[江苏]2013-2014学年江苏省宿迁市高二上学期第一次月考英语试卷

Joe，who is ______ success as a writer，will give us ______ lecture on Dickens tomorrow.

Mrs Taylor has an 8yearold daughter who has a(n) ______ for painting — she has won two national prizes.

.Mr Harris apologized ______ the children ______ the lady ______ what they had done.

In our country everyone can enjoy the same right_______religion, race or sex.

We learned to dive, ________ meals outside and sleep in a tent.

It was _________ of the parents who hold the view that boys are superior to girls to treat their own little girl as a stranger.

______ is our hope that we will pay another visit to Paris this summer.

Anyone who wants to ________ China’s gardens should go to Suzhou, whose gardens are the best examples in the country.

------I didn't mean ______ my mother.
------But talking to her like that meant ______ her.

The shy girl felt ______ and uncomfortable when she could not answer her teacher's questions.

Do you have any idea when the project will be carried out?
—No, but I have heard that it was not until last month _______ it was approved.

I used to quarrel a lot with my parents, but now we ______ fine.

—What do you think of your trip to Mount Tai?
—Wonderful.It was______than expected.

The newly built café, the walls of_______ are painted light green, is really a peaceful place for us, specially after hard work.

-----Jack，could I use your bike？I need to go to the market this afternoon.
-----______！I won't use it.

About one year ago, a couple with three children moved into the apartment next door to me. I never heard any noise form the children, but I often heard the parents      shouting at the kids, not in a nice tone, but in a (n)      one.
We often      in the hallway. I always greeted them,      the only answer I ever got was a “hello” from the eight-year-old girl. I usually      to see my doctor and one day when I returned they were just      their apartment and the little girl was      the outside door open for the others. I      in the car doing      things because I wasn’t eager to be snubbed (冷落) again. Finally I got out of my car and walked towards the door. The parents were telling her to      to get into the car, but the little girl was still holding the door,      me! I hurried although I was still in pain from my injury.
I forgot to tell her how      I was for her kindness. I wrote a note saying how much her act of kindness had      an old man’s heart.
The next day there was a (n)      on my door and it was the little girl and her father. She was quite      of her behavior and thanked me. Then I noticed her mother was there, too. Her parents      me, too.
Now when we meet in the hall way we always greet each other, in a friendly      .
Last night there was a heavy snow. I looked out at my car and      how I was going to keep my doctor’s      because I could only walk for a short time. This morning when I opened the front door, all the snow was removed.
Isn’t it      that the small kind act of an 8-year-old girl can change so many things for the better? It is said that good tings come from small acts.

