福建省福州市八县（市）协作校高三上学期期中联考英语卷

Japan’s refusal to release（释放）      Chinese fishing boat captain had "already caused_____ damage to Sino-Japanese bilateral contacts（双边关系）".

Paper produced every year is         the world's production of vehicles.

The fantastic mud-rock flow in Zhouqu of Gansu at about 22 o’clock on August 7^th, 2010 was considered______ deaths of more than 1,000 natives .

Among millions of people who watched television coverage of the rescue of the Chile’s first miner _________U.S. President Barack Obama, who hailed the operation as an inspiration to the world.   

While a number of villagers in Shangcheng, Henan Province       a kind of disease caused by the biting of a certain worm, very       suffered death.

Today the public is much concerned about the way _______ .

---Do you know the great changes happening in our village at all?
---No, it’s the first time I ________ here.

But for the arrival of the police,  you __________ killed yesterday.

If the food tastes nice, I’ll go to buy some more; _______, I won’t go.

After watching the movie Inception《盗梦空间》, I bought some DVD copies of the film, but now        is left.

Playing QQ’s “Happy Farm” by planting, watering, fertilizing, spraying, harvesting and selling virtual vegetables, fruits and flowers, we can find out _____ all the excitement is about.

The April 10, 2010 air crash, with a Russian Tu-145 plane       Poland’s president Lech Kaczinsky, his wife and many Polish government and military officials, shocked the whole world.

Tom showed me his new cell phone, _______  was small but it could change colors in different weather.   

______ it have been the failure to pick up directions from the ground control that caused the air crash?

--- I’m not good at singing, you know.
---       . It’s just for fun.

The sun was shining when I got on No.151 Bus. We passengers sat jammed together in heavy clothes. No one spoke. That’s one of the 36   rules, which we take for granted(对…不予重视). 37  we see the same faces every day, we prefer to  38  behind our newspapers. People who sit so close together are using those thin sheets of newsprint to keep their  39    .
As the bus came near the Mile, a  40      suddenly rang out “ 41    ! This is your driver speaking.” We looked at the back of the driver’s head. “Put your papers down. All of you.” The  42      came down. “Now, turn and face the person next to you. Go  __43      .”
Surprisingly we all did it. Still no one smiled. I faced an older woman, her head wrapped in a red scarf(围巾).I saw her  44      every day. Our eyes met .We waited for the next  45     from the driver. “Now repeat after me. Good morning neighbor!”
Our voice were  46     .For many of us, these were the  47       words we had spoken that day. But we said them together, like  48     , to the strangers beside us. We couldn’t help 49     .There was the feeling of relief, that we were not being held up（抢劫）. But more, there was the sense of ice being  50     . “Good morning, neighbor.” It was not so   51       after all. Some of us repeated it, others shook hands, many laughed. The bus driver said nothing more. He didn’t  52      to. Not a single newspaper went back up. I heard laughter, a warm sound I had never heard before in  53     .
When I reached my stop, I said   54        to my seatmate, and then jumped off the bus. That day was  55       off better than most.

A．unwritten B．strict C．bus D．city

A．As B．Because C．Although D．When

A．read B．hide C．talk D．sit

A．ways B．methods C．respect D．distance

A．voice B．warning C．suggestion D．message

A．Attention B．Minding C．Help D．Listen

A．driver B．passengers C．papers D．tears

A．on B．round C．ahead D．down

A．still B．nearly C．even D．hardly

A．turn B．talk C．order D．remark

A．loud B．neat C．slow D．weak

A．first B．last C．best D．only

A．passengers B．citizens C．patients D．schoolchildren

A．smiling B．crying C．shouting D．wondering

A．formed B．heated C．broken D．frozen

A．sad B．hard C．ordinary D．shy

A．need B．want C．like D．begin

A．my life B．other words C．public D．Bus 151

A．good morning B．good-bye C．hello D．thanks

A．starting B．seeing C．taking D．turning

Do you love holidays but hate the increase weight that follows? You are not alone.
Holidays are happy days with pleasure and delicious foods . Many people , however , are worried about the weight that comes along with the delicious foods . With proper planning , though , it is possible to control your weight . The idea is to enjoy the holidays but not to eat too much . You don’t have to turn away from the foods that you enjoy . The following suggestions may be of some help to you .
Do not miss meals . Before you leave home for a feast ,have a small , low-fat snack . This may help to keep you from getting too excited before delicious foods .
Begin with clear soup and fruit or vegetables . A large glass of water before you eat may help you feel full .
Use a small plate ; a large plate will encourage you to have more than enough .
Better not have high-fat foods . Dishes that look oily or creamy have much fat in them .
Choose lean meat . Fill your plate with salad and green vegetables.
If you have a sweet tooth , try mints (薄荷) and fruits .They don’t have fat content as cream and chocolate.
Don’t let exercise take a break during the holidays. A 20-minute walk after a meal can help burn off excess calories .
In order to really enjoy your holidays without putting on weight , you’d better  _.

