四川省南充高中顺庆校区高一上学期第二次阶段性考试英语卷

There are over 58,000 rocky objects in ______space, about 900 of which could fall down onto______ earth.

He had lost his temper and his health in the war and never found______ of them again.

She likes _______ but she doesn’t like _______ now, because there are too many people in the pool.

To keep a trade______, they would have to sell less and buy more in the following months.

What a wonder! They've finished ______half of the project in such a short time.

Everybody said it was a perfect marriage; no one had ever known______ couple.

Christmas in the western is______ as the Spring Festival in China.

Can you ______ the fact that we are already senior high school students?  

Sometimes I feel like going to the countryside to _______ the noise, the dirt and the people.

The engine of the ship was out of order, and the bad weather _____ the helplessness of the sailors.

—Did you have a good time at the party?
—_______ We all enjoyed it so much that it lasted until midnight.

Many young people leave their hometown to seek their _______ in big cities.

With her anger ______, the thought of punishing him arose in her mind.

Many buildings in the city need repairing, but the one ______first is the library.

—Peter, where did you guys go for the summer vacation?
—We ______busy with our work for months, so we went to the beach to relax ourselves.

That is the only way we can imagine______ the overuse of water in students’ bathroom.

The lawyer listened with full attention, ______to miss any point.

Stephen Hawking believes that the earth is unlikely to be the only planet______ life has developed gradually.

Before the sales start, I make a list of ______my kids will need for the coming season.

—Mum, may I go out to play football for a while?
—______. You need some exercise.

阅读下面的短文，从短文后各题所给四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
——Dr. Karl Menninger
I was being interviewed by a senior manager for a major insurance company. I told him   41  that the main reason why I was  42  with them was my need to keep my family in Boston. My wife of 26 years old had recently died of a heart attack . A(n)   43  in Boston would also help me reduce some of the pain of the loss. Bruce ,the interviewer ,was politely sympathetic, and didn’t probe(探查) any  44  .He acknowledged my loss and ,with great respect ,moved on to another  45 .
After the next  46  of interview , Bruce took me to lunch with another manager .Then he asked me to take a  47  with him. He told me that he ,  48 , had lost his wife .And he had also been married 20 years and had three children. In his sharing, I realized that he had  49  the same pain  50  I had , a pain that was almost 51  to explain to someone who had not  52  a loved  53 . He offered his business card and home phone number and  54  that, if I needed help or just wanted someone to  55 , I should feel  56  to give him a call. No matter whether I got the job or not, he wanted me to know that he was there if I  57  needed any help.
From that one act of kindness, when he had no idea  58  we would see each other again, he helped me  59  one of life’s greatest losses. He turned the normally  60  business interview process into an act of caring and support for another person in a time of need.

A．friendly B．honestly C．carefully D．patiently

A．together B．speaking C．meeting D．interviewing

A．wife B．period C．job D．experience

A．further B．other C．farther D．ahead

A．problem B．thing C．subject D．object

A．round B．speaking C．moment D．term

A．rest B．break C．chance D．walk

A．too B．either C．still D．once

A．received B．gave C．wanted D．experienced

A．when B．as C．if D．like

A．possible B．impossible C．unimaginable D．unthinkable

A．missing B．missed C．lost D．past

A．one B．girl C．wife D．lady

A．offered B．suggested C．spoke D．said

A．refer to B．share C．talk to D．help

A．free B．sure C．convenient D．glad

A．never B．once C．ever D．still

A．where B．since C．whether D．that

A．work out B．deal with C．do with D．solve

A．long B．short C．warm D．cold

                                              79 Mayfair Road
Plumton, Kent
October 10th
Dear Rosemary,
I was very glad to get your letter this morning. I really ought to have written to you---it was my turn, I know----but I have been terribly busy. The children seem to take up all my time. I am thinking of sending Ann to a nursery school. She’ll be four next month. Baby has just started to walk and doesn’t give me a moment’s peace. But you know what it is like! How are all your children? I’m sure they love living in the country.
I’m afraid we can’t come over to see you next Sunday, as you suggest. Tom’s mother is coming to spend the day with us. What about the Sunday after that----- the twenty-second? We are free that day and should love to come. We’re longing to see your house.
Let me know, then, if the Sunday after next suits you. May we come for lunch? We’d like to leave fairly early in the evening to avoid the heavy traffic on the roads.
Love from us all,
Edna
Edna can not see Rosemary the following Sunday because_____.

What doesn’t give Edna a moment’s peace?

We can infer from the letter that Tom is_________.

Prepare: Plan ahead and think about what you are going to say. In the words of Mark Twain, it usually takes you more than three weeks to prepare for it.
Know your subject: Always make sure that you know the subject and have background information at hand for question time.
Know you audience: Find out who you will be addressing so that you can tailor(适合) your comments accordingly.
Make a point: Keep your speech short and brief and have a few clear points that you need to convey(传达).
Practice: Never learn your speech by heart as your speech will become stilted, but do practice it a few times in front of the mirror, your parents or your dog.
Eye contact: If the thought of looking into a sea of faces scares you, adjust your gaze（注视）regularly at different points in the room to create the same effect.
First impressions: Your first impression is important when making a public presentation. Find out about dress codes(准则) at the place so that you look your best and, if possible, check the microphone beforehand to ensure you know how to use it.
Get help: If public presentations are a major part of your life, read up on the art of speech---writing and delivery to improve your skills.
The advice benefits (有益于)____________________.

Knowing your subject helps you __________.

The underlined word “stilted” probable means ________ here.

If asked for more advice besides what has been mentioned in the text, you may suggest ______.