A．quietly B．strangely C．quickly D．angrily

A．frightening B．exciting C．sincere D．kind

A．quarreled B．met C．chatted D．argued

A．when B．so C．but D．or

A．went out B．set out C．took out D．gave out

A．decorating B．cleaning C．returning D．leaving

A．breaking B．operating C．holding D．unlocking

A．kept B．remained C．insisted D．left

A．favorite B．important C．unnecessary D．curious

A．hurry B．drive C．stay D．greet

A．hunting for B．asking for C．waiting for D．calling for

A．beneficial B．influential C．anxious D．grateful

A．strengthened B．broken C．touched D．saved

A．note B．knock C．invitation D．picture

A．proud B．aware C．afraid D．sure

A．understood B．recognized C．praised D．thanked

A．manner B．appearance C．statement D．announcement

A．found B．doubted C．remembered D．wondered

A．advice B．appointment C．suggestion D．attention

A．amazing B．confusing C．disappointing D．challenging

Have you ever picked a job based on the fact that you were good at it but later found it made you feel very uncomfortable over time? When you select your career, there's a whole lot more to it than assessing your skills and matching them with a particular position. If you ignore your personality, it will hurt you long-term regardless of your skills or the job's pay. There are several areas of your personality that you need to consider to help you find a good job. Here are a few of those main areas;
1) Do you prefer working alone or with other people?
There are isolating（使孤立）jobs that will drive an outgoing person crazy and also interactive jobs that will make a shy person uneasy. Most people are not extremes in either direction but do have a tendency that they prefer. There are also positions that are sometimes a combination of the two, which may be best for someone in the middle who adapts easily to either situation.
2) How do you handle change?
Most jobs these days have some elements of change to them, but some are more than others. If you need stability in your life, you may need a job where the changes don't happen so often. Other people would be bored of the same daily routine.
3) Do you enjoy working with computers？
I do see this as a kind of personality characteristic. There are people who are happy to spend more than 40 hours a week on a computer, while there are others who need a lot of human interaction throughout the day. Again, these are extremes and you'll likely find a lot of positions somewhere in the middle as well.
4) What type of work environment do you enjoy？
This can range from being in a large building with a lot of people you won't know immediately to a smaller setting where you'll get to know almost all the people there fairly quickly.
5) How do you like to get paid?
Some people are motivated by the pay they get, while others feel too stressed to be like that. The variety of payment designs in the sales industry is a typical example for this.
Anyway, these are a great starting point for you. I've seen it over and over again with people that they make more money over time when they do something they love. It may take you a little longer, but making a move to do what you have a passion for can change the course of your life for the better.
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

What does the underlined sentence in paragraph one mean?

What is the missing word about a job search in the following chart?

I opened my new patient's chart and headed for her room. My son, Eric, had just brought home a disappointing report card, and my daughter, Shannon, and I had argued again about her getting a driver's license. For the next eight hours I wanted to throw myself into helping people who I knew had much more to worry about than I did. Rebekah, mother of three lovely little girls, was only 32, admitted for chemotherapy after breast-cancer surgery, When I gave her an injection, Rebekah shut her eyes tightly and murmured a prayer until it was over. Then she smiled and squeezed my hand. “Before you go, could you get my Bible from the table?" I handed her the worn book. "Do you have a favorite Bible verse?" she asked. "Jesus wept. John 11: 35." "Such a sad one," she said. "Why?""It makes me feel closer to Jesus, knowing he also experienced human sorrow." Rebekah nodded thoughtfully and started flipping through her Bible as I shut the door quietly behind me.
During the following months, her hospital stays became frequent and she worried about her children. One day when I entered her room, I found her talking into a tape recorder. She picked up a notebook and held it out to me. "I'm making a tape for my daughters, " she said. I read the list on her pad: starting school, confirmation, turning 16, first date, graduation. While I worried how to help her deal with death, she was planning for her children's future. She usually waited until the early hours of the morning to record the tapes so she could be free from interruptions. She filled them with family stories and advice，trying to cram a lifetime of love into a few precious hours. Finally, every item in her notes had been checked off and she entrusted the tapes to her husband.
I often wondered what I would say in her place. My kids joked that I was like an FBI agent, with my constant questions about where they’d been and who they’d been with. Where, I thought, are my words of encouragement and love?
It was three o'clock one afternoon when I got an urgent call from the hospital. Rebekah wanted me to come immediately with a blank tape. She was breathing hard when I entered her room. I slipped the tape into the recorder and held the microphone to her lips. "Ruthie, Hannah, Molly, this is the most important tape." She held my hand and closed her eyes. "Someday your daddy will bring home a new mommy. Please make her feel special. Show her how to take care of you. Ruthie, honey, help her get your Brownie uniform ready each Tuesday. Hannah, tell her you don't want meat sauce on your spaghetti. Molly, don't get mad if there's no apple juice. Drink something else. It's okay to be sad, sweeties. Jesus cried too. He knows about sadness and will help you to be happy again. Remember, I'll always love you. I shut off the recorder and Rebekah sighed deeply. "Thank you, Nan, "You'll give this one to them, won't you?" she murmured as she slid into sleep.
A time would come when the tape would be played for Rebekah's children, but right then, after I smoothed Rebekah's blanket, I got in my car and hurried home. I thought of how my Shannon also liked her sauce on the side and suddenly that quirk, which had annoyed me so many times, seemed to make her so much more precious. That night the kids didn't go out; they sat with me long after the spaghetti sauce had dried onto the dishes. And we talked, without interrogations, without complaints，late into the night.
From the first paragraph we can learn that ____________ .

Which of the following scenes was most likely to be seen at Nan’s home before she met Rebekah?

Which was the most vital message Rebekah left to her children?

The writer learnt from Rebekah that a parent’s real concern should be_______.           .

