湖南省慈利县高一下学期期中考试英语试题

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My mother tongue is____________Chinese and I like_________Hindi language which is
ancient language.

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Researches have shown that milk alone does not_________strong bones.

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_________by the new surroundings, I am at a loss what to do with the        situation.

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The cost of living in Glasgow is among the lowest in Britain, _________the quality of life is        probably one of the highest.

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It is not who is right but what is right_________is of importance.

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My parents have always made me _________about myself, even when I was twelve.

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A survey of the opinions of experts_________that three hours of outdoor exercise a week
_________good for one’s health.

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．— Come on, please give me some ideas about the project.
— Sorry. With so much work_________ my mind, I almost break down.

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The couple accepted the present sent by the man_________their kindness.

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．She asked Mary_________her homework.

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He always_________his time and his efforts       .

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The reason_________ Hollywood was a good place for making movies was_________the      sun shines there every day.

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China is one of the countries in the world which_________astronauts to space so far.

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．— Do you know Jim quarrelled with his brother?
— I don’t know, _________ .

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New York_________was the land of the Indians. Yet today there are very few Indians       among New York’s millions of people.

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第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分,满分30分）
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从36-55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
I was working in a store three years ago. I remember one girl who started   36   there a few months after me. I remember always meeting her. I don’t know   37   but for a strange reason we would never talk. We would just see each other and smile.
She would    38   smile in a really happy way until one day when we got to work in the    39   department again. She    40   as if she was the happiest girl in the world. But I had a strange feeling. So I went up to her and asked,“What’s wrong with you?”She answered, “Why?”I said,“I could feel you’re very   41   today and you’re trying to hide it.”
She was shocked(震惊的) as if I had    42   her deepest secret, so we started    43 .
She told me why she was feeling like that and why she was    44   to hide it and we had a good time together. Time    45   and we became good friends. She’d always tell me I had changed her    46   in so many ways, but I could not    47   how it had happened. I would just smile, not understanding what she    48   by that.
Today this girl is one of my best    49  . I really don’t know what I would do    50  
her. She has been there for me in every possible way a friend could be.
I guess what I’m trying to say is you     51    know when you’re helping yourself. I
52   this girl never knowing that at the same time I was helping myself by finding a(n)
53    friend.
So the next time you see a    54   and he looks as if he needs    55   who will listen to him, listen to what he has to say. You never know, you might just end up helping yourself.
36．A．playing                   B．learning                  C．working                  D．living
37．A．why                       B．when                      C．where                     D．how
38．A．secretly                  B．hardly                    C．perhaps                   D．always
39．A．great                      B．same                      C．modern                   D．small
40．A．shouted                  B．cried                      C．spoke                     D．smiled
41．A．happy                     B．angry                            C．proud                     D．sad
42．A．kept                       B．told                        C．discovered                     D．watched
43．A．talking                   B．quarrelling              C．discussing               D．arguing
44．A．planning                 B．trying                     C．refusing                  D．failing
45．A．went off                 B．went by                  C．went up                  D．went down
46．A．life                        B．hobby                     C．habit                      D．manner
47．A．introduce                B．promise                  C．suggest                   D．imagine
48．A．meant                     B．wanted                   C．offered                   D．received
49．A．classmates               B．sisters                     C．friends                    D．workers
50．A．with                       B．without                   C．through                  D．besides
51．A．often                      B．sometimes               C．forever                   D．never
52．A．helped                    B．accepted                 C．recognized              D．praised
53．A．kind                       B．rich                        C．true                        D．honest
54．A．student                   B．stranger                  C．manager                 D．listener
55．A．someone                 B．anyone                   C．none                       D．everyone

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第三部分:阅读理解
What happens to old school buses when they can no longer safely carry kids to school? Most go to waste factories to be changed into pieces of metal. But a few of the old vehicles (车辆) find new lives in the center of Africa. Most of those buses end up on the streets of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Kinshasa buses are that yellow color, which makes them stand out (突出) in the city’s heavy traffic, but the buses don’t look at all as they did in the United States. In Kinshasa their taillights(尾灯) are almost all missing or broken. They don’t obey traffic rules and often race around the city very fast. The buses compete with motorcycles, cars, trucks, and other vehicles for space on the road. They make loud sounds when moving, and they are packed with people carrying loads of goods, such as fish, milk, beans and onions.
However, Kinshasa business people love the old, yellow buses, which they buy from American companies, because the vehicles are strong, reliable (可依靠的) and inexpensive. A used bus sells for about $2,000 in Congo. A new bus is more expensive. In the United States, a new school bus with all its lights working costs about $80,000.
The fare (票价) to travel across the city is usually about 30 US cents. “Transport is a big problem in Kinshasa,” says passenger Bruce Kingambo. “But the yellow buses help people here get around.”
56．The underlined sentence in the first paragraph means “In the center of Africa some old US     school buses can be_________.”
A．useful                     B．expensive                C．free                        D．new
57．Before the school buses leave America for Congo, they_________
A．have broken taillights
B．don’t obey the traffic rules and move at full speed
C．carry many people and goods
D．don’t compete with other vehicles
58．How many used buses can you buy in Congo for the price of a completely new school bus     in the USA?
A．10.                         B．20.                         C．30.                         D．40.
59．The passage mainly tells us _________
A．how to use old school buses
B．about new lives for old school buses
C．to try to take old school buses
D．how to drive old school buses

