2010年陕西省临渭区高一下学期期末考试英语卷

从A、B、C、D四个选项中找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

1.vegan             A. yoghurt     B. energy     C. vegetarian     D. digest

2. chemical          A. chant       B. stomach    C. choice        D. perch

3.diet              A. achievement  B. variety     C. brief         D. believe

4.thunderstorm      A. within       B. southern     C. cloth        D. breathe

5.examine          A. explain      B. example     C. exercise      D. exit

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—It is said that most of us have passed the job interview. What about you?

—I________ the written papers but failed the oral test.

A. looked through       B. read through      C. pulled through      D. got through

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The tourists screamed their ________  down to a safe landing when they were sitting in car that “fell” through the air from a tall tower.

A. direction            B. road             C. way              D.voice

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There are hundreds of visitors ________ in front of the Art Gallery to have a look at Van Gogh’s paintings.

A. waited             B. to wait           C. waiting           D. wait

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Just like spoken language, body language ________ from culture to culture,

A. changes            B. varies            C. exchanges        D. appears

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________ the rides at the Headland, visitors can take the shuttle to the Lowland.

A. Enjoying      B. Enjoy      C. Having enjoyed     D. Having been enjoyed

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—What’s made you so upset?

—________ with my best friend.

A. Quarrel       B. Quarrelling  C. Because of quarrelling   D. Since I quarreled

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— Want to have a drink？

—No. ________

A. I would rather not to                B. I would rather not

C. I’d better not to                    D. I’d better not.

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— Got your driving license?

— No. I ________ too busy to have enough practice, so I didn’t take the driving test last week.

A. was        B. have been       C. had been        D. am

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— How often do you eat out?

— ________, but usually once a week.

A. It depends                        B. Have no idea

C. As usual                         D. Generally speaking

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To her surprise, the life she had been looking forward to ________ to be unpleasant.

A. prove         B. being proved         C. proving         D. proved

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I don’t think math ________

A. easily to be learned                B. easily to learn

C. easy to be learning                 D. easy to learn

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Some birds fly ________ in winter and some stay in the north.

A. south        B. the south         C. in the south          D. to south

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________ it is to have a cold drink on such a hot day!

A. What a fun       B. How fun       C. What fun         D. How a fun

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“Do you have any clothes________ today, Master?” asked the servant politely.

A. to wash         B. to be washed        C. washing        D. being washed

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The students had the lights ________ for almost three hours.

A. to burn         B. burning         C. burnt           D. to be burning

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根据对话情景和内容，从对话后所给的选项中选出能填入每一空白处的最佳选项。选项有两个为多余选项。（此题请答在答题纸上）

—He is very good, isn’t he?

—6

—I said the singer was great.

—7

—Have you seen him here before?

—8  I think he probably writes the music and words because I’ve never heard any of the songs before.

—It’s not fair.

—9

—People with musical ability like that having to stand here to make a living.

—10

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读下面短文，从短文后面各题的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出适合填入对应空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Every summer a great many students travel to other countries looking for work and adventure. Most of the 26  are in seasonal work, mainly connected with wourism and 27

The pay is usually poor, but most people work abroad for the 28  of travel. You can pick grapes on farms in France, entertain kids on American summer camps, and, of course, there are 29  jobs in hotels and restaurants.

But it is not easy now to find work. “30  you speak the language of the country well, there will be very few openings,” says Althea Ellis, an adviser in 31  for students.

“If you work with a family in Italy, you’ll have to speak Italian. When you wash dishes in a restaurant in Pairs, the owner will expect you to speak 32  . British students only have a language 33  for jobs in the USA and Australia.”

34  enjoys the experience. Sarah James was employed to help forty American children in Europe. The two teachers with the children had never been 35  .One child lost his passport; another became seriously ill and was 36   home; the whole group was thrown out of one hotel because of the 37  they made, and what’s worse, Sarah herself was robbed on her only 38  evening of the entire trip. “ I did visit a lot of new places,” she says,“ but it wasn’t worth it. The pay was 39  and it really was a 24-hour-a-day job. The kids never slept!”

