2013届度江苏省扬州市高二上学期期中考试英语题

What troubled the teacher was that no one present made an answer when asked who had broken the glasses, so he didn’t know who _____________.

A. was blamed  B. was to be blamed     C. was to blame         D. would be blamed

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Her little son fell off the boat into the water due to her carelessness. The mother couldn’t help _____because she couldn’t help _____ her son out of the danger.

A. crying; to save   B. crying; saving       C. to cry; to save      D. cry; saving

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---I beg your pardon?

---Your mind must be ________ when I was speaking, wasn’t it?

A. wondering    B. wandering    C. walking      D. speaking

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When _____ her father would come soon, she had an _____ look on her face.

A. heard; excited   B. hearing; exciting    C. hearing; excited     D. heard; exciting

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She hurried back to her house, only ________ a lot of her jewels ________.

A. finding; robbed  B. finding; stolen       C. to find; robbed      D. to find; stolen

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The food is not much. How long do you think it will _______?

A. hold on          B. hold back        C. hold out             D. hold together

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The workers in Australian Air Line had been on strike for two weeks. At last they had their pay _______.

A. raised   B. raising  C. risen        D. rising

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She rose with the face red, _______ at the rude waiter.

A. watching B. seeing   C. staring      D. glaring

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The world’s population has grown _____ it was in 1800.

A. six times more than what             B. more than six times what

C. six times more than which    D. more than six times that

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The big house was burnt down in the big fire, nothing ________.

A. remained         B. left                 C. was remaining        D. leaving

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--- Students should try to do a little studying every evening throughout the term, rather than study all night during the week before the exam.

--- Exactly. ____________.

A. Practice makes perfect                 B. The early bird catches the worm

C. Slow but sure wins the race              D. Delays are dangerous

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Always read the ________ on the bottle carefully and take the right amount of medicine.

A. explanations B. instructions C. descriptions D. introductions

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Some insects _______ the colour of their surroundings to protect themselves.

A. take in  B. take off C. take on  D. take out

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The ability _______ an idea is as important as the idea itself.

A. expressing   B. expressed    C. to express   D. to be expressed

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I suppose by the time I come back next year, all these old houses south of the Baoshehe River ________ down.

A. will have been pulled  B. will be pulling    C. will have pulled     D. will be pulled

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Gaddafi’s failure in Sirte _________ him the last opportunity to reestablish the government.

A. spent                B. took             C. cost             D. paid

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It is said that the early European playing-cards ______ for entertainment and education.

A. were designed    B. have designed    C. have been designed  D. were being designed

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Everyone in our class was working hard and doing what we could ______ a good college.

A. enter           B. to enter             C. entering         D. entered

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---Have you got used to your school life here?

---Yes, but I don’t like _______ when we have to do exercise on cold winter mornings.

A. that              B. it                 C. those              D. this

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---_________ she can’t find her keys? She’ll be locked out all night.

---You are right. I’d better call her to check if she’s OK.

A. What about        B. What with          C. What if           D. What for

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My mother used to ask me what was the most important part of the body. Through the years I would 21  what I thought was the correct answer. When I was younger, I thought 22  was very important to us as humans, so I said, “My ears, Mommy”. She said, “No. Many people are 23 . But you keep thinking about it and I will ask you again soon.”

Several years passed 24  she asked me again. Since making my first 25 , I had often thought of the correct answer. So this time I told her， “Mommy, sight is very important to everybody, so it must be our eyes.” She looked at me and told me, “You are 26  fast, but the answer is not correct because there are many people who are blind.”

27  the years, Mother asked me a couple more 28  and always her answer was, “No, but you are getting 29  every year, my child.” Then last year, my Grandpa died. Everybody was crying when it was our 30  to say our final good-bye to Grandpa. Mom asked me, “Do you know the most important body part yet, my dear?”

I was 31  when she asked me this now. I always thought this was a 32  between her and me. She saw the 33  on my face and told me, “This question is very important. It shows that you have really 34  your life.” I saw her eyes well up with tears. She said, “My dear, the most important body part is your 35 .” I asked, “Is it because it holds up your head?” She replied, “No, it is 36  on them a crying friend or loved one can rest their head. I only hope that you have enough 37  and friends that you will have a shoulder to cry 38  when you need it.” Then and there I knew the most important body part is not a 39  one. It is sympathetic to the pain of 40 .