According to the passage , ____ is necessary part to stop you from putting on weight .

Many people can’t help putting weight after the holidays because they _______

Excess calories can be found in your body in the form of _________

Nate suffered a hard blow when he lost his job.His boss had spoken rudely, “Your services are no longer needed.” Nate left the building filled with disappointment.By the time he reached home, he was in a deep depression.When he entered his house, he blurted out to his wife Sophia, “I lost my job.I am a complete failure.” A tense silence followed.Then a smile crept across Sophia’s face.“What great news!” she responded.
“Now you can write the book you have always wanted to write.”
“But I have no job and no prospect of a job,” he objected, completely without hope．“If I struggle to be an author, then what will we live on? Where will the money come from?” Sophia took her husband by the hand and led him to the kitchen．Opening a drawer, she took out a box that was full of cash．“Where on earth did you get this?” Nate gasped.“To whom does it belong?”
“It’s ours!” Sophia replied.“I always knew that one day you would become a great writer if only you were given the chance．From the money you gave me for housekeeping every week, I have saved as much as I could so you would have your chance．Now there is enough to last us a whole year.”
What a surprise! What encouragement! What a wife! The unemployed husband did concentrate on writing that year, and the novel he wrote became a literary(文学)masterpiece.The book is The Scarlet Letter.Sophia had an even greater achievement, and she turned Nathaniel Hawthorne from a poor clerk into a world famous master. 
Which of the following can be inferred from the first paragraph?

Sophia saved money because _______________________．

From the passage we can know that Sophia was __________________________．

What would be the best title for the passage?

Beldon and Canfield are two seashore towns, not far apart．Both towns have many hotels, and in summer the hotels are full of holiday-makers and other tourists．
Last August there was a fire at the Seabreeze Hotel in Beldon．The next day, this news appeared on page two of the town’s newspaper.The Beldon Post:
FIRE AT SEABREEZE
Late last night firemen hurried to the Seabreeze Hotel and quickly put out a small fire in a bedroom．The hotel manager said that a cigarette started the fire.We say again to all our visitors： “Please don’t smoke cigarettes in bed.” This was Beldon’s first hotel fire for five years.
The Canfield Times gave the news in these words on page one：
ANOTHER BELDON HOTEL CATCHES FIRE
Last night Beldon firemen arrived just too late to save clothing, bedclothes and some furniture at the Seabreeze Hotel．An angry holiday-maker said, “An electric lamp probably started the fire．The bedroom lamps are very old at some of these hotels．When I put my bed side light on, I heard a funny noise from the lamp.” We are glad to tell our readers that this sort of adventure does not happen in Canfield．
What are the facts, then? It is never easy to find out the exact truth about an accident．There was a fire at the Seabreeze Hotel last August: that is one fact．Do we know anything else? Yes, we know that firemen went to the hotel．
Now what do you think of the rest of the “news” ?
Which of the following best gives the main idea of this text?

Which of the following are probably facts? 
a.The fire broke out in a bedroom at the hotel．
b.A cigarette started the fire．
c.An old lamp started the fire．
d.The fire broke out at night．
e.There has never been a fire in Canfield．

The Canfield Times used the headline like this in order to make its readers think _____________．

The Canfield newspaper gave a report just the opposite to the Beldon Post by saying that _______．