“The troubles is, students expect to have a(n) 40  time of it.” Althea Ellis points out. “After all, they see it as a 41  .In practice, 42  ,you have to work hard. At the same time, all vacation work is casual (临时的) work. You’ll have a job when the hotel, the restaurant, or the campsite is busy. In the other words, you’ll work if it’s convenient for the company that 43  you. But you have 44  employment rights. As soon as the holiday season 45 ,they’ll get rid of you.”

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Twenty years ago, I drove a taxi for a living. One night I went to pick up a passenger at 2:30 a.m. When I arrived to collect, I found the building was dark exvept for a single light in a ground floor window.

I walked to the door and knocked, “Just a minute,” answered a weak, elderly voice.

After a long pause, the door opened. A small woman in her eighties stood before me. By her side was a small suitcase.

I took the suitcase to the car, and then returned to help the woman. She took my arm and we walked slowly toward the car.

She kept thanking me for my kindness. “It’s nothing,” I told her. “I just try to treat my passengers the way I would want my mother treated. ”

“Oh, you’re such a good man.”  She said. When we got into the taxi, she gave me an address, and then asked, “ Could you drive through downtown?”

“It’s not the shortest way,” I answered quickly.

“ Oh, I’m in no hurry.” She said, “I’m on my way to a hospice (临终医院)。 I don’t have any family left. The doctor says I don’t have very long.”

I quietly reached over and shut off the meter(计价器)

For the next two hours, we drove through the city. She showed me the building where she had once worked, the neighborhood where she had lived, and the furniture shop that had once been a ballroom where she had gone dancing as a girl.

Sometimes she’d ask me to slow down in front of a particular building and would sit staring into the darkness, saying nothing.

At down, she suddenly said, “I’m tired. Let’s go now.”

We drove in silence to the address she had given me.

“How much do I owe you?” She asked.

“Nothing.” I said.

“You have to make a living,” she answered. “Oh, there are other passengers,” I answered.

Almost without thinking, I bent and gave her a hug. She held onto me tightly. Our hug ended with her remark, “You gave an old woman a little moment joy.”

1.The old woman chose to ride through the city in order to ________.

A. Show she was familiar with the city

B. reach the destination on time

C. let the driver earn more money

D. see some places for the last time.

2.The taxi driver did not charge the old woman because he ________

A. wanted to do her a favor

B. shut off the meter by mistake

C. had received her payment in advance

D. was in a hurry to take other passenhers

3.What can we learn from the story?

A. Giving is always a pleasure

B. People should respect each other

C. An act of kindness can bring people great joy.

D. People should learn to appreciate others’ concern.

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Robert Spring, a 19^tth century forger(伪造者)，was so good at his profession that he was able to make his living for 15 years by selling false signatures of Americans. Spring was born in England in 1813 and arrived in Philadelphia in 1858 to open a bookstore. At first he became rich by selling his small but real collection of early U.S. autographs（手稿）. Discovering his ability at copying handwriting, he began imitating signatures of George. Washington and Ben Franklin and writing them on the title pages of old books. To lessen the chance of detection(察觉), he sent his forgeries to England and Canada for sale.

Forgers have a hard time selling their products. A forger can’t deal with a respectable buyer but people who don’t have much knowledge in the field. Forgers have many ways to make their work look real. For example, they buy old books to use the aged paper of the title page, and they can treat paper and ink with chemical.

In Spring’s time right after the Civil War, Britain was still fond of the Southern states, so Spring invented a respectable maiden lady known as Miss Fanny Jackson, the only daughter of General “Stonewall” Jackson. For several years Miss Fanny’s financial problems forced her to sell a great number of letters and manuscripts(手稿). Spring had to work very hard to satisfy the demand. All this activity did not prevent Spring from dying in poverty, leaving sharp-eyed experts the difficult task of separating his forgeries from the originals.

1.Why did Spring sell his false autographs in England and Canada?