1.A. notice             B. believe         C. doubt            D. wonder

2.A. love               B. health          C. sound            D. sight

3.A. blind              B. deaf            C. lame          D. foolish

4.A. while              B. once             C. after            D. before

5.A. discovery          B. decision        C. attempt          D. suggestion

6. A. learning          B. thinking        C. growing          D. changing

7.A. Before             B. Till            C. Beyond      D. Over

8.A. ways           B. things          C. questions        D. times

9.A. stronger           B. taller          C. smarter          D. nicer

10.A. duty              B. turn            C. pity             D. chance

11.A. shocked           B. satisfied            C. interested       D. excited

12.A. game          B. test            C. match         D. job

13.A. worry        B. puzzlement      C. regret           D. pain

14.A. enjoyed           B. found           C. disliked         D. lived

15.A. shoulders         B. feet            C. hands            D. hair

16.A. how           B. because         C. why          D. whether

17.A. respect           B. favor           C. love             D. fun

18.A. by           B. on              C. above            D. for

19.A. valuable          B. useful          C. selfish          D. precious

20.A. others            B. the deaf        C. Grandpa     D. the blind

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China’s government has been trying all measures to reduce pollution in the past few years. Now people can enjoy a fresh environment everywhere. The following two graphs are adopted from the column of “City Information” on the webpage of Beijing Review.

Graph 1: Olympic Cities Air Quality Report

Graph 2: Chinese National Standard

Notes:

**API stands for Air Pollution Index(指数).

**Particulate matter (PM10) is a major component of air pollution that threatens both our health and our environment. It consists of very small liquid and solid particles floating in the air.

**Sulfur dioxide(SO2) acts as an acid．Inhalation(吸入) results in labored breathing, coughing, or a sore throat and may cause permanent lung damage.

1.According to Graph 1, which of the following cities has the worst air pollution?

A. Qinhuangdao.          B. Tianjin.

C. Qingdao                D. Shenyang.              .

2. If your city is symbolized by either red or purple, the pollution in your city is________.

A. Moderate or high.        B. Moderate or slight.

C. Medium or high.         D. Medium or slight.

3.Which of the following statements is TURE?

A. With API value below 150 the air is free from being polluted.

B. The colors from purple to Yellow indicate the air quality is becoming much worse.

C. When there are floating solid particles and dust in the air, it is dangerous pollution.

D. On September 8th the color-symbol of Beijing City’s air quality is ‘Blue’.

4.When more citizens are beginning to have labored breathing soon after they are in the open air, it suggests that________.

A. there is a large amount of sulfur dioxide in the air

B. it is so cold that they may have caught a cold

C. they are starting to cough or have a fever

D. they must be infected with permanent lung disease

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Friendships are some of the most important relationships that we will ever have in our lives. But how to build a solid friendship? Here are five tips for you.

Tip 1. _____

True friendships can only be built in honesty. This is more than just telling the truth. Being real and open about who you are and your thoughts and feelings are a part of building a solid friendship. If your “friends” don’t even really know you, who are they really friends with?

Tip 2. Shared Experiences

As you build your friendship, you will share many experiences together. Some of these may be great adventures or hard times that the two of you go through together. These shared experiences are things that you will laugh about, talk about, and cry about no matter how much time passes.

Tip 3. Sacrificial（牺牲精神的）love

Love is the basis（基础）of all solid relationships. I am not referring to the emotion（情感） of love, but to the action of love. Love is what will cause a friend to get out of bed in the middle of the night to help another. Love is what will put aside someone’s own wants to make sure that their friend is alright.

Tip 4. Understanding

When a friendship is solid, it will be based on each other’s understanding. You may not agree with everything that a friend says or does, but you will be able to put yourself into his or her shoes to begin to understand. Offering understanding to a friend is very important, as it allows them to feel that they have someone in their corner that they can talk to and who will offer advice and suggestions, without having to worry that if they don’t always follow it, the friendship will be lost.

Tip 5. Acceptance

A solid friendship is one in which two people accept one another, faults and all, for just who they are. There is no having to build up false excuses, or hide away the “dark secrets” from one another. We accept each other as whole, complete, and totally unique people.

1.What’s the best title of Tip 1?

A. Introduction of yourself.             B. Telling the truth

C. Honesty                               D. True friendships

2.Which tip can remind us of an English proverb “Love me, love my dog”?

A. Tip 2.           B. Tip 3.           C. Tip 4.           D. Tip 5.

3.What’s the meaning of the underlined part “put yourself into his or her shoes” in Tip 4?

