，discovered he was_______ a school trip and was told to meet his teacher at the bus stop. She selflesslyc_______ her own coat around his shoulders. Later, _______woman at first gave him her scarf, then wrapped him in her large jacket. Throughout the day, more and_______ people offered Johannes their gloves and even the coats off their backs. _______ (事实上), it was a hidden camera experiment by Norwegian charity SOS Children’s Village as part of their winter campaign to gather donations to send much-needed coats and blankets to h_______ Syrian children get through the winter. Synne Ronning, the information head of the organization, also noted that the child was av_______ who was never in any danger during the filming.

某英语报举办以勤俭节约为主题的中学生英语写作大赛：要求参赛者根据以下四幅图内容，用英语描述发生在李华身上真实的故事并阐述其意义。

注意：1、文章的开头已给出，不计入总词数；
2、词数120左右。
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One day， Li Hua went shopping in a supermarket. At the checkout, he had to buy a shopping bag for what he had bought.
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