A. There is a greater demand there than in America.

B. There was less chance of being detected there.

C. Britain was Spring’s birthplace.

D. The price were higher in England and Canada.

2. After the Civil War, there was a great demand in Britain for ________

A. Southern money

B. Signatures of George Washington and Ben Franklin

C. Southern manuscripts and letters

D. Civil War battle plans

3.According to the passage, forgeries are usually sold to ________

A. sharp-eyed experts           B. persons who aren’t experts

C. book dealers                D. owners of old books

4. Who was Miss Fanny Jackson?

A. The only daughter of General “Stonewall” Jackson

B. A little –known girl who sold her father’s to Robert Spring

C. Robert Spring’s daughter

D. An imaginary person created by Spring.

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Do you know about a series of books that say they are “for dummies”? These American self-help books have been translated into more than thirty-nine language including Chinese, Arabic, Russian, French, German, Greek and Spanish.

“Dummy” is a word for a stupid person. The dummies books are not really for stupid people. They are designed to show people how to do something they may never have tried before, like painting a house or learning a language. The books all say in a funny way that they are for dummies, such as World History for Dummies, Rabbits for Dummies, Chinese Cooking for Dummies, and Wedding Planning for Dummies. The first such book, Dos for Dummies, was published in 1991. It helped people learn how to use the DOS operating system for computers. Since then, more than one hundred fifty million dummies books have been sold.

The dummies. Com website explains the idea behind the books. It says that they show that people can be taught to do anything. First they can make fun of ideas that are difficult to understand. Then they show how the information can be interesting and easy. The publishers say that the books do not provide more information than necessary. They give readers just enough information to do what they want. They say that the dummies books give the best and easiest way to do something. And the books use simple and easy language.

These are more than one thousand different dummies books. A report in New York Times say that the top-selling dummies books are those that explain technology and personal finance.

The publishers say that the best-selling dummies books are those providing information many people need-like information about diseases books to help them. And there are even more dummies books to come. The publishers say that they publish about two hundred new dummies books every year.

1. Which of the following can be the best title of the passage?

A. Books for Dummies            B. The Easiest, the Best

C. Self-Help Books               D. New Ideas behind the books

2.According to the dummies.com website, people can ________with the help of dummies books.

A. simple some personal things       B. do anything they want

C. become expert in any field         D. learn any foreign language

3.The dummies books have been popular because ________

A. they provide just what is needed and are easy to understand

B. they provide abundant information on the concerning subject

C. people can learn to do anything with just one copy

D. people can save lots of money through self-teaching

4. According to New York Times, we know that books on ________ sell best.

A. technology and personal finance       B. opera and car repairing

C. diseases and education               D. cooking and world history

5.What can we learn from the passage?

A. The first dummies book was on Chinese cooking.

B. The dummies books will continue to be popular

C. Fifty million different dummies books have been published.

D. The simple language was intended for child readers.

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To the Editor,

I have been reading your newspaper, the Hometown Gazette, for the past two years, ever since I moved to Smithville. We moved here from New York City, so I am accustomed(习惯的) to reading excellent newspapers such as The New York Times . In fact, we still have the Times delivered on Sundays. The entire family enjoys reading the recipes（食谱） in the magazine, as well as the Styles section.

The Times is great, but the Gazette is another story. I’ve never read an article that doesn’t contain at least three or four spelling or grammatical errors. For instance, in last week’s issue you misspelled the word “secretary”, used a singular verb with a plural noun, and used “it’s” as a possessive (所有格). And that was just in the lead story! In case you never went to elementary school, “it’s” means “it is ”.It’s also a possessive adjective!

It’s a pity that this tiny little hick(乡下) town has only one newspaper, because I’d like to have an alternative(替换物) to the rag you publish. I find it hard to believe your news stories. If you can’t spell correctly. How can you get your facts right?

I’ve been meaning to get this off my chest for some time. Please cancel my subscription(订阅). And buy yourself a dictionary.

