江苏省盐城市高三上学期期中模拟练习英语试卷

--- Hi，Tom．Does John have any hobbies?
--- _______，swimming will appeal to him most strongly.

—Was it still there _______ you were away to answer the phone?
—There is no doubt about it.

—Mr．Wang is a man of few words，but a quick in mind．
—      ，you know.

Rome was not built in a day．You should set ___________ goals and work hard to achieve them.

－Mary，how did your Math test go?
－I had thought I _________，but in fact I came in the top 10 in my class.

Though a typhoon is on the way，people are still looking forward _________ the outdoor concert.

A warm thought suddenly came to me _______ I might buy some flowers for my friend's mother’s 60th birthday.

Miss Li ______ as a secretary for five years in the company，and now she is general manager of it.

How long do you think _________ the computer company launches a new model?

—He didn’t feel a bit nervous when ________.
—No．He’d had a lot of time ________ for it after all.

—Can I use the telephone on the table，sir?
—Under no circumstances _________ to use the telephone in the office for personal affairs.

I don’t think that your lecture _______ the audience，for they appeared quite puzzled.

—I can’t get on well with some of my classmates．They just leave me in the colD．
—________ But what’s the reason?
A． Sorry to hear that.       B． How about that?
C． Don’t mention it.       D． Never give up!

—We all had a lot of fun at the barbecue yesterday．Pity you weren’t there.
—I really should have gone with you but I _____ on some remaining problems.

Young people who have got jobs may realize university lessons can’t be the only preparation for all of the situations ________ appear in the working world.

Teaching second grade is always a challenge．Each student arrives at school with his own needs and difficulties．One year a student called Billy            me with his behavior as well as his academic requirements．He struggled daily with his         emotions and often became angry or violent．I knew that，to make            progress，his emotions needed controlling．
One            I tried to help Billy was to have him come directly into the classroom when he arrived at school．Billy’s mom would          me to alert (警告) me to a particularly emotional morning at home．Then，I would focus on            his anger and calming him down before the other students arrived.
One week our class was studying            ．I thought one way to bring learning into the classroom was to bring my dog Rocky to school for the day.
That day began as normal．I was preparing activities focused on dog themes              I was told that Billy had a            morning at home and I might need to get him             ．As I was talking to his mom，Billy             into the classroom．To Billy’s            ，Rocky immediately ran up to his new             ，wagging his tail and licking Billy’s face with doggy affection．Billy couldn’t              Rocky’s charm (魅力) and began laughing as his anger melted away．
Throughout the day，Billy never left Rocky’s side，feeding him，being gentle with him and even             the other students while Rocky was sleeping．
Billy was known for doing anything he could to avoid             ，but on this day he found a good dog story，“Clifford’s Puppy Days，” and read it to Rocky．How               I was at the sight of Billy reading happily！My little dog was able to                  Billy’s day from one of anger and frustration to one of laughter，gentleness and               .
That day Rocky more than helped me with my   20 ；he helped to change the life of a child! After that Billy’s behavior definitely improved.

A．challenged B．cheated C．benefited D．betrayed

A．unforgettable B．uncontrollable C．unconscious D．unfortunate

A．physical B．mental C．academic D．authentic

A．advantage B．agenda C．reason D．way

A．awake B．call C．visit D．sign

A．tolerating B．observing C．relieving D．ignoring

A．emotions B．pets C．botany D．diet

A．after B．as C．when D．before

A．boring B．fantastic C．busy D．rough

A．settled B．punished C．treated D．excited

A．fled B．stormed C．jogged D．floated

A．surprise B．delight C．shame D．fear

A．protector B．trainer C．friend D．owner

A．resist B．describe C．reduce D．forget

A．educating B．envying C．comforting D．quieting

A．exploding B．reading C．arguing D．apologizing

A．surprised B．disappointed C．amused D．confused

A．urge B．shorten C．transform D．expand

A．admiration B．curiosity C．anxiety D．love

A．family B．teaching C．housework D．performance

It was graduation day at Etihad Training Academy，where the national airline of the United Arab Emirates holds a seven-week training course for new flight attendants．

