[四川]2011-2012学年四川省泸州高级教育培训学校高一3月月考英语试卷

Their products enjoy 30 percent_____ of the market in this country because both the quality and their service are fine.

Having got up late this morning, Mike ran as fast as he could _______ to catch the bus.　

Why did they keep trying _________ they must have known it was hopeless?

_______ the tower building，where you can see the whole city．

I didn’t know the girl you     the sheep.

If better use ______your spare time，you’ll make good progress in doing your business.

Those who know ____ it was that wrote “ A Tale of Two Cities”, raise your hands.

The story ______, and everybody knows about it.

The woman pulled her hat low down ____ her eyes in order not to be recognized by the angry crowds.

The number 911 is _____ special number, _______, I think, that will be remembered by the Americans forever.

       Colors like red _______ a sense of energy and strength.

At the seventh International Ballet Competitions , Fernando Bujones won the first gold medal ever           to an American male dancer .

We may find that learning a foreign language does not have to be ______learning our mother tongue, but can in fact be as easy.

Though there was a heavy rain and terrible thunderstorm, the children slept  _____all night.

— Can I use the telephone on the table, sir?
一 Under no circumstances ____to use the telephone in the office for personal affairs.

Mr. Lee, who _______ as a carpenter for over 10 years, is now a very famous statesman in this country.

— Hi, Tom．Any idea where Mary is? ．
一 She　______in the reading room．I saw her there just now．

—Do you mind if I close the window?
—____．We should let in more fresh air．

Jack as well as the other students who ______ sent abroad by the government ______ brought up in a small town.

—It’s cloudy outside,please take an umbrella.—_________.

完形填空(共20小題；每小題I. 5分，满分30分)
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，选出可以填入空内处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
When Dunstan Cass left the cottage, Silas Marner was only a hundred meters away. He was walking home from the village, where he had   21  to buy what he needed  22    his next day’s work. His legs were tired, but he felt almost happy. He was looking forward to  23  ,when he would bring out his gold. Tonight he had an extra reason to hurry home. He was going to eat hot meat, which was  24    for him. And it would 25   him nothing, because someone had given him a piece of meat as a present. He left it  26   over the fire. The door key was needed to hold it safe in place, but Cass was not at all   27   about leaving his gold in the cottage with the door  28  . He could not imagine that a thief would  29   his way through the mist, rain and darkness to the little cottage by the quarry (釆石场).
When he reached his cottage and opened the door, he did not notice   30    anything was different. He  31    his wet coat, and pushed the meat  32   the fire.  33    he was warm again, he began to think about his gold. It seemed a long time to wait until after super, when he usually brought out coins to look at.  34    he decided to bring out his gold immediately, while the meat was still cooking.
But when he  35  the floorboards near the loom (织布机)，and saw the 36    hole ,he did not understand  37   . His heart beat violently as his trembling hands felt all round the hole. There was  38    ！ He put his hands to his head and tried to think. Had he put his gold in a different place, and forgotten about it? He 39   every corner of this small cottage, until he could not pretend to himself any more. He had to accept the truth 一 his gold had been   40  ！

A．arrived B．been C．left D．gone

A．to B．in C．for D．with

A．holiday B．home C．supper-time D．meat

A．ordinary B．unusuall C．normal D．common

A．boiling B．cooking C．smoking D．making

A．interesting B．worried C．interested D．worrying

A．unlocked B．uncovered C．discovered D．locked

A．go B．lead C．find D．lose

A．whether B．that C．because D．as

A．turned off B．threw into C．threw off D．got off

A．away from B．farther on C．on to D．closer to

A．As soon as B．As well as C．As far as D．As long as

A．But B．As C．So D．For

A．took down B．took off C．took over D．took up

A．dark B．empty C．small D．deep

A．at last B．at once C．at most D．at least

A．everything B．something C．nothing D．anything

A．searched B．gathered C．researched D．found

A．Gone B．missing C．lost D．stolen

The interview had been going on for about 20 minutes and everything seems to be going well．Then, suddenly, the interviewer asks an unexpected question, "Which is more important, law or love?"
Job applicants in the west increasingly find themselves asked strange questions like this．And the signs are that this is beginning to happen in China．
Employers want people skilled, enthusiastic and devoted．So these are the qualities that any reasonably intelligent job applicants will try to show no matter what his or her actual feelings are．In response, employers are increasingly using questions which try and show the applicant’s true personality．
The question in the first paragraph comes from a test called Kiersey Personality Sorter．It is an attempt to discover how people solve problems, rather than what they know．This is often called aptitude （能力） testing．
According to Mark Baldwin of Alliance many job applicants in China are finding this type of questions difficult. When a Chinese person fills out an aptitude test he or she will think there is a right answer and they may fail because they try to guess what the examiner wants to see．
This is sometimes called the prisoner’s dilemma （窘境）．Applicants are trying to act cleverly in their own interest．But they fail because they don’t understand what the interviewer is looking for．Remember that in an aptitude test, the correct answer is always the honest answer．
The writer wrote the passage to ____．

Why do the interviewers ask such questions?