A. Exchange your shoes with his or hers. B. Try on his or her shoes.

C. Put yourself in his or her position.  D. Force yourself.

4.What’s the best title of the whole passage?

A. A solid friendship                  B. The most important relationships

C. Five tips for you    D. Tips on how to build a solid friendship

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The right to pursue happiness is issued to us all with our birth, but no one seems quite sure what it is.

A holy man in India may think that happiness is in himself. It is in needing nothing from outside himself. If wanting nothing, he lacks nothing. We westerners, however, are taught that the more we have from outside ourselves, the happier we will be, and then we are made to want. We are even told it is our duty to want. Advertising, one of our major industries, exists not to satisfy these desires but to create them---and to create them faster than any man’s money in his pocket can satisfy them. Here, obviously someone is trying to buy the dream of happiness and spending millions upon millions every year in the attempt. Clearly the happiness-market is not running out of customers.

I doubt the holy man’s idea of happiness, and I doubt the dreams of the happiness-market, too. Whatever happiness may be, I believe, it is neither in having nothing nor in having more, but in changing --- in changing the world and mankind into pure states.

To change is to make efforts to deal with difficulties. As Yeats, a great Irish poet once put it, happiness we get for a lifetime depends on how high we choose our difficulties.

It is easy to understand. We even demand difficulty for the fun in our games. We demand it because without difficulty there can be no game. And a game is a way of making something hard for the fun of it. The rules of the game are man-made difficulties. When the player ruins the fun, he always does so by refusing to play by the roles. It is easier to win at chess if you are free, at your pleasure, to cast away all the rules, but the fun is in winning within the rules.

The same is true to happiness. The buyers and sellers at the happiness-market seem to have lost their sense of the pleasure of difficulty. Heaven knows what they are  playing, but it seems a dull game. And the Indian holy man seems dull to us, I suppose, because he seems to be refusing to play anything at all.

The western weakness may be in the dreams that happiness can be bought while eastern weakness may be in the idea that there is such a thing as perfect happiness in man himself. Both of them forget a basic fact: no difficulty, no happiness.

1.Who shares the same idea of happiness with the author?

A. The Indian holy man                B. The great Irish poet Yeats

C. Advertisers                      D. The buyers and sellers at the happiness-market

2.What does “happiness-market” mean in the second paragraph?

A. It means a place in which people can buy things happily

B. It means a market which lacks happy customers

C. It means a pure state for the world and mankind

D. It means a market where people try to buy happiness with money.

3.According to the passage, which of the following is Right?

A. The Indian holy man is much happier than westerner.

B. The westerners understand happiness better than the Indian holy man.

C. There is no fun without playing by the rules

D. Both the eastern weakness and western weakness are the same.

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Ellen and Bill County are both teachers. They met in college and became good friends because of their shared love for children. Two years after the couple got married, Ellen saw a huge change in the life of one of her students, a 9-year-old girl. Three years ago both of the little girl’s parents had died and there was no one to take care of her. She was taken away to live in a government office. But finally she was taken in and adopted by a family and became their daughter. Ellen said that she noticed the difference in the child’s life after she was placed in a permanent home and thought that maybe she and her husband could help a child in a similar way.

They decided to become temporary parents and to take a child into their home on the weekends when the real parents could not take care of him or her. The pair planned to have their own children in a few years, but decided that this would be a way to give to the community in the meantime.

The couple quickly grew to love one of the children they looked after. When he became legally available, Billy became the first child they took in permanently. Six months after adopting Billy, Ellen was told by her doctor that she was unable to have children naturally. Ellen says she knew then that adoption was the way she was meant to have a family.

Since adopting Billy, now 17, Ellen and Bill have adopted five more children --- Rose,16； Albert, 11; Joshua, 5 and in June 2003, they added biological brother and sister Tyler and Rylee to the County family.

The County family has been recognized for their work on adoption, and have received many awards for their efforts. Last June, the family was even interviewed on the television show, “Adoption Stories”.

Ellen says she would like to encourage other families to adopt children. She adds that the best part of being a mother of six is: “Giving Josh a bath, putting a band-aid on a cut knee or just the everyday mom things, that makes motherhood such an honor and a privilege.”

1.What is the passage mainly about?

A. How a couple first met at college                B. Where you can adopt a child

C. The benefits of adoption to the community        D. How adoption created a happy family

2.Why did Ellen and Bill first decide to adopt a childe?