Despite her obvious pride，Ms．Fathi，a 22-year-old from Egypt，was amazed to find herself here．“I never in my life thought I’d work abroad，” said Ms．Fathi，who was a university student in Cairo when she began noticing newspaper advertisements employing young Egyptians to work at airlines based in the Persian Gulf.
Twenty years ago，unmarried Arab women like Ms．Fathi，working outside their home countries，were rare．But just as young men from poor Arab nations poured into the oil-rich Persian Gulf states for jobs，more young women are doing so．
Flight attendants have become the public face of the new mobility for some young Arab women，just as they were the face of new freedoms for women in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s．They have become a subject of social anxiety and fascination in much the same way．
For many families，allowing a daughter to work may call her virtue into question．Yet this culture is changing，said Musa Shteiwi，a sociologist at Jordan University in Amman．“We’re noticing more and more single women going to the gulf these days，” he saiD． “It’s still not exactly common，but over the last four or five years it’s become quite an observable phenomenon.”
Many of the young Arab women working in the Persian Gulf take delight in their status as pioneers，role models for their friends and younger female relatives．Young women brought up in a culture that highly values community，have learned to see themselves as individuals．The experience of living independently and working hard for high salaries has forever changed their beliefs about themselves，though it can also lead to a painful sense of separation from their home countries and their families.
—From New York Times (December 22，2014)
It can be inferred from the passage that young Arab women _________．

According to the passage，the Arab women flight attendants can be described as _________.

How do the public respond to young Arab women’s new mobility?

The author intends to tell the readers that __________.

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You can learn how to ______ at the Australian Institute of Applied Sciences College of Natural Medicine.

One of the reasons for your choice of going to the college is that _______.

If you take the courses at home，you are more likely to _______．

 Patients and doctors alike have long believed in the healing (治疗) power of humor．It is claimed that humor not only affects patients’ moods，but can actually help them recover faster.
Several studies seem to support this．Patients in better spirits are known to have higher immune cell counts．Some have even claimed to have healed themselves of serious illnesses by reading comics and watching comedies.
Despite all this，many researchers are not convinceD． They point out the fact that many sufferings have been known to disappear naturally，with or without a daily dose of laughter．They also say that while optimism in general does seem to be related to better health，it is hard to tell which comes first.
Humor in times of stress，however，clearly makes us feel better．On one level，it takes our minds off our troubles and relaxes us．On another，it releases powerful endorphins，a chemical produced by your body that reduces pain．
There are cases where the appreciation of a good joke is indeed directly related to a person’s health．It can show，for example，whether a person has suffered damage to one particular area of the brain: the right frontal lobe (额叶)．
Scientists confirmed this by having people read jokes and asking them to choose the funniest endings from a list．Subjects with normal brains usually chose endings that were based on a relatively complex synthesis (综合) of ideas．Subjects with specifically located brain damage，however，responded only to slapstick (闹剧) endings，which did not depend on a particular context．When pressed，the brain-damaged subjects saw the logic in the correct endings．They simply did not find them funny.
Of course，humor is largely an individual matter．Next time your friend does not get one of your jokes，there is no need to accuse him of being a lamebrain．However，you might suggest that he lighten up—for the health of it．
We can infer from the passage that ________.

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

Scientists had some people read jokes and asked them to choose the funniest endings from a list to confirm that ________.

Which would be the best title for the passage?

 The thing is，my luck’s always been ruineD． Just look at my name: Jean．Not Jean Marie，or Jeanine，or Jeanette，or even Jeanne．Just Jean．Did you know in France，they name boys Jean? It’s French for John．And okay，I don’t live in France．But still，I’m basically a girl named John．If I lived in France，anyway．
This is the kind of luck I’ve had since before Mom even filled out my birth certificate．So it wasn’t any big surprise to me when the cab driver didn’t help me with my suitcase．I’d already had to tolerate arriving at the airport to find no one there to greet me，and then got no answer to my many phone calls，asking where my aunt and uncle were．Did they not want me after all? Had they changed their minds? Had they heard about my bad luck—all the way from Iowa—and decided they didn’t want any of it to rub off on them?
So when the cab driver，instead of getting out and helping me with my bags，just pushed a little button so that the trunk (汽车后备箱) popped open a few inches，it wasn’t the worst thing that had ever happened to me．It wasn’t even the worst thing that had happened to me that day．
According to my mom，most brownstones in New York City were originally single-family homes when they were built way back in the 1800s．But now they’ve been divided up into apartments，so that there’s one—or sometimes even two or more families—per floor．
Not Mom’s sister Evelyn’s brownstone，though．Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Ted Gardiner own all four floors of their brownstone．That’s practically one floor per person，since Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Ted only have three kids，my cousins Tory，Teddy，and Alice．
Back home，we just have two floors，but there are seven people living on them．And only one bathroom．Not that I’m complaining．Still，ever since my sister Courtney discovered blow-outs，it’s been pretty frightful at home．
But as tall as my aunt and uncle’s house was，it was really narrow—just three windows across．Still，it was a very pretty townhouse，painted gray．The door was a bright，cheerful yellow．There were yellow flower boxes along the base of each window，flower boxes from which bright red—and obviously newly planted，since it was only the middle of April，and not quite warm enough for them．
It was nice to know that，even in a sophisticated (世故的) city like New York，people still realized how homey and welcoming a box of flowers could be．The sight of those flowers cheered me up a little．
Like maybe Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Ted just forgot I was arriving today，and hadn’t deliberately failed to meet me at the airport because they’d changed their minds about letting me come to stay．
Like everything was going to be all right，after all．
Yeah．With my luck，probably not．
I started up the steps to the front door of 326 East Sixty-Ninth Street，then realized I couldn’t make it with both bags and my violin．Leaving one bag on the sidewalk，I dragged the other up the steps with me．Maybe I took the steps a little too fast，since I nearly tripped and fell flat on my face on the sidewalk．I managed to catch myself at the last moment by grabbing some of the fence the gardeners had put up…
Why did the author go to New York?

