[江西]2013-2014学年江西省赣州市六校高二上学期期末联考英语试卷

Jumping out of ________ airplane at ten thousand feet is quite ________ exciting experience.

Fully ________ in preparing for the coming exam, she no longer has time to enjoy the various activities in her neighborhood.

Nowadays, children are ________ too many violent online games, which is bad for the development of their characters.

With everything she needed ________, she went out of the shop, with her hands full of shopping bags.

________ all my family, I sincerely thank you for what you have done for us.

________ from the moon, our earth with water ________ seventy percent of its surface looks like a blue sphere.

He was driving home on the highway last night when a policeman stopped him and ________ him of speeding.

Unsatisfied ________ with the payment, he took the job just to get some work experience.

In my opinion, the idea of a family is much narrower than ________.

This printer is of good quality. If it ________ break down within the first year, we would repair it at our expense.

After the earthquake, ________ food and medicine was sent there.

—They are quiet, aren’t they?
—Yes. They are accustomed ________ at meals.

—He got his first book published. It turned out to be a bestseller.
—When was ________?
— ________ was in 2000 when he was still in college.

It’s not what we do once in a while ________ shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

—I need to get changed.  —________! We’ll be late for the party.

Some years ago when I was in my first year in college, I heard Salome Bey sing for the first time. The moment was exciting. Salome’s        filled the room and brought the theater to life. I was so        that I decided to write an article about her.
I        Salome Bey, telling her I was from Essence magazine, and that I wanted to meet her to talk about her career .She        and told me to come to her Studio next Tuesday. When I hung up, I was scared out of mind. I        I was lying. I was not a writer at all and hadn’t even written a grocery list.
I interviewed Salome Bey the next Tuesday. I sat there       , taking notes and asking questions that all began with, “Can you tell me…?” I soon realized that        Salome Bey was one thing, but writing a story for a national magazine was just impossible. The        was almost unbearable. I struggled for days        draft（草稿）after draft. Finally I put my manuscript（手稿）into a large envelope and dropped it into a mailbox.
It didn’t take long. My manuscript       . How stupid of me! I thought. How could I      
in a world of professional writers? Knowing I couldn’t        the rejection letter, I threw the unopened envelope into a drawer.
Five years later, I was moving to California. While        my apartment, I came across the unopened envelope. This time I opened it and read the editor’s letter in       :
Ms Profit,
Your story on Salome Bey is fantastic. Yet we need some        materials. Please add those and return the article immediately. We would like to        your story soon.
Shocked, it took me a long time to       . Fear of rejection cost me greatly. I lost at least five hundred dollars and the chance of having my article appear in a major magazine. More importantly, I lost years of        writing. Today, I have become a full-time writer. Looking back on this       , I learned a very important lesson: You can’t        to doubt yourself.

A． joy B． voice C． speech D． smile

A． proud B． active C． satisfied D． moved

A． visited B． emailed C． phoned D． interviewed

A． agreed B． refused C． hesitated D． paused

A． replied B． discovered C． explained D． knew

A． seriously B． patiently C． nervously D． quietly

A． blaming B． fooling C． inviting D． urging

A． hardship B． failure C． comment D． pressure

A． with B． by C． on D． in

A． Disappeared B． returned C． spread D． improved

A． Compare B． struggle C． survive D． Compet2e

A． ignore B． deliver C． face D． receive

A． Decorating B． repairing C． cleaning D． leaving

A． surprise B． anxiety C． horror D． trouble

A． Subjective B． detailed C． private D． complex

A． broadcast B． create C． publish D． Asses7s

A． recover B． prepare C． escape D． Concen9trate

A． Energetic B． endless C． typical D． enjoyable

A． Experience B． success C． benefit D． accident

A． attempt B． afford C． expect D． Pretend

Compassion is a desire within us to help others. With effort, we can translate compassion into action. An experience last weekend showed me this is true, I work part-time in a supermarket across from a building for the elderly. These old people are our main customers, and it’s not hard to lose patience over their slowness. But last Sunday, one aged gentleman appeared to teach me a valuable lesson. This untidy man walked up to my register（收款机）with a box of biscuits. He said he was out of cash, had just moved into his room, and had nothing in his cupboards. He asked if we could let him have the food on trust. He promised to repay me the next day.
I couldn’t help staring at him, I wondered what kind of person he had been ten or twenty years before, and what he would be like if luck had gone his way. I had a hurt in my heart for this kind of human soul, all alone in the world, I told him that I was sorry, but store rules didn’t allow me to do so. I felt stupid and unkind saying this, but I valued my job.
Just then, another man, standing behind the first, spoke up. If anything, he looked more pitiable. “Charge it to me” was all he said.
What I had been feeling was pity. Pity is soft and safe and easy. Compassion, on the other hand, is caring in action. I thanked the second man but told him that was not allowed either, then I reached into my pocket and paid for the biscuits myself. I reached into my pocket because these two men had reached into my heart and taught me compassion.
The aged gentleman who wanted to buy the biscuits ________.

Which of the following best describes the old gentleman?

The writer acted upon the store rules because ________.

What does the writer learn from his experience?

How would the old men feel at the end of the story?

