四川省冕宁重点中学校2021-2022学年高一下学期第一次月考英语试卷

Among tens of thousands of castles that were created across the world in the last one thousand years, some managed to distinguish themselves by their construction style, location, use, architecture, and involvement in various historical events. Here you can learn more about some of them.

Cite de Carcassonne

Cit6 de Carcassonne is a castle that was used to not only provide protection to the large garrison (驻防地) which had access to impressive suite of defensive buildings, but also to provide protection to the whole city of Carcassonne. With its 52 towers and 3km of walls, Cite de Carcassonne represents one of the most celebrated castles in France.

Lichtenstein Castle

Lichtenstein Castle is one of the most scenic and beautiful castles in Germany. Created on top of the hill cliff that hosted several medieval castles, this modem work of art was built in the mid-18th century by Duke Wilhelm of Urach and famous architect Carl Alexander Heideloff.

Tower of London

Tower of London is one of the most famous castles of all time. Created during Norman Conquest of England, this military (军事的) building in London was quickly redesigned to be a royal (皇家的)house, and went through rich history that marked it as one of the best-known castles in England.

Heidelberg Castle

As a landmark of the city Heidelberg in Germany, Heidelberg Castle is today considered by historians and architects as one of the most influential castles of the 13th and 14th century Europe. It guided fashion, architecture and engineering for centuries to come, becoming important focus point of countless artists from all around Europe and the World.

The English language started about 1500 years ago in England. Three groups of people came to the country. They were the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes. These three groups brought their languages with them to England. After some time, the three languages became one new language —English. The name "English" comes from the Angles. They lived in most of England. "England" means "Angle Land" or "Country of the Angles".

The language that we speak today—Modern English is not the same as the English that people used 1500 years ago, including Old English (before 1150) and Middle English (up till 1500). That language—Old English—sounds different, and it has some different rules of grammar. There were only a few thousand words in Old English. But Modern English does come from Old English, and it is still like it in many important ways.

Vehicles (车辆) were turned over and roofs were torn from houses after a tornado was seen forming over a northern New South Wales town late on Thursday.

A clean-up is under way in Armidale, in the state's Northern Tablelands, after a violent storm hit the area and knocked out power for half the town.

The tornado followed an evening of terrible storms over Greater Sydney which saw hailstones (冰雹), as large as five centimetres in diameter, fall across western and south-west Sydney. Apart from this, several thunderstorms also hit the state's east coast.

Meteorologist (气象学家) Grace Legge said the tornado caused significant amounts of damage. "Through Armidale, we saw a very strong thunderstorm push through about 10 pm," she said. "It did cause a tornado to touch down in the area which, unfortunately, caused significant amounts of damage. It was quite a quick-moving storm, but with stronger, violent winds. "

The State Emergency Services (SES) received 475 requests for help overnight, with 127 of those coming from citizens in Armidale. Officer Sharon Fox said it was surprising there were no reports of serious injuries after the tornado. "There were reports of roads that had been blocked, reports of large trees falling done, several reports of power lines coming off," Ms Fox said. "It was a pretty terrible impact there in Armidale."

A report posted by the SES this morning said half of Armidale was without power and the emergency services and uncompleted repairs were going to take some time.

China is a large country and has a population of about 1.3 billion. But most people live in the east and the living standard is much higher than in the west. Recently, the Chinese government has decided to promote development in central and western China. The part includes 11 provinces and autonomous regions (自治区) with a population of 285 million and an area of 5. 4 million square-kilometers.

The rich nature resources in western China is one of the advantages for development. According to the plan, the government will focus on improving transportation. Highways and railways will be built. To protect nature, farmers will turn farmland back into forest. Since the western part is developing fast, all kinds of talents are badly needed. In June, 2003, several thousand college students chose to start their career in the west. They worked as volunteers. Some people even give up the chance of working in big companies in China' coastal cities. For example, Wang Fei was a student from Qinghua University. Before June, he had received a job offer in Shanghai. However, he rejected the offer. Instead, he became one of the "Go West" volunteers.

Since 2003, tens of thousands of college students have gone to the west. They are trying their best to make the west become more and more beautiful. We are sure that the development will be a great success. China will be richer and stronger.

