陕西省西安市五大名校高三第一次模拟考试英语试卷

从每小题的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，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
erupt       

loss           

sword    

pleasure    

watched    

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,并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑.选项中有两个为多余选项。
Peter: Mary, we are going to have a party on New Year’s Eve. I’m sure we’ll have a good time.  Mary: I’d like to. Thank you.  
Peter: In our classroom. We are going to decorate it and turn it into a splendid dancing hall.
Mary:  . I shall be very glad to spend my first New Year in China with you.
Peter: But we are going to ask everyone at the party to give a performance.  
Mary: I will. My voice is not very pleasant to the ear, though.
Peter: I heard you sing once.   I’m sure you’ll be the star of our New Year party.
Mary: Oh，thank you.

E. Oh, it is great.
F. Would you like to join us?
G. Do sing us some English songs, please.

Lorry, ___ university student from America, teaches us ___ history of western art.

— Sorry, I can't return your book today because I am only half way through it.
—____ I have plenty of other books to read.

— Mum, would you please buy me an MP5 player?
— If you can help do some housework the whole vacation，you ____ have one as a reward.

I should convey my appreciation to my high school teachers, without ____ help I wouldn’t achieve such a big success.

People working 10 or 11 hours a day are more likely to suffer from health problems than _____who go off duty after eight hours.

I really don’t know _____ I put my wallet after I paid the bill.

We should consider what use can _____ such a piece of cloth.

The places of interest in Xi’an attract my family all the time, and I hope we _____ ourselves this time next year.

___will the ambulance come. Take it easy and your mom will be OK.

While we were listening to the speech attentively, a voice _____ to announce the result of the election.

—Lily went to see the movie alone.
—If she _____ me about it, I would have gone with her.

Upon arriving home, I was surprised to find the paper I had had _____ was missing.

_____ interesting the film is, I won’t waste any time on it.

His play was popular and every time       about it, he owed his success to the support of his friends.

— Has Tom finished writing his essay today?
— I have no idea. He ______ it this morning.

Life is filled with challenges. As we get older we 26 realize that those challenges are the very things that  27  us and make us who we are, it is the same with the challenges that come with  28 .                                                   
When we are faced with a challenge, we usually have two  29 : we can try to  30  it off, or we can decide that the thing presenting the challenge isn’t worth the  31  and call it quits. Although there are  32  times when calling it quits is the right thing to do, in most  33  all that is needed is commitment and  34 .
When we are devoted to  35 , it means that no matter how  36  or how uncomfortable something is, we will always choose to  37  it instead of running away from it. Communication is making a  38  for discussion and talking about how you feel instead of just saying what the other person did wrong.  39  you can say to a friend, “I got my feelings hurt.”  40  “You hurt my feelings,” you are going to be able to solve the problem much faster.
In dealing with many challenges that friendship will bring to you, try to see them for  41  they are: small hurdles（障碍） you need to jump or  42  on your way through life. Nothing is so big that it is impossible to get over, and hurt only  43  to make us stronger. It’s all part of growing up, it happens to everyone, and some day you will  44 on all of this and say, “ 45  as it was, it made me who I am today. And that is a good thing.”