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Chinese is spoken by more people than any other language in the world. The Chinese economy is the fastest growing economy in the world. China is developing so quickly that it may be the dominant economic power in the not so distant (遥远的) future.
Today, more and more people are seeing the benefits (好处) of learning the most widely spoken language in the world. Learning Chinese is not only fun and greatly satisfying, but also can create valuable opportunities for students and working professionals in today’s changing world. We offer Chinese language learners a chance to study one-on-one with experienced native Chinese teachers through the Internet, no matter what country they live in.
eChineseLearning provides Chinese language learners an effective (有效的) platform to help them reach their Chinese learning goals in an efficient (效率高的) manner. Our duty is to provide the best Chinese language education service worldwide at an affordable price. We always focus on (集中于) the needs of our customers. And offer them the best language learning experience.
Our management team is made up of members with rich experience in Chinese language instruction from world-famous universities such as Stanford University, Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Beijing Language and Culture University, all working together to create the best possible product and language learning experience.
60．The underlined word “dominant” in the first paragraph probably means “_________”.
A．most interesting                                          B．most important
C．most useful                                                D．most popular
61．eChineseLearning is probably_________.
A．an online Chinese language school                B．an online Chinese language newspaper
C．an online Chinese advertising company         D．an online Chinese trading company
62．All the management members of eChineseLearning are from_________.
A．Chinese universities                                    B．American universities
C．world-famous universities                            D．world-famous companies
63．This passage mainly tells us_________.
A．how to learn Chinese from eChineseLearning
B．why we need to learn Chinese
C．the Chinese economy is growing fastest
D．eChineseLearning can provide good Chinese language training

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It is sometimes said that strange flying objects have been seen high up in the sky. People call these strange objects Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). These UFOs caused a lot of interest. Some of the reports about them are difficult to believe. Some have been explained in scientific ways. Others have never been explained. Here is an account of UFOs from a report.
Dennis Burdens, who wrote an article, tells us that he once saw a UFO himself. He was having dinner one night with a friend near Tripoli, Libya, and after dinner the two men walked across a yard to his room to look at some papers. Burdens noticed that the moon looked strange that night.
“It wasn’t the moon,” was the reply.
They watched the light and saw that it was moving. It seemed to be an object rather like a big plate. In some ways it looked like smoke with a light on it, but it wasn’t smoke because it didn’t change its shape. It was moving in a regular way. That is to say, it didn’t go suddenly faster or more slowly, and it didn’t go higher or lower. So the two men decided that there must be men in it.
After that, Burdens said that he felt eyes looking at him. He was being watched in the darkness.
When it was nearer, they noticed that the bottom parts were brighter than the top. The bottom was yellow and the top red. Then the object suddenly turned away and left Libya, moving very fast.
On a later day Burdents talked to other people about it, and he found some who had seen it. They all described it in the same way. Could they all be mistaken?
64．UFOs are_________.
A．flying high up in the sky                             B．very interested
C．difficult to believe                                      D．strange flying objects
65．A UFO was seen one night_________.
A．while they were looking at the light
B．when they were walking across a yard to Burdens room
C．when Burdens noticed the moon appearing strange
D．while they were having dinner
66．The UFO looked like_________.
A．a large plate            B．smoke                    C．light           D．a jumping object
67．The UFO was seen_________.
A．by Burdens and his friend
B．brighter in the darkness
C．to have a yellow bottom and a red top in the same way
D．by several people

