2015届湖南凤凰华鑫中学高一下期期中考试英语卷（解析版）

There is no doubt that IT plays___important role as a new teaching tool in this era of___technology.

A．an; \             B．\; the             C．an ; the           D．\; \

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--I’m sorry I didn’t make it to your party last night.

-- ______, I know you’re busy these days.

A．Of course         B．No kidding         C．That’s all night     D．Don’t mention it

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He is really considering ___himself to ___these children of the poor mountain village.

A．to devote; educating                     B．devoting; educating

C．devoting; educate                       D．to devote; educate

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The number of people who ____English as a foreign language __more than 750 million.

A．learns; is          B．learn; are         C．learns; are         D．learn; is

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—It was careless of you to have left your clothes all over.

— My God, ______.

A．so did I           B．so I did            C．so were you       D．so did you

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This is really an exciting match. _______ the game?

A．Who do you think will win                 B．Whom do you think will win

C．Do you think who will win                 D．Do you think whom will win

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Lin Feng is said ____ abroad, but I don’t know which country he studied in.

A．to study           B．to be studied       C．to have studied     D．to be studying

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She is the only one among the____writers who___stories for children.

A．woman, writes      B．women, write      C．women, writes      D．woman, write

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The basketball coach, as well as his team,______interviewed shortly after the match for their outstanding performance.

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

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Paul doesn’t have to be made___. He always works hard.

A．learn             B．to learn           C．learned           D．learning

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He goes to work every day ______.

A．except for rainy days                    B．besides it rains

C．but that it rains                         D．except on rainy days

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He managed to make himself____with his___English.

A．Understand; breaking                    B．understand, broken

C．understood, breaking                    D．understood, broken

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With a lot of difficult problem___, the newly-elected president is having a happy time.

A．settled           B．setting            C．to settle           D．being settled

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The ________ look on her face suggested that she _________ the exam.

A．worrying ; didn’t do well in               B．worried ; didn’t do well in

C．worried ; did well in                     D．worrying ; does well

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Right now the writer and manager_____busy preparing for the following meeting.

A．is                B．Are              C．was              D．were

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We lived in a very quiet neighborhood. One evening I heard a loud crash in the street. 36 that evening my wife had asked me to go to the store to get some soft drinks. It seemed like this would be a good time to let my teenage daughter Holly37her driving, so I sent her to the store in my truck.

At dinner my son talked about how much he liked my 38 . I enjoyed having it, but I said: “Guy, my heart is not set on that truck. I like it but it is just metal and won’t last forever. Never set your heart on anything that won’t last.

After hearing the loud noise, the whole family ran outside. My son shouted: “ Dad! Dad, Holly crashed your truck.”

My heart sank and my mind was 39 with conflicting thoughts. Was anyone hurt? Who else was involved? As I ran to the door, I heard a voice in my heart say: “Here is a chance to show Holly 40you really love. She’ll never forget it.”

The accident had occurred in my own driveway. Holly had crashed my truck into our other vehicle, the family van (搬运车). In her inexperience, she had  41 _the brakes and the gas pedal. Holly was unhurt42but when I reached her, she was crying and saying：“Oh, Dad, I’m sorry. I know how much you love this truck.” I held her in my arms as she cried.

Later that week a friend stopped by and asked what had happened to my truck. I told her the whole story. Her eyes moistened(湿润) and she said: “That happened to me when I was a girl. I borrowed my dad’s car and43 a log that had fallen across the road. I ruined the car. When I got home my Dad knocked me to the ground and began to kick me.”

Over 40 years later, she still felt the pain of the night. It was a deep wound on her 44.

I remember how sad Holly was the night she crashed our truck, and how I comforted her. One day, when Holly 45on her life, I want her to know that I love her a thousand times more than any piece of 46.

I repaired the van, but the dent(凹陷) in my truck is still there today. Every day it reminds me of what really47  in my life.