A. Because they had always loved children very much

B. Because they saw the benefits of adoption for a child

C. Because they were not able to have children of their own

D. Because they wanted to receive awards for their community work

3.Which of the children are related to each other by blood?

A. Rylee and Tyler                              B. Billy and Tyler

C. Albert and Joshua                            D. Rose and Albert

4.What can be inferred from this passage?

A. Ellen had thought of adopting a child before getting married.

B. Only kids under 16 can be adopted by a family

C. A loving family is important to a child’s happiness

D. Adopting a child always makes the family become famous

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阅读下列句子，根据所给开首字母，写出符合句子意思的本学期所学单词，注意必要的形式变化。

1.There are two hundred boys r_______ from seven to fourteen in age.

2.Dr. Yuan Longping searched for a way to increase a rich h_______ without increasing the area of fields.

3.When Liu Xiang won the 110-metre hurdle race, he was s________ by the clicking cameras of the media.

4.You’d better b________ yourself or else you’ll be in deep trouble when Mr. Wang comes in.

5.The Spring Festival Gala has developed into an occasion that most Chinese find it hard to ignore, and millions of v________ are watching the performance being broadcast live.

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完成句子（共10小题，每小题1分，共10分）

根据汉语提示，完成下列句子。(每空1词，每小题中错任何1词该小题均不给分)

1. 抓紧时间！我快没有耐心了。

Save time. My patience is beginning to __________ __________.

2. 你想象不到改变他的主意有多难。

You can’t imagine the __________ you have __________ __________ his mind.

3. 她没有办法，只得找了个借口离开了。

She had no choice but to __________ __________ an excuse and left.

4. 怀特先生宣布他们将把电脑的产量削减百分之十。

Mr. White declared that they would _______ ________ ________ the production of computers by 10 percent.

5. 他喜爱音乐，尤其是经典作品。

He is fond of music, classics ________ _________.

6. 这样不得人心的政策是很难推行下去的。

It is hard to ____________ __________ ___________ such an unpopular policy.

7. 振作起来！你迟早会实现成为作家的梦想。

_________ _________! You will realize your dream of becoming a writer sooner or later.

8. 当被问及这事的时候，他想不出一个合适的回答。

When asked about it, he couldn’t __________ __________ _________ a proper answer.

9. 在我的意愿、父母的意愿和篮球教练的意愿之间，我感到左右为难。

I ________ ________ between what I want, what my parents want and what my basketball coach wants.

10. 我找不到雨伞了。我一定把它忘在图书馆了。

I can’t find my umbrella now. I _________ ____________ ________ it in the library.

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请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。

注意：每空格一个单词。

Some people believe that greed and selfishness has become the basis of modern society. We should return to the old traditions of family and community, and then we will have a better life. To what extent do you agree or disagree with the above opinion?

In this fast-paced world, many values are undergoing major changes. While people traditionally prioritize(区分优先次序) caring, sharing and generosity in life and work, modern people seem to be more self-absorbed and self-concerned.

Modern people act selfishly to survive the harsh competition of life. They say that it is a jungle out there. To survive, you have to fight with whatever means that come handy. Obviously greedy and selfishness go perfectly well with such ideas. In a company, employees do everything they can to get better pay and higher position, even at the cost of colleagues. We are in any way advocating any selfish conduct. It is just that people are pressured to act in a certain way due to outside influences.

In spite of common practice, it is hard to conclude that modern society is built on greed and selfishness, both of which are not newly invented vocabulary. In ancient times people also did greedy and selfish things though such behaviors were more condemned(谴责) then. But we cannot ignore the fact that people in the past lived a relatively more isolated life and faced less pressure compared with their modern twins.

Are we happier to share with others and be generous to them? There is no fixed answer either. Some people take great pleasure helping and giving to others while others feel happy doing the opposite. But I personally think that people should not be too selfish. Caring for others can actually encourage the development of a mutually beneficial relationship.

In conclusion, modern people appear to be more self-centered than those in the past due to strong outside pressure. However, we should encourage people to know the importance of being caring and generous and to build a mutually beneficial relationship with others.

Title: Are Modern People Becoming More Selfish?

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假定你是李华，最近你们班就“什么是幸福”进行了一次讨论。请根据以下要点把你班讨论的情况用英语写一篇短文，并说说你的个人看法。

Recently we have had a discussion about what is happiness. Opinions are divided as follows.

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