河南省郑州市高中毕业年级第二次质量预测英语卷

The Mid-Autumn Festival is ________ special holiday for most Chinese when ________ whole family will get together.

--Mary, remember to come and see us next time you’re in town.
--________.

--Can’t you stay a little longer? I really want to talk more with you.
--Me, too. ________ I have to get home before 10 at night.

The first snow didn’t fall until February in our province this year, ________ was unexpected.

Though winters in Britain are cold and there is usually snow, there are ________ places for skiing.

It is believed that many more popular terms ________ on the Internet this year.

Perhaps you ________ stop playing computer games now. Your boss may be turning up in the office at any moment.

You can get off the bus one or two stops ________ and walk the rest of the way to work every day so as to take some exercise.

For more information about Cambridge, ________ our website at www. cambridge. org.

By the time he realizes the mistake he ________，it will be too late for him to do anything about it.

The medicine should usually be kept out of the ________ of children at home.

Water Knows Answers by a Japanese author, ________ into 16 languages, has become a best- seller all over the world.

--Could you please cut the price a little?
--Er... _________ you buy more than ten.

--When will you come home for dinner? I’ll prepare it for you.
--Don’t ________ it. I’ll eat out with my friends.

________ the danger of drunk driving, many drivers promised never to drive after drinking.

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，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
It was half an hour before midnight on December 24th last year. I was a ticket-counter supervisor（主管）for a major airline and was looking forward to the   36   of my shift （轮班）at Stapleton International Airport in Denver. My wife was waiting up for me at home so that we could   37   our gifts for Christmas.
Just then, a very   38    gentleman went up to me.  He asked how he could get to Cheyenne, Wyoming. He had just arrived from Philadelphia and   39   his connecting flight. I pointed him to the ground transportation area, where he could rent a   40  . And then I called my wife to let her know I would be home   41  .
About fifteen minutes later, the gentleman   42   and informed me that all the buses were full and there were no cars   43  . I told him that he had to stay for a night at the airport. Hearing that, he burst into   44  .
I tried to make him calm down. He explained that his name was Tom, and that his only son was   45   ill at home and was not expected to   46   another year. He expected that this would likely be the   47   Christmas with his son.
I told Tom to   48   his luggage and wait for me at the gate. I was driving to Cheyenne. I called my wife Kathy, telling her about it and not to wait up for me. I drove fast   49   and we arrived in Cheyenne around 2:30 a. m.
Kathy was still   50   me when I got home in the early morning. We traded gifts and then our conversation   51   Tom. For Kathy and me, there was no   52   that driving Tom to Cheyenne was the   53   choice.
A couple of days later, I   54   a Christmas card with a picture of Tom and his family. In it, Tom thanked me for the special   55   he had received that holiday season, but I knew the best gift was mine.

A．end B．turn C．role D．change

A．expect B．get C．exchange D．make

A．kind B．helpless C．sad D．worried

A．mistook B．missed C．caught D．continued

A．bus B．flight C．room D．car

A．soon B．late C．early D．lately

A．left B．moved C．came D．returned

A．reliable B．present C．available D．acceptable

A．laughter B．tears C．anger D．sorrow

A．really B．slightly C．seriously D．unluckily

A．suffer B．live C．share D．grow

A．last B．best C．happiest D．hardest

A．hand B．find C．pack D．collect

A．for a while B．all around C．all the way D．from time to time

A．waiting for B．caring for C．thinking of D．depending on

A．remembered B．recalled C．concerned D．contained

A．idea B．doubt C．point D．problem

A．main B．only C．nice D．great

A．received B．sent C．saved D．discovered

A．drive B．help C．deal D．gift

Several times my daughter had telephoned to say, “Mum, you must come and see the daffodils （水仙花）before they are over.” I wanted to go, but it was a two-hour drive from Lake Arrowhead. “I will go next Tuesday,” I promised, a little unwillingly, on her third call.
The next Tuesday dawned cold and rainy. Still, I had promised, and so I drove there. When I finally walked into Carolyn’s house and hugged and greeted my grandchildren, I said, “Forget the daffodils, Carolyn! The road is invisible （看不见的）in the cloud and fog, and there is nothing in the world except you and these children that I want to see!”
My daughter smiled calmly and said, “We drive in this weather all the time, Mum. You will never forgive yourself if you miss this experience.”
After about twenty minutes, we turned onto a small road and I saw a small church. On the far side of the church, I saw a hand-lettered sign that read “Daffodil Garden”.
We got out of the car and each took a child’s hand, and I followed Carolyn down the path. Then, we turned a corner of the path, and I looked up and gasped. Before me lay the most beautiful sight! There were five acres of flowers! “But who has done this?” I asked Carolyn. “It’s just one woman,” Carolyn answered. “That’s her home,” Carolyn pointed to a well-kept A-frame house that looked small and modest in the midst of all that glory. We walked up to the house. On the patio （庭院）, we saw a poster. “Answers to the Questions I Know You Are Asking” was the headline.
The first answer was a simple one. “50,000 bulbs （鳞茎）,” it read. The second answer was, “One at a time, by one woman.” The third answer was, “Began in 1958.”
I thought of this woman whom I had never met, who, more than fifty years before, had begun -- one bulb at a time -- to bring the beauty and joy to the mountain top.
The author didn’t go to see the daffodils at first because _________.

What do we know about the woman living in the A-frame house?

