2016江苏高一下学期人教版高中英语期中考试

--- It really shocked us that he should have made such             rapid progress in his study in such a short time.

--- No surprising. He has been making               most of his spare time to study.

B.   a; the                           B. a; /                           C. /; the                        D. /; /

This kind of dictionary is very useful for our English study, but it is nowhere            .

C.  buy                             B. bought                     C. to buy                      D. to be bought

The teacher together with the students             discussing Reading Skills that               

newly published in America.

D.  is; was                        B. is; were                    C. are; was                   D. are; were

She, my former classmate, is known                  in a big company since graduation. Due to her good performance, she has been promoted to manager recently.

E.   that she has been employed                               B. to have employed

C. to be employed                                                D. to have been employed

After the dinner party, most guests left, with only two of them                  in the host family,

               him clean up.

F.   remaining; helped                                             B. remained; helped

C. remained; helping                                             D. remaining; helping

When he                   lung cancer and unable to work, his son               the business from him.

G.  came down; took off                                       B. came down with; took over

C. came about; took in                                         D. came up with; took up

Jack’s trousers looked just the same as Peter’s, but they cost                 his.

H.  as much twice as                                             B. twice as much as

C. much as twice as                                             D. as twice much as

Nine in ten parents said there were significant differences in their approach                   their children compared with     of their parents.

I.    to educate; that                                                B. to educate; one

C. to educating; that                                             D. to educating; one

Dad made a promise                   I got a good mark he would buy me a present to reward me.

J.    what                           B. that whether             C. that if                       D. that

--- Maggie, I lost your bike at school. I suppose I should pay for it.

--- Oh,              . It was an old bike anyway.

K.  all right                        B. forget it                    C. no problem               D. take it easy

Dear Laura,

I just heard you tell an old story of gift giving and unselfish love in your program. You doubted whether such unselfish love would happen in today’s world. Well, I’m here to give you

    31    .

I wanted to do something very     32   for my fifteen-year-old son, who has always been the perfect child. He     33 all summer to earn enough money to buy a used motorcycle. Then, he spent hours and hours on it     34  it looked almost new. I was so     35       of him that I bought him the shiniest helmet and a riding outfit.

I could     36    wait for him to open up his gift. In fact, I barely slept the night before. Upon

awakening, I went to the kitchen to     37   the coffee, tea, and morning goodies. In the living room was a beautiful keyboard with a    38   : “To my wonderful mother, all my love, your son.”

I was so 39 . It had been a log-standing joke in our family that I wanted a piano so that I could     40           lessons. “Learn to play the piano, and I’ll get you one.” was my husband’s    41    .

I stood there shocked, crying a river, asking myself how my son could     42 this expensive

About ten men in every hundred have the trouble of color blindness in some way. Women are luckier, only about one in two hundred is affected in this matter. Perhaps, after all, it is safer to be driven by a woman.

There are different kinds of color blindness. In some cases a man may not be able to see deep red. He may think that red, orange and yellow are all shades of green. Sometimes a person can’t tell the difference between blue and green. In rare cases an unlucky man may see everything in shades of green—a strange world indeed.

Color blindness in human beings is a strange thing to explain. In a single eye there are millions of very small things called “cones (圆锥体)”. These help us to see in the bright light and to tell differences between colors. There are also millions of “rods (柱状体)”, but these are used for seeing when it is nearly dark. They show us shapes but not colors.

Some insects have favorite colors. Mosquitoes (蚊子) like blue but do not like yellow. A red

light will not attract insects, but a blue light will. Human beings also have favorite colors. Yet we are lucky. With the help of the cones in our eyes, we can see many beautiful colors by day, and with the help of the rods we can see shapes at night.

41.  This passage is mainly about                  .

A.  colour and its surprise                                      B. women being luckier than men

C. danger caused by colour blindness                     D. colour blindness

42.  Which of the statements about colour blindness is true?

A.  All of them haven’t the same problem in recognizing colours.

B.  None of them can see deep red.

C.  None of them can tell the difference between blue and green.

D.  All of them see everything in shades of green.

It’s a common belief that over time, pet owners start to look like their animals, and vice

As I was busy working on my work plan in my bedroom, I could hear my four children playing upstairs. Suddenly, I heard the children running down the stairs and shouting, “Freddie, Freddie.” I heard the word “window” and rushed outside, heart in mouth. My three-year old son Freddie was lying on his side on the ground. I cried for my husband Simon to dial 999 and

within minutes the air ambulance arrived. They quickly took him in the helicopter( 直 升 机 ).

During the flight, Freddie was looking at me and I remember thinking was a good sign, but then his eyes began to roll. As the doctors tried to stabilize( 稳 定 ) him, I couldn’t believe what was happening.

When we arrived at the hospital in Portsmouth, there were some doctors and nurses waiting for us and they immediately set to work on Freddie. I was hopelessly wishing everything would be alright, but Freddie had broken his skull in two places and blood clots were forming in his brain.

