2016甘肃高一上学期人教版高中英语期中考试

Before you make friends, you have to decide who you want to be your friends. Most people like to have friends who like to do the same kind of things they do.

The quickest way to make a friend is to smile. When you smile, people think you are friendly and easy to talk to. It may not be easy at first to smile, but remember most people will stay away from a scared or angry looking face.

One easy way to start a conversation with someone is to say something nice about him. Think about how great you feel when someone says something nice to you. Doesn’t it make you want to keep talking to that person?

Ask your new friends questions about themselves. Who’s their favorite singer, where do they live, what do they do after school are all good questions to start a conversation. Make sure you have something to add to the conversation, too. When someone asks you a question, do have an answer for them. There’s nothing that will stop a conversation quicker than a shrug (耸肩) for an answer.

Kids who show an interest in other kids and who are kind and friendly make good friends. Remember, everyone wants to be around people who like to do similar things and people who are nice to them.

1．This passage gives up some advice on____________.

A.how to make friends

B.what kind of person you can make friends with

C.how to start a conversation

D.the importance of smile

2．Most people like to make friends with those____________.

3．According to the third paragraph, most people enjoy talking to one____________.

4．The underlined(划线的)part in this passage means “___________”.

In a great many cities, hundreds of people ride bikes to work every day in New York, some bike riders have even formed a group called Bike for a Better City. They declare that if more people rode bikes to work, there would be fewer automobiles in the downtown part of the city and so less dirty air from car engines.

For several years, this group had been trying to get the city government to help bike riders. For example, they want the city to draw special lanes(车道) for bikes on some of the main streets, because when bike riders must use the same lanes as cars there are accidents. Bike for a Better City feels that if there were special lanes, more people would use bikes.

But no bike lanes have been drawn. Not everyone thinks it is a good idea—they say it will slow traffic. Some store owners on the main streets don’t like the idea—they say that if there is less traffic, they will have less business.

The city government has not yet decided what to do. It wants to keep everyone happy. On weekends, Central Park—the largest place open ground in New York— is closed to cars, and the roads may be used by bikes only.

5．In New York, a group of bike riders__________________.

A.are keeping practicing for health

B.have no cars of their own

C.are complaining there are not enough buses

D.are trying to settle the problem of air pollution

6．The bike riders suggest that____________.

A.bike should be used instead of cars

B.bike lanes should be drawn

C.fewer buses or cars should be used

D.the number of special lanes should be decreased

7．The advantage of the special lanes is that____________.

A.they will make cars and buses run slowly

B.they will make it easier for bike riders to go to parks

C.they will make the city more beautiful

D.they will prevent accidents

Tom was a clever boy, but his parents were poor, so he had to work in his spare time and during his holidays to pay for his education. In spite of this, he managed to get to the university, but it was so expensive to study there that during the holiday he found it necessary to get two jobs at the same time so as to make enough money to pay for his studies.

One summer he managed to get a job in a butcher’s shop (肉店) during the day-time, and another in a hospital at night. In the shop, he learnt to cut meat quite nicely, so the butcher often left him to do all the serving(服务) while he went to the back room to do the accounts(账目).In the hospital, on the other hand, he was , of course, allowed (允许)to do the simplest jobs, like helping to lift people and to carry them from one part of the hospital to another. Both at the butcher’s shops and at the hospital, Tom had to wear white clothes.

One evening at the hospital, Tom had to help to carry a woman from her bed to the place where she was to have an operation. The woman happened was already feeling frightened at the thought of the operating before he came to get her, but when she saw Tom, that finished her.

“No! No!” she cried. “Not the butcher! I won’t be operated on the butcher!” and fainted away(昏厥).

8．Tom made enough money by ________.

9．Tom was a student, but at the same time he was ____.

10．The woman patient recognized Tom because __________ .

11．when she saw Tom, that finished her, the sight of Tom_____.

A.plunged her into deep sorrow

B.made her decide not to have the operation

C.broke her heart

D.took all her strength and courage away

One is no born able to speak a language. One is born able to make a noise. I have heard babies cry in America and in China. I can’t tell any difference. But when I hear someone from America speak English and her someone speak Chinese, I can tell you there are a lot of differences.

I believe a common(普遍的)problem with Chinese students’ learning English is that they were not taught to think in English. They have an idea spoken in English and want to translate the idea into Chinese, then they think in Chinese of the proper reply and translate it into English. After a long period of speaking the language, one begins to think in the foreign language naturally(自然地). You will learn faster if you begin to think in English at the very beginning of your study. Many students ask me: What can I do to improve my spoken English?

My reply is: The more English you speak, the better English you will speak. There are many things you can do to improve your spoken English. Of course, the best way is to live where English is spoken as a language of the country.

