[江苏]2011-2012学年江苏省邗江区高一下学期期中考试英语试卷

I don’t feel well; I think I’m ______ with the flu.

______ about the missing boy’s safety,  the police stepped up their search.

Every student as well as teachers who ______ to visit the museum ______ asked to be at the school gate on time.

Our country ______ great changes in the last 30 years and it is no longer        it used to be.

What ______ me was that there was a ______ look on her face due to the ______ problem.

The approach ______ the problem is contrary ______ our expectation.

---- If he had been warned, he ______ that food yesterday.
---- Luckily he was sent to the hospital immediately.

______ more and more people may refer to the Internet for up-to-minute news, the newspaper will not disappear.

It was at the very beginning _______ Mr. White made the decision ______ we should send more firefighters there.

The door burst open and _______, shouting with anger.

The company has introduced new technologies from the US, thus _______ its production.

The bank is reported in the local newspaper ______ in broad daylight yesterday

I'm sure your suggestion will ______ the problem.

---- The exam was too difficult, wasn’t it?
---- Yes, ______ could not pass it.

---- It is said that Tom considered the English exam to be very difficult.
---- I have heard that, but he never studied hard. It is “______”.

One summer evening I was sitting by the open window, reading a good but rather frightening mystery story. After a time it was too dark for me to read easily, so I put my book down and turned on the light.
I was just about to draw the   36   as well when I heard a loud cry “Help! Help! ” It 37   to come from the trees at the end of the garden. I looked out but it was too 38   to see anything clearly. So I decided to go out and have a look in the garden, just 39   someone was in   40   . I took the torch and picked up a strong walking stick,   41   that this might come to be useful, too.   42    with these, I went out into the garden.   43    I heard the cry. There was no    44   that it came from the trees at the end of the garden.
“Who’s there?” I   45   as I walked, rather 46   , down the path that   47    to the trees. But there was no  48   . With the help of my torch I   49   the whole of that part of the garden and the lower  50    of the trees. There was no sign of anybody or anything. I came to the ___51___ that someone was playing a rather silly joke on me.
___52    feeling rather puzzled, I went back to the house and   53    away the torch and the stick. I had just sat down when I was startled by the cry of “ Help! Help! ”, this time from  54   my shoulder. I dropped my book and climbed up. There, sitting    55   of the mantelpiece ( 壁炉 ), was a parrot!

A．gun B．picture C．curtains D．car

A．seemed B．looked C．sounded D．proved

A．far B．distant C．dark D．black

A．as if B．even though C．on time D．in case

A．difficult B．power C．trouble D．ease

A．thinking B．wishing C．demanding D．requesting

A．Supplied B．Loaded C．Armed D．Decorated

A．Again and again B．Now and then C．From time to time D．Once again

A．wonder B．doubt C．problem D．question

A．spoke out B．called out C．got out D．said out

A．seriously B．nervously C．curiously D．hurriedly

A．led B．went C．passed D．joined

A．person B．body C．answer D．voice

A．studied B．searched C．tested D．examined

A．roots B．branches C．leaves D．bushes

A．beginning B．end C．conclusion D．introduction

A．But B．Yet C．Already D．Still

A．put B．took C．threw D．cleared

A．far off B．down below C．left to D．right behind

A．on top B．at the foot C．inside D．Outside

American magician David Blaine left the glass box in which he had lived for 44 days without food on October 19, 2003. Hundreds of people came to watch the end of his starvation experiment, which has become one of London’s main tourist attractions.
Looking thinner and darker, 30-year-old Blaine was taken out of his box over the River Thames and immediately went to hospital. He was then slowly reintroduced to food, a process doctors say could be life threatening. He had been drinking only water since September 5.
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Blaine first became known as a street magician in the early 1990s. He soon found himself doing magic tricks in bars for the likes of American actor Leonardo DiCaprio and his super model friends.
Over the last decade Blaine has become famous with a combination of breathtaking magic and clever tricks aimed at getting a lot of attention. In 1999, he was buried in a coffin (棺材) for one week and, in 2000, he spent 62 hours in a giant block of ice. Last year he stood on top of a 25-meter pillar (柱子) in the center of New York for 35 hours before jumping into a pile of boxes.
“I think a lot of people are unable to accept that they’re able to do what they can do,” he said. “They don’t realize we can survive. The human being is an amazing creation.”
But he seems to have suffered from spending so long in the glass box. He said that at times he was unable to see, had serious back pains and lost his sense of taste.
It is         for David Blaine to eat food after such a long starvation.