Many of the most damaging types of weather begin quickly, strike suddenly, and disappear rapidly, destroying small areas while leaving neighboring areas untouched. Such event as a tornado(龙卷风) struck the northeastern part of Edmonton, Alberta, in July 1987. Total damages from the tornado went beyond $250 million, the highest ever for any Canadian storm.
Traditional computer models of the atmosphere have limited value in predicting short-lived local storms like the Edmonton tornado, because the available weather data are generally not detailed enough to allow computers to study carefully the slight atmospheric changes that come before these storms. In most nations, for example, weather-balloon observations are taken just once every twelve hours at places separated by hundreds of miles. With such limited data, traditional forecasting models do a much better job predicting general weather conditions over large areas than they do forecasting specific local events.
Until recently, the observation intensive (十分细致) method needed for exact, very short-range forecasts, or “Nowcasts,” was not possible. The cost of equipping and operating many thousands of conventional weather stations was extremely high, and the difficulties concerned in rapidly collecting and processing the weather data from such a network were hard to overcome.
Fortunately, scientific and technological advances have overcome most of these problems. Radar(雷达) systems and satellites are all able to make detailed, nearly continuous observation over large areas at a lower cost. Communications satellites can send out data around the world cheaply and immediately, and modern computers can quickly collect and analyze this large amount of weather information.
Meteorologists(气象学者) and computer scientists now work together to design computer programs and video equipment able to change weather data into words and graphic displays(图解) that forecasters can understand easily and quickly. As meteorologists have begun using these new technologies in weather forecasting offices, nowcasting is becoming a reality.
Why can’t traditional computer models predict short-lived local storms?

The word “Nowcast” in Paragraph 3 means       .

What can make “Nowcasts” a reality according to the passage?

What does the passage mainly talk about?
A.The advantages of “Nowcatsts”.              
B.A tornado in Edmonton, A1bertA.
C.The difficulty in predicting tornado.
D.A great development in weather forecast.

“To be or not to be”.Outside the Bible, these six words are the most famous in all the literature of the world.They were spoken by Hamlet when he was thinking aloud, and they are the most famous words in Shakespeare because Hamlet was speaking not only for himself but for every thinking man and woman.To be or not to be----to live or not to live, to live richly and abundantly and eagerly, or to live dully and meanly and scarcely．A philosopher(哲学家) once wanted to know whether he was alive or not, which is a good question for everyone to put to himself occasionally.He answered it by saying, “I think, therefore I am.”
But the best definition of existence I ever saw was one written by another philosopher who said, “To be is to be in relations.” If this is true, then the more relations a living thing has, the more it is alive．To live abundantly means simply to increase the range and intensity （强度）of our relations．Unfortunately, we are so constituted (自作决定的)that we get to love our routine．But other than our regular occupation, how much are we alive? If you are interested only in your regular occupation, you are alive only to that extent．So far as other things are concerned----poetry and prose, music, pictures, sports unselfish friendships, politics, international affairs----you are dead.
On the contrary, it is true that every time you acquire a new interest----even more, a new accomplishment----you increase your power of life．No one who is deeply interested in different kinds of subjects can remain unhappy.The real pessimist is the person who has lost interest．
Bacon said that a man dies as often as he loses a friend．But we gain new life by contacts with new friends, and new ideas and thoughts, too．Where your thoughts are, there will be your life also．If your thoughts are limited only to your business, only to your physical welfare, only to your narrow circle of the town in which you live, then you live in a narrow restricted (有限的) life．But if you are interested in the characters of a good novel, then you are living with those highly interested people; if you listen intently to fine music, you are always away from immediate surroundings and living in a world of passion and imagination．
To be or not to be ---- to live intensely and richly, or merely to exist, that depends on ourselves.Let us widen and intensify our relations．While we live, let us live．
What does the author mainly want to do by this passage?

What does the underlined word “pessimist” most probably mean?

Which of the following behaviors is most probably NOT encouraged by the author?

What is the main idea of the passage?

短文填词（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
Once upon a time there was a farmer who worked hard in the fields
every day. One day, w____ he was ploughing the fields, he heard a           
striking sound. He saw a _____ lying by the trunk. He                     
picked it_____ and found that it was a fat rabbit. He thought                 
to h_____," Since it is so easy to get a rabbit like that, why should I           
work so hard all day long?’! He t____ his hoe away and lay by the          
tree every day, _____ (梦想着) for more rabbits to come.                   
When he f____ realized his foolishness and returned to his                  
fields, he found that all his crops were ____ (死了). The story tells            
us that we should not wait for unexpected gains ____ chance.                 
Or, we should not hope to get ______(报酬) without hard work.            _

社会发展到了2080年，照顾老年人成了一个突出的社会问题。你公司顺应社会需求适时推出了家用机器人。该机器人的主要功能有：
1、可以在固定的时间做饭，做饭时间可以根据个人需要进行调整；
2、可以陪老人聊天、下棋、做运动等；
3、及时处理突发事件，例如在老人突然病倒时及时拨打呼救电话等。
请你根据以上内容写一个发言稿，在新闻发布会上向大家推荐你公司的这一新产品。
注意： 
1、词数：120左右；
2、内容可适当发挥，注意行文连贯；
3、短文开头已为你写好，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：突发事件 emergencies
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