陕西省黄陵中学高新部2019-2020学年高一上学期英语期中考试试卷

    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 scaled or angry looking.

    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 favourite 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. Then someone asks you a question, do have an answer for it. There is nothing that will stop a conversation quicker than a shrug 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.

    Do you think the United Kingdom and the United States are alike? Winston Churchill once joked that the people of Britain and the people of America are separated only by their language. Do you think that is true? The British and the Americans both speak English as the official language. However, each uses some different words. We Americans are similar to the British. After all, our country was once owned by the UK,so we have a lot in common. But there are many differences between us.

    The UK has a king or queen, and the leader of the government is the Prime Minister. The US has no kings or queens. Our leader is the President.

    Both the British and Americans use pounds and ounces, pints, quarts, and gallons. Both use miles, yards, and feet. Our money is different, though. The British use pounds and pence. Americans use dollars and cents.

    Driving in a car is very different in the UK. They drive on the left side of the road. We drive on the right. What we call the hood of the car, the British call the "bonnet". British cars run on "petrol", which we call gasoline.

    In our everyday life, we do many of the same things as the British. But we describe them differently.

    A young mother here might push a baby in a baby carriage. A British mum pushes a "pram". The British watch "telly", while we watch TV. We like to eat French fries, but the British call them "chips". Millions of Americans drink coffee, but most British prefer tea.

    So we are different in many ways. But we stay friendly anyway.

    More and more travellers in China nowadays prefer homestays rather than traditional hotels, as they seek private living experiences. The house-sharing model was first introduced by the website Couchsurfing, com in 2003. It is still the largest website for travellers to find accommodation(住宿) without much money to spend.

    Encouraged by her great experience of homestays in France, Maggita, 30, considered short-term hire as her first choice in her future trips. She later went back to her hometown Shanghai and ran a "shared accommodation" business.

    The short-term hire idea has been a win-win business model. For travellers, they can rent a special room at a reasonable price and also enjoy a firsthand experience of the local culture, compared with traditional hotels. For owners, they can gain much with daily rental. Now Maggita has quit her last job in an IT company and become a host of some 20 homestays, which enables her to earn a monthly income of around 40,000 —50,000 yuan.

    In recent years, China has seen many homestay booking websites such as Xiaozhu and Tujia. Chen Chi, the founder and CEO of Xiaozhu, said the model is to share rooms or apartments that are not in use with people who need them. Instead of the traditional view that Chinese people feel uncomfortable living with strangers, Chen found that a large number of travellers got along well with house owners.

    However, experts have pointed out a series of problems brought about by the fashion. Lacking supervision(监管) to those accommodation sharing websites, the service quality and accommodation safety cannot be guaranteed(保障).Experts suggest that the online websites should closely work together with communities and local police stations to improve the services.

    This morning my family and I went to a friend's home to help her get things back in order. She was one of the unfortunate people whose home was recently destroyed by a tornado(龙卷风). One side of her home fell off and the roof was gone over a large part of the house. Torrential rain fell the rest of the night and all of the next day following the tornado, creating even more damage to her belongings. The home is a total loss. Still, there is much that is valuable, and our job today was to help her sort through the remain and find anything with actual value that she may want to take with her.

    My husband helped to move furniture and other things to the storeroom while our two younger children helped clean up the yard. My oldest daughter and her boyfriend helped as well, and my another daughter with me swept up all of the areas of debris, sorting it for things that are important. We worked systematically, clearing the main living space first, then moving on to the kitchen, laundry area, then the master bedroom.

    By the time we were done today, though there was no denying the home had met with disaster, we had gone far to restore order from the loss that had been there before.

    My thought in entering the day was that our friend, who had been having trouble sleeping, was being affected by that loss negatively. I hoped that if we could restore order, she would finally start to feel some sense of peace and her mind would quiet and allow her the much-needed rest she so deserves.

    She posted on Facebook just a little while ago that for the first time she was sleeping at night. For me, what a wonderful and deeply meaningful way to begin the New Year!

Improve your memory

    Some people often complain about their poor memory. Actually there are several ways to keep your memory sharp. This article will show you some simple tips.

    ♦When you say these things, you begin to plant the thought in your mind and it may become true. Tell yourself you can remember anything as long as you put your mind to the task. You will see an improvement in your memory.

    ♦ If you have trouble remembering phone numbers or other blocks of numbers, it can be really helpful to try this method. If you remember them in smaller groups, like two or three digits (数字), it will also be much easier to remember the number.

    ♦ Be sure to see a doctor if you really are losing your memory. A poor memory can be a sign that you are in low spirits.

    ♦ Playing games also helps improve your memory. Any type of games that involves remembering things is wonderful. Try and remember it when you have nothing better to do. A useful tip for anyone interested in games is to often work on solving word puzzles and similar types of games. Not only will your memory probably improve, you will also have a great deal of fun.

A. Take a right attitude.

B. Remember numbers in small groups.

C. Stop telling yourself you have a weak memory.

D. If you don't know your condition, you won't go to hospital.

E. If you don't like games, you can go over a list of "to-do things".

F. If so, treating it could be the key to getting your memory back.

G. Such games use the same skills to remember facts and help keep the mind sharp.

    A king was offering a prize to the artist who could paint the best picture of peace. Many artists from around the country 1 The king looked at all the pictures and there were 2two he really liked. But he had to 3 between them.

    One picture was of a 4 lake. The lake was surrounded with peaceful, towering 5. Above them was a blue sky with white clouds. 6 who saw this picture thought that it was a perfect picture of peace.

    7 picture had mountains too. But they were rugged and bare (崎岖和荒凉的).Above was a 8 , angry sky and heavy rain with 9 of lightning. Down the side of the mountain 10 a huge, powerful waterfall. It did not look 11at all. But when the king looked closely at 12picture, he saw behind the waterfall a tiny bush 13 in the crack of the rock. A mother bird had built her nest in the bush. There, in the middle of all the 14of rushing water and scary, thundering skies, that mother bird sat in perfect peace.

    Which picture do you think 15 the prize? The king chose the second picture because he said, "16  does not mean you must be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, pain, or17  from work. The real meaning of peace is to be18 in the middle of all those 19experiences, and still be calm and confident in your heart." It doesn't matter what a difficult 20 you're in right now.

    The giant panda (love) by people throughout the world. Chinese scientists (recent) had a chance to study a wild female panda with a newborn baby. She was a very (care) mother. For 25 days, she never left her baby, not even to find something (eat)! She would not let any other pandas come near. She licked the baby constantly to keep it clean. Any smell might attract natural (enemy) that would try to eat the little comforting pats. The mother held the baby in her front paws much the way a human does, it cried, she rocked it back and forth and gave it little comforting pats, The mother continued to care for the young panda  more than two years. By that time, the panda no longer needed  (it) mother for food. However, it stayed with her and leaned about the ways of the forest. Then, after two and a half years, the mother (drive) the young panda away. It was time for her to have a new baby,  it was also time for the young panda to be independent.

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删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉；

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注意：

⒈每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

⒉只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

    One day, I happened to find a chatting room in my QQ there people were chatting with English. I try to chat with some of them. To my surprised, I found the oral English of some junior students were better than mine. I asked them for advices and they told me to practise more on QQ. But every day after that, I would spend one hour practise my oral English on QQ- Day by day I learned from many useful words and expressions. With time went by, I found that I could even communicate with some college students freely.

⒈你喜欢的运动；

⒉你喜欢该运动的原因。

注意：⒈词数100左右；

⒉可适当发挥，以使行文连贯。