江苏宿迁沭阳银河学校高二12月月考英语试卷

The film 2014 has filled some people with ________ fear that ________ man will meet terminal disasters in 2014.

The noise _______, she couldn’t live here any longer.

No matter how frequently ________, the works of Beethoven still attract people all over the world.

The lawyer suggested that the problem worth paying attention_____ at the next meeting.

She is a vegetarian. She will ______ if you mention eating meat in front of her.

The setting sun was reflected on the river, ________ everything along the banks ________ all the more beautiful.

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

The lack of evidence and witness led to _______.

The good thing about children is that they ________ very easily to new environments.

So much of interest ________ that most visitors run out of time before seeing it all.

--What’s the event like?
--Several witnesses’ _______differ from the official version.

With a lot of difficult problems_________, they are working hard day and night!

With more trees being destroyed, huge quantities of soil ________ each year.

The big fire in Shanghai, believed to ________ due to the burning of construction materials, caused 58 deaths and destroyed all the belongings of the people there.

-- What do you think of this new five-year plan?
-- We believe it will ________ the peace, stability and prosperity of our country in future.

After the students put up New Year decorations, the classroom ________ a holiday appearance.

It’s time I ________to the company, and it is the first time that I ________there.

She studied the young man’s expression with her _____ eyes, because she didn’t believe him.

Nowadays, more and more people are addicted _______ shopping on the Net, ______a challenge to traditional department stores.

This candidate has far more chances of winning the election than _________ recommended by the organizer.

-- Do you think it ________ to spend 70 yuan watching the film “The flowers of war”?
-- Haven’t you seen the film? I think it is well ________ the money.

As we have mentioned previously, we will be dedicated to solving the problem within the current framework, rather than _____ a new one.

The possibility of a murder _____, the police have set about looking for the clues to her suicide.

The flowers ________ sweet in the garden look ________ and attract the visitors to the beauty of nature.

The more you practise _____ English, the better your _____ English will be.

Having a trip abroad is certainly good for the old couple, but it remains ______whether they will enjoy it.

He is a man of few words, and seldom speaks until _______ to.

--_____ us a definite answer can’t solve the problem.
--I agree with you. Someone must have a talk with him.

____ awake, he finished a cup of coffee and ordered another.

Much disappointed as he is _______ in the job interview, he still keeps his confidence.

Sharpen your axe (斧头)
A young man approached the foreman (工头)of a logging crew and asked for a job.
“That       ” replied the foreman. “Let’s see you fell this tree.”
The young man stepped forward and skillfully    a great tree.     , the foreman exclaimed, “You can start Monday.”
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday    and on Thursday afternoon the foreman approached the young man and said, “You can pick up your    on the way out today.”      , the young man replied, “I thought you paid on Friday.”
“    we do,” said the foreman. “But we’re letting you go today because you’ve    . Our daily felling charts show that you’ve    from first place on Monday to last place today.”
“But I’m a    worker,” the young man objected. “I arrive first, leave last, and    have worked through my coffee breaks!”
The foreman,     the young man’s honesty, thought for a minute and then asked, “Have you ____ your axe?”
The young man replied, “No, sir, I’ve been working too hard to take time for    !”
Our lives are like that. We sometimes get so    that we don’t take time to sharpen the axe. In today’s world, it seems that everyone is busier than ever, but    happy than ever. Why is that? Could it be that we have forgotten how to    sharp?
There’s nothing wrong with activity and hard work. But we all need time to    , to think and meditate(谋划), to learn and    . If we don’t take time to sharpen the axe, we will become    and lose our effectiveness.

