[江苏]2013-2014学年江苏省宿迁市高二上学期期中考试英语试卷

Friendships between girls are usually _______ in shared feelings and support,but friendships between boys are based on shared activities or interests.

-- Peter, this is Laura, a student from No. 2 Middle School.
-- How do you do? I’m very delighted to make your _______.

______all of them are strong candidates, only one will be chosen for the post.

-- What do you think of the butterfly exhibition?
-- Wonderful! I was deeply ______.

_____around, I find many people willing to pay a little higher price for things ____are friendly to the environment.

I would appreciate ______, to be frank, if my computer could be fixed as soon as possible.

According to the latest report, human beings are _____ for the abnormal climate around the whole world.

I told her we weren’t going to be friends any more because she couldn’t ________ .

The production of the factory has grown to _____ in 1999.

The information you give in the application is too general. You should _______something special about yourself.

-- Do you think we should accept the offer?
-- Yes,we should, we ________ such bad luck up till now, and time _______ out.

We still have a long way to go to solve all the problems _____________the Yangtze River.

His mother could do nothing but _______ for the doctor to arrive.

--I'll be waiting for you at home.
-- ______ I were busy and couldn't come?

-- Mr Smith ,What shall we do next?
-- Let students ___________for discussion.

Another person’s enthusiasm was what set me moving toward the success I have achieved. That person was my stepmother.
I was nine years old when she entered our home in rural Virginia. My father_____me to her with these words: “I would like you to meet the fellow who is___  for being the worst boy in this county and will probably start throwing rocks at you no ___  than tomorrow morning.”
My stepmother walked over to me, ___my head slightly upward, and looked me right in the eye. Then she looked at my father and replied, “You are ___   .This is not the worst boy at all, __  the smartest one who hasn’t yet found an outlet（释放的途径）for his enthusiasm.”
That statement began a(n) ___   between us. No one had ever called me smart. My family and neighbors had built me up in my ___  as a bad boy . My stepmother changed all that.
She changed many things. She ___  my father to go to a dental(牙科) school, from which he graduated with honors. She moved our family into the county seat, where my father’s career could be more ___and my brother and I could be better_  .
When I turned fourteen, she bought me a secondhand___   and told me that she believed that I could become a writer. I knew her enthusiasm, I______it had already improved our lives. I accepted her __  and began to write for local newspapers. I was doing the same kind of__that great day I went to interview Andrew Carnegie and received the task which became my life’s work later. I wasn’t the __  beneficiary (受益者). My father became the __  man in town. My brother and stepbrothers became a physician, a dentist, a lawyer, and a college president.
What power __has! When that power is released to support the certainty of one’s purpose and is _____strengthened by faith, it becomes an irresistible（不可抗拒的）force which poverty and temporary defeat can never ___  .
You can communicate that power to anyone who needs it. This is probably the greatest work you can do with your enthusiasm.

A．rushed B．sent C．carried D．introduced

A．known B．favored C．mistaken D．rewarded

A．sooner B．later C．longer D．earlier

A．dragged B．shook C．raised D．bent

A．perfect B．right C．wrong D．impolite

A．but B．so C．and D．or

A．agreement B．friendship C．gap D．relationship

A．opinion B．image C．expectation D．mind

A．begged B．persuaded C．ordered D．invited

A．successful B．meaningful C．helpful D．useful

A．treated B．entertained C．educated D．respected

A．camera B．radio C．bicycle D．typewriter

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

A．belief B．request C．criticism D．description

A．teaching B．writing C．studying

A．next B．same C．only D．real

A．cleverest B．wealthiest C．strongest D．healthiest

A．enthusiasm B．sympathy C．fortune D．confidence

A．deliberately B．happily C．traditionally D．constantly

A．win B．match C．reach D．doubt

A famous Renoir had been stolen from a museum. Detective Earl Blackman was to work on the case.
Everyone was in the dark before an art professor came to point out the false picture. So the museum even didn’t know when the picture had been stolen. Thousands of people came to visit the museum every day. After long work, some art students were focused on.
The five students who had made copies of the Renoir during the last six months were asked to bring their copies to the museum. The fifth student said she had sold her copy, which was later proved to be the one in the museum. She, however, could only remember the buyer was a man with the little finger on his left hand missing.
Blackman went back and stayed in his office looking at all the pictures of known thieves. No success.
The next afternoon, at about closing time, Blackman went to the museum to ask if the cleaning men were in the museum after everyone else had left. The director told him they had no cleaning man but six cleaning women.
As the detective left the director’s office, he saw five cleaning women. He stopped one and asked about her work. Then came the sixth cleaning woman. She was dressed just like the other women except the gloves on her hands which made her different. Blackman watched her for some time. When she came near, Blackman caught her. The woman cried out in a man’s voice, “What was that?” Blackman was more sure.
Everything came to light ________________.