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第二节（共3小题；每小题2分，满分6分）
阅读下面短文，简要回答问题。
The World Health Organization estimates (估计) 20,000,000 babies are born too small each year. It says a baby weighing less than 2,500 grams at birth has a less than desirable weight for good health. 95 percent of such children are born in developing countries.
One recent study shows that pregnant (怀孕的) women in developing countries have healthier babies if the women are given vitamins. Researchers from the United States and Tanzania found that vitamins could help reduce low birth weight. Their findings were reported last month in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Wafaie Fawzi of the Harvard School of Public Health led the study. Professor Fawzi says low birth weight can cause serious health problems in babies. He says low birth weight has been linked to poor growth and mental development, and even early death.
There are fourteen kinds of vitamins. People who do not get enough of these chemicals in their food, or want more, often take multivitamins (多种维生素).In the study, multivitamin pills were given to 4,200 pregnant Tanzanian women.The pills contained all the Bvitamins,as well as vitamins C and E. They also embodied iron and other nutrients in levels several times higher than advised for women in industrial nations.
Four thousand other women received a harmless substance(物质). None of the women had the virus that causes the disease AIDS.
68．On what condition can pregnant women in developing countries have healthier babies?
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69．According to Fawzi, what results will low birth weight lead to?(回答词数不超过10个)
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70．What is the main idea of the passage?(回答词数不超过8个)
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第三节：摘录信息
阅读短文，根据所读内容在文后71—80的空格里填上适当的单词或短语。注意：每空不超过3个单词。
There are a total of seven billion tons of garbage kept in Chinese cities and this garbage together takes up 600 million square meters of land space. Urban garbage has now become one of the four major polluting sources in China.
China has about 700 cities. Every day, these cities produce 100 tons of garbage in total and the amount still increases by 8%-10% every year. In China, about two-thirds of the cities are surrounded by garbage. In many cities, the garbage is in the open air with on one to take care of it. The garbage not only damages the city’s image, it also pollutes the air, water and soil, and puts a threat to human health.
China will face a critical (关键的) period in its modernization drive in the fifty years to come. As urbanization(城市化) process has quickened, the garbage in cities will become a serious problem to our human life and we should pay great attention to the problem, said Dong Suocheng, executive director of the China Resources Institute.
In the next fifty years, China’s population scale(规模) and urbanization process will reach its top, which will produce more garbage. Considering this, China should make great efforts to develop recycled economy. On the one hand, China should make sure that less garbage will be produced; on the other hand, China should make good use of garbage resources and turn garbage handing into an industry, and make sure that garbage industry will cover every part of garbage processing, from garbage collecting and classifying to garbage transportation and treatment. This might serve as a good way to solve the garbage problem in cities, he said.
Title:71.      has been one main polluting source
Conditions
At presentGarbage in cities has become one of the four 72.       in China
About two-thirds of the cities in China are surrounded by garbage.
In many cities, garbage is in the 73.      with no one to take care of it.
74.      
Garbage in cities will become 75.       .
More garbage will be produced.
Effects
76.      
Polluting air, water and soil
Putting a threat to 77.      
78.      
Developing recycled economy
Making sure less garbage will be produced
Making good use of 79.      
Turning garbage handling into an industry
Making sure garbage industry will cover every part of 80.      

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第四部分：
第一节 句子翻译：
81．一种解释是：女性的嗅觉很早就得到了开发，且与识别婴儿的体味有关。
One explanation is that women’s __________of smell developed long ago, and is linked
recognizing the smell of babies.
82．我们下周末是否去野营要视天气而定。
________ we’ll go camping next weekends________ on the weather.
83．由五名医生和三个护士组成的那支医疗队将来接管这项艰巨的任务。
The medical team________ is made up of five doctors and three nurses will take        ________ the difficult task.
84．不幸的是，这座富裕的商业化城市渐渐地被风沙掩埋了。
________ ,the wealthy commericial city was gradually________by sand.
85．如果你采纳我的建议的话，你很有可能在语法方面取得很大的进步。
If you follow my advice, you are________to make great________in grammar.

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第二节 情景作文：
假如你是某英语报社的编辑李平，一位名叫Joe的学生写信向你询问好的读书方法，请按照以下写作内容和要求以英语书信形式给予答复。
1．所读书籍难度适中；
2．如果发现一本书太难读，不妨先搁置一段时间，换一本容易的读；
3．要读自己感兴趣的书，但更要读对自己有益的书；
4．有的书匆匆浏览便可，有的则需细读；
5．读书要随时做笔记，勤查字典，多问问题。
注意：
1．词数100左右；
2．文章的开头和结尾已经给出。
Dear Joe,
I’m glad to receive your letter. It is true that to read successfully requires correct ways of reading.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________       I wish you will succeed in reading.
Yours truly,
Li Ping