The Queen’s English is now sounding less upper-class, a scientific study of the Queen’s Christmas broadcasts has found. Researchers have studied each of her messages to the Commonwealth countries since 1952 to find out the change in her pronunciation from the noble Upper Received to the Standard Received.
Jonathan Harrington, a professor at Germany’s University of Munich, wanted to discover whether accent changes recorded over the past half century would take place within one person. “As far as I know, there just is nobody else for whom there is this sort of broadcast records,” he said.
He said the noble way of pronouncing vowels (元音) had gradually lost ground as the noble upper-class accent over the past years. “Her accent sounds slightly less noble than it did 50 years ago. But these are very, very small and slow changes that we don’t notice from year to year.”
“We may be able to relate it to changes in the social classes,” he told The Daily Telegraph, a British newspaper. “In 1952 she would have been heard saying ‘thet men in the bleck het’. Now it would be ‘that man in the black hat’. Similarly, she would have spoken of ‘the citay’ and ‘dutay’, rather than ‘citee’ and ‘dutee’, and ‘hame’ rather than ‘home’. In the 1950s she would have been ‘lorst’, but by the 1970s ‘lost’.”
The Queen’s broadcast is a personal message to the Commonwealth countries. Each  Christmas, the 10-minute broadcast is put on TV at 3 pm in Britain as many families are recovering from their traditional turkey lunch (传统火鸡午餐).
The results were published (发表) in the Journal of Phonetics.
What is the text mainly about?

The Queen’s broadcasts were chosen for the study mainly because ______.

Which of the following is an example of a less noble accent in English?

We may infer from the text that the Journal of Phonetics is a magazine on ______.

Dr. Marie Curie is known to the world as the scientist who discovered radioactive metals i.e. Radium and Polonium.
Marie Curie was a Polish physicist and chemist. Together with her husband, Pierre, she discovered two new elements and studied the x-rays they emitted. She found that the harmful properties of x-rays were able to kill tumors. By the end of World War I, Marie Curie was probably the most famous woman in the world. She had made a conscious decision, however, not to patent methods of processing radium or its medical applications.
Marie Curie was born on November 7, 1867 in Poland and died on July 4, 1934. Her co-discovery with her husband Pierre Curie of the radioactive elements radium and polonium represents one of the best known stories in modern science for which they were recognized in 1901 with the Nobel Prize for Physics. In 1911, Marie Curie was honored with a second Nobel prize, this time for chemistry, to honor her for successfully isolating pure radium and determining radium’s atomic weight.
As a child, Marie Curie amazed people with her great memory. She learned to read when she was only four years old. Her father was a professor of science and the instruments that he kept in a glass case fascinated Marie. She dreamed of becoming a scientist, but that would not be easy. Her family became very poor, and at the age of 18, Marie became a governess. She helped pay for her sister to study in Paris. Later, her sister helped Marie with her education. In 1891, Marie attended the Sorbonne University in Paris where she met and married Pierre Curie, a well-known physicist.
Marie Curie contributed greatly to our understanding of radioactivity and the effects of x-rays. She received two Nobel prizes for her brilliant work, but died of leukemia, caused by her repeated exposure to radioactive material.
The underlined word “emitted” in the 2nd paragraph means_______.

According to the passage, which order of the following is right?
① Marie Curie worked as a governess. ② Marie Curie met and marry Pierre Curie.
③ Marie Curie learned to read. ④ Marie Curie was honored with a second Nobel Prize.
⑤ Marie Curie discovered radium.

When did Marie Curie win a Nobel Prize for a chemistry?

What does the passage mainly talked about?

On June 17, 1774, the officials from Maryland and Virginia held a talk with the Indians of the Six Nations. The Indians were invited to send boys to William and Mary College. In a letter the next day they refused the offer as follows:
We know that you have a high opinion of the kind of learning taught in your colleges, and that the costs of living of our young men, while with you, would be very expensive to you. We are sure that you mean to do us good by your proposal（提议）; and we thank you heartily. But you must know that different nations have different ways of looking at things, and you will therefore not be offended（冒犯） if our ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the same as yours. We have had some experience of it. Several of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces: they were taught all your sciences; but when they came back to us, they were bad manners, ignorant（无知的）of every means of living in the woods–they were totally good for nothing.
　We are, however, not the less thankful by your kind offer, though we refuse to accept it; and, to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take care of their education, teach them in all we know, and make men of them.
The tone(语气) of the letter as a whole is best described as________.

The Indian chief’s purpose of writing the letter seems to be to ____.

According to the letter, the Indians believed that ____.

Different from the officials’ view of education, the Indians thought ____.

根据汉语提示用单词的正确形式补充句子。
There is no _______________(电) in the wire. Don’t worry. You can touch it.
You should always read the _________________ (说明) carefully before taking medicines.
He tried to get rid of the seaweed __________________(漂浮) on the surface of the water.
During festivals, shops are decorated with ______________________(吸引人的) things so as to attract customers.
I__________________(完全) forget about my appointment with the denist.

短文改错（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
Last weekend we went mountain-climbing. Even the
heavy rain in the morning could not prevent us go. Setting     __________
off very early, we went along an extreme narrow road, all     __________
in high spirits. On every side of the road were green fields    _______
and some farm house. We could hear the sound of the        ____
rain and our footsteps mixed with our laughter. At noon       _______
we reached the top of the mountain. That surprised us        ___________
most there was the beauty of scenes. After having a short     __
rest there and sharing with the food we had brought, we       _______
started going down. It had rained even harder. We were        _____
wet to the skin, and we still sang and laughed happily.        _______

假设你应邀参加学校组织的“英语学习师生座谈会”，请你根据下表所提示的信息，用英语写一篇发言稿，简单介绍自己英语学习的情况，并对学校今后的英语教学提出建议。

Dear teachers and schoolmates, it's a great pleasure for me to be here today and share my experience of leaning English with you._____________________________________________