Arrange the following sentences in the right order.
a. The museum asked for help.
b. The four students showed their copies.
c. An art professor came.
d. The detective looked at all the pictures.
e. The thief bought a picture.

Blackman caught the cleaning woman because of __________.

Our environment isn’t as green and beautiful as it should be. There are steel monsters blocking out the sun, blowing out dangerous smoke, and letting out poisonous chemicals into rivers, cars producing harmful waste gas, people throwing out waste in a wrong way and all other kinds of sources that ruin the planet. Facing current environmental problems, people need to do their best to save the Earth.
You can see many big garbage dustbins in the streets. They’re not there for a show, but for you to drop your waste. We should realize that what a little we do does count. So next time you get that urge to throw gum or a chocolate package out of the car window, or “ accidentally” drop as you walk down the street, ask yourself how much waste you’ve been contributing to the environment with that bad habit going on for years.
At home, the first thing we can do to protect the environment is avoid letting water run continuously and make sure that taps（水龙头）are not leaky（泄露的），which would help greatly in scrimping. Another is to use energy-saving lights, and turn them off before you leave the rooms. It’s not only energy-saving, but also cuts down electricity costs.
Recycling is a method to make items reusable. Many things you want to throw out can be made into new products through the reproducing process. Use your imagination to come up with ways on things that you can use again.
Pass the message of simple ways to save the environment on to kids. Starting with kids is a good way of teaching the message early in their lives, in the hope that they can carry it forward as they grow older.
With environmental protection awareness in mind, we can do what we can, for the results are to have a big effect on the planet. As long as we do our part, the world is one small step closer to being saved.
The underlined word “scrimping” in the third paragraph can be replaced by _____.

From the fifth paragraph, we can know that ________.

Which of the following isn’t true?

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

By 2050 there will have been an extra 2.5 billion people on earth. And what will they eat?
To solve the problem, we should have to double our food production. We can also develop a diet of algae（海藻）, insects and meat grown in laboratories.
Algae can grow very quickly at sea, in polluted water and in places that would normally kill food crops. They are already eaten widely in Japan and China and they are eaten by almost everything from shrimps to blue whales. They can fix CO2 in the atmosphere and provide fats and sugars.
Man-made meat looks like meat, feels like meat and it is meat, although it’s never been from a living, breathing animal. Instead, it is grown from cells in big containers. Moreover, studies show that producing man-made meat will use far less water, energy and land.
China has developed “green super rice”, a series of rice types which produce more grain and have stronger ability to fight against floods, salty water, insects and disease. We used traditional plant breeding（作物育种）techniques to cross-breed more than 250 rice types. Green super rice, which is enough to feed an extra 100 million people, will be planted widely in the coming years.
Insects like ants are not on most European menus but at least 1,400 kinds are eaten across Africa, Latin America and Asia. Now, with rising food prices and worldwide land shortages, such insects are getting more and more popular. Not only are many insects rich in protein（蛋白质）, low in fat and high in Ca and Fe, but insect farms need little space. And they can grow well on paper, algae and industrial wastes.
In order to exist in the future, people have to _______.

From the second paragraph we know that _______

Green super rice _______

What can we learn from the passage?