A．seem to B．come to C．hope to D．try to

A．design B．promote C．direct D．shape

A．success B．pressure C．friendship D．difficulty

A．opportunities B．expectations C．choices D．aspects

A．beat B．show C．take D．fall

A．comment B．loss C．trouble D．expense

A．hardly B．certainly C．consequently D．exactly

A．issues B．cases C．events D．affairs

A．communication B．confidence C．courage D．consideration

A．everything B．anything C．something D．nothing

A．doubtful B．shameful C．harmful D．painful

A．keep B．control C．face D．catch

A．chance B．plan C．topic D．room

A．If B．As C．While D．Unless

A．other than B．rather than C．or rather D．or else

A．what B．who C．where D．which

B．come across C．get through D．run over

A．serves B．means C．aims D．attempts

A．look into B．look for C．look out D．look back

A．Interesting B．Surprising C．Complicated D．Hard

Singing had always been an important part of Gloria Estefan’s life. “Since I was three years old, I sang. I sang everything,” Gloria said. “Cubans,” she added, “are a musical people”.
Gloria was born in Cuba in 1957. Her family left the country just before Fidel Castro came to power. In Miami, where the family settled, many people did not accept Cuban immigrants. In first grade, she spoke little English, but she worked hard to learn the language. Six months after she entered school, she won an award for reading in English!
When Gloria was ten, her father returned from the Vietnam War. Soon, the family realized he wasn’t well. They soon found out that he was badly ill. Her mother went back to teaching at school to support the family. Gloria cared for her father and her younger sister.
She still made the honor roll, and she still had her music, but Gloria was lonely. However, when the band leader Emilio Estefan came to speak at her high school, Gloria sang for him. He asked her to join his band. It was the beginning of the Miami Sound Machine.
Within a few months, the Miami Sound Machine was the top band in Miami. In 1978 Gloria and Emilio married.
At first, the Miami Sound Machine was known only in Miami. Then the band signed with CBS Records. Estefan and his band became stars.
Since then, the Miami Sound Machine has sold millions of records. Gloria has done more than just singing when Hurricane Andrew hit central Florida in 1992. She used only two weeks to organize an all-star concert that raised $2 million for the people who suffered in the hurricane. “We needed a party after that disaster,” she said.
Gloria said, “You have to stay true to the music you really love to do. There will always be people who will tell you, ‘that won’t work.’ You’ve got to be firm in spite of difficulties. Stick to it—that’s the main thing.”
Gloria’s father was ill        .

According to the passage, probably Gloria did the following except        .

The underlined word “disaster” in this passage refers to        .

This passage mainly tells about Gloria Estefan’s        .

Some weird, wild and wonderful stories coloured the news in 2010:
★A Copenhagen bus company has put "love seats" on 103 of its vehicles for people looking for a partner. "Even love at first sight is possible on the bus," said a spokesman for the British owned Arriva company to explain the two seats on each bus that are covered in red cloth and a "love seat" sign.
★Shoppers at an international luxury fair in Verona, Italy, found a cell-phone-equipped golden coffin among the items on display. The phones will help "the dead" contact relatives if they have been buried alive by mistake.
★A man in New York came up with a disarming way to set off his latest bank heist , approaching the clerk’s window with a large bunch of flowers and handing over a hold-up note saying“give me the money!”
★ An Englishman who lost all his legs and arms in an electrical accident successfully swam across the Channel, a challenge he had been preparing for two years. The whole cost is 400 dollars.
★A set of artificial teeth made for Britain's war-time prime minister Winston Churchill known as "the teeth that saved the world" sold for nearly 18,000 pounds (21,500 euros, 24,000 dollars) at auction.
★A British woman caused an Internet hate campaign after she was caught on camera dumping a cat in a rubbish bin. She was fined 250 pounds (400 dollars, 280 euros) after pleading guilty.
★The BBC apologized completely and without any doubts after a radio presenter jokingly announced that Queen Elizabeth II had died.
★Two Australian men needed surgery after shooting each other in the bottoms during a drinking session to see if it would hurt were charged 400 dollars separately.
★ A Kuwaiti MP(议员) proposed state-aid for male citizens to take second wives, in a bid to reduce the large number of unmarried women in the oil-rich state.
What is special about the coffin in the second news?

What is the probable meaning of the underlined wordheist in the third news?

Who has to spend 400 dollars to do the surgery?

From the last news we can infer that _________.

Perhaps a parent’s most important contribution toward raising a trustful child is to develop a relationship founded on trust. A child of any age will feel proud and grown-up if parents frequently show their trust. In court a defendant(被告) is innocent until proved guilty. But in the family, a teenager “defendant” is too often assumed guilty.
Even when the child is caught in a complete lie, this should not be the end of trust. A parent can tell a child that a single lie is forgivable. Yet it should be clear that if lies continue, the child, like the boy who cried wolf, will suffer loss of trust.
When my wife and I discovered that our son Tom, then 13, had lied about throwing a party while we were away, we grounded him for a month. We also told Tom that we could no longer trust him, and we could not allow him to stay alone overnight again. This loss of freedom was an important lesson; he learned how hard it is to live with people when they don’t trust him. As a result, now more than three years later we can again trust Tom to stay alone overnight.
Parents must always remember there is no easy answer to this universal problem of lying. We can set a good example, allow for privacy, monitor friendship, develop trust and punish wrong doing, but still we discover our child has lied to us. Finally that’s why there is a need for trust on both sides of a parent-child relationship. Lying destroys closeness and friendship. For that reason, parents should always try to give a child the feeling that they can be trusted with the truth. Parents may start with a child’s trust, but as the child grows older, parents must earn it.
When the writer and his wife discovered that their son had lied, they _________.

A．took all his freedom from him

B．decided never to trust him again

C．forbade him to stay alone overnight

D．arranged him to stay at home.

We can infer from the passage that very often ________.

According to the passage, the writer believes that _____________.