Having spent such a long time in the glass box, he suffered the following EXCEPT that         .

Which of the following can best describe David Blaine?

Which of the following is NOT true about David Blaine?

Not everyone goes to university after high school graduation. Some work, others join the army and an increasing number worldwide are taking a “gap year” to travel or do community service in their own countries or abroad. They are studying sharks off the Australian coast, building schools in Mexico and learning Spanish or Italian.
The concept of a gap year may not be new, but the recent surge (涌现) of interest certainly is.  Some students are putting off admissions. Others, who don’t get into the college of their choice, are taking a year to explore new frontiers before reapplying.
Students are choosing to take a breather; they are thinking. They are not sure what they are going to do. They are going and exploring some of their interests. They are getting experience they can take to the school they finally go to.
It is an idea actively encouraged by colleges. Princeton University has just launched a “bridge year” program that will send 10 percent of its incoming class to do volunteer work abroad, starting in 2009. And the Harvard has spent the last 30 years urging incoming students to take a gap year.
“Many speak of their year away as a ‘life-changing’ experience or a ‘turning point’” says Harvard admissions director Marlin Lewis. “Many come to college with new opinions about their academic plans, their extracurricular interests and the career possibilities they observed in their year away.”
The reasons why some take a gap year are the following EXCEPT that ________.

A student won’t ________ in a gap year.

After a gap year, one would probably _________.

From the passage we know that ________.

Shopping is not as simple as you think! There are all sorts of tricks at play each time we reach out for that particular brand of product on the shelf.
Coloring, for example, varies according to what the producers are trying to sell. Health foods are packages in greens, yellows or browns because we think of these as healthy colors. Ice cream packets are often blue and expensive foods, like chocolates, are gold and silver.
When some kind of pain killer was brought out recently, researchers found that the colors turned the customers off because they made the product look weak and ineffective. Eventually, it came on the market in a dark blue and white package because we think of it as safe, and white as calm.
The size of a product can attract a shopper. 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 that it’s not enough to have a good product. The founder of Pears soap, who for 25 years has used pretty little girls to promote their goods, came to the conclusion: “Any fool can make soap, but it takes a genius to sell it.”
Which of the following may trick a shopper into buying a product according to the text?

The underlined part in paragraph 3 means that the colors ________.

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

You feel generally depressed and unable to concentrate. Your pattern of daily activity may change：you find yourself awake and active in the middle of the night；you sleep late into the day.  You stay in your room and have little contact with people except with those who speak your language. In your mind，you criticize the people around you；You are constantly comparing between life here and the perfect life back home. Above a11, you are homesick almost all the time.
If you ever find yourself behaving in these ways，you are probably suffering from culture shock. Culture shock is a psychological condition that sometimes has physical effects. It affects people who have moved away from an environment where they know how to live into a new environment where much is unfamiliar to them-the food，the weather, the language，and especially the unwritten rules for social behavior.
Culture shock is caused. therefore，by a lack of familiarity with the system of rules that the new society uses for everyday living. Language is an obvious example of one type of these rules. If your language is limited，even the simplest task can suddenly become difficult for you. However, knowledge of the language doesn’t make you free from the effects of culture shock as many Britons in the United States and many Americans in Britain will experience. Most people are unaware that each culture has its own rules for social behavior；they certainly think that polite， civilized people behave the same way worldwide. This mistaken belief will cause you to behave and judge the behavior of others according to the rules you learned as a member of your own culture. If the rules are different, then people will misunderstand your behavior, and you will misunderstand theirs.
How can you deal with culture shock? First, you need to realize that every newcomer suffers from some culture shock. You’re not the only case. Second，remember that culture shock can be cured. The process of recovery will start as you begin to become used to the new culture. Of course learning the language will help remove the obstacles to communication and will ease the job of making Mends with people. Recognizing and learning the new cultural rules of behavior, however, may be just as important. You’ll still have emotional reactions to unfamiliar situations but you’11 find yourself making jokes about them rather than condemning the entire society as “stupid.” The jokes are a good sign：they show that you are recovering.
What’s the main idea of the first paragraph?

