福建厦门市高三上学期期末质量检测英语试卷

He brought me a few magazines but，to my disappointment，___was to my taste.

A selfie stick is_____ enables users to position their smartphones to get better photo angles

The Ministry of Public Security has recently started a nationwide ____speeding，overloading and running red lights.

His brother , who____ in the army for five years，is now running a farm in our village

The students in our school are encouraged to involve themselves in group activities，whether in or after class，______ they can develop their team spirit.

The twins ___ closely in appearance，but are totally different in character．

—How long do you suppose it will be____ Xiamen Railway Station comes into operation?
—Twenty days or so．

—Morning，Madame，can I help you?
—Yes，I am looking for a plain handbag-nothing______. Do you have any suggestions?

China marked its first Constitution Day on December 4，2014 _____ making the
Constitution part of Chinese people’s daily life．

_____around the clock for two days，he managed to finish the report for the manager on schedule．

Making a speech in front of a crowd of people is not his strength but he____ it with his passion and efforts．

So touching_____ that I couldn’t hold my tears back when I heard it for the first time

—How did you find the trip to the Butterfly Valley last weekend?
—It _____more pleasant but for the heavy rain on our way home．

We will gather for the community service at the school gate at 8 tomorrow morning unless ___.

一WOw，you won first in the stow-telling competition．Fantastic!
一 ____!

I worked in a finance         that I hated and I lived in a concrete jungle city with little greenery. I occupied my time with            relationships. I was searching for happiness and had no             where to find it.
Then I fell ill with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (慢性疲劳综合征). I had to             my job and was left with no income.            I eventually regained my physical health, not long after that I got a(n)            from my family at home saying that my father’s cancer had
        progressed. I left the city and went home to be with him, yet he died soon afterwards. My            oldest sister at that time complained of a bad back. It got so bad that she was         to hospital. They discovered that she              highly advanced cancer in her bones and that there was nothing             could do. One month later she died.
I could never put into words the             of my sister in my life. She was my soul-mate and I never thought I would journey this lifetime             her. The shock and extreme heart break brought me to my knees and I               in hospital.
I remember lying in the hospital bed, looking up at the              and seeing my sister’s beautiful face. She            with me all night long.
I             during that night that I had to make a choice. I made the decision that, I
         just live any life. I would live the life that I             LOVE and nothing less. Since then I have begun to             the most beautiful life for myself. I spend quality time with the rest of my precious family and cherish every moment I have with them. I’m making new friends with beautiful souls around the world.
I love myself more deeply every day.

A．family B．city C．hospital D．job

A．meaningless B．innocent C．unjust D．illegal

A．guidance B．intention C．idea D．doubt

A．reserve B．quit C．switch D．continue

A．Because B．Until C．Unless D．Though

A．reply B．call C．opinion`` D．prayer

A．slightly B．punctually C．fiercely D．regularly

A．awful B．favorite C．stupid D．generous

A．attached B．appointed C．accompanied D．admitted

A．developed B．spread C．grew D．contained

A．they B．I C．she D．we

A．progress B．recovery C．change D．loss

A．with B．beside C．without D．beyond

A．ended up B．caught on C．hung about D．took off

A．floor B．ceiling C．door D．roof

A．lived B．laughed C．stayed D．mourned

A．announced B．realized C．shouted D．concluded

A．wouldn’t B．needn’t C．mightn’t D．daren’t

A．equally B．urgently C．silently D．absolutely

A．respect B．adjust C．shape D．defend

Stanley Yelnats was given a choice. The judge said, “You may go to prison, or you may go to Camp Green Lake.” Stanley was from a poor family. He had never been to camp before. So, Stanley Yelnats seems set to serve an easy sentence, which is only fair because he is as innocent as you or me. But Stanley is not going where he thinks he is.
Camp Green Lake is like no other camp anywhere. It is a place that has no lake and nothing green. Nor is it a camp, at least not the kind of camp kids look forward to in the summertime. It is only a desert wasteland, dotted with countless holes dug by the boys who live at the camp.
The trouble started when Stanley was accused of stealing a pair of shoes donated by basketball great Clyde “Sweetfeet” Livingston to a celebrity auction (名流拍卖会). In court, the judge doesn’t believe Stanley’s explanation that the shoes fell from the sky onto his head. And yet, that’s exactly what happened. Strangely, though, Stanley doesn’t blame the judge for falsely convicting (宣告有罪) him. Instead, he blames the whole thing on his “no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-
stealing-great-great-grandfather.” Thanks to this distant relative, the Yelnats family had been cursed (诅咒) for generations. For Stanley, his current troubles are just a natural part of being a Yelnats.
At Camp Green Lake, the warden (看守) makes the boys “build character” by spending all day, every day, digging holes: five feet wide and five feet deep. It doesn’t take long for Stanley to realize there’s more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is searching for something, and before long Stanley begins his own search — for the truth. Fate is to find a solution to it all — the family curse, the mystery of the holes. The great wheel of justice has ground slowly for generations, but now it is about to reveal its verdict (裁决).
Stanley Yelnats went to Camp Green Lake to__________________.

