辽宁省葫芦岛高一下学期期末联考试卷（英语）

Companies are struggling to find the right _____between supply and demand, but it is no easy work .

It wasn’t so much that I disliked her ___that I just wasn’t interested in the whole business.

.—Mum , I have finished my homework while you were out.
--_____a good boy.

The earth travels round the earth once every moth;  ____ is known to everybody.

The factory has developed a lot____ we visited the advanced worker five yeas ago.

.-- I’m planning to go abroad for further study in the coming autumn.
--____ you are there, you might get some help from my sister.

--You are always full of ____. Can you tell me the secret?
--Take plenty of exercise every day.

.YaoMing, as we know,    _____   like to play basketball.

.Niagara Falls is a great tourist _____, drawing millions of visitors every year.

The reason_____ he explained to us was ______he was ill.
for; that  B. for ; because    C. why; that   D. which; that

Who do you suppose _____ wants to go with to the cinema____ in the 1990’s.

It was difficult to guess what her ____to the news would be.

I will make friends with _______shares both my joys and sorrows.

.Please remain _____until the plane has come to a complete stop.

______ seemed surprising to us was ______   he came out first in the speaking competition.

The company building she usually worked ______every day has been pulled down for the City Center.

.--I can’t find Mrs. Wang. Where did you meet her this morning?
---It was in the school __ she worked. 
A that    B. which   C. the one     D. where

.The modern city was only a small fishing village compared to ____ it is now.
A which   B that   C what   D where

This is an early temple, ____ from the ninth century, which was rebuilt by the local people.

The information has been announced______ the president is going to visit China next year. 

____can help but be attracted by the world into which he is taken by the science fiction.

.The cat is the only one of her pets she will have _____on her bed.
it asleep   B. it sleeping    C. slept     D. sleeping

.We were just about ready to leave _____ it started to rain.

.He moved away from his parents, and missed them _____to enjoy the exciting life in New York.

.John said he’d been working in the office for an hour, _____was true.

.Eating too much fat can ____heart disease and cause high blood pressure .

.--The thread of my kite broke and it flew away.
--I told you it would easily break ____ it was the weakest.

When Tom was very young, he was terribly frightened of snakes, but he soon ______ it.

The girl student came into the classroom, took a chair, sat down and    ____ to read, ____ very comfortable and happy.

Though ___ to stop to take a rest, the workers went on working till sunset.

第二节::完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分,满分30分）
I was parked in front of the mall wiping off my car. Coming my way from across the parking lot was  1  society would consider a bum(无业游民). From the  2  of him, he had no car, no home, no clean clothes, and no money. He sat down in front of the bus stop but didn’t look like he could have enough money to even  3  the bus. “That’s a very pretty car,” he said. He was  4  but he had a(n)  5  of dignity around him. I said, “thanks,” and  6  wiping off my car. He sat there  7  as I worked. The  8  beg for money never came. As the silence between us widened something inside said, “ask him if he needs any help.” I was  9  that he would say “yes”. “Do you need any help?” I asked. He answered in three  10  but profound(深远的) words that I shall never  11 . “Don’t we all?” he said.
I had been feeling high, successful and important  12  those three words  13  me like a shotgun. Don’t we all? I needed help. Maybe not for bus fare or a place to sleep, but I needed help. I  14  my wallet and gave him not only enough for bus fare, but enough to get a warm meal and  15  for the day. Those three little words still ring  16 . No matter how much you have, no matter how much you have  17 , you need help too. No matter how  18  you have, no matter how  19  you are with problems, even without money or a place to sleep, you can  20  help.
1. A. that              B. what          C. which        D. how  
2. A. expressions        B. manners       C. looks             D. attitudes 
3. A. ride                B. buy          C. drive          D. stop    
4. A. generous          B. disappointed   C. modern          D. ragged 
5. A. air                   B. atmosphere     C. appearance     D. figure 
6. A. finished            B. stopped          C. continued        D. began 
7. A. quietly                  B. casually                C. aimlessly               D. eagerly 
8. A. intenting            B. expected            C. boring            D. supposed 
9. A. afraid                  B. glad              C. doubtful         D. sure
10. A. simple             B. complex           C. strange              D. rigid 
11. A. accept                B. forget             C. respond          D. choose  
12. A. unless                B. after              C. until              D. when  
13. A. fightened        B. moved           C. wounded        D. hit  
14. A. reached in               B. searched for    C. looked up       D. exposed to 
15. A. shelter             B. clothes            C. reward            D. blanket 
16. A. nice                   B. ridiculous       C. true                D. proper 
17. A. submitted           B. devoted         C. applied          D. accomplished
18. A. few                 B. many              C. little               D. enough 
19. A. loaded             B. puzzled           C. angry             D. unsatisfied 
20. A. receive             B. give                 C. need              D. seek 