What does the underlined word obstacles mean?

What can be concluded when you find yourself making jokes about new culture?

Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

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1个单词。
Cross-Cultural Solutions (CCS) is a non-profit organization founded in 1995, widely known as the leading organization in the field of international volunteering, with more than 4,000 volunteers each year. CCS has a worldwide staff（员工、团队） of more than 300 people, and operates in 12 countries, with administrative（行政的） offices also located in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. It offers volunteer programmes in 12 countries in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America.
Cross-Cultural Solutions’ volunteer programmes in China are located in Xi’an,  the crossroads of Western and Eastern China, and the starting point of the Silk Road. Culturally, Xi’an is a mixture of the ancient and modern worlds. Home to the famous terracotta army, Xi’an was once the imperial capital of China. The city’s ancient history is embodied by the huge stone walls that surround the city centre, originally intended to protect the city from invasion. In the modern world, Xi’an is the largest capital city in Central and Western China. Today, with a population of approximately eight million, this modern city still reflects its rich history and culture.
China’s diverse population is well represented in Xi’an’s Han and other minorities. Volunteering in Xi’an will provide you with opportunities to connect with individuals from a variety of backgrounds, exposing you to the wide scope of Chinese culture, one of the largest and most ancient cultures in the world.
Through our cultural and learning activities in China, you will see the work of local artists, visit the site of the famous ancient terracotta（兵马俑） army, participate in weekly Chinese classes, and engage in lively discussions on Chinese culture and society. Activities may also include cooking classes or visits from experts in the practice of traditional Chinese medicine and a local painter skilled in the unique arts of Chinese painting and calligraphy(书法). Guest speakers may also cover topics such as Chinese folklore（民间传说,民俗;民俗学）and traditional Chinese music. Many volunteers choose to participate in regular visits to local universities to meet with students interested in English conversation and cultural exchange.
CCS offers the following programmes in Xi’an, China:
t Volunteer Abroad---- two to twelve weeks
t Intern Abroad---- three to four weeks
t Insight Abroad---- one week

基础知识检测
He recognized the offer of a job in the factory as a chance to be grabbed at without ____（犹豫）.
Some people have a firm belief that online shopping will finally end up ____ store shopping in the future.（代替）
Night ____, they stopped talking about some hot issues happened these days because of darkness.（临近）
The system has been designed to give students a quick and easy ___ to the digital resources of the library.（使用的机会、通道、路径）
I would ______ if they stopped interrupting me when I was delivering a speech.（感激）
If it is __ to you, call me tomorrow before noon.（方便的）
双星是两颗星，是由相互围绕旋转的两颗星组成。
A binary star is a double star, _____ two stars turning round each other.
Parents __ much importance __ education. They will do their best to give their children that priceless gift.（使-----附着于）
The Chinese language __  __ Western languages in that it uses characters which stand for ideas, objects or deeds.（与……不同）
你被闪电击中的可能性要比受到鲨鱼袭击的可能性大两倍。
You are ______ to be hit by lightning than be attacked by a shark.
____ physical problems, those patients also show a lot of concerns.（除了）
He expects to ____ the business when his father retires.（接管）

很多学生都想知道美国英语(American English)和英国英语(British English)之间的差别,以及这些差别是怎样产生的。请根据下面提供的材料，写一篇文章。
1. 这不是一下子就能回答的问题。
2. 起初，美国和英国的语言是相同的。1776年，美国独立，语言也开始有了变化。
3. 很长时间，美国的英语保持原样，而英国的英语却变化了。如：300年前，英国人用“fall”表示秋天，而今天大部分英国人都用“autumn”这个词了。但美国人还在用“fall”这个词。同样，美国人用“I guess”（意思是I think），而这正是300年前英国的说法。
4. 当然，这些都不是英语语言变化的终结。英国英语和美国英语在未来是否会继续变化，这一问题是很容易回答的。可以肯定的是，尽管两者之间有一些差异，它们的变化过程都将会继续。
注意：1.分段表达 2. 书写整洁 3.字数150左右。
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