It was unusually quiet in the emergency room on December 25.
I was nurse on duty that day. I didn’t think there would be any patients, sighing about having to work on Christmas. Just then five bodies showed up at my desk, a pale woman and four small children.
“Are you all sick?” I asked suspiciously.
“Yes,” she said weakly and lowered her head.
But when it came to descriptions of their presenting problems, things got a little vague. Two of the children had headaches, but the headaches weren’t accompanied by the normal body language of holding the head or trying to keep it still. Two children had earaches, but only one could tell me which ear was affected. The mother complained of a cough but seemed to work to produce it.
Something was wrong, but I didn’t say anything but explained that it might be a little while before a doctor saw her. She responded, “Take your time; it’s warm here.”
On a hunch (出于直觉), I checked the chart after the admitting clerk had finished registering the family. No address---they were homeless. The waiting room was warm.
I looked out at the family huddled by the Christmas tree. The little one was pointing at the television and exclaiming something to her mother. The oldest one was looking at an ornament on the Christmas tree.
I went back to the nurses’ station and mentioned we had a homeless family in the waiting room. The nurses, grumbling about working Christmas, turned to compassion for a family just trying to get warm on Christmas. The team went into action, much as we do when there’s a medical emergency. But this one was a Christmas emergency.
We were all offered a free meal in the hospital cafeteria on Christmas Day, so we claimed that meal and prepared a banquet for our Christmas guests. We needed presents. We put together oranges and apples in a basket. We collected from different departments candies, crayons and other things available that could be presents. As seriously as we met the physical needs of the patients that came to us that day, our team worked to meet the needs, and exceed the expectations, of a family who just wanted to be warm on Christmas Day.
Later, as the family walked to the door to leave, the four year old came running back, gave me a hug and whispered, “Thanks for being our angels today.”
Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?

What kind of person do you think the author is?

Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

It can be inferred from the text that______.

Are people less happy or more happy the older they get? If you answered more happy, then you were right, based on a study published two years ago. It found that people generally become happier and experience less worry after age fifty. In fact, it found that by the age of eighty-five, people are happier with their life than they were at eighteen.
The findings came from a Gallup survey of more than three hundred forty thousand adults in the United States in 2008. At that time, the people were between the ages of eighteen and eighty-five.
Arthur Stone in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Stony Brook University in New York led the study. His team found that levels of stress were highest among adults between the ages of 22 and 25. Stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their fifties.
Happiness was highest among the youngest adults and those in their early seventies. But the people least likely to report negative emotions were those in their seventies and eighties.
The survey also found that men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older. However, women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men did.
The researchers also considered possible influence like having young children, being unemployed or being single. But they found that influences like these did not affect the levels of happiness and well-being related to age.
So why would happiness increase with age? One theory is that, as people get older, they become more thankful for all that they have and have better control of their emotions. They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences.
Happiness is not the only thing that apparently improves with age. In a study published this year, people in their eighties reported the fewest problems with the quality of their sleep.
Researchers surveyed more than 150,000 American adults. The study, led by Michael Grander at the University of Pennsylvania, appeared in the journal Sleep.
The original goal was to confirm the popular belief that aging is connected with increased sleep problems. The survey did find an increase during middle age, especially in women. But except for that, people reported that they felt their sleep quality improved as they got older.

Title	The older you get, the ________ you are!
_____ of a Gallup survey	People are happier with their life when they are at 85 than they are at 18. Happiness is highest among the youngest adults and those in their early seventies. People in their seventies and eighties are ______ likely to report negative emotions. Men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older, ____ that women always report more sadness, stress and worry.
______ for this phenomenon	People become more thankful for _____ they have. People can ____ their emotions better. People spend less time thinking about bad experiences.
Effects of aging _____ sleep	On the one hand, sleep problems _____ during middle age. On the other ____, sleep quality improves as people get older.

众所周知，这些年我国经济发展迅速，可是环境污染也越来越严重，发展经济与环境保护之间的关系问题一直为社会各界所关注。下面是某班同学的讨论结果，请你就此给某英文报社写一封信介绍讨论情况并简要阐述自己的观点。
1. 一些同学认为经济发展不应以环境为代价。
理由：忽视环境而发展经济将对环境造成破坏。列举一些严重的环境问题。
2. 一些同学认为经济发展不应考虑环境问题。
理由：发展经济必然带来环境问题，环境问题是经济发展的副产品，等以后有了钱和时间再来解决。
3. 你的个人观点……
注意：1. 信的开头和结尾已为你写好，不计入总词数；
2. 词数：150左右；
3. 参考词汇：不可避免的unavoidable 副产品by-product
以……为代价at the cost of/ sacrifice …for …
Dear editor,
I am writing to tell you about the discussion we’ve had about the relationship between economic development and environmental protection.
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