江苏省南通市高一上学期期中联考英语卷

---- Did you have ________ fun at the party?
---- Yes. It’s ________ shame that you missed it.

__________ sleep every night is important for teenagers. _________, loss of sleep can make you feel tired, and even cause you to put on weight.

We are often _____ by the doctors to eat more healthy food and take plenty of physical exercise.

--- Have you moved to your new house?
--- Not yet. My house ______.

Every time ______ they met , they would talk several hours together about the persons and things _______ they remembered in the middle school.

--It’s reported that scientists have ________ an effective way to deal with H1N1.
--Really? That’s great!

The reason ______ he gave for not coming was ______ his mother wouldn’t allow him to.

Heating the news that my father was ill，I was so worried that I couldn’t        on anything．

Reading books is very important for developing the students’ understanding of the world, ____?

I _______ spend the Saturday afternoon with my old friends in the zoo, but they did not come.

All the universities have duty to _______ their students ____of the quick development of the scientific world.

I’m afraid this is the best way ____we can think of ____you.

The garden looks more beautiful ____ a lot of flowers coming out.

Tom along with his classmates ______ for the coming exam.

I shall never forget those years ____ I lived in the country with the farmers, ____ has a great effect on my life.

James shook his money box again. Nothing! He carefully   36  the coins that lay on the bed. $24.52 was all that he had. The bicycle he wanted was $90!  37   on earth was he going to get the   38  of the money? He knew that his friends all had bicycles. It was   39  to hang around with people when you were the only one without wheels. He thought about what he could do. There was no   40   to ask his parents, for he knew they had no money to  41  . There was only one way to get money, and that was to   42   it. He would have to find a job.  43   who would hire him and what could he do? He decided to ask Mr Clay for advice, who usually had    __44  in most things. "Well, you can start right here," said Mr Clay. "My windows need cleaning and my car needs washing." That was the  45  of James’s odd-job (零工) business. For three months he worked every day after finishing his homework. He was surprised by the  46   jobs that people found for him to do. He took dogs and babies for walks, cleared out cupboards, and mended books. He lost count of the  47  of cars he washed and windows he cleaned, but the  48  increased and he knew that he would soon have  49  for the bicycle he was dying for. The day  50   came when James counted his money and found $94.32. He  51  no time and went down to the shop to pick up the bicycle he wanted. He rode   52   home, looking forward to showing his new bicycle to his friends. It had been hard  53  for the money, but James knew that he valued (重视) his bicycle far more 54   he had bought it with his own money. He had   55  what he thought was impossible, and that was worth even more than the bicycle.

A．cleaned B．covered C．counted D．checked

A．How B．Why C．Who D．What

A．amount B．part C．sum D．rest

A．brave B．hard C．smart D．unfair

A．need B．reason C．result D．right

A．separate B．spend C．spare D．save

A．borrow B．earn C．raise D．collect

A．Or B．So C．For D．But

A．decisions B．experience C．opinions D．knowledge

A．beginning B．introduction C．requirement D．opening

A．similar B．ashamed C．peaceful D．various

A．brand B．number C．size D．type

A．effort B．pressure C．money D．trouble

A．all B．enough D．some

A．finally B．instantly C．normally D．regularly

A．gave B．left C．took D．wasted

A．patiently B．proudly C．silently D．tiredly

A．applying B．asking C．looking D．working

A．since B．if C．than D．though

A．deserved B．studied C．achieved D．learned

My school makes students take one religion (宗教) class every year. But religion is really hard, especially with Mr Frank Smith for a teacher.
Mr Smith is 55 years old, with grey hair and a moustache (胡子). He always wears a blue school T-shirt, shorts and tennis shoes with long white socks. My friends say he looks like a cat.
In his class, we did yoga (瑜珈) and meditation (冥想) (actually most of the children in my class lay on the ground sleeping), tasted some strange tea, had classes outside in the garden, and watched videos and movies about Tibetan Buddhism (藏传佛教), God, and so on.
It was fun sometimes. However, the course (课程) was quite hard when it came to tests. The girls often worked until one or two o'clock in the morning on nights before the tests, but they still got bad scores.
When our test scores were bad, he would give us some makeup assignments (补考作业). Once I got a B, which I thought was bad, so I asked Mr Smith for an assignment to bring up my grades.
As a matter of fact, his assignments were often worse than the tests. The tests were just a lot of multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blanks, or short essays (文章). But his assignments usually included a speech in class.
I was not afraid of public speaking, yet it took me three days to collect the information, two days to write the speech, one day to make a PowerPoint and several hours to prepare. I knew my presentation (课堂展示) was good, because I saw Mr Smith's big smile when he listened to me. He gave me an A at last.
After finishing the course, I may not remember how hard it was or the meaning of some vocabulary. But through Mr Smith, I learned a lesson that will be with me my whole life. That is: no matter what we do, we need to put our hearts into it, and then our work will pay off.
The religion class is hard because Mr Smith _______.