Recently I spoke to some of my students about what they wanted to do after they graduated, and what kind of job prospects they thought they had.
Given that I teach students who are trained to be doctors, I was surprised to find that most thought that they would not be able to get the jobs they wanted without “outside help”. “What kind of help is that?” I asked, expecting them to tell me that they would need a relative or family friend to help them out.
“Surgery（外科手术）”, one replied. I was pretty alarmed by that response. It seems that the graduates of today are increasingly willing to go under the knife to get ahead of others when it comes to getting a job. One girl told me that she was considering surgery to increase her height. “They break your legs, put in special extending screws, and slowly expand the gap between the two ends of the bone as it regrows. You can get at least 5 cm taller!”
At that point, I was shocked. I am short. I can’t deny that, but I don’t think I would put myself through months of pain just to be a few centimeters taller. I don’t even bother to wear shoes with thick soles, as I’m not trying to hide the fact that I am just not tall!
It seems to me that there is a trend toward wanting “perfection”, and that is an ideal that just does not exist in reality.
No one is born perfect, yet magazines, TV shows and movies present images of thin, tall, beautiful people as being the norm（标准）. Advertisements for slimming aids, beauty treatments and cosmetic surgery clinics fill the pages of newspapers, further creating an idea that “perfection” is a requirement, and that it must be purchased, no matter what the cost. In my opinion, skills, rather than appearance, should determine how successful a person is in his chosen career.
We can know from the passage that the author works as ________.

Many graduates today turn to cosmetic surgery to ________.

What was the author’s reaction towards the girl’s decision?

According to the passage, the author believes that ________.

What does the author think of his height?

While income worry is a rather common problem of the aged, loneliness is another problem that aged parents may face. Of all the reasons that explain their loneliness, a large geographical distance between parents and their children is the major one. This phenomenon is commonly known as “Empty Nest syndrome”.
In order to find better chances outside their countries, many young people have gone abroad, leaving their parents behind with no clear idea of when they will return home. Their parents spend countless lonely days and nights, taking care of themselves, in the hope that someday their children will come back to stay with them. The fact that most of these young people have gone to Europeanized or Americanized societies makes it unlikely that they will hold as tightly to the value of duty as they would have if they had not left their countries. Whatever the case, it has been noted that the values they hold do not necessarily match what the actually do. This geographical and cultural distance also prevents the grown-up children from providing response in time for their aged parents living by themselves.
The situation in which grown-up children live far away from their aged parents has been described as “distant parent phenomenon”, which is common both in developed countries and in developing countries. Our society has not yet been well prepared for “Empty Nest Syndrome”.
According to the passage, the loneliness of aged parents is mainly caused by ________.

Many young people have gone abroad, leaving their aged parents behind, to ________.

If young people go abroad, ________.

From the last paragraph, we can infer that ________.

The society discussed in the passage is most probably ________.

In modern society there is a great deal of argument about competition. Some hold an optimistic attitude. They value it highly, believing that it is a natural outcome of social progress and prosperity（繁荣）and that anyone who wants to be outstanding has to keep the pace. Others think otherwise. They say that competition is bad; that it sets one person against another; that the unfriendly relationship between people because of competition.
I have taught many children who held the belief that their self-worth depended on how well they performed at tennis and other skills. For them, playing well and winning are often life-and-death affairs. In their single-minded pursuit（追求）of success, the development of many other human qualities is sadly forgotten.
However, while some seem to be lost in the desire to succeed, others have an opposite opinion. In a culture which values only the winner and pays no attention to the ordinary players, they strongly blame competition. Among the most vocal are youngsters who have suffered under competitive pressures from their parents or society. They have no choice. Teaching these young people, I often observe in them a desire to fail. They seem to seek failure by not trying to win or achieve success. By not trying, they always have an excuse: “I may have lost, but it doesn’t matter because I really didn’t try”. What is not usually admitted by themselves is the belief that if they had really tried and lost, that would mean a lot. Such a loss would be a measure of their worth. Clearly, this belief is the same as that of the true competitors who try to prove themselves. Both are based on the mistaken belief that one’s self-respect relies on how well one performs compared with others. Both are afraid of not being valued. Only as this basic and often troublesome fear is overcome can discover a new meaning in competition.
What does this passage mainly talk about?

Why do some people favor competition according to the passage?

The underlined phrase “the most vocal” in Paragraph 3 means      .

What is the similar belief of the true competitors and those with a “desire to fail”?

Which point of view may the author agree to?

阅读下面的短文并回答问题，然后将答案写到题后的横线上（请注意问题后的词数要求）。
[1]Reading is often quite helpful to high school students in crisis（危机）. Whatever crisis someone is experiencing, there is probably already a book about it that will help the reader feel less alone.
[2]Teenagers are in crisis in so many different ways now. They are experiencing stress as parents lose jobs in a financial crisis. They are under pressure to find a way to pay the tuition（学费）when they get accepted to college. Also, they may become hurt by betrayals（背叛）of friends.
[3]Teenagers often feel alone in their problems; they act like they are the only person on the planet who has experienced the problem.
[4]Modern literature is often very helpful for teenagers. It helps teens to read about other people who have had a serious crisis in life and gone on to achieve their dreams and a good life.
[5]Literature thus helps teens move out of their minds and their fears and into the larger world. Reading literature helps teens to realize that everyone has to deal with serious problems along the path of forming an identity, choosing a career, leaving their hometown for college, and every other crisis a teen may face.
[6]For us teachers, it is helpful to tell the students that for whatever problem _____________, someone may have already written it in a book. Ask the class to share the problems, and try to find a book that has addressed each one, Literature include many universal themes. Once students realize that, they may become interested in spending more time in the library finding books they relate to. Once they use literature to gain help during difficult times in life, they will realize that reading is really a wonderful way to learn more about life.
What is the main idea of the passage? (no more than 8 words)
                                                      
Fill in the blank in Paragraph 6 with proper words. (no more than 5 words)
                                                       
List three different things that may bring stress to teenagers. (no more than 10 words)
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What makes literature helpful in helping deal with crisis? (no more than 5 words)?
                                                          
What does the word “it” (Line2, Paragraph 1) probably refer to?(no more than 6 words)
                                                          

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