广东省广州市七区高一下学期期末质量监测联考英语试卷

One night I went to Himeji, a city not far from Kobe. As I walked with my family along the river I saw a __20__. It was a young man who looked just like me. He was wearing a cap and smiling. Around his neck was a leather strap （皮带）and in his hands was a saxophone. He was __21___ the saxophone to his __22__ and just about to play. My family walked on up the river towards the castle __23__ I stayed there by the statue, __24__ of playing a saxophone on TV.
Two weeks later it was my birthday. Imagine my __25___ when I opened my present from my parents and found that it was a __26__! I put it to my lips to play, but it wouldn’t make a sound. Then Dad told me to read the __27___ book to find out what to do. After about 15 minutes the saxophone was ready to play. I __28__hard but I couldn’t get the saxophone to play. I was almost __29___ when suddenly the saxophone made the most beautiful sound – loud and clear like I __30__ the music of the man by the river in Kobe. 

A．car B．bus C．train D．motorcycle

A．bank B．castle C．mountain D．river

A．closed B．open D．clear

A．low B．lonely C．loud D．deep

A．man B．statue C．photo D．picture

A．playing B．picking C．lifting D．rising

A．hands B．ears C．eyes D．lips

A．though B．but C．so D．or

A．dreaming B．pretending C．admiring D．observing

A．anger B．regret C．sickness D．joy

A．guitar B．drum C．saxophone D．violin

A．music B．exercise C．instruction D．note

A．blew B．flew C．shook D．beat

A．reading B．crying C．talking D．asking

A．made B．heard C．played D．imagined

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空
We all know that exercise is     important part of a healthy lifestyle. You will get a better general fitness with     (strong) bones and muscles. It will stop you putting   weight and you’ll feel happy     you have done something good. It’s also an opportunity to meet up with friends or make new ones.
  , not everyone likes doing exercise or playing sporting. But don’t you think it’s time to stop     (make) excuses and start doing something fun and healthy?
Here are some excuses young people use     they don’t want to exercise: “None of my friends or family does it.”“It’s a boy thing.”“It’s sweaty.”“I don’t want muscles.”“I’m overweight.”“I don’t like joining teams.”“I’d rather play with the computer.”
“It’s not cool.” Try     (tell) David Beckham this? All right, we can’t all reach the very top, but we can benefit     being fitter. People who tell you it’s not cool are usually the      who couldn’t run to catch a bus if their lives depended on it.

Americans use many expressions with the word “dog”. People in the United States love their dogs and treat them well. They take their dogs for walks, let them play outside and give them good food and medical care. However, dogs without owners to care for lead a different kind of life. The expression “to lead a dog’s life” describes a person who has an unhappy existence.
Some people say we live in a dog-eat-dog world. That means many people are competing for the same things, like good jobs. They say that to be successful, a person has to work like a dog. This means they have to work very, very hard. Such hard work can make people dog-tired. And, the situation would be even worse if they became sick as a dog.
Still, people say every dog has its day. This means that every person enjoys a successful period during his or her life. To be successful, people often have to learn new skills. Yet, some people say that you can never teach an old dog new tricks. They believe that older people do not like to learn new things and will not change the way they do things.
People who are unkind or uncaring can be described as meaner than a junkyard dog. Junkyard dogs live in places where people throw away things they do not want. Mean dogs are often used to guard this property. They bark or attack people who try to enter the property. However, sometimes a person who appears to be mean and threatening is really not so bad. We say his bark is worse than his bite.
Doghouse provide shelter but they can be cold and lonely in the winter. Husbands and wives use this doghouse term when they are angry at each other. For example, a woman might get angry at her husband for coming home late or forgetting their wedding anniversary. She might tell him that he is in the doghouse. However, the husband may decide that it is best to leave things alone and not create more problems. He might decide to let sleeping dogs lie.
Dog expressions also are used to describe the weather. The dog days of summer are the hottest days of the year. A rainstorm may cool the weather. But we do not want it to rain too hard. We do not want it to rain cats and dogs.
The passage tells us something about________.

By saying _______, we compare people to dogs in bad ways.

By saying ________, we mean every person enjoys a successful period in life.

If we advise the others to leave things alone and not create more problems, we say_______.