According to the author，some facts account for her bad luck EXCEPT that ________．

The underlined phrase “rub off on” in Paragraph 3 probably means _________.

From the passage，we can know that _________．

 Could your cellphone give you cancer? Whether it could or not，some people are worrying about the possibility that phones，powerlines and wi-fi could be responsible for a range of illnesses，from rashes to brain tumors.
For example，Camilla Rees，48，a former investment banker in the US，moved out of her apartment in San Francisco because of the radiation coming from next door．Rees told the Los Angeles Times that when her neighbors moved in and installed a wi-fi router she lost her ability to think clearly．“I would wake up dizzy in the morning．I’d fall to the floor．I had to leave to escape that nightmare，” she saiD． Since then，she’s been on a campaign against low-level electromagnetic fields，or EMFs（低频电磁场）.
And she’s not alone．Millions of people say they suffer from headaches，depression，nausea and rashes when they’re too close to cellphones or other sources of EMFs.
Although the World Health Organization has officially declared that EMFs seem to pose little threat，governments are still concerneD． In fact，last April，the European Parliament called for countries to take steps to reduce exposure to EMFs．The city of San Francisco and the state of Maine are currently considering requiring cancer-warning labels on cellphones.
If these fears are reasonable，then perhaps we should all be worried about the amount of time we spend talking on our phones or plugging into wi-fi hotpots.
Some say there is evidence to support the growing anxieties．David Carpenter，a professor of environmental health sciences at the University at Albany，in New York，thinks there’s a greater than 95% chance that power lines can cause childhood leukemiA． Also there’s a greater than 90% chance that cellphones can cause brain tumors.
But others believe these concerns are unreasonable paranoia (猜疑)．Dr．Martha Linet，the head of radiation epidemiology at the US National Cancer Institute，has looked at the same research as Carpenter but has reached a different conclusion．“I don’t support warning labels for cellphones，” said Linet．“We don’t have the evidence that there’s much danger.”
Studies so far suggest a weak connection between EMFs and illness — so weak that it might not exist at all．A multinational investigation of cellphones and brain cancer，in 13 countries outside the US，has been underway for several years．It’s funded in part by the European Union，in part by a cellphone industry group．
According to Robert Park，a professor of physics at the University of Maryland in the US，the magnetic waves aren’t nearly powerful enough to break apart DNA，which is now known threats，such as UV rays and X-rays，cause cancer.
Perhaps it’s just psychological．Some experts find that the electro-sensitivity syndrome seems to be similar to chemical sensitivity syndrome，which is a condition that’s considered to be psychological.
Whether EMFs are harmful or not，a break in the countryside，without the cellphone，would probably be good for all of us.

What can you do when you are unhappy？If you want to let out your anger or pressure by breaking things，you just do．Now a school in Nanjing has built a “stress wall” to help students who feel unhappy due to heavy schoolwork or for other reasons.
The leader of the school said the idea of a stress wall started when footprints were found on some newly painted walls and some school windows were broken.
“These things happen because some students feel lots of pressure from their studies or because they don’t get along well with other students．When under stress，the body gets ready to either run or fight and becomes very nervous．Hitting the wall can help relax the body and take away stress，” he said.
“Tests and homework make me sad，” said a junior girl，“I can’t wait to hit the wall．It will help me a lot with my problems.” However，another girl student who wouldn’t give her name said，” The wall won’t help because it can’t talk，” and she added，” I need to talk to someone when I’m sad.”
【写作内容】
以约30个词概括这段短文内容；
以约120个词就“Should the stress wall be built”主题发表你的看法，包括以下要点：
（1）学生的压力来源；
（2）是否该建此墙并说明理由；
（3）提供一些其他有效的减压方法。
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1.可以参照阅读材料但不得直接引用原文的句子；
2.作文中不得出现真实的姓名和学校名称。
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