黑龙江省绥化市2019-2020学年高一下学期英语期末考试试卷

    "A child is dying out of breath!" I had just began my working day in the city, when these words came through the radio of the police car I was driving. I turned on the red lights and siren (警笛) and drove off as fast as I could, "Just my luck!" I thought. I did not know this city well and my first call of the day was a life­and­death sudden happening several kilometers away.

    I got to the house. A mother, filled with fear, handed me her baby, her face already blue. Was I too late? Dear me!

    I did what I had been taught to do in such a serious condition. A small thing flew out of the baby's mouth onto the floor. It was a button. Thank heaven! The holes in it let a little air through.

    A doctor rushed into the room with an oxygen bag. The baby began to cry at the top of his voice, burned red and started to look for his mother. He was angry but was saved.

    As a child, I was really afraid of the dark and of getting lost. These fears were very real and caused me some uncomfortable moments. Maybe it was the strange way things looked and sounded in my own room at night that scared me so much. There was never complete darkness, but always a streetlight or passing car lights, which made clothes on the back of a chair take on the shape of a wild animal. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the curtains seem to move when there was no wind. A very low sound in the floor would seem a hundred times louder than in the day. My imagination would run wild, and my heart would beat fast. I would lie very still so that the "enemy" would not discover me.

    Another of my childhood fears was that I would get lost, especially on the way home from school. Every morning I got on the school bus right near my home. That was no problem. After school, though, when all the buses were lined up along the street, I was afraid that I would get in the wrong one and be taken to some other strange places. On school or family trips to a park or a museum, I wouldn't let the leaders out of my sight.

    Perhaps one of the worst fears of all I had as a child was that of not being liked or accepted by others. Being popular was so important to me then, and the fear of not being liked was a serious one.

    One of the processes growing up is being able to realize and overcome our fears. Understanding the things that scared us as children helps us achieve greater success later in life.

    I arrived in the classroom, ready to share my knowledge and experience with 76 students who would be my English literature class. Having taught in the US for 17 years, I have no doubt about my ability to hold their attention and to impress on them my admiration for the literature of my mother tongue.

    I was shocked when the monitor shouted, "stand up!"The entire class rose as I entered the room and I was somewhat confused about how to get them to sit down again, but once the embarrassment was over, I quickly regained my calmness and admiration. I went back to my office with the rosy glow which came from a strong sense of achievement.

    My students kept diaries. However, as I read them, the rosy glow was gradually replaced by a strong sense of sadness. The first diary said, "Our literature teacher didn't teach us anything today. Perhaps her next lecture will be better. "Greatly surprised, I read diary after diary, each expressing a similar theme. "Didn't I teach them anything？I described the entire Western philosophy (哲学) and laid the historical background for all the works we will study in class, "I complained. "How should they say I didn't teach them anything?"

    It was a long term, and it gradually became clear that my ideas about education were not the same as those of my students. I thought a teacher's job was to raise interesting questions and provide enough background so that students could draw their own conclusions. My students thought a teacher's job was to provide exact information as directly and clearly as possible. What a difference!

    However, I also learned a lot, and the experience with my Chinese students has made me a better American teacher, knowing how to teach in a different culture.

    If you think English means endless new words, difficult grammars and sometimes strange pronunciations, you are wrong. Haven't you noticed that you have become smarter since you started to learn a language?

    According to a new study by a British university, learning a second language can lead to an increase in your brain power. Researchers found that learning other languages changes grey matter. This is the area of the brain which processes information. It is similar to the way that exercise builds muscles.

    The study also found the effect is greater when the younger people learn a second language. A team led by Dr. Andrea Mecheli, from University College London, took a group of Britons who only spoke English. They were compared with a group of "early bilinguals" who had learnt a second language before the age of five, as well as a number of later learners.

    Scans showed that grey matter density in the brain was greater in bilinguals than in people without a second language. But the longer a person waited before mastering a new language, the smaller the difference.

    "Our findings suggest that the structure of the brain is changed by the experience of learning a second language," said the scientists. It means that the change itself increases the ability to learn.

    Professor Dylan Vaughan Jones of the University of Wales, has researched the link between bilingualism and maths skills. "Having two languages gives you two windows on the world and makes the brain more flexible (灵活的), "he said, "You are actually going beyond language and have a better understanding of different ideas."

    The findings were matched in a study of native Italian speakers who had learned English as a second language between the ages of 2 and 34. Reading, writing, and comprehension were all tested. The results showed that the younger they started to learn, the better. "Studying a language means you get an entrance to another world," explained the scientists.

Taking a Child Fishing

    There is nothing quite like seeing the smile on a young person's face when they catch their fish. Here are some simple steps that can be taken to help children and parents enjoy these early fishing experiences.

    It's easier to teach young children to fish if your attention is towards them and not towards your own fishing. If you are also trying to fish, this can make that difficult for both of you. When they need your help, you can hand down your tool and they can keep fishing.

    Keep trips short.

    Children have short attention periods. Take this into consideration when planning a trip. When it stops being fun for them, it's time to call it a day.

    Bring plenty of snacks and drinks.

    Even though most of these trips will be short, they will get hungry and thirsty. Bringing plenty of snacks and drinks gives them a little break from fishing. You can use this time while they are eating or playing to do some fishing yourself.

    Other than fishing.

    Just because they are on a fishing trip doesn't mean that they have to finish all the time. Let them do things besides fishing as long as it isn't interfering (打扰) with the people fishing around you.

    A stop on the way home for ice cream or other treats can also be a fun part of the trip. Remember it's all about them having fun and hopefully wanting to go fishing with you again.

A. Let them help make choices.

B. Make the fishing trip about them.

C. Children love to feel like they are helping out.

D. This can be more exciting to them than the actual fishing.

E. The same is true if you bring a few small toys for them to play with.

F. One way to solve this problem is for you to use the tool the child can use.

G. An hour or possibly two will be about all of the fishing they can handle in a day.

    A lady wanted a birthday gift from her husband. For many months she had liked a beautiful1, and knowing her husband could2it, she told him that was all she wanted. On the morning of the3, her husband told her how4he was to have such a good wife, and how much he loved her. He5her a beautiful gift package (纸盒). She opened it and6a Bible. 7, she raised her voice and said to her husband, "With all your money, you give me a Bible?" She was so8that she left him.

    Many years passed and the lady was very9in business. She owned two large companies. She10her husband was very old, and thought perhaps she should go to11him. But before she could, she12a letter telling her that he had died, and gave all of his possessions (财产) to her. She needed to go back and13things.

    When she arrived at his house, sadness14her heart. She saw the still new15, just as she had left it years before. With16, she opened it and began to turn the pages. A ring17from the Bible to the floor and a18could be seen. She picked it up and found it was the ring she wanted in those days. And on the card was the date of her birth, and the words "LUV U ALWAYS".

   19your gift is not packaged the way you want it, it's because it is better packaged the way it is! Always appreciate little things; they usually lead you to bigger things! The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched for they must be felt with the20.

—Thanks, but don't _____. I have to leave now.