How To Learn English Effectively

Have you ever tried to study English, but it turned out it's too difficult for you? Well, let me tell you that the language is easy once you keep in mind these golden rules:

▲Always study and review phrases, not individual words.

Did somebody give you a dictionary when you started learning your native language as a child? No? Then why do you keep using it when studying a foreign language? Memorizing individual words has absolutely no sense without the context. .

▲Don't study grammar.

When you start thinking about what construction to use, you begin to stammer, stop sounding natural. Your responses should become automatic to master the language, so instead of studying theory – take more practice! When you speak, you don't have time for considering what tense is appropriate, one hundred percent correct. . Grammar is important in writing, not in speaking.

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One of the most common mistakes when studying a foreign language is relying only on textbooks. Thanks to them you may know a lot of grammar and vocabulary, but you're still not capable of conducting a conversation. It is because you should learn English by listening and not by reading. If you listen more, you'll grasp useful vocabulary and grammar without even realizing it and without memorizing!

▲Learn English deeply.

Remember it's always about quality, not about quantity. When memorizing the phrases (remember the first rule!) slowly, you put them into the deeper parts of your brain so they don't fade away quickly.

▲Listen and answer, not listen and repeat.

If you practice listening with a podcast or a video, pause it every 20 – 30 second and summarize what has been said. You have to think quickly, so you stop bothering yourself with useless grammar and start to speak the real, living language!

A. Use only real English materials

B. But you don't need to think about that.

C. Learn with your ears, not with your eyes.

D. Learning whole phrases is much more effective.  

E. Studying grammar is the quickest way to slow down your progress.

F. You should answer the questions asked by the speaker instead of mindlessly retelling his words.

G. Instead of learning dozens of new words in a short time, try repeating one, but dozens of times.

Paris Williams is six years old. This little girl is driven by a mission to help others who are less 1. "I wanted to give something to the 2. " Paris explained.

Paris might not have had 3 like some figures in movies, but she didn't let that 4 her. Turning instead to more practical magic and the 5 of her parents, Paris filled and 6 more than 500 care packages containing food and some 7 essentials to downtown St. Louis's homeless people, as well as 8 approximately 250 meals to on-duty workers.

But Paris wasn't 9 to simply donate goods. It was important for her to make a ___10___ with the people she was trying to help. After 11 each package herself, Paris drew a picture and 12 a personal message on each one to create the kind of human connection that many of the homeless 13 lack.

"It makes me really 14 because this small child who is entering first grade has such a big heart," her mother said. "She wants to 15. She wants to help others. "

Paris has already 16 a lot by anyone's standards, but she thinks she's only just getting started. She's 17 holding a Thanksgiving hot-food project for the homeless and also hopes to start a Christmas toy fund for kids 18.

"I want to 19 more people to do good things," Paris said.

Out of the mouth of the child, comes not only wisdom, but 20 as well.

A tornado is a rotating column of air from a thunderstorm to the ground. Almost all of them occur in the US, in the area from Texas in the southeast to South Dakota in the north.

Tornadoes can cause much (destroy).  average there are 800 tornadoes in the US each year. The(bad) one of all time happened in 1925, (affect) three US states. By the time it ended, more than 700 people (kill) and 2, 700 had been injured.

Hurricanes are strong tropical storms. There are violent winds of 120 kilometers per hour or more,  cause bad weather. There (be) about six Atlantic hurricanes each year. The worst hurricane disaster  (occur) on the 8th September 1900. The disaster killed 6, 000 people in  population of 37, 000 and destroyed 3, 600 (build).

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。

修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1）每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2）只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

I had interesting dream last night. I dreamed that I took part in a race in my school sports meeting. At first, I could not to run very fast and fell behind. So I didn't lose heart and kept running. All the student on the playground cheered me on, "Come on!" I was so encouraging that I ran faster and faster until I caught up with all the other runners. I felt like a superman. In the end, I got to the finishing line first. I win the race. I felt very proudly of myself. My classmates which were very excited threw me up into the air. Just at that moment I woke up and found me still lying in bed! What interesting the dream was!

1）低碳生活的重要性；

2）介绍一些有效可行的低碳生活方式；

3）表达你对这种生活方式的感受。

注意：

1）词数100左右；

2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear John,

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Yours,

Li Hua