According to the writer, in an aptitude testing, Chinese job applicants should___．

From the passage we know that____．

We can stay young forever. That is the message Dr. Shen Ziyin wants to give the world. And the Chinese doctor claims that he has found an answer to the problems of aging.
His solution is a herbal medicine to slow the process of aging.
Dr. Shen Ziyin has been trained in Western medicine. At the same time he studied traditional Chinese medicine. And, he has been working for the past forty years to put together the best of both and find a cure for aging. He has taken a hint from the ancient Chinese medicine system called “shen”.
According to Shen, it is the kidney（肾脏）which adjusts the functioning of the body as well as its aging process. It is responsible for the level of activity that the human bodies go through. Studies conducted by Dr. Shen show that herbal medicine based on the shen system slow the aging process, says a report in The Telegraph newspaper.
We notice that when people grow old, they have reduced strength, loss of hair, backache, weakness in general, and wrinkles, among others. This happens because when people grow old, their bodies produce T-cells. These T-cells contain a particular substance called Fas. Fas makes the cells in the body destruct themselves.
So the only way to slow down aging is to slow the production of T-cells in the body. This can happen if people eat low calorie food. Then the body is not active enough to produce extra T-cells. But, is going hungry all the time a good price to pay for staying young?
This is where Dr. Shen’s herbal medicine comes in. But how effective it will be, only time can tell.
How did Dr. Shen find the solution to the problem of aging?

What plays the most important role in keeping people young according to Shen?

The reason why people become old is that _________.

We can probably learn from the passage that _________.

Ifhas anyone noticed how, with the passage of time, one’s relationship with one’s grown-up daughters and sons becomes changed? I’ve been aware of this for some time but I’m not quite sure how to deal with it.
Take the kitchen sink for example.
Following a family get-together at my place, I walked into the kitchen to find Kate, my daughter, carefully cleaning the sink.
“Don’t do that; what are you doing that for?” I said, unhappy about the hidden criticism.
“Mum,” she said, “you really ought to put your glasses on when you clean the sink. Behind the tap here was black!”
But it’s not just things like kitchen sinks. Another time Kate arrived to pick me up to lunch. She looked at me and then asked, “Mum, why do you use brown eyebrow pencil when your hair is grey?”
A sudden memory of her, aged 14, going to her first mixed party flooded back. She had come in to say goodbye. For a moment I thought she’d been an accident. Both eyes were black. I remember suggesting that perhaps a little less eye make-up might be more effective.
Now I told her, “My hair used to be brown.”
“It looks absurd.(荒唐)”
“Mrs. Menzies had dark eyebrows with grey hair.”
“Yes, but you’re not Mrs. Menzies, are you?” she said triumphantly, as if that proved her point.
But a recent event made me realize that something really must be done.
She had returned home for a few weeks before getting married. One evening I went out on a dinner date. By the time my companion left me at the front door, it was about 2am. As I stepped in, an angry figure in a white nightgown（睡衣）stopped me.
“Well, what time of night is this to be coming home?” she shouted. “Where have you been? I’ve been worried sick!”
Shades of the past come back to disturb me. But what should I do about all this? Nothing, probably. Maybe, after all, it’s only a stage young people are going through.
The daughter thought her mother didn’t clean the kitchen sink well because of her       .

From the passage we know the daughter        .

How does the mother feel after all these have happened?

The author writes the stories to prove that ________.

If you think English means endless new words, difficult grammar and sometimes strange pronunciation, you are wrong. Haven’t you noticed that you have become smarter since you started to learn a language?
According to a new study by a British university, learning a second language can lead to an increase in your brain power. Researchers found that learning other languages changes grey matter. This is the area of the brain which processes information. It is similar to the way that exercise builds muscles.
The study also found the earlier people learn a second language, the greater the effect is.
A team led by Dr. Andrea Mechelli, from University College London(UCL), took a group of Britons who only spoke English. They were compared with a group of “early bilinguals(通两种语言的人)”, who had learnt a second language before the age of five, as well as a number of later learners.
Scans showed that grey matter density in the brain was greater in bilinguals than in people without a second language. But the longer a person waited before mastering a new language, the smaller the difference was.
“Our findings suggest that the structure of the brain is changed by the experience of learning a second language,” said the scientists.
It means that the change itself increases the ability to learn.
Professor Dylan Vaughan Jones of the University of Wales, has researched the link between bilingualism and maths skills.
“Having two languages gives you two windows on the world and makes the brain more flexible,” he said, “You are actually going beyond language and have a better understanding of different ideas.”
The findings were matched in a study of native Italian speakers who had learned English as a second language between the ages of 2 and 34. Reading, writing and comprehension were all tested. The results showed that the earlier they started to learn, the better. “Studying a language means you get an entrance to another world,” explained the scientists.
What does the underlined part “grey matter” (in Paragraph 2) refer to?

