河南省周口市高三上学期期中考试英语卷

－Mom, I’m so tired. I can’t walk any further.
－     , my dear. You can make it.

Cao Cao’s tomb is reported ________ in China, which attracts nationwide attention.

Prices of houses     sharply in the past decade.

－If you like, I can do some shopping for you.
－That’s a very king     .

Canada is one of the safest and most welcoming countries you will     visit.

What a pity! The car ran out of sight before I could     its number.

So far, my home village has changed     recognition.

If our car had not ________, we would have been here on time.

The Harry Potter books       to readers of all ages.

     true events, the film This Is It follows the preparation for Michael Jackson’s concert in London.

January 8^th saw events taking place in the US city of Memphis to mark     would have been Elvis Presley’s 75^th birthday.

－How did you do on the driving test?
－Not so well. I     much better but I was too nervous.

     the activities might seem childish, in reality they require a lot of strength and determination.

In the far south     Stewart Island, the largest of New Zealand’s many smaller islands.

－I’m interested in that beautiful bag. What do you charge for it?
－$ 115.
－     , but I can’t afford it.

As I drove my blue Buick into the garage. I saw that a yellow Oldsmobile was  36   too close to my space. I had to drive back and forth to get my car into the   37  space. That left
 38   enough room to open the door. Then one day I arrived home 39 , and just as I turned off the engine, the yellow Oldsmobile entered its space － too close to my car, 40. At last I had a chance to meet the driver. My patience had 41   and I shouted at her, “Can’t you see you’re not 42   me enough space” Park father over.” Banging(猛推) open her door into  43 ,
the driver shouted back: “Make me!”  44  this she stepped out of the garage. Still, each time she got home first, she parked too close to my 45  . Then one day, I thought, “What can I do?” I soon found  46 . The next day the woman 47   a note on her windshield(挡风玻璃):
Dear Yellow Oldsmobile,
I’m sorry mistress(女主人) shouted at yours the other day. She’s been sorry about it. I know it because she doesn’t sing anymore while  48 . It wasn’t like her to scream  49 . Fact is, she’d just got bad news and was taking it out on you two. I  50  you and your mistress will 51  her.
Your neighbor,
Blue Buick
When I went to the 52   the next morning, the Oldsmobile was gone, but there was a note on my windshield:
Dear Blue Buick,
My mistress is sorry, too. She parked so  53   because she just learned to drive. We will park much farther over after this. I’m glad we can be  54  now.
Your neighbor,
Yellow Oldsmobile
After that, whenever Blue Buick   55  Yellow Oldsmobile on the road, their drivers waved
cheerfully and smiled.

A．driven B．parked C．stopped D．stayed

A．complete B．close C．narrow D．fixed

A．quite B．nearly C．seldom D．hardly

A．hurriedly B．first C．finally D．timely

A．as usual B．as planned C．as well D．as yet

A．run into B．run about C．run out D．run off

A．keeping B．saving C．offering D．leaving

A．mine B．hers C．itself D．ours

A．For B．With C．From D．Upon

A．room B．area C．front D．side

A．an instruction B．a result C．an answer D．a chance

A．put B．wrote C．sent D．discovered

A．working B．driving C．returning D．cooking

A．on end B．so long C．like that D．any more

A．hope B．know C．suppose D．suggest

A．comfort B．help C．forgive D．please

A．office B．flat C．place D．garage

A．crazily B．eagerly C．noisily D．early

A．neighbors B．friends C．drivers D．writers

A．followed B．passed C．found D．greeted

Tea drinking was common in China for nearly one thousand years before anyone in Europe had ever heard about tea．People in Britain were much slower in finding out what tea was like, mainly because tea was very expensive. It could not be bought in shops and even those people who could afford to have it sent from Holland did so only because it was a fashionable curiosity. Some of them were not sure how to use it. They thought it was a vegetable and tried cooking the leaves. Then they served them mixed with butter and salt. They soon discovered their mistake but many people used to spread the used tea leaves on bread and give them to their children as sandwiches.
Tea remained scarce and very expensive in England until the ships of the East India Company began to bring it direct from China early in the seventeenth century. During the next few years so much tea came into the country that the price fell and many people could afford to buy it.
At the same time people on the Continent were becoming more and more fond of tea．Until then tea had been drunk without milk in it, but one day a famous French lady named Madame de Sevigne decided to see what tea tasted like when milk was added．She found it so pleasant that she would never again drink it without milk. Because she was such a great lady her friends thought they must copy everything she did, so they also drank their tea with milk in it. Slowly this habit spread until it reached England and today only very few Britons drink tea without milk.
At first, tea was usually drunk after dinner in the evening No one ever thought of drinking tea in the afternoon until a duchess (公爵夫人) found that a cup of tea and a piece of cake at three or four o’clock stopped her getting “a sinking feeling” as she called it. She invited her friends to have this new meal with her and so, tea-time was born.
Which of the following is true of the introduction of tea into Britain?

This passage mainly discusses_____________.

Tea became a popular drink in Britain.