A．depends B．expects C．experiences D．makes

A．cut down B．pulled down C．moved away D．put down

A．Scared B．Disappointed C．Impressed D．Approved

A．ran off B．went by C．came on D．went along

A．spirit B．effort C．work D．paycheck

A．Discouraged B．Moved C．Astonished D．Satisfied

A．Unfortunately B．Excitedly C．Commonly D．Normally

A．fallen behind B．finished up C．cut up D．speeded up

A．reduced B．dropped C．decreased D．climbed

A．excellent B．new C．young D．hard

A．usually B．even C．yet D．ever

A．noticing B．observing C．sensing D．watching

A．repairing B．sharpening C．breaking D．operating

A．that B．one C．those D．something

A．busy B．tired C．easy D．ready

A．more B．rather C．less D．most

A．make B．turn C．grow D．stay

A．explore B．motivate C．relax D．work

A．grow B．observe C．play D．practice

A．full B．dull C．stupid D．lazy

London-Lazy students can now give up on work altogether as two Oxford University students have made scores of A-grade essays on the website for students to copy.
The essays are on the new website, “revise.it”
The website includes an “EssayLab” designed to make cheating (舞弊) as effective and effortless as possible.
Its homepage announces to surfers (网上冲浪者): “The revise.it EssayLab is a bank of hundreds of A-Level essays covering popular topics.”
“Next time you are asked to write an essay, why not see what we have on the subject-if you are in a lazy state of mind you can even use our guide to writing the essays and then just hand them in.”
Nick Rose and Jordan Mayo, both 19 and first from Manchester, spent much of their first year as students at the university setting up the website. There is no charge for downloading the essays.
“I have never been very good at essay writing,” Rose admitted. “We don’t see essay bank as a cheating way. It’s a surprising valuable resource. You can learn a lot by reading other people’s work on the subject.”
Among other tips, the website suggests inventing important speeches to give essays extra weight: “Popular people to quote (引用) are Douglass Hurd or Disraeli.”
Hurd was a foreign secretary in the 1980s and Disraeli was a 19^th century prime minister.
Teachers are expressing their opinions by e-mail that they are angry about the website that “encourages students to cheat”, but students disagree.
According to Rose: “Exams are a fight. It’s us against them.”
It can be inferred from this passage that ______.

Nick Rose and Jordan Mayo set up their website for the purpose of ______.

What Rose said at last suggests that in England ______.

Fish have ears. Really. They’re quite small and have no opening to the outside world carrying sound through the body. For the past seven years, Simon Thorrold, a university professor, has been examining fish ears, small round ear bones called otoliths.
As fish grow, so do their otoliths. Each day, their otoliths gain a ring of calcium carbonate (碳酸钙). By looking through a microscope (显微镜) and counting these rings, Thorrold can determine the exact age of a young fish. As a fish gets older, its otoliths no longer get daily rings. Instead, they get yearly rings, which can also be counted, giving information about the fish’s age, just like the growth rings of a tree.
Ring counting is nothing new to fish scientists. But Thorold has turned to a new direction. They’re examining the chemical elements (元素) of each otolith ring.
The daily ring gives us the time, but chemistry tells us about the environment in which the fish swam on any given day. These elements tell us about the chemistry of the water that the fish was in. It also says something about water temperature, which determines how much of these elements will gather within each otolith ring.
Thorrold can tell, for example, if a fish spent time in the open ocean before entering the less salty water of coastal areas. He can basically tell where fish are spending their time at any given stage of history.
In the case of the Atlantic croaker, a popular saltwater food fish, Thorrold and his assistant have successfully followed the traveling of young fish from mid-ocean to the coast, a journey of many hundreds of miles.
This is important to managers in the fish industry, who know nearly nothing about the whereabouts of the young fish for most food fish in the ocean. Eager to learn about his technology, fish scientists are now lending Thorrold their ears.
What can we learn about fish ears from the text?

Why does the writer compare the fish to trees?

Why is it important to study the chemistry of otolith rings?

How would you understand “fish scientists are now lending their ears”?

Scientists have found what look like caves on Mars, and say they could be protecting life from the planet’s terrible environment.
The first caves discovered beyond the Earth appear as seven mysterious black dots on the pictures sent back by NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter. Each as large as a football field, they may be openings into natural caves below the Martian surface.
“If there is life on Mars, there is a good chance you’d find it in caves,” said Jut Wynne, one of the researchers who noticed the features while working on a US Geological Survey Mars Cave Detection Program.
Jonathan Clarke, a geologist with the Mars Society of Australia, yesterday described the discovery as exciting.
One photo taken at night by an infrared imager(红外线成像器) showed one hole to be unusually warm, suggesting hot air trapped during the day is flowing out.
“I said: ‘Wow, that’s a cave’.” Dr. Clarke said excitedly. “People have been looking for these for a long time; now we have found them.”
He agreed such caves would be perfect places to hunt for life escaping from the bitterly cold, radiation-soaked(充满辐射的), dry surface.
“Tiny drops of water could collect inside,” he said. “If there are gases coming out, they could provide energy for a whole range of bacteria. A cave is also a protection from radiation; the surface of Mars is exposed to high levels of space radiation.”
The caves probably formed when tube-shaped lave flows(管状岩浆流) spread across the planet long ago. The outside of the tubes cooled, forming solid walls, while something hotter inside allowed the remaining have to flow out, forming caves.

What does the passage mainly talk about?

What can the “cave” be used for according to the scientists?
A. They can protect life from the planet’s terrible environment.
B. They can provide energy for people’s life.
C. They can be used to prevent space radiation
D. Both A and C.
We can learn from the passage that      .

According to the passage, Dr. Clarke was so excited because      .

Necessary conditions for life on Mars mentioned in the passage may include      .

