湖北省荆门市高二下期末质量检测英语试卷

Lady Gaga is so well-received a singer all over the world, and it is a great ______ for a reporter to have a face-to-face conversation with her.

It’s widely agreed that the _______of our sports system, rather than foreign coaches, will be helpful to Chinese football.

His grandfather has kept reminding him not to _______ with bad companions whether in school or in society.

It is common that many parents choose to rent a house near schools to _______ their children during their school years.

At the annual meeting, the mayor of Jingmen Xiao Juhua urged the related departments to take _______ measures to ensure equal rights for migrant children.

Universities have the right to develop in their own way, but whatever they do, their polices must be consistent with the nation’s _________laws.

Teachers should allow their students to study ________ from the start, and it is bound to result in their ability to deal with problems on their own.

The newly-invented cell-phones emit large amounts of radiation. This is why they ________ disapproval from experts as soon as they are on sale.

Most of the old are somewhat cut off from the fast developing world and that’s why they are so easily ________ by the cheaters.

Those kind-hearted donators would like to set up a special school to accept all disabled students, ________ education level and background.

While waiting to pick up a friend at the airport in Portland, Oregon, I noticed a man coming toward me carrying two light bags. He stopped right next to me to       his family.
First he moved to his younger son as he laid down his bags. They gave each other a long, loving hug.       they separated, I heard the father say, “It’s so good to see you, son. I missed you so much!” His son smiled somewhat shyly and replied softly, “Me, too, Dad!” Then the man stood up, gazed in the        of his older son and said, “You’re already quite the young man. I love you very much, Zach!” They too hugged a most loving, tender hug. After several        , he turned to his wife and declared, “I’ve saved the best for last!” and       to give his wife the longest, most passionate kiss I ever remember       .
For an instant they       me of a newly-married couple, but I knew by the age of their kids that they couldn’t possibly be. I puzzled about it for a moment and gathered my        to nervously ask, “Wow! How long have you been married?” “Almost twelve years.” he replied,        breaking his gaze from his lovely wife’s face. “Well then, how long have you been away?” I asked. The man      turned and looked at me, “Two whole days.”
Two days? I was       . By the intensity of the greeting, I had        he’d been gone for at least several weeks — if not months. I know my expression      me. Hoping to stop our conversation politely and continue with my        for my friend, I said almost immediately, “I hope my          is still that passionate after twelve years!”
The man suddenly      smiling. He looked at me straight in the eye, and with power that burned right into my soul. He told me something that left me a      person. He told me, “Don’t      , friend …decide!” Then with a wonderful smile, he and his family turned and left together.
I was still watching that special family walk just out of sight when my friend       
to me and asked, “What are you looking at?” Without     , and with a curious sense of certainty, I replied, “ My future!”

A．appreciate B．watch C．comfort D．greet

A．As B．After C．Because D．Since

A．mind B．eyes C．heart D．head

A．months B．hours C．moments D．weeks

A．proceeded B．inspired C．pretended D．promised

A．dreaming B．studying C．seeing D．sensing

A．thought B．exposed C．warned D．reminded

A．confidence B．courage C．imagination D．patience

A．on B．after C．without D．by

A．directly B．finally C．cautiously D．deliberately

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

A．assumed B．planned C．realized D．decided

A．discovered B．overlooked C．betrayed D．withdrew

A．research B．search C．control D．touch

A．marriage B．relatives C．family D．friends

A．continued B．kept C．tried D．stopped

A．different B．reliable C．wonderful D．perfect

A．remark B．imagine C．hope D．quit

A．called on B．dropped in C．came up D．waved at

A．hesitation B．decision C．difficulty D．intention

It’s still there, the Vietnamese school where my brother and I used to go. Even with a new coat of paint and the high wire fence, the school I knew ten years ago remains the same.
Every day at 5 p.m., instead of flying kites with our friends, my brother and I had to go to Vietnamese school. No amount of kicking, screaming, or arguing could stop my mother, who was determined to have us learn the language of our culture. She held us by the collar and walked with us the seven long, hilly blocks from our home to school, leaving our tearful faces before the front of the school.  
We all sat in little chairs in a big empty room, which had a slight smell of old clothes that had been stored for a long time. I hated that smell. There was a stage far to the right, with an American flag on one side and the flag of the Republic of Vietnam on the other side.
Although the school mainly taught language ---- speaking, reading, dictation ---- the lessons always began with an exercise in politeness. With the entrance of the teacher, the best student would tap a bell and everyone would get up, and say in Vietnamese, "How are you, teacher?"
The language always made me embarrassed. More often than not, I had tried to separate myself from the loud voice that followed me whenever I went to the American supermarket outside our area. The voice belonged to my grandmother, a small old woman who could shout louder than anyone on the street. Her Vietnamese was quick, it was loud, and it was not beautiful.
In our area, the comings and goings of hundreds of Vietnamese on their daily tasks sounded crazy. I did not want to be thought of as being mad, as talking stupid. When I spoke English, people nodded at me, smiled and encouraged me. Even Vietnamese people would laugh and say that I’d do well in life.
My brother was even stricter than I about speaking English. He was especially cruel towards my mother, scolding her for her poor English. Bits of Vietnamese were often mixed in her conversation.   
After two years of struggle, I finally divorced my culture. I was permitted to stop Vietnamese school. I thought of myself as American. At last, I thought I was one of you; I wasn’t one of them.
Sadly, I am only an American.
What can be learned from the passage?