How could students get good scores in Mr. Smith’s class?

From the course, the writer learned that ____.

I received pictures of my daughter floating (漂浮) on a lake in California. Right there under the sun during the hottest time of the day, she has only her swimsuit to cover her.
When I showed it to my students, it was as if I had shown them scenes from a horror (恐怖) movie.
“But she will get dark,” they said.
“That’s what she wants,” I told them. “We think darker skin (肤色) is beautiful.”
They looked at me in disbelief. It was as if I came from the moon.
For years, American girls spend their summer trying to get as tanned (晒黑) as possible. In China, on the other hand, girls use umbrellas all year round.
What in the world is going on?
The pale skin we think looks unattractive (不漂亮) is what Asian women want. Both groups want to meet their culture’s standard (标准) of beauty.
In the US, if you can afford to go on vacation in the summer, you head for a river, a lake or a beach, where you try to get as much sun as possible. If you are rich you take a winter vacation in some sunny spot. Your winter tan shows your wealth.
In China, once upon a time, the few wealthy were the ones who didn’t have to work out in the hot sun. So the whiter the skin, the richer the woman. The folk opera performers who play these ladies wore lots of white makeup (妆容). The tradition survives to this day.
So it comes naturally that none of my students wishes to follow the Western ways in this regard.
But now I am noticing that a new business – the tanning booth (美黑店) – started up in China. I admire those brave enough to define（给…下定义）their own idea of beauty, but I do wonder what their grandmothers would have to say to them about it!
The students were shocked at the picture the writer showed them because ______.

According to the article, which kind of woman meets the American standard of beauty?

A．Women with blond hair.	B．Women with a slim figure.
C．Women with tanned skin.	D．Women with pale skin.

In the US a winter tan usually means the person _____.

A．is hard-working	B．doesn’t have to work
C．has a lot of money and spare time	D．is from a very poor family

The writer ______ the tanning booth started up in China.

   As many as one in five US teenagers have some degree of hearing loss, according to researchers.
They say the problem is growing.
Teenagers really don’t pay attention to how much noise they are exposed (暴露) to, Josef Shargorodsky of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston told Reuters. “Often people won’t notice it, but even slight hearing loss may affect language development,” said Shargorodsky, one of the researchers.
The study compared surveys from the early 1990s and the mid-2000s. Each included a few thousand teenagers. In the first survey, about 15 percent of teenagers had some degree of hearing loss. Some 15 years later, that number had risen by a third, to nearly 20 percent.
“This certainly is big news,” said Alison Grimes, an ear doctor. Hearing loss is very common in old people, Grimes said, but she added that it was worrying to see it happen in the younger age group.
In babies and young children, hearing problems are known to slow language development. The science is less clear for teenagers, but it is easy to imagine how being hard of hearing could affect learning, said Grimes,.
The reasons for the rise are still unclear. When researchers asked teenagers about noise exposure – on the job, at school or from activities, for example – the teenagers didn’t report any change. But Shargorodsky said that might not be true. “We knew from before that it is difficult to ask this age group about noise exposure – they underestimate (低估) it.” Few people would call it noise when they listen to music on their MP3 player, for example. “There is a difference between what we think is loud and what is harmful to the ear,” said Grimes.
Although it’s not clear that the MP3 players cause teenagers’ hearing loss, Grimes said it was still a good idea to turn down the sound and take short breaks from listening.
According to the researchers, in a US class of 40 students, about ____ students have some degree of hearing loss.

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

About hearing loss, it can be inferred that ________.

