浙江建人高复学校高三上第一次月考英语试卷

Her ______ for writing was a desire for women to get the right to higher education.

When Richard said, “You are much more agreeable and prettier now,” Joan’s face turned red at the unexpected ______.

Seeing the big crowd coming towards him, he started to run down the hill, but ______ and went down on his hands and knees in the melting snow.

The old rules have to be ______ because they only applied to the circumstances that existed when they were made a hundred years ago.

I’ve been trying to phone Charles all evening, but there must be something wrong with the network; I can’t seem to ______.

Is this your necklace, Mary? I ______ it when I was cleaning the bathroom this morning.

What was so ______ about Jasmine Westland’s victory was that she came first in the marathon bare-footed.

Instead of blaming the child who had broken the vase, she gave him a ______ smile and let him go.

Hardly had Sabrina finished her words when Albert said ______, “Don’t be so mean,” pointing a finger of warning at her.

Check carrots, potatoes, onions and any other vegetables ______ and immediately use or throw away any which show signs of rotting.

She'd lived in London and Manchester, but she liked  ______ and moved to Cambridge.

Grandma pointed to the hospital and said, "That's ______ I was born."

Was it because Jack came late for school ______ Mr. Smith got angry?

Until now, we have raised 50.000 pounds for the poor children, ______ is quite unexpected.

The manager was satisfied to see many new products ______ after great effort.

I still remember my happy childhood when my mother ______ take me to Disneyland at weekends.

— I hope to take the computer course.
— Good idea. ____ more about it, visit this website.

I'll be out for some time. ______ anything important happens, call me up immediately.

She ______ someone, so I nodded to her and went away.

— How about dinner tonight? It's on me.
— ______ .

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
In 2012, I had just recovered form a serious illness when I received an invitation to a writer's conference in Orlando, Florida. My family persuaded me that a(n)     might be just what the doctor ordered, so off I       .
Arriving in the Sunshine State was rather tiring, but I       to catch a taxi to my      and settle in. Next morning, I took another        to the shopping centre to buy a few souvenirs.      I went to a cafe to have lunch, but all the tables were        . Then I heard a friendly voice saying, "You can          my table."
I gratefully sat down with the       lady and we had a happy lunch together. As the        drew to a close she asked how long I would be in Orlando. I had already told her that I hadn't       a car, and  hadn't  realised  how      taking taxis would be, After a while she said, "My dear, don't use any more taxis. I'm retired and it would be my pleasure to        you wherever you wish." I told her that I couldn't put her to that        ,but she brushed aside my protests (反对)。She asked me where I was       and next morning she was waiting at my apartment at the      time to take me to Disney World. She spent some time with me before leaving me to          alone. At the end of the day, she       to take me back to my accommodation. I        her money but she refused to take any.
I'll never forget that wonderful lady who, through her       , filled my brief holiday in Florida with wonderful memories.