What could the author probably learn from this experience?

What would be the best title for the passage?

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Who is this passage most probably written to?

If you have any complaints, what should you do?

According to the passage, which of the following is true?

October 15th is Global Handwashing Day.  Activities are planned in more than twenty countries to get millions of people in the developing world to wash their hands with soap.
Experts say people around the world wash their hands but very few use soap at so-called critical moments. These include after using the toilet, after cleaning a baby and before touching food.
Global Handwashing Day is the idea of the Public-private Partnership for handwashing with soap. The goal, they say, is to create a culture of handwashing with soap. The organizers say all soaps are equally effective at removing disease-causing germs （细菌）. They say the correct way to wash is to wet your hands with a small amount of water and cover them with soap. Rub it into all areas, including under the fingernails. Then, wash well under running water. Finally, dry your hands with a clean cloth.
The Partnership says soap is important because it increases the time that people spend washing. Soap also helps to break up the dirt that holds most of the germs. And it usually leaves a pleasant smell, which increases the chances that people will wash again.
It also says that washing hands with soap before eating and after using the toilet could save more lives than any medicine. It could help reduce cases of diarrhea （痢疾）, which is the second leading cause of child deaths, killing more than one and a half million children a year, by almost half.
What does the author intend to tell us in the passage?

Which of the following is the right way to wash hands?
a. Washing hands well.                b. Covering hands with soap.
c. Drying hands.                     d. Rubbing hands with soap.
e. Wetting hands.

Which fact can’t explain why soap is important?

According to the last paragraph, diarrhea is a disease that ________.

Why do men live a shorter life than women? The latest research indicates that men’s hearts going into a rapid decline when they reach middle age could be the cause.
The research of ageing on the heart has shown that women’s longevity may be linked to the fact that their hearts do not lose much pumping power with age.
“We have found that the power of the male heart falls by 20-25 percent between 20 and 70 years of age,” said the head of the study, Samantha of Liverpool John Moores University in the UK.
“Within the heart there are millions of cells which make it beat. Between the ages of 20 and 70, one-third of those cells die and are not replaced in men ,” said Samantha. “This is part of the ageing process.”
What amazes scientists is that the female heart suffers very little loss of these cells. A healthy 70-year-old woman’s heart could work almost as perfectly as a 20-year-old one’s.
“This gender （性别）difference might give the reason why men live shorter than women,”said Samantha. They studied over 250 healthy men and women between the ages of 17 and 80, who are mainly healthy persons so as to reduce the influence of disease. “The team has yet to think about why ageing suffers a greater loss on the male heart,” said Samantha.
But there is also good news -- men can enjoy the health of their hearts with regular exercise. Samantha stressed that women should also take regular exercise to stop their leg muscles getting weaker as they age.
The underlined word “longevity” in the second paragraph means “________”.

The text mainly talks about ________.

According to the text, the UK scientists have known that ________.

If you want to live a long life, you should ________.

 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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Recently some American scientists have given a useful piece of advice to people in industrialized countries. They say people should eat more of the same kind of food eaten by humans living more than 10,000 years ago.    1  
The scientists say that human life has changed greatly. Our bodies have not been able to deal with these changes in lifestyle and this has led to new kinds of sicknesses.    2    They are called “diseases of civilization”. Many cancers and diseases of the blood system arc examples of such diseases.
The scientists noted that people in both the Old Stone Age and the New Stone Age enjoyed very little alcohol or tobacco, probably none.    3   However, a change in food is one of the main differences between life in ancient times and that today.
Stone Age people hunted wild animals for their meat, which had much less fat than domestic（驯养的）ones. They ate a lot of fresh wild vegetables and fruits. They did not have milk or any other dairy products, and they made very little use of grains.    4    We eat six times more salt than our ancestors and we eat more sugar as well. We eat twice as much fat but only one third as much protein （蛋白质）and much less vitamin C.
   5    But the scientists say that we would be much healthier if we eat much the same way the ancient people did, cutting the amount of fat, salty and sweet food.
A. Stone Age people lived a simple life without any meat.
B. But today, we enjoy eating a lot of these.
C. In that case, they would live a much healthier life.
D. Ancient people also got lots of physical exercise.
E. These new sicknesses were not known in ancient times.
F. People today probably don’t want to live like our ancestors.
G. Modern people used to suffer from “diseases of civilization”.

短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
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（从第11处起）不计分。
Last Saturday the students of our class made a bike trip of a small town by the Taihu Lake. We set off earlier in the morning. After getting to the town, we had visited some places of interest. At noon, we had picnic near the town. Everybody was attracted by the beautifully scenery and we took a lot of picture there. In the afternoon, some of us went fishing, some rowed boats on the water, but others flew kites. We both had a wonderful time! It was a pleasant trip for us, during which the boys were offered the girls a lot of help. We have learned to help, understand and sharing with others. In a word, we have got quite a lot from it.

书面表达（满分25分）
假定你是李华，你的朋友李明写信告诉你他因不善交友而苦恼。请根据下面提示给他回信，提出建议。
提示：
1．友善、乐于助人；
2．多与他人交流；
3．多参加活动；
注意：
1．词数：100左右；
2．可以适当发挥，以使短文连贯；
3．开头和结尾己为你写好，不计入总词数。
参考词汇：communicate（v．）交流；activity（n．）活动
Dear Li Ming,
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Yours,
Li Hua