河南省五市高中毕业班第二次联合考试英语试卷

which has ________ food and drink channel with clear explanations, is very popular website.

After looking at many new cars, I found ________ which I would accept just as suitable.

Due to a terrible flu that ________ on, many students don’t show up to school today.

The government spokesman has to ________ his words before responding to reporters.

The Japanese people keep up cheerful spirits ________ the world that they can get over the crisis caused by the terrible tsunami（海啸）.

We rushed to the football court, only to see a sign ________ into the ground reading PERIODIC MAINTENANCE （定期维修）.

“Drive-ins” have large parking lots ________ customers are served in their cars by waitresses.

-- How did you like his speech?
-- Oh, it was very good. What he said ________ like a poem.

-- Did you pack him some food?
-- Yes, ________ he wouldn’t get hungry.

-- Are you happy with this laboratory?
-- Not a little. We can’t have ________.

People ________ with anyone who is always talking about how wonderful he is.

It rained a lot during their journey, so they ________ have had a good time.

Check your paper carefully to see ________ you have made any mistakes.

-- Who is dancing to music in the next room?
-- ________ the children.

-- He said you’d be giving them a lift.
-- ________. There are already five people.

完形填空（共20小题；每小题1．5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入的空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。
A group of graduates, successful in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about   36   in work and life.
Before offering his guests   37  , the professor went to the kitchen and   38   with a large pot of coffee and a variety of cups -- porcelain（瓷）, plastic, glass, crystal, some   39   and cheap, some exquisite（精致的）and   40  -- telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: “If you   41  , all the nice-looking expensive cups were   42   up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is   __43  for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the   44   of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself   45   no quality to the coffee. In most cases   46   is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you   47   wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously   48   for the best cups... And then you began eyeing each other’s cups.
Now consider this:   49   is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to   50   life, and the type of cup we have does not define（规定）, nor change the   51   of life we live. Sometimes, by   52   only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has offered us.
God brews（酿造）the coffee, not the cups. Enjoy your coffee!
“The   53   people don’t have the best of everything: They just   54   the best of everything.”
Live simply. Love   55  . Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.

A．difficulties B．stress C．sadness D．hate

A．coffee B．tea C．gift D．cups

A．packed B．rushed C．fetched D．returned

A．good-looking B．ugly-looking C．plain-looking D．nice-looking

A．expensive B．bright C．excellent D．comfortable

A．suspected B．noticed C．ignored D．appreciated

A．filled B．brought C．taken D．used

A．normal B．careful C．polite D．rode

A．share B．access C．entrance D．source

A．puts B．adds C．attaches D．ties

A．this B．which C．it D．one

A．really B．generally C．possibly D．precisely

A．looked C．applied D．went

A．Peace B．Joy C．Chance D．Life

A．refer B．reflect C．contain D．support

B．quantity C．character D．value

A．keeping B．basing C．concentrating D．depending

A．coolest B．craziest C．happiest D．saddest

A．make B．use C．accept D．put

A．nervously B．secretly C．generously D．curiously

Mother’s Day is usually celebrated on the second Sunday of May every year. Do you know that a mom deserves a special gift this year for Mother’s Day? Sure, flowers can always brighten Mother’s Day and a dinner out is always appreciated. However, doesn’t she deserve something more personal or something that lasts longer than an evening?
I’m talking about the gift of fitness. Improved fitness is a gift that is invaluable to everyone. When you give a woman the gift of fitness, you are helping her open her door to better health. I can’t think of a more thoughtful gift that shows the recipient （接受者）how much you care about their well-being. By giving the gift of fitness you are providing them with unlimited health benefits. Besides, it’s a gift that you can truly feel proud to give.
Of course, we all know that exercising can help people stay slim and fit. But, do you also know about all the other great benefits of exercising? Daily physical activities reduce stress and help you sleep better. Fitness has been linked to reducing the risk of some diseases and to warding off depression. Researchers also believe that strength training can help prevent osteoporosis （骨质疏松）. Not to mention that exercising also improves self-esteem, increases energy and helps you be able to do continuous work for longer.
All moms would find these benefits extremely great. If they are like most of us, they have probably even mentioned how they would like to drop a few pounds or just get in better shape. In fact, experts say that about 62% of Americans are currently on a diet. By giving the gift of fitness, you are helping provide your mom with extra motivation. She may be more motivated to actually get fit because she doesn’t want to feel guilty about ignoring such a thoughtful gift.
The first paragraph is likely to tell us that ________.