A．holiday B．ceremony C．operation D．experiment

A．kept B．went C．dropped D．knocked

A．intended B．promised C．managed D．deserved

A．hospital B．company C．university D．accommodation

A．colleague B．passenger C．suitcase D．taxi

A．Instead B．First C．Later D．Once

A．classified B．occupied C．decorated D．painted

A．share B．reserve C．set D．possess

A．old B．poor C．innocent D．stubborn

A．journey B．meal C．speech D．interview

A．donated B．repaired C．hired D．guided

A．convenient B．worthwhile C．unfortunate D．expensive

A．inspire B．entertain C．call D．drive

A．business B．argument C．trouble D．challenge

A．working B．staying C．moving D．shopping

A．appointed B．limited C．favourite D．regular

A．digest B．explore C．perform D．calculate

A．forgot B．refused C．returned D．preferred

A．sent B．lent C．offered D．owed

A．confidence B．dignity C．curiosity D．kindness

Some people will do just about anything to save money. And I am one of them. Take my family’s last vacation. It was my six-year-old son’s winter break form school, and we were heading home from Fort Lauderdale after a weeklong trip. The flight was overbooked, and Delta, the airline, offered us $400 per person in credits to give up our seats and leave the next day. I had meetings in New York，So I had to get back. But that didn't mean my husband and my son couldn't stay. I took my nine-month-old and took off for home.
The next day, my husband and son were offered more credits to take an even later flight. Yes, I encouraged—okay, ordered—them to wait it out at the airport, to "earn" more Delta Dollars. Our total take: $1,600. Not bad, huh?
Now some people may think I'm a bad mother and not such a great wife either. But as a big-time bargain hunter, I know the value of a dollar. And these days, a good deal is something few of us can afford to pass up.
I've made living looking for the best deals and exposing （揭露） the worst tricks. I have been the consumer reporter of NBC's Today show for over a decade. I have written a couple of books including one titled Tricks of the Trade: A Consumer Survival Guide. And I really do what I believe in.
I tell you this because there is no shame in getting your money’s worth. I’m also tightfisted when it comes to shoes, clothes for my children, and expensive restaurants. But I wouldn't hesitate to spend on a good haircut. It keeps its shape longer, and it's the first thing people notice. And I will also spend on a classic piece of furniture. Quality lasts.
Why did Delta give the author's family credits?

What can we learn about the author?

What does the author do?

What does the author want to tell us?

In 1947 a group of famous people from the art world headed by an Austrian conductor decided to hold an international festival of music, dance and theatre in Edinburgh. The idea was to reunite Europe after the Second World War.
At the same time, the “Fringe” appeared as a challenge to the official festival. Eight theatre groups turned up uninvited in 1947, in the belief that everyone should have the right to perform, and they did so in a public house disused for years.
Soon, groups of students firstly from Edinburgh University, and later from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Durham and Birmingham were making the journey to the Scottish capital each summer to perform theatre by little-known writers of plays in small church halls to the people of Edinburgh.
Today the “Fringe”, once less recognized, has far outgrown the festival with around 1,500 performances of theatre, music and dance on every one of the 21 days it lasts. And yetas early as 1959, with only 19 theatre groups performing, some said it was getting too big.
A paid administrator was first employed only in 1971, and today there are eight administrators working all year round and the number rises to 150 during August itself. In 2004 there were 200 places housing 1,695 shows by over 600 different groups from 50 different countries. More than 1,25 million tickets were sold.
What was the purpose of Edinburgh Festival at the beginning?

Why did some uninvited theatre groups come to Edinburgh in 1947?

Who joined the "Fringe" after it appeared?

We may learn from the text that Edinburgh Festival______.

Your glasses may someday replace your smartphone, and some New Yorkers are ready for the switch. Some in the city can't wait to try them on and use the maps and GPS that the futuristic eyewear is likely to include.
“ I'd use it if I were hanging out with friends at 3 a. m. and going to the [bar and wanted to see what was open,” said Walter Choo, 40, of Fort Greene.
The smartphone-like glasses will likely come out this year and cost between $250 and $600, the Times said, possibly including a variation of augmented(增强的) reality, a technology already available on smartphones and tablets (平板电脑) that overlays information onto the screen about one's surroundings. So, for example, if you were walking down a street, indicators would pop up showing you the nearest coffee shop or directions could be plotted out and come into view right on the sidewalk in front of you.
“ As far as a mainstream consumer product, this just isn't something anybody needs,” said Sam Biddle, who writes for Gizmodo.com.  “ We're accustomed to having one thing in our pocket to do all these things,” he added, “and the average consumer isn't gonna be able to afford another device (装置) that's hundreds and hundreds of dollars.”
9to5Google publisher Seth Weintraub, who has been reporting on the smartphone-like glasses since late last year, said he is confident that this type of wearable device will eventually be as common as smartphones.
“It's just like smartphones 10 years ago,” Weintraub said. “A few people started getting emails on their phones, and people thought that was crazy. Same kind of thing. We see people bending their heads to look at their smartphones, and it's unnatural,” he said. “ There's gonna be improvements to that, and this a step there.”
One of the possible functions of the smartphone-like glasses is to ____.

The underlined phrase "pop up" in the third paragraph probably means " ____".

According to Sam Biddle, the smartphone-like glasses are ____.

We can learn from the last two paragraphs that the smartphone-like glasses ____.

In 1978, I was 18 and was working as a nurse in a small town about 270 km away from Sydney, Australia. I was looking forward to having five days off from duty. Unfortunately, the only one train a day back to my home in Sydney had already left. So I thought I’d hitch a ride (搭便车).
I waited by the side of the highway for three hours but no one stopped for me. Finally, a man walked over and introduced himself as Gordon. He said that although he couldn’t give me a lift, I should come back to his house for lunch. He noticed me standing for hours in the November heat and thought I must be hungry. I was doubtful as a young girl but he assured （使…放心）me I was safe, and he also offered to help me find a lift home afterwards. When we arrived at his house, he made us sandwiches. After lunch, he helped me find a lift home.
Twenty-five years later, in 2003, while I was driving to a nearby town one day, I saw an elderly man standing in the glaring heat, trying to hitch a ride. I thought it was another chance to repay someone for the favour I’d been given decades earlier. I pulled over and picked him up. I made him comfortable on the back seat and offered him some water.
After a few moments of small talk, the man said to me, “You haven’t changed a bit, even your red hair is still the same.” I couldn’t remember where I’d met him. He then told me he was the man who had given me lunch and helped me find a lift all those years ago. It was Gordon.
The author had to hitch a ride one day in 1978 because          .

