福建龙岩市高中毕业班5月教学质量检查英语试卷

—Glad to see you again! I quite appreciate your new haircut.
—    . Well, I like things that are in.

Half a century ago, parts of the Thames were       “biologically dead” because of the pollution.

A research found that both intelligence and wealth were       to education.

To everyone’s surprise, the CEO fled to the U.S,       his company in a mess.

In the world today, local conflicts and terrorist attacks are constantly      .

Premier Li Keqiang urges that we should all seek to live       in a world of multi-civilizations.

An American student turned her exam notes into Van Gogh’s Starry Night,       amazed all her teachers.

— What if Mr. Wang is against our project at the meeting?
— He won’t be      we ask for his advice in advance.

According to the judgment, all the illegal income       go to the state.

An increasing number of aged motorists       from driving for health problems.

Welcome to my lecture. Hopefully, there are enough seats for each visitor to have      .

Over 100 passengers lost their lives in the recent air crash, which was a deadly       to their families.

If you are not rich by the time you are 35, says Ma Yun, then you       the opportunities of youth.

—The relation between the actor and his girlfriend has been worsening.
—I know. It has got to      they have to get separated.

     to work on Saturdays, the employees are offered a higher salary.

As I got out of the car, I saw many cars parked around Ah Mah’s house. Uncle Harry stood at the      , urging us to go in quickly. I saw all my          there. Aunt Lanny, Aunt Nancy, and Aunt Ping were sitting on the sofa choking and wiping their tears. Uncle Harry told me to stay       as my parents and my brother went in Ah Mah’s room. During this time some thoughts about my Ah Mah kept racing through my mind.
Ah Mah was my grandmother, but I       her because she liked boys more than girls. She had a way of thinking that boys were more       than girls. She made her prejudice clear when she announced that she would leave all her       to the men of the family and nothing to the women after she      . I hated her way of thinking;      , she and I never got along.
My thought was suddenly        when my parents and my brother came out. Mother was crying.
What happened to Ah Mah? I       my way through and forced the door wide open. My eyes fell on her almost hairless head. I froze. After a few seconds, she       to me. Slowly, I walked over to her.
She was      . She looked tired, and her eyes were       open. Most of her hair had fallen out. She held her       hands out to me, but I was afraid to       her. She pointed to her desk and      , “Futju.” The “futju” was her most prized possession, her         Buddha beads(佛珠). I went over to her desk and took the “futju.” By now, I was crying, even without my knowing, and I just       her. She called my name, breathing quickly with short breaths and      . She said, “Keep…forgive me... .”
I ran over to her and tried to seize her out-stretched(伸出) hand but it was too      .

A．exit B．table C．door D．stop

A．friends B．companions C．neighbors D．relatives

A．inside B．away C．outside D．down

A．liked B．remembered C．missed D．disliked

A．valuable B．optimistic C．mature D．positive

A．furniture B．belongings C．clothes D．goods

A．passed B．left C．died D．disappeared

A．therefore B．instead C．however D．otherwise

A．awakened B．accepted C．started D．interrupted

A．pushed B．cleared C．explored D．smoothed

A．pointed B．signed C．shouted D．appealed

A．scared B．stubborn C．skinny D．sensitive

A．curiously B．barely C．automatically D．surprisingly

A．strong B．flexible C．dirty D．trembling

A．touch B．meet C．trouble D．shake

A．screamed B．whispered C．announced D．repeated

A．grand B．moral C．holy D．splendid

A．glared at B．glanced at C．smiled at D．stared at

A．struggling B．laughing C．rising D．crying

A．dark B．late C．difficult D．far

Yuan Guiren, Minister of Education, announced some measures to reform the NCEE, known as Gaokao, for this year in a media conference.
The first measure is to balance the recruiting quota(招生配额) around the nation, with particular emphasis on recruiting more students in central and western provinces.
In addition to this, Yuan said that 200,000 places would be available in the universities in eastern China for students from western China.
The third measure is to cancel some policies that allow students with special talents to receive extra points on their final result of the NCEE. “All national-level bonus marks for Gaokao will be cancelled in 2015, while over 60 percent of the province-level bonuses will be cut. Ten provinces have already canceled the policies while other provinces have cut down 63 percent of the policies,” said Yuan. The policy was originally introduced to be aimed at making Gaokao fairer because some students have special abilities but fail to get high scores in the national exams. Yet, it has been abused by corrupt officials to get the bonus marks for their children. This is a good example of corruption ruining a good policy.
Additionally, all students can recommend themselves for independent recruitment in some education institutions without any restrictions. Schools can also recommend their students to some universities.
The date for independent recruitment is scheduled for after the NCEE in 2015, and universities will be required to publicize their recruiting requirements, processes and results.
The last measure mentioned by Yuan is to gradually unify the NCEE around the nation. Students in three more provinces will sit for the same exams in 2015. Seven more provinces, totaling 25 provinces, will use the same exam format(版式) in 2016.
The passage is most probably taken from a(n) ______.