The underlined word “invaluable”（in paragraph 2） means ________.

According to this passage, the gift of fitness will ________.

Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?

Fred Michel is one of 7.2 million Americans who moonlight. Once a week, after his day job as medical director of a mental health center, the 40-year-old psychiatrist heads to a part-time job at a treatment center for young people. Twice a month, he travels three hours to another teenage treatment center.
Last year, 5.4 percent of the American workforce held second jobs, according to the US Labor Department, and that looks set to increase this year.
Many workers like the safety that moonlighting provides, says Carl Hausman , the writer of “Moonlighting: 148 Great Ways to Make Money to the Side”.
The information from the US Labor Department shows that 40 percent of US moonlighters take a second job to meet household expenses or pay off debts. Others save money or buy some special things.
People also take second jobs with an eye to the future -- wanting to try out a new field or gain experience.
Michel started moonlighting when medical systems were unstable. He wanted to make sure he wasn’t tied to one system that ended up failing.
Just as the purposes for moonlighting vary, the moonlighters cross all ages and racial groups. And they work in a variety of industries -- no longer just service, office and sales jobs.
“Technology just affects your ability to make money,” Hausman says. “That makes a frequent change in moonlighting.”
As its name means, moonlighting still occurs mostly at night. And that results in some pressures. Chief among them is time.
Full-time employers could misunderstand, too. Some companies do not allow after-hour work because they fear it will affect their employees’ 9-to-5 performance.
“The primary employer is saying, ‘Wait, I’m paying you for the sharp, fresh, energetic you,’” says Tom Gimbel, president and founder of LaSalle Staffing in Chicago. “If you’re burning yourself at both ends, it’s going to show.”
Still, the good done to the moonlighters can be great. Besides extra income, moonlighters enjoy variety, freedom and chance to do something new. They may also find their part-time jobs strengthen what they do full time.
Besides, “it’s fun,” Michel says. Not only do his part-time jobs offer a chance to network, stretch his professional skills and make more money, but they also give him the variety he wouldn’t find just in a full-time job.
“It’s a way of pulling from the spice cabinet,” he says, “and offering a little variety throughout the day.”
The reason why Fred Michel began to moonlight is that ________.
 

A．he found it exciting to do a part-time job

B．he needed to make ends meet with more money

C．he feared he would lose his present job one day

D．he felt more and more pressure from his employer

Some companies don’t allow their workers to moonlight because they are afraid ________.

The underlined sentence “It’s a way of pulling from the spice cabinet.” in the last paragraph means ________.

A．moonlighting gets you away from the job you don’t enjoy

B．moonlighting offers you freedom to make extra money

C．moonlighting strengthens your professional skills

D．moonlighting brings you chances to do something different

What is the article mainly about?

One of the greatest sources of unhappiness, in my experience, is the difficulty we have in accepting things as they are.
When we see something we don’t like, we wish it could be different -- we cry out for something better. That may be human nature, or perhaps it’s something that’s ingrained（根深蒂固的）in our culture.
The root of unhappiness is that we decided we didn’t like it in the first place. We’ve judged it as bad, rather than saying, “It’s not bad or good, as it just is.”
An example: in my recent post（帖子）, A Beautiful Method to Find Peace of Mind, quite a few commentators thought my outlook was negative, pessimistic, or fatalistic（听天由命的）... because I said you should expect people to mess up, expect things to go differently from what you planned. Above all, you should embrace that.
It’s too negative to expect something to go wrong, they said. However, I think it’s only negative if you see it as negative, or if you judge it as bad.
Instead, you could accept it as the way the world works -- as the way things actually are. And try to understand why they are that way.
Does it mean you can never change things? Not at all. But changing things is not because you can’t accept things as they are, but because you enjoy the process of change of learning and growing.
Can we make this world a better place? Again, that’s an assumption that it’s a bad place fight now. But instead, you could say the world is just what it is -- and that’s neither good nor bad. You can say that you’ll continue to try to do things to help others, to grow as a person, to make a difference in this world -- not because you’re such a bad person now, but because that’s the path you choose to take, because you enjoy that path.
As you catch yourself judging, and wishing for different -- try a different approach: accept, and understand. It might lead to some interesting results.
Which of the following statements is correct according to the author?