1.                A．Later          B．Earlier          C．Former   D．Latter

2.                A．pass           B．train           C．practice  D．coach

3.                A．job            B．truck           C．daughter D．cooking

4.                A．flooded         B．satisfied         C．blessed   D．concerned

5.                A．why           B．which          C．what D．how

6.                A．mixed          B．separated       C．recognized    D．confused

7.                A．mentally        B．intellectually     C．primitively D．physically

8.                A．run down       B．run for         C．ran into   D．run after

9.                A．Motivation      B．soul            C．shadow   D．body

10.               A．think back      B．think out        C．think up   D．think on

11.               A．property       B．trucks          C．production D．vans

12.               A．affects         B．matters         C．attracts    D．acquires

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The private automobile has long played an important role in the US. In fact, it has become 1.___necessary and important part of the American life. In 1986, sixty-nine percent of American families owned 2.__least one car, and thirty-eight percent had 3.___than one. With the convenience of rapid transportation, workers don’t have to live near their workplace. This has encouraged the growth of the cities, 4.___it has also led to traffic problems.

For farm families the automobile is very helpful. It has made 5.___ possible for them to travel to town very often for business and for pleasure.

Family life has been affected in 6.___ways. The car helps to keep families together. However, when teenage children use the car, their parents can’t keep an eye on them. There is a great danger 7.____the driver has been drinking alcohol or taking drugs or breaking 8._____ traffic laws.

Cars mean very much to Americans.

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Everyone can experience anger sometimes, but not everyone can control it properly. To some people, controlling anger seems like the hardest thing in the world to do.

When it comes to anger control, there are lots of tools and things that you can do. The first technique you can use is to recognize stress when it occurs. This is extremely important as you need to understand what causes this pressure and attempt to reduce this stress before it transforms quickly into anger.

Developing empathy (移情) is another anger control skill you can learn. You can teach yourself how to reduce or eliminate (消除)anger completely by seeing things from other people’s perspective.

You need to learn how to respond to situations rather than react. Think about your response and calmly approach this rather than reacting suddenly when stress and pressure are triggered.

When you experience unwanted feelings, control these by talking to yourself in your own mind and enable yourself to deal with those feelings effectively before acting on them. By talking it over in your own head you can work out how you will best deal with the situation instead of acting on impulse (冲动), which can be destructive.

Anger control can also be achieved with the skill of being able to communicate with others with honesty. You can effectively train yourself to respond to situations without getting annoyed about things.

These feelings can quite regularly be set off by a difference in what we expect and what actually get in life. Often if things do not go our way or we feel we have been harshly treated, we will find it hard to control our anger. If you adjust your expectations, then you should be able to handle difficult situations and cope with them much better.

Finally it is vitally important to step back and think about things that are happening rather than acting too quickly. It can sometimes be very hard not to wade in (介入)and start acting before thinking about things first.

Therefore, it is important to remember that everyone has the capacity to lose their temper and controlling it is the real challenge.

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Directions: Read the following passage.Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage and the required words limit.

Many people pursue goals that they hope will make them happy, but happiness is not always the final result. So how does one determine and establish which goals will end in personal happiness and which will not ? what are the things in life that are correlated with personal happiness?

The most important thing is people’s attitude toward life, which can greatly impact their personal levels of happiness and satisfaction with life overall.

Psychologists have known for some time that optimism is a good defense against unhappiness. It’s probably no secret that optimistic people are considered to be much more happier people than pessimists. There are specific characteristic features optimists have (pleasant ways of thinking), that bring them more success, greater health, increased life satisfaction, and other good things. If you became an optimist, it can mean that you became a very happy person, despite your circumstances, and it can actually bring more things into your life to be happy about. “If you are optimistic and you think life is going to get better, it will become a self-fulfilling prediction”, says one of the scientists. “Happy people manage to look on the bright side, even if they encounter big problems on their way.”

Positive psychologists believe that people can learn how to become happy, that everyone can teach themselves to see a half-empty glass as half-full. All they have to do is to spend time thinking about all the things that have gone right for them, rather than complaining what has gone badly. Study on depression shows that one of the biggest causes of depression is thinking and worrying about something that went wrong in the past.