How many measures are mentioned for the Gaokao reform in the passage?

Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

The best title for the passage could be “______”.

B

Blindsided	In many ways, Natalie O’Reilly is a typical 14-year-old girl. But Natalie will lose her sight within a few short months. Natalie is sent to school for the blind to learn skills such as Braille(盲文). Outwardly, she does as she’s told; inwardly, she hopes for a miracle(奇迹) that will free her from a fearful life of blindness. But the miracle does not come. Will she go home to live scared? Or will she master the skills she needs to make it in a world without sight?
Crossing the Tracks	At 15, Iris seems to have no home, no family, no direction. After her mother’s early death, Iris’s father focuses on big plans for his new shoes stores and his latest girlfriend, and has no time for his daughter. Unknown to her, he hires Iris out as housekeeper and companion for a country doctor’s elderly mother. Iris is buoyed by the warmth and understanding the doctor and his mother show her, but just as she starts to break out of her trouble, a disaster strikes. Iris must find the courage to discover if she is really as helpless — or as hopeless — as she once believed.
The Education of Bet	Will and Bet were brother and sister. Being a girl, Bet’s world is contained within the walls of their grand home. Will is allowed — forced — to go to school. So Bet comes up with a plan: They’ll switch places. She’ll go to school as Will. Will can then live as he chooses. But once Bet gets to school, she soon realizes living as a boy is going to be much more difficult than she imagined.
X-Isle	Ever since the floods came and washed the world away, survivors have been desperate to win a place on X-Isle, the island where life is believed to be easier. Only young boys stand a chance of getting in, the smaller and lighter the better. Baz and Ray are two of the lucky few to be chosen, but they soon discover that X-Isle is a far cry from paradise(天堂). It’s a violent, unpredictable place, where terrible things can happen at any moment.

From the book Blindsided, we can learn that Natalie ______.

The underlined word “buoyed” probably means “______”.

X-Isle turns out to be ______.

The main characters of the four books ______.

Starting next year, Ford Motor Co. will allow parents to limit the speed at which their teenage children drive their car.
The company will make a new feature on many models that can limit teen drivers to 80 mph(130 kph), using a computer chip(芯片) in the key.
Parents in the United States, where most teens can get their driving license at 16, also have the option of programming the car key to limit the audio system volume(音量), and to sound continuous alarm if the driver doesn’t wear a seat belt.
More than half of parents surveyed worry that their teenage children are driving at unsafe speeds, talking on hand-held cell phones or texting while driving, or otherwise driving without due care and attention. More than a third of parents also are concerned that their teens do not always fasten their safety belts when driving.
“Our message to parents is, hey, we are proving you some conditions to give your new drivers that may allow you to feel a little more comfortable in giving them the car more often,” said Jim Buczkowski, Ford’s director of electronic and electrical systems engineering.
More than 5,000 US teens die each year in car crashes. The rate of crashes, fatal(致命的) and nonfatal, per mile driven for 16-year-old drivers is almost 10 times the rate for drivers aged 30 to 59, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The new feature, called “MyKey”, will be standard on an unspecified number of Ford models when the new models come out late next summer. The feature will spread to the entire Ford, Lincoln and Mercury Lineup as models are updated, spokesman Wes Sherwood said.
The company already uses computer chips in its keys to prevent thefts. The car won’t start unless it recognizes the chip in the key.
“It’s making use of existing technology, and through the magic of software, we’re able to build features on top of the features we already have,” Buczkowski said.

According to the passage, MyKey can ______.

According to Jim Buczkowski, MyKey ______.

From the passage, we can learn that ______.

Ford Motor Company’s new car key may be most welcomed by ______.