It has been really hot these days, as _______.

In the 1880s, people drank John Pemberton’s tonic to cure headaches. It wasn’t a very popular drink, and he sold only about a dozen drinks a day. That’s why Pemberton was willing to sell the rights to his medicinal drink. The buyer, Asa Griggs Candler, paid just $ 2,300 for the rights to Coca-Cola. Today, Coca-Cola (or Coke) is worth billions of dollars. It controls 50 percent of the world market in soft drinks.
How did Coca-Cola become so popular? One answer is that Asa Candler was a very clever businessman. He was one of the first people to use mass marketing. How did he do this? First, he made his product unique. When he bought the rights to Coca-Cola, it came in ordinary bottles. It looked like every other drink on the market. To make Coca-Cola look different, Candler modernized the bottles. He also made an eye-catching logo for his products. When other companies tried to imitate Coca-Cola’s name, Candler took them to court.
In addition to the unique bottle and logo, Candler spent a lot of time and money advertising his product. He used advertising to make a powerful image of Coca-Cola in the minds of his customers. He gave away free bottles of Coke. He put the name of his drink on pencils, trays, Japanese fans, matches, and many other things. Then he gave the things to people for free. He advertised Coca-Cola in the newspaper and painted the words “Drink Coca-Cola” on the sides of buildings and barns. By 1902, Coca-Cola was the best known product in the United States.
Candler was also able to make memorable advertisements. They often had catchy slogans such as “The Pause That Refreshes.” He also used famous athletes to advertise his product. They helped people to think of Coca-Cola as a delicious drink for everyone.
Today, businesses all over the world use mass marketing, but the makers of Coke were the first.
Candler bought the rights to Coca-Cola from _______. 

The underlined sentence in paragraph 2 implies that __________.

Candler used slogans to advertise his product. Slogans are _______.

By using mass marketing, Asa tried many ways EXCEPT _______.

The passage is mainly to _______.

It was raining as I got off the train in Nashville, Tennessee. I was tired so I went straight to my hotel.
A big, heavy man was walking up and down in the hotel lobby. Something about the way he moved made me think of a hungry dog looking for a bone. He had a big, fat, red face and a sleepy expression in his eyes. He introduced himself as Wentworth Caswell – Major Wentworth Caswell – from “a fine southern family”. Caswell pulled me into the hotel’s barroom and yelled for a waiter. We ordered drinks. While we drank, he talked continually about himself, his family, his wife and her family. He said his wife was rich. He showed me a handful of silver coins that he pulled from his coat pocket.
By this time, I had decided that I wanted no more of him. I said good night.
I was born in the south myself. But I live in New York now. I write for a large magazine. My boss had asked me to go to Nashville. The magazine had received some stories and poems from a writer in Nashville, named Azalea Adair. The editor liked her work very much. The publisher asked me to get her to sign an agreement to write only for his magazine.
I left the hotel at nine o’clock the next morning to find Miss Adair. It was still raining. As soon as I stepped outside I met Uncle Caesar. He was a big, old black man with fuzzy gray hair. Uncle Caesar was wearing the strangest coat I had ever seen. It must have been a military officer’s coat. It was very long and when it was new it had been gray. But now rain, sun and age had made it a rainbow of colors. Only one of the buttons was left. It was yellow and as big as a fifty cent coin.
Uncle Caesar stood near a horse and carriage. He opened the carriage door and said softly, “Step right in, sir. I’ll take you anywhere in the city.”
“I want to go to 861 Jasmine Street,” I said, and I started to climb into the carriage. But the old man stopped me. “Why do you want to go there, sir?”
“What business is it of yours?” I said angrily. Uncle Caesar relaxed and smiled. “Nothing, sir. But it’s a lonely part of town. Just step in and I’ll take you there right away.”
861 Jasmine Street had been a fine house once, but now it was old and dying. I got out of the carriage.
“That will be two dollars, sir,” Uncle Caesar said. I gave him two one-dollar bills. As I handed them to him, I noticed that one had been torn in half and fixed with a piece of blue paper. Also, the upper right hand corner was missing.
The narrator （故事的叙述者）got to Nashville probably _______.

The narrator didn’t like Caswell mainly because of ________.

The publisher told the narrator to go to Nashville ______.