1.According to the passage, what can affect people’s personal levels of happiness? (No more than 5 words ) (2 marks)

_________________________________________________________________.

2.Why are some people depressed according to the study? (No more than 13 words )  (2 marks)

_____________________________________________________________.

3.How do people learn to be happy according to the psychologist ? (No more than 15 words )  (3 marks)

________________________________________________________________.

4.What is the main idea of the passage? (No more than 10 words )   (3 marks)

______________________________________________________________.

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I went into Harrods in London (a huge department store I am sure you have heard of) to buy some Minton china plates for a wedding anniversary which was to be a group gift from friends to other friends in Geneva.

Having only 30 minutes between meeting. I whizzed there in a taxi from the office and battled through the milling people on the 2nd day of the sales on the ground floor up to the 5th to the china department. There was a man standing there who was obviously a sales person who I rushed up to and asked if he had this particular china in stock and if it would take long to wrap, etc. He was amazing. He got the plates in seconds, wrapped them up and asked me if I wanted a store card, to which I replied no, because I lived in Switzerland, to which he replied asking if, as I lived abroad, would like a tax rebate form(退税表). After that he showed me what to do, produced a map of the store and told me where I should go for the formalities(程序). That was fabulous! I thanked him and said what wonderful service he had given me. I even asked if he gave this to everyone, to which he answered: “I’m just doing what is required at Harrods”. With that, a tall man in a gray suit approached me and offered his hand to shake mine saying, “Can I introduce myself? I am the Chief Executive of Harrods and what an interesting conversation I have just heard…” He had been wandering through the store (as you should do as a hands-on CEO) and had overheard me thanking this salesman, whose face, I can hardly describe, was frozen in a mixture of delight awe and astonishment!

Can you imagine the salesman going home to his family and friends recounting what the CEO spoke to him after overhearing him being praised by a customer?

1.The writer went to Harrods to __________.

A．kill time           B．buy some gifts      C．go sightseeing      D．shop for her wedding

2.What does the underlined word “whiz” in Paragraph 2 most probably mean?

A．drive             B．arrive            C．rush             D．leave

3.Which of the following sentences can best replace “I’m just doing what is required at Harrods” in the second paragraph?

A．“I’m an honest man.”

B．“I must obey the rules.”

C．“Harrods is strict with its employees.”

D．“Anybody will receive our good service.”

4.As soon as she bought what she wanted, the writer________.

A．went to a meeting.                      B．flew back to Geneva

C．visited one of her friends                 D．attended a wedding ceremony

5.The writer wrote the above passage because she thought what she had experience was so ____.

A．pleasant          B．strange           C．exciting           D．amusing

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When first entered, Vanak Restaurant does not look like much of a restaurant, but once the pleasant smells of kabob （烤肉串）hit the senses, you are incapable of calling it anything less.

Owned by a local couple, this Persian restaurant has an inviting, homelike atmosphere that many restaurants lack.

The space is small with only a few dining tables and nearly no decoration, but the environment is truly charming.

Lying in a hardly noticeable street corner, the restaurant still attracts all customer especially those experienced in the delights of Middle Easrern cooking.

A common sight is that of old Persian men sitting in the corner talking loudly about world topics, watching news events on TV, drinking a black tea known as Persian chai, an reading local Persian newspapers all the while trying to finish off their plates piled wit food.

The variety of food at the restaurant is limited, but the amount of each dish is fairly large. Most of the meals can serve two people and are under $10, so not only is it affordably but practical as well.

The food, especially appeals to health-conscious eaters because each dish is very healthy, made with limited fat and oil and served straight off the grill（烤肉架）.

The main dish that the restaurant is popular for is its kabobs, which are different style of grilled meat.

One delicious and extremely healthy dish is the Jooieh Kabob, which is made of grille chicken picccs served with either rice or bread. Another great kabob is the Chelo Kabob, kabob consisting of grilled beef.

Although the restaurant is small, the atmosphere and the food is delicious. It is a plan that should not be overlooked.

1.When first entering the restaurant ,one can find that it.

A．is splendidly decorated.                  B．has pleasant smells of kabobs.

C．is crowded with dining table.               D．looks like a common restaurant.

2.What activity is also mentioned apart from dining in the restaurant?

A．Watching news events on TV.              B．Drinking a kind of black coffee.