We can learn from the passage that Stanley__________________.

In fact，the warden made the boys dig holes to________________.

In which section of a newspaper does this passage probably appear?

Herbie Ricketts，52,lives in Thornton Heath，south London，and works as an electrician．He has been a listening volunteer with the Samaritans for 16 years.
Each caller is as individual as their circumstances and I didn’t realize so many people take their own lives until I became a Samaritan．And only then did the true nature of the work I was doing hit home.
I’ll always remember my first day on duty．The caller, stressed and depressed，told me he was suicidal(想自杀的)．He’d been too frightened to talk to the people around him，which is common．People are told they’ve got nothing to be upset about．Or, if they are already classified as having mental health issues，so they tell no one．How do you make sense of your feelings if you can’t tell someone? Just allowing people to say what they honestly feel helps them find a different perspective．I couldn’t offer him practical advice but I could support him emotionally．I helped him come to terms with his situation and make sense of some of the terrible emotions he was experiencing．Offering anonymity(匿名)and being nonjudgmental(无偏见的)allows people easily hurt to explore their thoughts without fear or worry．I left him in an emotionally safe place，ensuring he knew 1 wasn’t rejecting or abandoning him．I let him know we were still there if he needed us，explaining that it might not be me on the other end of the phone but another Samaritan who could also support．
Suicidal people will ring with issues like drug use or loneliness．If you look at it from the perspective of, “How can I solve this? ”you can become，like them，at a loss．Every cell in your body wants to offer solutions，but as a Samaritan I’m not there to sort their problems out．I listen and will support them when they can’t see any further than tomorrow．When the phone goes silent，we stay with that caller as long as we possibly can，which could be two or three hours．
The shifts are up to four hours long．When it doesn’t go so well，I offload to my colleague，so I don’t carry home a heavy heart．Being a Samaritan has greatly improved my life．I’m calmer and become a supportive listener, which has also improved my relationships．But being a wonderful Samaritan doesn’t make you a wonderful parent or wonderful partner—I wish it did．
What does the underlined sentence in the passage probably mean?

Some people choose not to tell others about their feelings mainly because they________.

Samaritans usually help callers by________.

We may infer from the passage that________.

Along with global warming and the Ebola virus，this year, something far less life-and society-threatening also spiraled out of control：email．
It was long ago invented as something to make us more productive．But what productivity expert would ever say that it's a good thing that instead of working，we now“answer email? Or that on some days，I am unwilling to leave my desk to head into a meeting because it means taking my finger off the keyboard and knowing 1 will return to a flood of new messages waiting patiently for my total attention?
Some people struggle for“inbox zero”．But like many people，I now get so much junk mail that if I were to adopt such a goal，I would spend every workday doing nothing but deleting emails．To make sure nothing important gets buried，I have developed an embarrassinglv old system of keeping a pen-and-paper list of emails that need responses on a series of Post-It notes．As far back as 2007，Fred Wilson famously declared “email bankruptcy”．I'm close to doing the Same．
But I may not need to．I predict that 2015 will mark the beginning of the end of emails．Already, some tools have emerged(出现)over the years，like software Freedom which disables access to the Internet for chosen periods of time．Corporations have gradually been adopting stricter email policies：A few years ago，Volkswagen said it would stop sending emails from its servers to company-owned BlackBerrys after the end of its workday．
But this great hope is largely the optimist in me speaking，and I give this prediction small chances compared to some of our others．As Tony Hsieh once told me，the problem with email is that it is a“good—enough”solution．Some technologies stay around just because there isn’t anything better．It’s probably right．But my wish is that 2015 is the year when truly effective email management solutions go from good to great-and that email volume goes from crazy to reasonable．We’ll a11 be better for it．

The underlined word “spiraled” in Paragraph l probably means “_____________”.

The writer is unwilling to attend a meeting because____________.

From Paragraph 3，we may infer that____________.

The writer may agree that____________.