When the one-year anniversary of my mother’s passing came around, I found myself in the kitchen preparing some of her favorite dishes.
As I poured myself into cooking, some of the deep sadness I was experiencing at this one-year mark moved through me. I loved my mom's turkey soup. I remembered the time she made some especially for me. It was summer then and I had a terrible head cold. She arrived unexpectedly one afternoon at my work place with a huge jar of her turkey noodle soup. At the thought, I began to feel a little more relieved in the pain of losing her.
It was then that I realized I was reconnecting with my mother through food. I laughed a bit at myself when I reflected on all the dishes I had cooked that week. Without knowing it, I had created a beautiful ceremony to honor my mother and to comfort myself at this vulnerable(脆弱的) time. I suddenly felt my mother at hand and was filled with her presence. I was so uplifted and excited that I began talking to her, imagining she was there.
“What else should we make?” I asked of us both, wanting to keep the ceremony from ending.
“Irish Potato Pancakes,” was the reply.
I hesitated. The thought of these brought up another loss. The last time I made potato pancakes was two and a half years ago. I had taken off my engagement (订婚) ring and never found it again. Since then, I resisted using that recipe even though I really liked those pancakes as if it were partly to blame.
My mom should know better than to suggest these, I thought. She knew how upset I was about losing my ring. But despite these hesitations, I found myself caught up in the joy and celebration of the moment, and I reached for the cookbook without another thought of the ring. My mom did love Irish things. I opened the cookbook and turned to the pancake recipe. At once, something at the bottom of the page caught my eye... It was shining! Amazingly, there, pressed into the pages of this book, was my diamond ring!
That day, I made potato pancakes in the shape of hearts.
At the one-year anniversary, the writer ______.

The writer hesitated to cook potato pancakes probably because ______.

It can be inferred from the passage that her mother ______.

What would be the best title for the passage?

Building a foundation for your child of family values may not be as easy as you think. Often we believe that our child will pick up on our values if they live in the same home. While they may pick up many of our values, parents need to remember they are not the only influence in their child’s life. These outside values often compete with family values for your child’s attention. If we do not make a conscious(有意的) effort to instill our values into our children, they may not get instilled at all.
I wish I had learned that lesson a little earlier. I thought if I lived my values for my children they would pick them up and make their own. Sometimes this happened and sometimes it didn’t. I often see twenty-something “kids” who have no faith in many of the values of their family in favor of the values of their friends. Children will often pick up the negative you show quicker than the positive, so the positive things need extra focus to set them.
Some of the influences your children face every day include their church, their school, their friends, any clubs or sporting groups they are part of and more. Kids spend many hours a day at school and with their friends. Sometimes in the business of life, we suppose our children will obtain that foundation we want for them.
Instilling a foundation of family values to sustain(维持) your child requires more than living it in front of them. That is important, but building up your child with this important foundation must become intentional.
That means we plan times to gather as a family. We plan activities together that show the values we want to pass on. We talk about our values; we live our values; we discuss the values of others and how they differ from ours; we constantly look for opportunities and make our own opportunities to share these values in word or deed with our children.
Family values give our children a foundation to build upon. It helps them know they are loved and gives them a sense of belongings. Upon this sure foundation, they can spread their wings and grow to become parents who share these same values with their own children.
The underlined word “instill our values into” in the 1^st paragraph probably means “______”.

We can learn from the passage that children ______.

Family values can be passed on if ______.

The passage mainly tells us about ______.

The disabled tend to survive in a world that is largely made for the able-bodied. Evidently, the disabled still want to lead a       which is no more different from that of normal people. Unfortunately, things in the reality are h      on them. What I have come to know so far is       it’s our common thought to laugh at people looking different from us. But being physically or        disabled does not determine their character or insights. In fact, they have the same        (权利) as everybody else and also want to live with        (尊严). Personally, the disabled are just the same e      for some disability. Therefore, it doesn’t      sense to show prejudice for somebody just because he cannot walk or has one arm alone. Now, think for a while. What if somebody stares at you or points out fingers at you c      your names? Ah! Such an annoying feeling, isn’t it? You never know how others feel until you yourself arep      in their shoes.

如何衡量一个人真正的品质，不同的人有不同的看法。请认真阅读下面的引语，结合图片所提示的信息，按要求用英语写一篇短文。
“The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.”
— Thomas Macaulay
  
内容要求：
1.你对该引语的理解；2.举例说明；3.恰当的结尾。
注意：
1.内容至少包括一幅图片信息；
2.文中不得出现考生的具体信息；
3.词数：120左右；短文的开头已经给出，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：self-discipline n.自律；self-disciplined adj.自律的
 
This quotation from Thomas Macaulay tells us that