[江西]2014届江西省新余市高三上学期期末质量检测英语试卷

In _________ new play Hot Mom, which has just finished being shown on TV recently, Sun Li became, as the name of the comedy indicates, _________ hot mother. 

It is always true that sometimes even if you have had a big dinner, _________ are that you will still want to reach for food when it gets late． 

Mary, who newly came to the class, has already earned both the trust of her classmates and _________ of her teachers. 

When I met my teacher and wanted to express how grateful I was, words _________ me.

— How do you find Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban?
— Fantastic. J. K. Rowling _________ each character in the novel impressive through lively dialogues and fascinating plots.

Then moment _________ Mary will always remember is _________ Mr. Black gave her a lot of valuable advice on how to improve her writing.

— It is reported that America offered to help us build aircraft carriers.
— But many citizens would rather our country __________ one by ourselves.

_________ himself with confidence, the young man went to the manager’s office bravely.

The sports meeting of our school all of us had looked forward to _________ in _________ fine weather, which was beyond our expectation.

To get a good view of the scenery in China, Lucy would spend a lot of time on the train _________ travel by air.

At present an increasing number of parents wish to _________ changes in educating their children due to dissatisfaction with the educational system.

People say that young Chinese students’ eyesight keeps dropping _________ because of both too much homework and poor learning conditions.

The first snow of every year is always so exciting, but too much snow _________ cause trouble

The equipment for all of the disabled people ought to be _________ easy reach in public.

— I suppose it takes quite a lot of patience to make a good teacher.     
— _______. It’s far more than that.

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，并从答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
Each time I was feeling disappointed, my mother would say to me “ Tomorrow will be another day. If you can        on, some day something nice will happen. And you will come to know that it wouldn’t have happened if not for that previous          .”
What mother said was absolutely right, as I          after my graduation from college. I had made up my mind to try for a           in radio, then          my way up to sports announcer. I went to Springfield and knocked on the door of each station—and got        each time. In one studio, a warm-hearted woman told me that          stations couldn’t risk employing a(n)         person. “ Please go out to the faraway or lonely district and find a small station which will give you a          ,” she said. I came back home to St-Louis.
While there were no radio-announcing jobs in St-Louis, my father said Wards Holding Corporation had opened a store and wanted a local athlete to manage its          department. Since St-Louis was where I had played high school football, I          . The job sounded just          for me. But I wasn’t employed. My disappointment must have          . “Tomorrow will be another day,” Mom          me. I tried WOC in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The program director, Jack Green, told me they had already hired an          .
As I went away from his office, my frustration boiled over (爆发). I asked          , “How can a young man get to be a sports announcer if he cannot get a job in a radio station?” I was just patiently waiting for the elevator           I heard Jack Green calling, “What did you say about sports just now? You mean you know something about football?” Then he stood me          a microphone and told me to          an imaginary game.
On the way to my home, as I have many times since, I thought of my mother’s words. From time to time I          what direction my life might have taken if I had had the job at Wards Holding Corporation