He needed surgery(外科手术), and only a surgeon at another hospital in Bristol could do it. This

meant another helicopter ride, but we couldn’t go with Freddie because there was no enough space. Simon and I drove the long 130 miles from our home in north Devon in silence. Neither of us dared say what we were thinking, “What if we get there and he’s dead?” “Is he going to be brain-damaged?”

Freddie was just coming out of surgery when we arrived. The surgeon said it had gone well.

When I finally saw him, I hardly recognize my child—he was covered in tubes and there were wires coming out of his head.

On the third day, Simon went home to see our three girls and to pick up some clean clothes for us. While he was gone, the pressure in Freddie’s brain suddenly increased. He was taken into the operation again and this time I fell apart. Luckily, the surgery managed to stabilize Freddie. After almost a week, Freddie was finally woken up. When he opened his eyes, he looked at me. He didn’t say anything, but I knew straight away that it was my old Freddie, and that he was going to be alright. Over the next two weeks, his recovery went well. After help with learning to swallow again and encouragement with speaking, he was soon playing with his Gruffalo cards and eating meals by himself.

I still don’t know how the accident happened, but we got some idea from our girls. Clearly Freddie and Minnie had been sitting on the window ledge(窗台), and Freddie must have opened it to look out and fallen 20 feet onto the ground below.

The guilt I feel is awful—for weeks I was full of “if onlys”, and we put window locks everywhere. Six months later, although the accident seems a lifetime ago, it has changed me. I feel differently about life now. I’ve left my job to put my children first. I want to spend every minute with them.

47. The underlined sentence in paragraph 1 shows the author was                 .

A.  hopeless                             B. worried                    C. curious                    D. puzzled

48.  When the author finally saw her son, she could hardly recognize him probably because his face

                  .

A.  was seriously injured                                               B. was filled with small pipes

C. was too pale to be recognized                                  D. was covered by a piece of cloth

1.  One big difference between British and American English is in (1)                   . For example, the British use the word ‘autumn’ while the Americans use the word ‘fall’. However, about four hundred years ago, the word ‘autumn’ was (2)  with ‘fall’. Later, the British returned to ‘autumn’, while the Americans still use ‘fall’.

2.   The  Chinese language (3)                    from Western languages in  that,  instead of  an (4)

                  , it uses characters which (5)                  for ideas, objects or deeds.

3.  We attended a lecture about Pompeii. The city was founded in the 8^th century BC. Near the city was a volcano. On 24 August AD 79, the volcano (6)                                                    and lava, ash and rocks (7)

                  out of it onto the surrounding countryside. Many people were (8)                  alive, and so was the city.

4.  Unfortunately for him, Socrates questioned too much, upsetting many people in Athens. Finally,

some people took him to (9)                   for questioning the existence of the Greek Gods. At his

(10)                  , he defended himself by asking his judges even more questions.

1.  The man moved away quickly. She could feel her heart                  (beat) with fear.

2.  When he arrived at the office, he found the work               (finish).

3.  But mow we came upon something new and                  (puzzle).

4.  By the 10^th century, Old English                    (become) the official language of England.

5.  If I                   (know) his language, I would get along with him easily.

6.  It’s suggested that smoking                  (ban) in our school.

7.  Everyone is talking about how important it is to spend time and money                  (preserve) historical buildings. .

8.  Alexander the Great spread the Greek culture from Europe to Africa and Asia, influencing the

world for centuries                   (come).

9.  The enemy were defeated and                  (flee) in all directions.

10.  It will be a long time before he                  (recover) from the operation.

1. Nowadays parents (1)                 (2)                  (3)                   (4)                   (非常重视) education. They will do their best to give their children that priceless gift.

2. Life mainly (5)                   (6)                  (由......组成) happiness and sorrow while happiness

and sorrow lie in struggle.

3. (7)                  (8)                   (9)                     (10)                     ( 结 果 表 明 ) after the ash covered the people who failed to flee the city, their bodies broke down and disappeared.

4.  Pronunciation (11)                    (12)                  (经历) huge changes in the 16^th  century, but

this was not the end of the changes in English.

5.  She is very satisfied with her present situation, never (13)                 (14)                  (抱怨) lack of money.

6.   Across the world, 1.1 billion people (15)                  (16)                   (17)                   ( 没

有......的机会) to cleaning drinking water.

7.  If he can (18)                  his ability (19)                   (把......与......结合) hard work, he should be very successful.

8.  The twins are so alike that no one can (20)                 one (21)                  (区分) the other.

9.  (22)                  (23)                  (24)                  (纪念) the Americans who died in the attack, a national memorial was built in Pearl Harbour.

10.  Having a trip aboard is certainly good for the old people, but it (25)               (26)                   (27)      (28)      (拭目以待) whether they will enjoy it.

11. Some people (29)                  (30)                  (31)                   (32)                  (受够) him, so they took him to court.

12.  Each of the students hopes to go to an ideal university, and (33)                 (34)                    (35)       (我也是).

13.  As far as I am concerned, the new law will (36)                  (37)                    (有助于) the peace and stability of our country.

14.   He called on the people to (38)                  (39)                   (40)                   ( 反 抗 ) the violent king.