Thousands of dead red-winged blackbirds fell from the sky in an Arkansas town on New Year’s Eve after massive injuries, tests by Arkansas officials concluded on Monday. Some 5,000 birds mysteriously fell from the sky in Beebe, Arkansas after dark on New Year’s Eve. “The birds suffered from acute physical injuries leading to internal hemorrhage（大量出血） and death. There was no sign of infectious disease,” the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said in a statement. The birds were otherwise healthy, it said.
One theory is that birds were frightened by New Year's fireworks and flew into buildings or other objects. “Loud noises were reported shortly before the birds began to fall from the sky,” the statement said, adding that blackbirds have poor night vision and seldom fly at night.
　　Another theory was that severe weather such as lightning accounted for the loud noises but this was discounted because the violent weather had already left the area. “We’re leaning more toward a stress event," said Arkansas Game and Fish Commission spokesman Keith Stephens.
The commission also is trying to determine what caused the deaths of up to 100,000 fish over a 20-mile stretch of the Arkansas River near a dam in Ozark, 125 miles west of Beebe. The fish were discovered on December 30. Stephens said the commission expected results on the fish tests in probably a month. Since almost all the fish were one species -- bottom-feeding drum, Stephens said, the test was very important. Stephens also said: “The events do not appear related.” Both that section of the river and the air at the site of the bird deaths were tested for toxins(毒素). Beebe is a town of about 4,500 people located 30 miles northeast of the state capital.
What is NOT the probable reason why the dead red-winged blackbirds fell from the sky?

In the third paragraph, the underlined word discounted probably mean________.

According to Stephens, we can infer the probable cause of the dead fish is _________.[来

The passage is mainly developed by __________.

根据短文内容，从下框的A-F选项中选出能概括每一段主题的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余项。

Home security products give a homeowner peace of mind as well as the ability to protect loved ones and physical possessions around-the-clock.
_____
Having the right security products equipped in a home can get rid of home invasion, theft and injury. Home security products should be hidden somewhat and not out in the open for invaders to see. Products that protect one's home should also be linked to the local police department so that they can be notified in the event of an emergency or break-in.
_____
Security products are used for monitoring the home and the properties surrounding the home. Products are designed to warn the homeowner when invasion is taking place or someone is hidden around the property. Most systems are electronic or battery powered and some are linked with cables and satellites to keep a close watch on property.
_____
There are four main kinds of home security products. The first kind is home entry and invasion protection--used for setting up a high tech alarm system. The second is window and door alarms, helpful in warning the homeowner as to who is coming in and out of the house and certain rooms in the home. The third is to keep the outside of the home protected by signaling. The fourth is a combination of security gates, cameras connected to a DVR, bars for windows and doors as well as sliding door lock.
_____ 
One should consider the expense of equipping a complete security system. For most complete systems which include driveway alarms, cameras, and electronic keypads, many can cost from $100 to $10,000. The homeowner can equip individual security products based on the needs of the home and family to save money.
_____
Preventing invasion, theft and injury can save thousands of dollars if the home was broken into and items were stolen. Having home security products equipped can also reduce car and auto insurance moneys.

根据下列各句句意和空白之后的汉语提示词，在答题卡指定区域的横线上写出对应单词的正确形式，每空只写一词。
The teacher tells us the harder we work, the _____(幸福) we feel.
All things ______ (考虑), I think we ought to give the job to George.
Since no one is ______ (反对) it, we’ll adopt the proposal.
If only I had _______ (听) to your advice! But I didn’t.
It is dark and cold, so it is no good ______(等) here. Let’s go home.
My boss really _____(赏识)your talents, which impress him most.  
The children ______ (惊慌失措) when they realized they were lost.
According to a new plan, many _____ (妇女) teachers will be sent abroad.
As he has mastered several ______ (语言), many universities want to hire him.
She sings _____ (极其) well. So she is popular with young girls.

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），并在其下面写出该词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线（ ），并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1.每处错误及修改均仅限一词;
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Alexander was a military genius or great explorer. But he also had a great ambition. He wanted to rule a country that people could live in peace with one another. From 330 to 327 BC, Alexander led his soldier east, through Afghanistan and into Central Asia. As he travel, he built more cities. He ordered soldiers, merchants, and scholars from many lands to settle here.
In 326 BC Alexander turned south, into India. But by now his men were tired and weak. They were far home in an unknown land. The soldiers refused to go farther. Unwillingly, Alexander turned back. By 323 BC, he reached for Babylon in Iraq. There he caught fever and died at the age of 33. His country was divided between his generals.

世界园艺博览会（World Horticultural Exposition）将于2011年4月至10月在西安举行，世园会组委会现向社会招募志愿者，要求有意参加者用英文写一篇短文，文章要包含以下几个方面：
1. 你为什么要成为志愿者；
2. 你胜任志愿者工作的原因；
3. 为圆满完成志愿者工作你将作何准备？
注意：
1. 词数100左右，（不含已写好的部分）；
2. 文章要包含以上所有要点。文章的开头已给出。
I really hope to be a volunteer for the WHE.