The author often felt embarrassed because ________.

It can be inferred from the last paragraph that the author feels ________.

What’s the theme of the passage?

As is shown in a recent study, the way people sleep at night actually determines a lot about the type personality they have. Robert Phipps, a body language expert, has identified four sleeping positions that affect personality.
Phipps found that worriers, those who stress the most, tend to sleep in the fetal(胎儿的) position. He found that this is by far the most common bedtime position, sleeping on their side with knees up and head down. The more we curl up(蜷曲), the more comfort we are seeking, according to Phipps.
The second most common position is the log, indicating stubbornness. People sleep with a straight body, with arms at each side, as if they are standing guard at Buckingham Palace, and these people (the 28 percent who sleep this way) often wake up stiffer(更僵硬) than when they went to sleep.” The longer you sleep like this, the more rigid your thinking is and you can become inflexible, which means you make things harder for yourself,” according to Phipps.
Yearner(向往型的) sleepers are next on the list. About 25 percent of people sleep in this style----on their backs with arms stretched out in front, looking as if they are either chasing a dream or perhaps being chased themselves. Yearners are typically their own worst critics, always expecting great results, explained Phipps. These people often wake up refreshed and eager to face the challenges of the day ahead.
Perhaps the most special sleep style is the freefaller position. This sleep style makes up 17 percent of the population. They sleep face down with arms stretched out. These people, according to Phipps, feel like they have little control over their life. Not only is this the strangest of sleep styles, it also the least comfortable, and people may wake up feeling tired and have no energy.
In conclusion, Phipps has only one more thing to add: “A good night’s sleep sets you up for the following day and our sleeping positions can determine how we feel when we wake.”
Which of the following pictures is the fetal position?

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B．

C．

D．

The underlined word “rigid” the third paragraph is closest in meaning to “________”.

Which sleeping position indicates that the sleeper tends to seek perfection?

What is the passage mainly about?

OK, I admit it: emoticons(表情符号)are popular. Some people even think they are fun. Many seem unable to get through an e-mail or Instant Message chat sentence without using one. Some feel that they add feeling and character to otherwise cold digital communications.
Some people, such as a Hollywood scriptwriter John Blumenthal, however, blast the use of emoticons as “infantile(幼稚)just like the people who use them”. He believes that words themselves should be enough. “If you’re funny, happy or sad, that should be apparent from the comment that goes before the emoticons,” he argues.
In the eyes of Blumenthal, the use of emoticons is a gender issue. “Men don’t use emoticons very much. Maybe not at all,” he said, “Teenage girls and women seem to use them a lot. Maybe there’s an emoticon gene.”
It’s an interesting opinion, but it is not shared by all.
In an interview with The New York Times, Dacher Keltner, professor of psychology at the University of California, said that emoticons are popular because our brains are programmed “to seek out representations of humanity”. He believes that they are popular not because they are shortcuts for the lazy, but because they bring in something beyond language. They satisfy our needs to be with and communicate with people.
All of these arguments may be somehow right. Each one of us will choose to communicate in our own way. I tried to use one once and felt like I was stealing into a primary school class that I had no place being in. I’d rather let my words do the talking.
Friends, however, send me messages and e-mails full of emoticons. I have no problem with this. I don’t regard any of my friends as lazy or immature. It’s just a question of individuality.
What does the underlined word “blast” in the second paragraph mean?

Which of the following views would John Blumenthal agree with?  

From the text, we can conclude that the author______________. 

What is the main point of the article? 

Many of us enjoy doing it: you turn on the camera on your mobile phone and hold it at a high angle, making your eyes look bigger and your cheekbones more defined. You turn to your best side and click. There it is — your selfie.
Over the past year, “selfie” has become a well-known term across the globe. This August the Oxford dictionary added the word to their online dictionary and defined it as: “A photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically with a smartphone or webcam and up-loaded to a social media website.”
Today it’s not difficult to find social networking pages full of photos people have taken of themselves and their friends. And selfie culture has become especially relevant for young people. As many as 91 percent of teenagers have posted photos of themselves online, according to a recent survey by the US Pew Research Center.
So what are the reasons for the rise of selfie culture?
“The cult (狂热) of the selfie celebrates regular people,” Pamela Rutledge, a professor at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, told Vogue magazine. “There are many more photographs available now of real people than models.”
Posting selfies also allows you to control your image online. “I like having the power to choose how I look, even if I’m making a funny face,” Samantha Barks, 19, a high school student in the US, told Vogue.
In addition to self-expression and documentation, selfies “allow of a close friendship for long-distance friends, because you can see each other’s faces every day”, wrote Casey Miller at The Huffmgton Post.
But US psychologist Jill Weber is concerned that selfies might lead to social problems, “There’s a danger that your self-esteem may start to be tied to the comments and ‘likes’ you get when you post a selfie, and they aren’t based on who you are — they’re based on what you look like,” Weber told Vogue. “When you get nothing or a negative response, your confidence can plummet.”
With the first paragraph, the author intends to         .