A．take B．put C．move D．carry

A．concern B．doubt C．disappointment D．amazement

A．recovered B．discovered C．recognized D．developed

A．job B．plan C．trip D．research

A．come B．go C．push D．work

A．put off B．broken away C．turned down D．fed up

A．no B．big C．small D．famous

A．selfish B．confident C．inexperienced D．independent

A．tip B．reward C．challenge D．chance

A．sports B．food C．clothes D．radio

A．hesitated B．applied C．refused D．agreed

A．right B．important C．boring D．funny

A．disappeared B．hidden C．shown D．died

A．warned B．reminded C．recognized D．demanded

A．athlete B．actor C．announcer D．artist

A．aloud B．secretly C．silently D．equally

A．while B．where C．after D．when

A．within B．before C．beyond D．beneath

A．play B．perform C．broadcast D．present

A．say B．wonder C．dream D．learn

In a cab, a woman seemed in such a hurry. She constantly rushed the cab driver to drive quickly. She was so absorbed in her own thoughts of getting to the airport as soon as possible that she was not aware they were going by a different route.
All of a sudden, a young man got inside the cab. He took her handbag in which she had put her visa, passport, and all the money for the trip.
The cab driver, who was in collusion with the robber, left her in the exactly middle of a dark street. She thought that she was rather unfortunate in the very situation.
During the very night, she was told a piece of shocking news. Tears came down her cheek. Flight 360, the plane that she should have got on board, had crashed. Had she not lost her important belongings, she could surely have lost the thing far more precious——her life.
Sometimes bad things really happen. There are times when nothing seems to go our way. So what should we do about it? We must get rid of all these frustrations and start all over again in the faith that we will get what we deserve. 
Don’t waste your time and energy on things that can’t be changed. Continuous worrying will only affect your health and you’ll be doing much more damage than what was previously done.
What if it was the other way round? What if we never ran out of good luck?
There was a man who won the lottery. He became greedy and wasted all his money on everything he could get his hands on.
But when he one day made it to the front page of the newspaper again, it was a different story. He had been killed because of his riches. If you attain good luck, you can never be too secure about it. Life is so unpredictable. You never know what will happen next.
Live one day at a time. We sometimes subject ourselves to unnecessary emotional trouble. But please don’t forget: sometimes misfortune can be the source of happiness. Live for the moment. Do what must be done for the present and the future will turn out just fine. Believe me. And believe in yourself. As Captain Planet always says, “The power is yours！”
The underlined phrase “in collusion with” in Paragraph 3 probably means “________.”

From the passage, we learn that ________.

The writer presents the second example in order to ________.

According to the author, which of the following choices is the correct attitude to adopt to life?

The passage above is intended to tell us ________.

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The passage is written in order to ________.

The advertisement is mainly aimed at those who ________. 

According to the advertisement, which of the following statements is NOT true? 

We can learn that STARBUCKS from the passage ________.

The passage is most likely taken from a(n) ________.

For as early as I could remember, my mother had been a bright, cheerful woman deeply interested and involved in the world around her. However, in the last fifteen years of her life, she had to live with senile dementia (老年痴呆). I would go to my home to pay her a visit in California and she would curiously look at me and then ask, “Who are you?” I would answer, “I’m your own son, of course.” “Where do you live?” She would ask. “In Virginia”, I would tell her. “Isn’t that interesting,” she would say, “I have a son in Virginia.”
Mother seemed only forgetful as well as confused at the beginning of that disease, but sometime later she would go through different time of intense anxiety. She would keep walk ing through the house she used to live in most of her life crying uneasily that she would like to go home. Or sometimes she left home and wandered away if she were unattended for a short time.
Hoping to make her happy and put her mind at ease I would take her in my car, visiting sites where she used to live when she was a child. In the yard of the hillside house in Shipman I sat in the car and admired the view of the old oaks and long green lawn(草坪). I pictured my mother there was a little girl playing with the pet lamb she had been so fond of. I looked to her for some response. She shook her head and said, “I want to go home.”
Over the years I have decided that what my mother was calling home was not a place, but a time. I think it was a time when she was much younger, when her children were still underfoot, when her husband was still energetic and attentive.
Watching my mother’s suffering set me wondering where I would have in mind if someday I couldn’t find home and wanted to go there. In this family we tend to be long-lived and we grow fuzzy (糊涂的) minded as the years go by. At eighty I have already noticed some alarming symptoms. My doctor says the forgetfulness is only natural and that it comes with age. Still the fear of senile dementia is haunting there. Someday if and when I become even more cloudy minded than I am now, unable to drive and unable to tell you where "home" is, my dear son, I expect I will ask you to take me home, I know you will do your best to find the place I need to be. I leave these notes for your guidance.
What’s the main idea of the first and second paragraphs?

Which of the following is NOT the symptom of the mother of the author?

What’s the meaning of the underlined word “picture”?

What can you infer from the third paragraph?

What’s the best title of the passage?