The passages below discuss the retirement age．
Passage 1：
In the United States，the financial crisis has left the country with 11 million fewer jobs than Americans need now．No matter how tough the policy ,we are not going to find 11 million new jobs soon．So common sense suggests we should make some decisions about who should come first：older people，who have already worked three or four decades at hard jobs? Or younger people，many just out of school，with fresh skills and ambitions?
The answer is obvious．Older people who would like to retire and would do so if they could afford it should get some help．The right step is to reduce，not increase，the retirement age．As a rough cut，why not make it a law to set a three—year window during which the age for receiving full Social Security benefits would drop to 62——providing a voluntary ,one—time，grab-it-now bonus for leaving work? Let them go home! With a secure pension(退休金)and medical care，they will be happier．Young people who need work will be happier．And there will also be more jobs．With pension security, older people will consume services until the end of their lives．They will become．each and every one，an employer．
Passage 2：
Too many people see longer working lives as a worry rather than an opportunity—and not just because they are going to be chained to their desks．Some worry that there will not be enough jobs to go around．This misunderstanding，known to economists as the“lump of labour fallacy(劳动总量固定的谬论)”，was once used to argue that women should stay at home and  leave all the jobs for breadwinning males．Now lump-of-labourites say that keeping the old  at work would deprive(剥夺)the young of employment．The idea that society can become
better-off by paying more of its citizens to be idle(无所事事的)is clearly ridiculous．On that reasoning，if the retirement age came down to 25 we would all be as rich as Bill Gates．
In Passage 1，one reason for suggesting earlier retirement in the US is the_______

In Passage I，the writer suggests encouraging older people to retire earlier by____________.

Lump-of-laborites believe that____________．

What is the author’s attitude towards earlier retirement in Passage 2?

In China，cultural differences arose from growing rice or wheat．Different thinking styles between northern and southern Chinese people can trace(追溯)their roots to rice fields and wheat fields．
Rice farming promotes a holistic(整体的)focus on distinguishing relationships among people and objects，and valuing others as much as or more than oneself, say psychologist Thomas Talhelm of the University of Virginia and his colleagues．Holistic thinking among many modem Chinese people partly reflects regional histories of building communal irrigation systems(共有灌溉系统)and cooperatively planting and harvesting rice fields over thousands of  years．
They draw that conclusion based on studies of college students from regions with different agricultural practices．Students from southern and central China’s rice．growing provinces think holistically, even though they have probably never farmed rice，Talhelm’s group reports．In contrast，students from northern and central Chinese provinces that have specialized in wheat growing exhibit a preference for abstract analysis and self over others，the scientists find．Wheat is less labor-intensive(劳动密集型)to grow than rice，SO farmers can plant and harvest crops without much help from neighbors．Analytical，individualistic thinking is not more common among students from richer
Provinces, contrary to the argument that this attitude springs from modernization. ”Rice theory might explain why East Asia is so much less individualistic than expected based on its wealth, ” Talhelm says.
Talhelm^，s team tested 1,162 Chinese students，who Viewed lists of three items，such as a rabbit，a dog and a carrot. For each list，students chose two items that belonged together. Earlier research found that analytical thinkers often group items according to categories，so rabbits and dogs go together．Holistic thinkers tend to 1ook for relationships，such as rabbits eating carrots. Students from rice-growing areas made an average of around seven to nine holistic matches of 10 possible matches，compared with roughly f1ve to seven holistic matches for those from Wheat-growing areas.
Talhelm’s team also analyzed national statistics in China from 1 996，2000 and 2010 and found a higher divorce rate and a greater number of successful patents for new inventions in wheat-growing provinces than in rice-growing provinces. That trend is in line with the ides that analytical thinking develops both individualism and creativity.
People who think holistically probably_____________.

Which of the following statements is true?

The author develops the passage mainly by____________.

What would be the best title for the passage?

Will money make kids pass exams? A new report says___________(承诺)children money does not help exam grades．It could be aw         of money using cash to get kids to study more．____________, taking kids on a trip somewhere nice could encourage them to ______________,(努力)and do better at sch001．Of 10,000 pupils_________ (调查)in the research，there has been an improvement in class work and homework，but this does not result in better test scores．
Lead researcher Dr．Burgess suggests the research doesn’t look at the things________,really get kids to increase their effort．He adds that clearly some kids believe that education is a way toa      ,their dreams, but there are other kids who think one’s efforts make littled       , These kids might think exam success is because___________ genes and their family background．Education expert Dr．Collins holds the view that what reallym         , is how students are taught．Good teachers are better than rewards，especially for children from low-income families．

阅读使人充实，阅读对于每个人的成长至关重要。请认真阅读下面的引言(quotation)，按要求用英语写一篇短文。
Reading makes a full man． 一Francis Bacon
内容要求：
1．你对该引言的理解；
2．举例说明；
3．恰当的结尾。
注意：
1．短文开头己给出，不计入总词数；
2．文中不能出现考生的具体信息；
3．词数：120左右。
As Francis Bacon puts it，reading makes a full man．