Uncle Caesar’s strange coat ________.

A．was worn by a military officer	B．was a new gray coat
C．was an old yellow raincoat	D．had only one button left

From the question “Why do you want to go there, sir?”, we guess that Uncle Caesar _______.

________
In 1973, Jimmy Carter, ex-president of the United States, saw a UFO—an Unidentified Flying Object. There were about 20 other people with him at the time, and they all watched the strange object for several minutes.
________
Does this surprise you? It’s not unusual. About 15 million people all over the world think that they have seen a UFO, a recent report says.
_______
UFOs have become very popular. There are books and films about UFOs, we can watch imaginary flying saucers and visitors from space on television, and there are stories in the newspapers about strange objects. Some of the stories are very silly. Clearly, some of these “UFOs” were aircraft, birds, the moon, lights on the clouds, and so on. But some people believe that spaceships come from other planets, and some of the reports aren’t easy to explain.
______
In 1947 an American businessman was flying his own plane during the day. Mr. Arnold was a sensible man and a pilot with many years’ experience. That day, he saw a row of strange flying objects. He could see them clearly, and he watched them for some time. Later he said that they moved “like saucers over water.” The name “flying saucer” was invented. The newspapers loved the story, of course, and they all wrote long reports about it.
______
During World War II, pilots had reported strange round flying objects. Sometimes these objects flew beside their planes and followed them. At first, the pilots were afraid: they thought these objects were a new weapon. But the “weapon” didn’t harm them. The officers said the pilots were imaging things. The pilots got used to the strange objects.

根据句子的意思和括号里的中文提示以及首字母， 写出下列的单词。要求写出完整单词。
The Greek financial difficulties would not be easily o________（战胜）.
The single mother is s________（奋力） to bring up her child alone.
We all i________（打算）to have DIY decorations, but our cupboards will be made by a carpenter.
The new credit cards will be of great b________（利益） to our customers.
Most of the compositions written by the students were very good i___________（真正地）.
I can say to the governor that he ___________ （误解）the order and tried to defend himself.
He was a little boy, but he ___________（行为表现）as if he was an adult.
The government’s actions are ___________（相违的）to the public interest.
___________（不像）most people in the office, I don’t come to work by car.
He created a new ___________（体系）of teaching foreign languages.

阅读下列句子，使用适当的短语或词组将句子补全, 将每一题的答案写在答题卷相应的横线上。
这个城市的大多数人都是在汽车厂工作来谋生的。
Most people in this city ______ their ______ by working in the car factory.
黄花岗公园矗立着一块墓碑，用来纪念那些在起义中献身的英雄。
There is a monument in Huang Hua Gang Park _______ _______ of those heroes who gave their lives in the uprising.
日本的福岛第一核电站被发生在 2011年3月11日的9.0级地震和海啸严重摧毁了。
The Fukushima I NPP, was seriously damaged by the 9.0 earthquake and the tsunami （海啸）which _______ _______ in Japan on 11 March 2011.
他因家世贫寒而被人看不起。
He was ______ down ______ because of his humble background.
上个月去伦敦的路上我看见了英国最大的掠食鸟类——白尾鹫。
On my way to London last month I ______ ______ of Britain’s largest bird of prey, the white-tailed sea eagle.

根据所给的中文和括号内的语法提示, 把下面句子翻译成英语,写在答题卷相应的横线上。
我觉得很奇怪他睡得那么少却能够干得那么卖力。（宾语从句）
I find ______ ________ ______ he is able to work so hard with so little sleep.
这两姐妹一定是吵架了，因为她们互不理睬。(must have done)
The sisters _______ _______ _______ an argument, for they are no longer talking to each other.
那位老师和两个学生参加了会议。（主谓一致）
The ________ with two ________ ________ at the meeting.
是什么事使他不能参加我们的会议仍然是个谜。（主语从句）
_______ prevented him from _______ our meeting still ______ a mystery.
老师不用抬头看就已经知道是哪个学生在班上讲话。（V+ing 作宾语）
Without ______ ______ _______ her desk, the teacher already knew which student was talking in class.  

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【参考词汇】　1. 法国公开赛：French Open
2. 女单冠军: singles title
3. 大满贯：Grand Slam