We are always told that TV is not good for us. If it is true, how come the TV-addicted kids of our young generation nowadays are much smarter than we are? In my family, the only persons who can work the TV remote control well are the children.
Probably TV really educates us. For example, we can learn a very useful medical fact: A man that has been shot always has time to speak a broken sentence when he is dying. “The killer was…” (dies)
But I suppose the biggest things that we learn from TV can be regarded as “Life Skills”. Bad things simply happen on either stormy or dark nights. Emotional breakdowns make people wander in the heavy rain without raincoats or umbrellas. And contrary to the scientists, the crack of lightning and the accompanying flash come on at exactly the same time, wherever the scenes are.
I’ve even got to know useful geographical facts from science-fiction shows: Aliens only speak the language of English no matter which planet they come from.
To make good use of something that we learn from TV can make our security better. Consider these truths. When you are really attacked by 20 bad guys, you needn’t worry about your being outnumbered. The criminals will hang back and take turns to approach you in ones and twos just so you can conveniently defeat them all. Bad guys who are completely covered in black clothes always remove their black masks to reveal that they are in fact, aha, women.
TV often teaches us a lot of important information as well about escaping from danger. Watch and learn. (1) If anyone is running after you down a passage, you will find that boxes have been conveniently placed near all the walls you need to jump over. (2) If you are tall and handsome, you can run from any number of armed criminals, and every shot will miss you.
Be warned, however, if your name card says “henchman” (帮凶) and you are part of a group of plain-looking people trying to catch a handsome individual, a single shot will kill you. But don’t be anxious: TV also delivers useful information for bad guys. All cars are inflammable (易燃的) and have amazing shock absorbers that enable them to fly into the air and land without damage — except police cars.
TV even teaches us about TV. Whenever anyone turns on a TV, it shows a news flash about someone they know. They then turn the box off immediately after that news item.
When the writer says “A man that has been shot always has time to speak a broken sentence when he is dying” (Paragraph 2), he shows his________.

We can learn from Paragraph 3 that in the real world________.

On TV what usually happens when a person turns it on?

What’s the main idea of this passage?

The writer of this passage takes a(n) ________ attitude towards TV plays.

阅读下面短文并回答问题，然后将答案写到答题卡相应的位置上（请注意问题后的字数要求）。
[1] Have you ever had the wish to live another 100 years or more? Experts say that scientific advances will some day enable us to live tens of years longer than what is now seen as the natural limit of the human life span.
[2] “I guess we are knocking at the door of living longer,” said Michael Zey, a Montclair State University business professor and author of two books on the future. "I think by 2075 we will            _________________ and that’s a conservative estimate (保守的估计)."
[3]At the conference in San Francisco, Donald Louris, a professor at New Jersey Medical School in Newark said advances in using genes as well as nanotechnology (纳米技术) make it likely that humans will live in the future beyond what has been possible in the past. "There is a great push so that people can live from 120 to 180 years," he said.
[4]However, many scientists who specialize in ageing are doubtful about it and say the human body is just not designed to live past about 120 years. Even with healthier lifestyles and less disease, they say failure of the brain and organs will finally lead all humans to death.
[5]Scientists also differ on what kind of life the super aged might live. "It remains to be seen if you pass 120, you know; could you be healthy enough to have a good quality of life?" said Leonard Poon, director of the University of Georgia Gerontology Centre. "At present people who could get to that point are not in good health at all."
What is the main idea of the passage? (no more than 10 words)
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Please fill in the blanks in the second paragraph with proper words. (no more than 5 words)
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According to Donald Louris, what will enable humans to live longer? (no more than 8 words)
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What does the word “it” (Line1,Paragraph4)probably refer to? (no more than 10 words)
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What did Leonard Poon worry about? (no more than 15 words)
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近年来，随着私家车的增加，城市交通越来越拥挤。在中、小学生上学或放学时，校门口以及学校附近拥挤问题更加严重。这给学生、教师、家长和其他市民带来许多不便。尤其值得注意的是，学校附近的交通堵塞也存在不可忽略的隐患。为此，这引起了不少民众的担忧。你作为一名在校学生，署名张小明，根据以下要点写一封英语信，向本校英语报投稿。
1. 为什么要写这封英语信。
2. 你们学校门口及附近交通拥挤的原因。
3. 提出二至三条建议。
注意：词数120左右。
Dear Editor,
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Yours,
Zhang Xiaoming