第二部分阅读理解（共25小题；每小题2分,满分50分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Football is , I believe , the most important game in England : one  has only to go to one of the important matches to see this . Rich and poor , young and old , one can see them all there , shouting for one side or the other .
To a stranger , one of the most surprising things about football in England is the great knowledge of the game which even the smallest boy seems to have. He can tell you the names of the players in most of the important teams . He has pictures of them and knows the results of large numbers of matches . He will tell you who he expects will win such a match, and his opinion is usually as good as that of men three or four times his age .
Most schools in England take football seriously—much more seriously than nearly all European schools , where lessons are all that are important, and games are left for the children themselves . In England, it is believed that education is not only a matter of filling a boy’s mind with facts in classroom, it also means the training of character by means of games , especially team games , where they boy or girl has to learn to work with others for the team instead of working for himself alone . The school therefore plans games and matches for its pupils . Football is a good team game ; it is good for both the body and the mind . That is why it is every school’s game in England .
1．In Paragraph 1, “this” means          .
A．people often shout at each other in a football match
B．people , rich and poor , young and old , often play football
C．football is the most popular game in England
D．people usually go to the important matches
2．People often         one football team or the other by shouting .
A．beat B．win over C．support    D．laugh at
3．Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage ?
A．English children know more about football than adults
B．Nearly all European schools consider lessons the most important
C．It is surprising that English children have great knowledge of football
D．English schools attach more importance to football than nearly all European schools
4．What does education mean in England ?
A．Filling a boy’s mind with facts .
B．Teaching how to work with others for the team .
C．Training character by means of games .
D．More than the teaching of knowledge .
5．From the passage , we learn that         .
A．football is popular mostly among English children
B．schools in England make use of football for the training of body and mind
C．football is more important than lessons in England
D．other European schools consider football unimportant

Veronica
By Mary Gaitskill.
Pantheon Books, $ 23.
This attractively dark novel from the author of Bad Behavior and Two Girls, Fat and Thin is narrated by a former Paris model who is now sick and poor; her reflections on beauty and cruelty have clarity and an uncanny bite.
On Beauty
By Zadie Smith.
Penguin Press, $ 25.95
In her new book, a cultural – politics novel set in a place like Harvard, the author of White Teeth brings everything to the table: a crisp intellect, a lovely wit and enormous sympathy for the men, women and children who read her story.
Saturday
By Ian McEwan.
Nan A. Talese / Doubleday. $ 26.
As exciting and as carefully constructed as anything McEwan has written, this astringent (尖锐的) novel traces a day in the life of an English neurosurgeon who comes face to face with senseless violence.
De Kooning: An American Master
By Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan.
Alfred A. Knopf, $ 35.
A brilliant biography, impressively researched and absorbingly written, of the talented immigrant who stood at the vortex (中心) of mid – 20th – century American art.
A History of Europe Since 1945
By Tony Judt.
Penguin Press, $ 39.95.
Judt’s massive, learned, truthfully detailed account of Europe’s recovery from the wreckage of World War Ⅱpresents a whole continent in panorama (全景) even as it sets off detonations (爆炸) of insight on almost every page.
1．According to the passage, the most probable non – fiction novel is          .
A．Veronica         B．Saturday
C．On Beauty              D．A History of Europe Since 1945
2．If you’re fond art, which of the following would be your favorite?
A．On Beauty              B．Saturday
C．Veronica          D．De Kooning : An American Master
3．The novels published by the same company are           .
A．On Beauty & A History of Europe Since 1945
B．Saturday & De Kooning : An American Master
C．Veronica & On Beauty
D．A History of Europe Since 1945 & Saturday
4．Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A．Mary Gaitskill is the author of both Veronica and Bad Behaviour.
B．On Beauty describes the stories that happened in Harvard.
C．Two authors finished De Kooning : An American Master together.
D．A post – war Europe can be found in A History of Europe Since 1945.
5．Which of the following novels are written by Zadie Smith?
A．On Beauty & Bad Behavior
B．Saturday & De Kooning : An American Master
C．On Beauty & White Teeth
D．Veronica & White Teeth