Which of the following did Gordon do according to Paragraph 2?

The reason why the author offered a lift to the elderly man was that             .

What does the author want to tell the readers through the story?

It is widely known that any English conversation begins with The Weather. Such a fixation with the weather finds expression in Dr.Johnson’s famous comment that “When two English meet, their first talk is of weather.” Though Johnson’s observation is as accurate now as it was over two hundred years ago, most commentators fail to come up with a convincing explanation for this English weather-speak.
Bill Bryson, for example, concludes that, as the English weather is not at all exciting, the obsession with it can hardly be understood. He argues that “To an outsider, the most striking thing about the English weather is that there is not very much of it.” Simply, the reason is that the unusual and unpredictable weather is almost unknown in the British Isles.
Jeremy Paxman, however, disagrees with Bryson, arguing that the English weather is by nature attractive. Bryson is wrong, he says, because the English preference for the weather has nothing to do with the natural phenomena.”The interest is less in the phenomena themselves, but in uncertainty.” According to him, the weather in England is very changeable and uncertain and it attracts the English as well as the outsider.
Bryson and Paxman stand for common misconceptions about the weather-speak among the English. Both commentators, somehow, are missing the point. The English weather conversation is not really about the weather at all. English weather-speak is a system of signs ,which is developed to help the speakers overcome the natural reserve and actually talk to each other. Everyone knows conversations starting with weather-speak are not requests for weather data. Rather, they are routine greetings, conversation starters or the blank “fillers”, In other words, English weather-speak is a means of social bonding.
The author mentions Dr.Johnson’s comment to show that________.

What does the underlined word “obsession” most probably refer to?

According to the passage, Jeremy Paxman believes that________.

What is the author’s main purpose of writing the passage?

Urbanization
Until relatively recently, the vast majority of human beings lived and died without ever seeing a city. The first city was probably founded no more than 5,500 years ago.       .In fact, nearly everyone lived on farms or in tiny rural (乡村的) villages. It was not until the 20th century that Great Britain became the first urban society in history--- a society in which the majority of people live in cities and do not farm for a living.
Britain was only the beginning.    _   .The process of urbanization--- the migration (迁移) of people from the countryside to the city--- was the result of modernization, which has rapidly transformed how people live and where they live.
In 1990, fewer than 40% of Americans lived in urban areas. Today, over 82% of Americans live in cities. Only about 2% live on farms.    .
Large cities were impossible until agriculture became industrialized. Even in advanced agricultural societies. It took about ninety-five people on farms to feed five people in cities.      .Until modern times, those living in cities were mainly the ruling elite(精英) and the servants, laborers and professionals who served them. Cities survived by taxing farmers and were limited in size by the amount of surplus food that the rural population produced and by the ability to move this surplus from farm to city.
Over the past two centuries, the Industrial Revolution has broken this balance between the city and the country.  _    . Today, instead of needing ninety-five farmers to feed five city people, one American farmer is able to feed more than a hundred non-farmers.

E. But even 200 years ago, only a few people could live in cities.
F. Modernization drew people to the cities and made farmers more productive.
G. Modern cities have destroyed social relations and the health of human beings.

短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
假定英主事课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请您修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语文错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅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：把多余的词用斜钱（\）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．只充许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Mr. Johnson is a hardworking teacher. Every day, he spends too much time with his work. With little sleep and hardly any break, so he works from morning till night. Hard work have made him very ill. “He has ruined his healthy. We are worried about him.” That is which other teachers say. Yesterday afternoon. I paid visit to Mr. Johnson. I was eager to see him, but outside her room I stopped. I had to calm myself down. Quietly I step into the room. I saw him lying in bed, looking at some of the picture we had taken together. I understood that he missed us just as many as we missed him.

请以下列词语为关键词写一篇英语短文。

内容：   1．自己或他人的一次经历；     2．你的感受。
注意：   1．必须使用所给4个关键词；   2．词数不少于120个；