Why is selfie culture so popular according to the article?
a. It enables people to choose how they look.
b. It helps people improve their self-esteem.
c. It’s a chance for ordinary people to show off themselves.
d. It is believed to be a helpful way to develop a new friendship.
e. It is considered a good way to stay connected with friends that are far away.

What is Jill Weber’s attitude toward selfies?

The underlined word “plummet” in the last paragraph probably means         .

You have two eyes and they are set close together on the front of your face. Have you wondered why? The reasons are simple and important to the way you see the rest of your world.
Your eyes are like two small cameras. A camera catches an image of an object and records it on film. Similarly, when you look at something, each eye takes in what it sees and sends this image to the back of the eyeball. Because your eyes are set close together, they view the world from about the same height but from slightly different angles. Working as a team, the eyes send the images to your brain, which puts them together into a single, centered image.
Seeing in stereo means seeing with two eyes working together, which is called stereoscopic sight. This allows you to view the world in three dimensions, or 3-D. Seeing depth helps you to judge the distance between you and the objects you see and to adjust to the changing angle at which you see something as you move closer to or farther away from it. If images are coming from only one eye, however, only two of these dimensions----height and width----can be perceived. A world seen with one eye is thus two-dimensional, as in a photograph.
Now consider why your two eyes are on the front of your face. Think of other animals with the same arrangement. They are all animals that hunt, like lions and wolves. Their eyes face directly in front of them. This provides a field of sight about 180 degrees wide, which is called binocular(双眼的) sight. On the other hand, animals that are hunted have eyes on the sides of the head, which provides nearly360-degree field of sight. In order to stay alive, they need to see things coming from the sides and from behind. However, without stereoscopic sight, they have difficulty determining how far a danger is.
With sight both stereoscopic and binocular, humans share with animal hunters the ability to see from side to side and to accurately determine the distance. If you think it would be great to have another type of sight, perhaps with hundreds of tiny eyes like many insects do, think again! Each tiny insect eye sees only a tiny part. Besides, what if you needed glasses? Be glad for the eyesight that you have.
According to the passage, the similarity of an eye and a camera is that they both          .

Stereoscopic sight is a result of having             . 

What is the meaning of the underlined word “perceived” in Para3 most similar to?

We can infer from the last paragraph that            .

阅读下列各小题，根据汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子，并将答案写在答题卡上的相应题号后。
The school shop, _____________________customers are students, is closed during the holidays. （majority）
顾客大部分是学生的那家学校商店放假期间会关门。
With the arrival of autumn, those naughty leaves _____________________ to run back to their mother.  (alternative)
随着秋天的到来，那些调皮的树叶们没有选择，只能跑回大地母亲的怀抱。
If the profit of the four state-owned banks hadn’t been influenced, they __________ Yu Ebao, teaming up with each other.    (resist)
如果四大国有银行的利润没有受到影响，他们就不会联合抵制余额宝。
_________________the Qin Dynasty, the traditional crosstalk shows, or Xiangsheng shows have made people all over China roar with laughter for centuries.   (date)
追溯到秦朝的传统脱口秀，或者说是相声已经让全中国人大笑了几个世纪。
Widely _________mothers-in-law in China, the attitude “no house, no marriage” has contributed a lot to the high housing price and the pressure on young men. (adopt)
中国丈母娘们广泛采取的“没有房子不能结婚”的态度推高了房价也增加了年轻人的压力。
As the square-dance is popular, ______________ the noise of it increasingly becomes a great concern to all involved in it.   (deal)
随着广场舞的流行，怎样处理它的噪音日渐成为所有相关人员关注的问题。
________________ in A Bite of China was the fantastic music carefully chosen by the music editors.   (appeal)
《舌尖上的中国》最吸引我们的是音乐编辑们精心挑选的美妙音乐。
Tonny bear, as well as his friends, ____________ the importance of communication since the fierce quarrel.  (aware)
自从大吵过后，托尼熊和他的朋友们意识到了交流的重要性。
As far as they are concerned, by no means __________ with Japan unless they apologize for their inappropriate behavior.   (compromise)
在他们看来，中国绝不能和日本妥协，除非他们为自己的不当言行道歉。
______ the boy that the affair was likely to be a kind of commercial exploitation. (occur)
那个男孩突然想到此事很可能只是一种商业炒作。

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