Some years ago industries had more freedom than they have now, and they did not need to be as careful as they must today. They did not need to worry a lot about the safety of the new products that they developed. They did not have to pay much attention to the health and safety of the people who worked for them. Often new products were dangerous for the people who used them; often conditions in the work place had very bad effects on the health of the workers.
Of course sometimes there were real disasters which attracted the attention of governments and which showed the need for changes. Also scientists who were doing research into the health of workers sometimes produced information which governments could not ignore. At such times, there were inquiries into the causes of the disasters or the problems. New safety rules were often introduced as a result of these inquiries; however, the new rules came too late to protect the people who died or two became seriously ill.
Today many governments have special departments which protect customers and workers. In the U.S., for example, there is a department which tests new airplanes and gives warnings about possible problems. It also makes the rules that aircraft producers must follow. Another department controls the foods and drugs that companies sell. A third department looks at the places where people work, and then reports any companies that are breaking the laws which protect the health and safety of workers. Of course, new government departments and new laws cannot prevent every accident or illness, but they are having some good results. Our work places are safer and cleaner than before. The planes and cars which we use for travel are better. Producers are thinking more about the safety and health of the people who buy and use their products.
1．The main topic the passage is               .
A．conditions in the work place  
B．the freedom of industries in the past
C．changes in industrial production    
D．the safety and health of workers and customers
2．It can be inferred from the passage that in the past            .
A．workers often got ill because of the poor working conditions
B．companies were free to put out any products they wanted to
C．many people were killed by dangerous products
D．industries were as careful in management as they are today
3．It is implied in the passage that             .
A．governments and companies had different opinions about the safety of products
B．in the past no safety laws were introduced by governments
C．government officials often did not listen to scientists
D．governments paid no attention to the safety of products at all
4．From the passage, we know that some years ago safety rules           .
A．were put forward due to scientists’ recommendations
B．came into being as a result of the workers’ demands
C．were introduced because quite a number of people were killed or seriously injured
D．were effective enough to protect workers and customers
5．The special departments protect customers and workers in many ways EXCEPT by       .
A．testing new products          B．controlling the sale of products
C．designing new products   D．inspecting work places

Making an advertisement for television often costs more than a movie. For example, a two – hour movie costs ＄6 million to make. A TV commercial can cost more than ＄6 000 a second. And that does not include cost of paying for air time. Which is more valuable, the program or the ad? In terms of money – and making money is what television is all about – the commercial is by far the more important.
Research, market testing, talent, time and money —— all come together to make us want to buy a product. No matter how bad we think a commercial is, it works. The sales of Charm went up once the ads began. TV commercials actually buy their way into our head. We, in turn, buy the product.
And the ads work because so much time and attention are given to them. Here are some rules of commercial ad making. If you want to get the low middle – class buyer, make sure the announcer has a though, manly voice. Put some people in the ad who work with their hands. If you want to sell to upper – class audience, make sure that the house,  the furniture, and the hair style are the types that the group identifies（认同）with. If you want the buyer feel superior to the character selling the product, then make that person so stupid or silly that everyone will feel great about himself or herself.
We laugh at commercials. We don’t think we pay that much attention to them. But evidence shows we are kidding ourselves. The making of a commercial that costs so much money is not kid stuff. It’s big, big business. And it’s telling us what to think , what we need, and what to buy. To put simply, the TV commercial is a form of brainwashing.
1．TV commercials are more important than other programs to television because     .
A．they bring in great profits（利润）
B．they require a lot of money to make
C．they are not difficult to produce
D．they attract more viewers than other programs
2．The purpose of all the efforts made in turning out TV commercials is          .`
A．to persuade people to buy the product
B．to show how valuable the product is
C．to test the market value of the product
D．to make them as interesting as TV movies
3．From the rules set for making commercial ads, we can see that          .
A．the lower – middle – class buyer likes to work with his hand
B．the more stupid the characters, the more buyers of the product
C．ad designers attract different people with different skills
D．an upper – class buyer is only interested in houses and furniture
4．It is believed by the writer that          .
A．few people like to watch TV commercials
B．TV commercials are a good guide to buyers
C．TV commercials often make people laugh
D．people do not think highly of TV commercials
5．What does the author actually mean in the last paragraph?
A．He asks TV viewers never to laugh at the TV commercial ads.
B．Commercials are used to show the true value of a product to be sold.
C．TV commercials cost much and they do influence us in one way or another.
D．Brainwashing must be introduced to sell something on TV.

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. _____76____. 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._____77_____ .
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._____78______.
First. Take a clear glass juice bottle that has a cap ; fill the bottle with coloured 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.
______79______.
Finally. Place a white card on the outside of the bottle and behind the straw. Now you can see the water lever easily.
______80____.
As the temperature goes down, the water will contract, and the lever in the straw will come down. Perhaps you will want to keep a record of the water lever in the straw each morning for a week.

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 100degrees.
F．Take wax (you may use an old candle if you have one) and melt some of it right where the straw is struck into the cap to seal把..粘住) them together.
G．People use thermometers which are made by themselves when travelling around the
world.

第二卷（两部分，共35分）
第三部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节短文改错（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
I am angry about the act of dishonesty in the exams. I’m not saying that I’m a good student and that I’ve never cheated. I once write the answer on my hand for a history test but, unluckily, caught by my teacher. Because she    was one of my most favorites, there were no words to describe how sorry I felt at once. I thought cheat would help me keep my straight A’s. Little I know that I was hurting not only herself but also my teachers. From this lesson I know teachers want students to succeed by learning with their own and do the best they can, not by cheating.

第二节:书面表达(满分25分)
高中学习任务非常繁重，因此同学们对于参加学校活动有着不同的看法，请以Taking Part in School Activities为题，根据下列提示，并结合自己的见闻，用英语写一篇120字的短文。
1．部分同学积极参加学校活动，因为……
2．另一部分同学则不愿参加，因为……
3．我认为……