C．Reading local English newspaper.            D．Discussing world topics in loe voices.

3.The food of the restaurant.

A．is served in small amounts.                B．is rather expensive.

C．is rich in verity.                         D．is very healthy

4.What is the dish Joojeh Kabob mainly made of？

A．Rice             B．Chicken           C．Bread            D．Beef

5.It can be inferred from the passage that restaurant .

A．occupies

B．owns a favorable location

C．is popular for its special food

D．has a quiet environment inside

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●Ms Tan, you’ve referred to your new novel as your eighth book.

That’s because it took me six or seven attempts at a second novel before I started and completed this one.

●Why do you think you had so many false starts?

I would say that my reasons were wrong. I was trying to prove that I wasn’t just a mother-daughter storyteller, or I was trying to prove that I didn’t just have to write about things that were strictly Chinese or Chinese-American. Those were never the right reasons for writing those early stories. And I could never come up with other better reasons for continuing them.

●What kept you going on this book?

This book was different because it was based on my mother’s real life. The reason for writing it became more personal and emotional. After The Joy Luck Club came out, my mother was always explaining to people that she wasn’t any of the mothers in that book. And at one point she said to me, “Next book tells my true story.” And then she started telling me things I never knew before. She also told me many, many stories, because my mother doesn’t generalize(笼统地表达). The book really grew out of that.

●Have you ever visited China?

Yes. I’ve been there twice: about three years ago and then again last November, both times with my mother and my husband.

●Was it difficult to understand the Chinese-American dialect(方言) without sounding like a parody(拙劣的模仿)?

No, because it’s the language I’ve heard all my life from my mother. She speaks English as it’s direct translation from Chinese. But it’s more than that. Her language also has more imagery than English.

●Can you think of an example?

Somebody might say to me, “Don’t work so hard. You’ll kill yourself.” My mother will say to me，“Why do you press all your brains out on this page for someone else？” So it’s very vivid. That’s the way she talks.

●Have many readers told you that the Chinese mother in your book reminded them of the typical Jewish (有癖好的) mother?

Many people have told me that. I think the mother-daughter relationship is very intense(紧张) in both cases. Culturally there is an acceptance that mothers have the power to tell their children, especially their daughters, how to conduct their lives --- not simply up until the time they are 18, but for the rest of their lives. However, when children grow up in a different culture from their parents’，they tend to keep more secrets from their parents. The children think, “They just wouldn’t understand that I had to do this.” And that can really create a gap, and it can grow as the number of secrets grows.

1.Based on the questions in this interview, what do you think Ms Tan’ s profession is?

A．A journalist.        B．A story-writer.      C．An interviewer.     D．An interviewee.

2.What’ s TRUE about Tan’ s second book?

A．It’ s about her real life in America.

B．The name of the book is The Joy Luck Club.

C．It is the result of many times of carefull thought.

D．It includes many works of her mother.

3.Which question is NOT answered in the interview?

A．How does she think of her mother’ s language?

B．How many books does she plan to write?

C．When did she visit China?

D．How is generation gap created?

4.We can infer that________.

A．Tan’ s mother is a good storyteller

B．Tan plans to write another book about her mother

C．Tan plans to return to China

D．Tan’ s mother is hard to communicate with because of personality

5.The last paragraph mainly talks about________.

A．how to keep secrets from parents

B．how to deal with the mother-daughter relationship

C．how to conduct the lives

D．how the generation gap comes about

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英语中有一句谚语“A friend in need is a friend in indeed.”你班正在举行以”交友之道”为主题的英语演讲比赛，请以此为题并根据下面的提示写一篇120词左右的演讲稿。开头已给出，不计入总词数。

提示：1.对人要友善，用微笑吸引人；

2.要善解人意，设身处地地为别人着想。

3.不要吵架，遇事要商量

4.关心别人要胜过关心自己

5.不要相信那些在危机时刻背离朋友的人。

6.根据你对交友之道的理解，进行适当的补充，并发表自己的看法。

How to make friends

Good morning,everyone!

The topic of my speech today is “How to make friends”.

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Thank you for listening.

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