Taxes, Taxes and More Taxes
Americans often say that there are only two things a person can be sure of in life; death and taxes. Americans do not have a corner on the “death” market, but many people feel that the United States leads the world with the worst taxes.
Taxes consist of the money which people pay to support their government. There are generally three levels of government in the United States: federal (联邦), state, and city; therefore, there are three types of taxes.
Salaried people who earn more than a few thousand dollars must pay a certain percentage of their salaries to the federal government. The percentage varies form person to person. It depends on their salaries. The federal government has a graduated income tax, that is, the percentage of the tax (14 to 70 percent) increases as a person’s income increases. With the high cost of taxes people are not very happy on April 15, when the federal taxes are due.
The second tax is for the state government: New York, California, North Dakota, or any of the other forty-seven states. Some states have an income tax similar to that of the federal government. Of course, the percentage for the state tax is lower. Other states have a sales tax, which is a percentage charged to any item(项目) which you buy in that state. For example, a person might want to buy a packet of cigarettes for twenty-five cents. If there is a sales tax of eight percent in that state, then the cost of the cigarettes is twenty-seven cents. This figure includes the sales tax. Some states use income tax in addition to sales tax to raise their revenues (收入). The state tax laws are various and confusing.
The third tax is for the city. This tax comes in two forms: property tax (people who own a home have to pay taxes on it) and excise (国产) tax, which is charged on cars in a city. The cities use these funds for education, police and fire departments, public works and municipal (市政内) buildings.
Since Americans pay such high taxes, they often feel that they are working one day each week just to pay their taxes. People always complain about taxes. They often protest that the government uses their tax dollars in the wrong way. They say that it spends too much on useless and impractical programs. Although Americans have different views on many issues, they tend to agree on one subject: taxes are too high.
How do you understand the sentence “Americans do not have a corner on the ‘death’ market”?

Why should the American people usually pay three types of taxes?

What does the title “Taxes, Taxes, and More Taxes” imply?

I used to be the messiest person alive. Over the years, through watching others and by trial and error, I have finally found ways to come up with plans, organize them and follow through with them.
Make an outline of everything you need to have and do to make your plan happen. Make a list of all of the steps that need to be accomplished and think about what needs to be done.
Detail everything thoroughly and read over it so you can start coming up with some mental solutions of how to carry out your plans.
You should ensure that if for some reason way one doesn’t work, you have way two and way three to lean back on. Therefore, different ways are needed at hand. It’s just a matter of being organized. Chances are that there is always more than one way of doing things, and chances are that if one of those ways doesn’t work, one of the other ones will.
Committing yourself to finishing at least part if not all of your plan at once is also necessary. It will show that you not only have initiative to get things rolling, but that you are interested in the results obtained with making the move to get everything done.
If you make a commitment to finish before a specific time, make sure that you carry that out, and be sure to do everything in the way you said you would, within the time-frame you set for yourself.
Don’t try to tackle more things all at a time. All that does is delay your progress, distract you and make you lose your interest, motivation and energy.
Carrying out an effective plan requires being as organized as possible. You will only achieve this by sticking to the order of the plan and not deviating or trying to do more at a time.
Last but not the least, you should never abandon things mid-project. It will only annoy everyone around you including yourself. Unfinished plans are a waste of time, energy and, in some cases, even money.
So, don’t be afraid of organization. The older we get, the more necessary it becomes to have the skills to follow through with confidence and to be able to carry through plans in an organized and manageable way. It pays to be organized, after all.

Title: Tips on how to be_____ in your life
Tips	Details	_____
_____ down your plan	◆List everything you need ◆List_____ you will follow	To make your plan happen
Prepare three_____ ways to carry out your plan		To____ that you can have some other choices when one way doesn’t work
_____ to finish at least part of your plan if not all	Do everything _____ your own time-frame	To show yourself you are determined to get things started and caring about the results
Do one thing at once	Stick to the order of your plan	To save your interest, motivation and energy
Finish what you have started		To get your plan ____out thoroughly
_____
You shouldn’t be afraid of organization because it’s really worthwhile.

Laughter is beneficial to health and perhaps this e________ the long lives of some famous comedians such as Bob Hope and George Burns.
You always hear about planes being delayed because of t__________ problems.
China has always been trying to s__________ its economic ties with European countries.
The twins are so alike that I can hardly tell them a________.
At the meeting, he expressed his a__________ for the kindness we had done for his team.
The s________ of innocent people caused by the war cannot be compensated for by money.
When you laugh, the muscles p_________ in the laugh become active, which is like a deep-breathing exercise.
Although it happened many years ago, it still remains in the d_________ of my soul.
He is such a c_______ boys, always asking questions about the world around him.
More than half the staff are t________--they will quit when the harvest season ends.