A．the reasons for the rise have been found	B．MP3 players are to blame
C．listening to loud music may be a cause	D．noise is the main reason

The article was written to ______.

By the time a student starts to apply (申请) for a US university, much of his or her record, including grades and after-school activities, has been set in stone. For this reason, the student must in his or her first year of high school start getting ready for college. He or she also has to decide on the non-academic (非学业的) tasks, which are important to improve the student’s chances of getting in.
1. After-school activities
When it comes to high school activities, quality is better than quantity (数量). Admissions (录取) officers do not want to see a student who has joined dozens of organizations (组织) for a short period of time.
Many students try to do this towards the end of their high school. But schools want to see a student who has been with one organization for all or most of high school. A student who can do this shows maturity (成熟). It is the quality that admissions officers look for as it is one of the markers of future success.
2. Leadership
Schools want to see a student who has taken on a leadership role in an organization. A student can show leadership by taking on any role that needs extra commitment (奉献) and responsibility.
If you do not have a great title (头衔) such as president, be sure to explain any leadership roles you have taken. This kind of involvement (参与) in school activities shows you are the responsible person that admissions officers look for.
3. Consistency (一致性)
Admissions officers like an application (申请) to be consistent. For example if there is a high school activity you particularly (特别地) love, it would help if that activity matches your future academic and career interest.
Of course not everything needs to be consistent. Otherwise (否则) the student would be narrow and this is not what schools are looking for. However, you cannot have different parts of your application saying conflicting (矛盾的) things.
Who was the article written for?

The underlined phrase "set in stone" in Paragraph 1 probably means ______.

The author’s suggestion is to ______.

According to the article, which of the following statements is TRUE?

任务型阅读（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
It all began with ...
Orlando Bloom was not a “good” student in school. Because of dyslexia, a reading and writing disorder (障碍), he struggled in many courses.
But Bloom says the dyslexia gave him the encouragement to overcome (克服) his difficulties.
In an interview with the Telegraph, the 32-year-old said the condition turned him into an ambitious person. “Because of the dyslexia, I always thought I had to work twice as hard as everyone else just to go the same distance,” he said. “That gave me a real kick as a kid and a lot of encouragement later on. In one sense, I guess that I'm grateful (感激的).”
Bloom is always preparing it thoroughly(充分地) when it comes to an audition (试镜) for a part. Perhaps this is what won him his role in the Lord of the Rings, a highly successful film trilogy (三部曲). “I really prepared it thoroughly for the audition and it's paid off,” he said.
It was the beginning of a fame that led to even greater success as a movie actor. But unlike some young people who aim for fame and fortune, Bloom believed an acting career “has been fulfilling (实现) his childhood fantasies”.
“Aged 9, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park to see who would be her boyfriend for the day. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her. Once I realized Superman was an actor, I thought, ‘That's for me''.”
Bloom has always played special characters, like a knight (骑士) and a prince. It's difficult to picture him in everyman roles.
In October, Bloom was named Goodwill Ambassador (亲善大使) for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). His first task will be to film a documentary about the importance of clean water supplies.
In fact, Bloom started work for the UNICEF in 2007. On his first visit to Nepal, he was asked by students to take a small part in a play they were performing on local radio.

根据首字母及中文填写正确的单词（共10小题；每小题0.5分，满分5分）
1. I could see a tall f_______ over there, but when I came near, I found it wasn’t a person.
2. After a few days’ stay in hospital, Mr. Green r_______  from his illness. 
3. In China, young children are usually taught to r_______ the old people.
4. He is a f_______ as an artist, but a success as an art teacher.
5. After g_____________ from university, he worked as a newspaper reporter.
6. The students are making p__________ for the coming mid- examination.    
7. Attention should be paid to m_______ good use of English newspapers rather than selling materials to students.
8. I am trying to lose weight because I’m so a________ of my body.
9. The children had an a_______ about what game to play, but they reached an agreement in the end.
10. He is so shy that he often feels e____________ about making speeches in public.

假如你是一名高中生，看到周围很多女同学都在减肥，对此你展开了调查。结果如下：

 
根据以上的内容用英语写一篇短文，注意：
1．不要简单翻译要点，可以有适当发挥。
2．词数：150左右。
3．短文的开头已给出，不计入总词数。
Recently I have conducted a survey on whether girls should lose weight among my classmates.
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