Sincerely,

Jane Z, Jones

1. Which phrase from the passage shows the writer’s prejudice(偏见)?

A. get this off my chest

B. three or four spelling or grammatical errors

C. tiny little hick town

D. reading the recipes in the magazine

2.The author’s tone in this passage can best be described as ________

A. happy        B. angry       C. sympathetic(同情的)         D. objective

3.Which statement of the following is not true according to the passage?

A. The writer once lived in New York City, so he was used to reading the Times.

B. The entire family enjoys reading the Styles section in the mafazine.

C. The writer has long been planning to express his dissatisfaction with the local newspaper

D. It is obvious that the editors of the newspaper are not very careful about their work.

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请将标有A~F的备选项插入文章中标号为1~5的合适位置，使其意义完整，结构连贯；期中有一个备选项是多余的。（此题请答在答题纸上）。

A cover girl, anchorwoman(女主持人), aithor, actress, singer and master(硕士)….If you put all these images together, you may get a Korean woman called Lee Youngse. 61

No wonder she was chosen to play Jang Germ, a perfect woman, in the hugely popular TV drama Dae Jang Geum(大长今)

62.  Her parents and two brothers held her in special favor “ I often got injured from head to foot. But I never felt unhappy about that; the wounds were the records of happy memories.”

63.  She later entered college majoring in German and decided to be a teacher.

64  She was described as “a transparenr(透明的) woman” Korean people loved the girl and called her “ the oxygen beauty”. Lee felt the pressure of fame and was pushed into the entertainment world.

Lee first appeared on TV in 1993. She won various awards and acted in many best-selling films, but it was Dae Jang Geum that helped her to become an international star.

65.  How could she manage to do that? Lee explained, “ Forget the lines you have said and make room for new ones.”

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根据下列句子所给单词的汉语揭示，在横线上写出该单词的正确形式。

66. Big cities have many ________ (娱乐项目) and you can enjoy some of them in your spare time,

67. Mr. Smith is a ________ (幽默) person, because he has a born ability to make people laugh.

68. As soon as she got off the plane, she ________ (联系) me by cell phone.

69. Jim looked into her eyes and said ________ (轻柔地) “ I love you”

70. Many young people are ________ (痴迷) about Yao Ming, a basketball player.

71. Let’s ________ (分成) ourselves into several groups.

72.________(很幸运), a kind farmer passed by and sent him to hospital in time.

73. He is much respected as a very ________ (有进取心的) and competitive leader.

74. She is a ________ (毕业) of Oxford.

75. You ________(误解) my words.

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此题要求改正所给短文中的错误，对标有题号的每一行做出判断；

如无错误，在答题卡该行后的横线上画∨，如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：

此行多一个词，在答题卡短文上把多余的词用\划掉，在答题卡该行后的横线上写出该词，并也用\划掉。

此行缺一个词：在答题卡短文缺词处加一个漏词符号∧，在答题卡该行后的横线上写出该词。

此行错一个词：在答题卡短文错的词下划一横线，在答题卡该行后的横线行写出该加的词

注意：原行没有错的不要改。

I went to see the film after supper. On my way to the                    76.________

cinema. I met an English woman, who lost her way.                        77.________

I gave up the chance see the film and took her to her                        78.________

hotel. While go there, I told her about great changes                        79.________

that had been taken place here in the past few years                         80.________

and she had told me something about her country,                          81.________

Although I missed the film, but I still felt very happy, for                    82.________

I had not only helped her out of trouble but practiced                       83.________

my spoken English. If I had not worked hard on                           84.________

English, I would not have been able to help him.                           85.________

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学生之间是否应该在自习课上讨论问题？你所在班级就此话题展开了讨论。根据下列内容用英语写一篇100字左右的短文。

赞成：45%     理由：1.可以更好的解决问题；  2. 互相取长补短

反对：55%     理由：1.声音大，影响他人学习；2.无法独立思考问题。

注意：文章标题和开头已给出，但不计入总词数。

Should We Study by Talking in Self-study Classes?

Lately our class has had a discussion on whether we should study by talking in self-study classes. Views vary from person to person. ________

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