What’s the main idea of the whole passage?

Where does the passage probably come from?

How Many Lies Do the Children Tell You?
Mothers who feel their children don’t appreciate them can add another complaint to the list: half the time, their children are lying to them. A study designed to expose the truth about lying shows that undergraduates lie to their mothers in 46% of their conversations. Still, mums should feel better than-total strangers, who are told lies an astonishing 77% of the time.
Bella DePaulo and a team of psychologists from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, asked 77 undergraduates to keep a record of all their conversations for a week, and write down whether they lied at any time. DePaulo named lying broadly, as “when you intentionally try to mislead someone”, so she would catch the smallest of lies.
The students told an average of two lies a day. They said they had been studying when they had been out drinking. One told his parents that a textbook cost $50 rather than $20 so that they would send him extra money. Female students constantly told their plain-looking roommates that they were pretty. “They are everyday lies,” says DePaulo.
DePaulo and her colleagues conclude that people tend to tell fewer lies to those they feel closest to. College students lied to their best friends 28% of the time but lied to acquaintances 48% of the time. In close relationships, people were more likely to tell “kind-hearted” lies, designed to protect feelings, rather than self-serving lies.
DePaulo finds that unmarried lovers can expect less honesty than best friends because of the insecurity that comes with romance.
Mothers can take heart from one other finding. They may have been lied to, but at least their children talked to them. The students were recorded telling few lies to their fathers because they had little interaction with them.
Female students lied to their roommates to ________.

According to the passage, college students told fewer lies to ________.

Which of the following statements is correct ?

What is the purpose of this article ?

 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项是多余的。  
Shopping is not as simple as you may think! There are all sorts of tricks at play each time we reach out for that particular brand of product on the shelf.
  1 . Health foods are packaged in greens, yellows or browns because we think of these as healthy colors. Ice cream packers are often blue and expensive goods, like chocolates, are gold or silver.
  2 . Recently, some kind of pain killer was brought out, but researchers found it didn’t sell well, because the color made the product look weak and ineffective. Eventually, it came on the market in a dark blue and white package -- because we think of blue as safe, and white as calm.
 3 . But quite often a bottle doesn’t contain as much as it appears to.
It is believed that the better-known companies spend, on average, 70 percent of the total cost of the product itself on packaging!
The most successful producers know the troth:   4 . The founder of Pears soup, who for 25 years has used pretty little girls to promote their goods, came to the conclusion: “  5 .”

A．It’s not enough to have a good product.

B．Coloring, for example, varies according to what the producers are trying to sell.

C．Any fool can make soup, but it takes a genius to sell it.

D．The colors tricked the customers into shopping.

E. The size of a product can attract a shopper.
F. A good product is an advantage.
G. The colors turned the customers off.

短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
假如英语课上老师要求同学们交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的一篇作文。文中共有10处语言错误，要求你在错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在其下面写上该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写上修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从11处起）不记分。
My friend Tony and I always walk home together after school. Last Friday on our way to home, we heard a loud shout behind us. When we looked around to see what had happened, we found a woman lied on the ground, bleeding. We soon realized that she had knocked down by the car in front of him. We hurried to help her, and a man came over and tried to prevent us from getting closer to the wounded woman. We got very angrily with the man. How could he stopped us from helping a dying woman? The man asked us to turn around and we were surprised to see a man who were carrying a video camera on his shoulders. In fact, they were just shooting a film!
How an interesting experience!

书面表达（满分25分）   
假定你是李华，你的同学王明即将从美国回上海。现由你写一封便函给正在上海读大学的朋友Jim，约他在王明家参加聚会。内容要点如下：   
1．聚会时间：本星期六下午3点30分；
2．聚会地点：东风路225号，王明家；
3．按下图所画路线告诉Jim怎样去王明家；
4．聚会时交流学习、生活和中西文化差异等。

注意：
1．词数：120字左右。
2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
3．开头和结尾已经给出，不计入词数。