The experience of learning a second language can ________.

We can learn from the passage that ________.

What’s the main idea of the passage?

Ideas about polite behavior are different from one culture to another. Some societies, such as America and Australia, for example, are mobile and very open. People here change jobs and move houses quite often. As a result, they have a lot of relationships that often last only a short time, and they need to get to know people quickly. So it’s normal to have friendly conversations with people that they have just met, and you can talk about things that other cultures would regard as personal.
On the other hand, there are more crowded and less mobile societies where long–term relationships are more important. A Malaysian or Mexican business person, for example, will want to get to know you very well before he or she feels happy to start business. But when you do get to know each other, the relationship becomes much deeper than it would in a mobile society.
To Americans, both Europeans and Asians seem cool and formal at first. On the other hand, as a passenger from a less mobile society puts it, it’s no fun spending several hours next to a stranger who wants to tell you all about his or her life and asks you all sorts of questions that you don’t want to answer.
Cross-cultural differences aren’t just a problem for travelers, but also for the flights that carry them. All flights want to provide the best service, but ideas about good service are different from place to place. This can be seen most clearly in the way that problems are dealt with.
Some societies have “universalist” cultures. These societies strongly respect rules, and they treat every person and situation in basically the same way. “Particularist” societies, on the other hand, also have rules, but they are less important than the society’s unwritten ideas about what is right or wrong for a particular situation or a particular person. So the normal rules are changed to fit the needs of the situation or the importance of the person.
This difference can cause problems. A traveler from a particularist society, India, is checking in for a flight in Germany, a country which has a universalist culture. The Indian traveler has too much luggage, but he explains that he has been away from home for a long time and the suitcases are full of presents for his family. He expects that the check–in official will understand his problem and will change the rules for him. The check–in official explains that if he was allowed to have too much luggage, it wouldn’t be fair to the other passengers. But the traveler thinks this is unfair, because the other passengers don’t have his problem.
Often moving from one place to another makes people like Americans and Australians ______.

People like Malaysians prefer to associate with those ______.

Which of the following is true about “particularist societies”?

The writer of the passage thinks that the Indian and the German have different ideas about rules because of different ______.

根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项多余选项。（共五小题；每小题5分，满分10分）
—How often do you use the Internet?
—  1  But I usually use it o check my email. I don’t often surf the Internet. You use the Internet a lot, don’t you?
—   2  
—So, you’re working online eight hours a day. It can be awful when the connection is poor.
—    3  Sometimes I also help others in the office if they’re having trouble online.
—How useful do you think the Internet is as a source of information?
—I think it’s useful.    4   The information online may be false. You don’t see what you buy online until you actually get it.
—   5
—We usually find the website of shops, then visit the shop and buy when we’ve seen the products.

E. Yes. I like the job though.
F. How do you solve the problems when shopping online?
G. I use it almost every day.

 短文改错（共10小题；每小题1．5分，满分15分）
此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个勾（√）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：
此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。
此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。
此行错一个词：在错的词下划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。
注意：原行没有错的不要改。
Nowadays college students have a little ways to pay their college fees.   ________
Many students had their parents pay the fees. Some students may apply   ————
to a bank loan and others will try to find part-time jobs in and out of      ———
the campus. Apart from this, many good student can win a scholarship.    ————
In this way they can pay at least part of the fees. As to me, I will let        ________
my parents pay half of my fees because they are rich enough.             _______
Beside my study, I will take up a part-time job by means of               ________
teach some high school students maths, physics, chemistry and English.     _______
The reason is why I’m very good at these important subjects. Of course I will _______

书面表达（满分35分）
你的英国朋友正在做一个课题：世界各地的生日庆祝方式。他请你介绍中国学生过生日的方式。请你根据以下要点写一篇短文：
一、通常方式
1. 生日聚会
2. 生日礼物
3. 生日祝福
二、我认为更有意义的庆祝方式和理由