People in Europe began to drink tea with milk because.

to copy the way she drank tea

It is natural that children are curious (好奇的) about the world around them. For example, they want to know how their hearts beat. They want to know why the ocean water tastes salty.
　　As children grow up, they become curious about different kinds of things. When they are babies, they are interested in the parts of their bodies and in the smiles of their mothers. They become interested in the physical world around them: the plants, the animals, the sky. Later, they become interested in the things that people have made: wheels, bicycles, cars. And when they are adults, their curiosity continues. Sometimes this curiosity leads to a career (生涯、职业) in science.
　　Scientists spend their lives trying to find out about the world．Those who work with the earth sciences study the earth, the oceans, and the skies. Other scientists who study living things work with the biological sciences. A third group of scientists study the physical sciences, e. g. physics, chemistry .
　　These scientists have already discovered a lot about our world．For example, they tell us why your heart beats fast when you run. They say that when you are quiet, your heart normally beats sixty-five or seventy-five times a minute. Your heart is a pump (泵) that pumps blood to all parts of the body. The blood carries oxygen and nutrition. When you run, your muscles work very hard and use the nutrition that the blood carries to them. The muscles need oxygen, too . So your brain sends a signal to the heart. The signal means that the muscles need more nutrition and oxygen. Then the heart beats fast and sends blood quickly to the muscles. It may beat 90 to 140 times a minute.
　　Of course, scientists cannot answer all of our questions. If we ask, “Why does the ocean water taste salty” scientists will say that the salt comes from rocks. When a rock gets very hot or very cold, it cracks. Rain falls into cracks. The rain then carries the salt into the earth and into the rivers. The rivers carry the salt into the ocean. But then we ask , “What happens to the salt in the ocean? The ocean does not get saltier every year.” Scientists are not sure about the answer to this question.
　　We know a lot about our world, but there are still many answers that we do not have, and we are curious.
According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
　 

Scientists who work with the biological sciences study____.

When you run, your muscles need ____.

A rock cracks _____.

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Only a professional Spain insider that is flexible to design the tour that fits your group can provide all that for you. Just tell us what you want and enjoy the ride.
What is the advantage of SpainExchange over other touring companies?

Who do you suppose this passage is written to?

The passage is probably take from     .

At age 61, identical twins Jeanne and Susan no longer look exactly alike. Susan smoked for many years and is an admitted sun worshipper, whose habits Jeanne does not share. A new study of twins suggests you can blame those coarse(粗糙的)wrinkles, brown or pink spots on too much time in the sun, smoking, and being overweight.
Because twins share genes, but may have different exposures to environmental factors， studying twins allows an “opportunity to control for genetic susceptibility(易受影响性),” Dr. Elma D. Baron, at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio, and his colleagues explain in the latest issue of Archives of Dermatology.
Their analysis of environmental skin-damaging factors in 65 pairs of twins hints that skin aging is related more to environment and lifestyle than genetic factors.
But when it comes to skin cancer, the researchers say their findings support previous reports that both environment and genes affect skin cancer risk.
Baron’s team examined facial skin of 130 twins, 18 to 77 years old, who lived mostly in the northem Midwest and Eastern regions of the US, who were attending the Twins Days Festival in Ohio in August 2002. At this time, each of the twins also separately reported how their skin burned or tanned(晒黑)without sunscreen, their weight, and their history of skin cancer, smoking, and alcohol drinking. The study group consisted of 52 fraternal(异卵双生)and 10 identical twin pairs, plus 3 pairs who were unsure of their twin status.
From these data, the researchers noted strong ties, outside of twin status, between smoking, older age, and being overweight, and having facial skin with evidence of environmental damage. By contrast, sunscreen use and drinking alcohol appeared related to less skin damage.
Baron and his colleagues say the current findings, which highlight ties between facial aging and potentially avoidable environmental factors—such as smoking, being overweight, and unprotected overexposure to the sun’s damaging rays—may help motivate people to minimize these risky behaviors.
Which of the following is true according to the passage?

Why did Baron’s team do the research on twins?

What can you infer from the last paragraph?

The passage is mainly concerned with     .

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。
For several years, Americans have enjoyed teleshopping-watching TV and buying things by phone.       In a number of European countries, people can turn on their TVs and shop for clothes, jewelry, food, toys, and many other things.
   For example, the biggest Swedish company sells different kinds of things on TV in 15 European countries, and in one year it made $ 100 million. In France there are two teleshopping channels, and the French spend about $20 million a year to buy things through those channels.
In Germany, until last year teleshopping was only possible on one channel for 1 hour every day. Then the government allowed more teleshopping. Other channels can open for telebusiness, including the largest American teleshopping company and a 24-hour teleshopping company. .
Some people like teleshopping because it allows them to do their shopping without leaving their homes. With all the problems of traffic in the cities, this is an important reason, but at the same time, other Europeans do not like this new way of shopping. Many Europeans usually worry about the quality of the things for sale on TV. Good quality is important to them, and they believe they cannot be sure about the quality of the things on TV.
  They will have to be more careful about the quality of the things they sell. They will also have to work harder to sell things that the buyers cannot touch or see in person.

E. The need for high quality means that European teleshopping companies will have to be different from the American companies.
F. Teleshopping is popular among people
G. German teleshopping business is controlled by American.

文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），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。
I will share with you a true story happened a couple of days ago. One of my classmate bought a bag of snacks from a food store. A few roommates were then invited to enjoy snacks. Unluckily, all of them got poisoned and had stomachaches with our faces pale. They are quickly sent to a nearby hospital. Doctors examined them but gave them some medicine. They were out of danger soon before taking the medicine. This accident should make us to realize the seriousness of the food safety problem. I strong suggest that the whole society pays more attention to food safety.

你所在的城市最近计划修建地铁，这件事引发了人们的广泛争论。请根据所给信息写一篇英文报道，客观陈述人们的不同看法，并表明自己的观点。

注意：  1. 开头已给出，但不计入总词数；
2. 不要逐句翻译，可适当增加内容使行文连贯；
3．词数120左右。
参考词汇：促进 promote
Recently, people are having an argument on whether a subway should be built or not in the city. Opinions vary from person to person.
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