12．The cries of American and Chinese babies are___________.

13．The underlined sentence (in Paragraph 2) means that_______.

A.some teachers didn’t teach students to think in English

B.teachers never gave the students the way of learning English

C.students didn’t remember the way teachers taught them

D.teachers didn’t want their students to think in English

14．The underlined word “they” (in Paragraph 2) refers to “_________”.

15．According to the article, which of the following is TRUE?

A.You must think in English all the time.

B.You should always translate English into Chinese.

C.After speaking English for a long time, you may probably think in English language naturally.

D.The best way of learning English is to live in America.

Taking good notes is a time-saving skill that will help you to become a better student in several ways.　16　  Second, your notes are excellent materials to refer to when you are studying for a test. Third, note-taking offers variety to your study time and helps you to hold your interest.

You will want to take notes during classroom discussions and while reading a textbook or doing research for a report.    　17　 Whenever or however you take notes, keep in mind that note-taking is a selective process.　18　

The following methods may work best for you.

●Read the text quickly to find the main facts and ideas in it.

●Carefully read the text and watch for words that can show main points and supporting facts.

●Write your notes in your own words

●   　19　

●Note any question or ideas you may have about what was said or written.

As you take notes, you may want to use your own shorthand(速记). When you do, be sure that you understand your symbols and that you use them all the time.　20　

A. Use words, not complete sentences.

B. There are three practical note-taking methods.

C. You must write your notes on separate paper.

D. Otherwise, you may not be able to read your notes later.

E. you will also want to develop you own method for taking notes.

F. That means you must first decide what is important enough to include in your notes.

G. First, the simple act of writing something down makes it easier for you to understand and remember it.

As an exchange student, Wei Hua studied in a British high school for one year. She was happy   　41　the school hours in Britain because school starts around 9 a.m. and ends about 3.30 p.m.

On the first day, all the new students   　42　(attend) an assembly in the school hall. Wei Hua sat next to a girl　43　name was Diana. During the assembly, the headmaster told the students that the best way to earn respect was to devote themselves    　44　study and achieve high　45　(grade). As there were different students in some classes,  　46　was a struggle for Wei Hua to remember all the faces and names. Although the homework was not as heavy as 　47　she used to get in her old school, it was a bit  　48　(challenge)for her at first because all the homework was in English. Luckily, all her teachers gave her much  　49　(encourage). To improve her English, Wei Hua used English every day and spent an hour each day   　50　(read)English books in the library.

In a word, studying in Britain was a very enjoyable and exciting experience for Wei Hua.

When I was 17 years old, I left my comfortable home in a wealthy Midwestern suburb to live as a foreign exchange student in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in a foreign country. I　21　in an apartment with no elevators, no dishwashers and one washer for 300  　22　.The tile(瓷砖)floors were always  　23　and the rainy winter days there seemed endless. I    　24　to wash my clothes by hand in the bathtub and    　25　water was so costly, I trained myself to    　26　my waist-length hair in less than five minutes.

At that time there were no cell phones and the Internet didn’t exist. So for six months I had no    　27　at all with my family or friends in the US. I had no relatives there so I   　28　to face the fact that my   　29　to adapt and create a life for  　30　, was one hundred percent up to me. At age seventeen my need for friends was  　31　and not knowing a soul was, needless to say, a bit stressful.

To    　32　to my stress, I didn’t speak the  　33　and had no familiarity with the monetary(货币的)system or the transportation system. One more　34　that created stress was my  　35　family. Of all the families in the city I lived, I was  　36　with the ones who spoke the least(or worst) English.

Living abroad and developing   　37　in a foreign language required persistence and determination. I made many mistakes　38　the way. Now I’ve transformed(转变) my   　39　memories into my medals of honor(荣誉勋章). They’re the treasured stories that offer wisdom, provide me with insights into friends and family and provide me with the  　40　that I can surpass future challenges.

When I first learn to write in English, I ran into much difficulties. The main problem was that I always thought in Chinese and tried to translate into my own language everything which I came across while I was reading. My teacher advised myself to keep a diary. I followed his advices and put down 100 words or so each day.

Soon I began to enjoy talk to myself as I was learning to express myself with simple English. One day I wrote a story and showed to my teacher. He liked it very much that he read it to the class. All said that the story was a good one. Their words were an great encouragement to me.

你的朋友李华最近染上网瘾(Internet addiction)，导致成绩下降、健康状况恶化、与家人朋友产生矛盾等问题。请你给他写一篇英文书信，告诉他网瘾的危害并提出一些意见。

要求：

1．语言通顺连贯，可以适当增加情节。

2．100词左右，开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Li Hua,

I am glad to hear from you yesterday____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

I am looking forward to hearing your good news soon.                                    Yours truly,                                                                             Jim