The largest campaign of killing rats in history is set to poison millions of rats on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. Scientists say the campaign planned for 2013 and 2014 will restore beautiful South Georgia to the position it once held as the world’s most important nesting sites for seabirds.
It was sailors in the late 18th century who unintentionally introduced rats to what had been a fresh environment. “If we can destroy the rats, at least 100 million birds will return to their home on South Georgia,” says Tony Martin, a biology professor at the University of Dundee who was invited to lead the project.
South Georgia is by far the largest island to get rid of animals that destroy native wildlife after being introduced deliberately or accidentally by people. Though rats and mice have done the most damage, cats, foxes, goats, deer, rabbits and other species have been targeted in the campaigns around the world.
South Georgia is seven times the size of New Zealand’s Campbell Island, currently the largest area ever killing rats. The successful war against Campbell Island rats was carried our in 2001 with 132 tons of poison dropped from five helicopters.
“New Zealand pioneered the techniques for ridding islands of rats and in fact our operation on South Georgia is based on New Zealand’s technology.” Says Martin. “Some New Zealanders will be helping our campaign, including our chief pilot, Peter Garden, who was also chief pilot for the projects at Campbell Island and Rat Island, in the Aleutian chain of the north Pacific.”
The second and third stages in 2013 and 2014 will involve dropping as much as 300 tons of poison from the air onto every part of the island where rats might live. It is a huge operation, carried out during the stormy southern autumn when the rats are hungry and the risks of poisoning native wildlife are less than in the spring and summer months. “Ideally we’d do in winter but the weather makes that too risky,” Martin says.
The ecological payback will be priceless. But Martin says, “The full benefits will take decades to arrive, because some of these birds are slow to hatch.”
According to the passage, how did the rats appear on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia ?

Which of the following is True about Peter Garden ?

The operation of ridding South Georgia of rats is to carried out in autumn because _________.

What can we infer from the passage?.

According to a study by SallieMae, 84 percent of undergraduate students have credit cards, and by the time they are seniors, they have accumulated US＄4,100 in debt, on top of whatever student loans they may have taken out.
Credit cards are the most convenient form of payment, and they are aggressively marketed to college students. Reportedly, a typical college student carries 4.6 credit cards and US＄3,173 in credit card debt.
Credit cards seem to be a fact of life, not just student life. In the long term, using a credit card properly and paying off the balance can help establish a card history and increase your credit score, which will come in handy when you need an important loan, for a house or car, for example. Your credit score can affect even unrelated things like insurance rates. Credit cards also offer more protection for users than debit cards （借记卡）.Under federal law, the credit card holder is only responsible for the first US＄50 in fraudulent(欺诈的)purchases in cases of theft or loss. However, debit card users are responsible for the first US＄500.
SallieMae found some good news in the fact that two thirds of students had discussed credit issues with their parents, but 84 percent said they needed more information. Those who didn’t get any guidance were more likely to be surprised when they found out how much they owed.
While credit cards offer the easiest access to money, they make it easy to live outside your means. Less than a fifth of students surveyed paid off their balance every month, and carrying a balance brings finance charges, sometimes at a very high interest rates.
SallieMae found that almost 40 percent of students chose their first credit card based on direct mail, which is probably why students get credit card offers in the mail. But when the credit card offers flow in, be sure that you read the fine print. Offers of low or no interest rates can disappear, leaving you a debt that climbs beyond your ability to pay it off.
What does the first paragraph imply?

The underlined part “come in handy” in the third paragraph probably means “_______”.

According to SallieMae, what is the possible reason why students get so many credit card offers in the mail?

What is the theme of the third paragraph?

Young people are definitely less courageous (勇敢的) than they were 30 years ago. Why is this? It’s because they are spoiled, and take for granted everything that they have or are given.
Thirty years ago, there wasn’t nearly as much blatant (公然的) disrespect for elders, peers, or other people in general. At that time, young people were taught that to get anything or get anywhere in life, they’d have to work for it and earn it.
If young people aren’t being taught the basics of respecting others, and aren’t being taught that they need to work to make a living, then where are they to learn courage?
Courage isn’t necessarily about risking your life, for whatever reason. It is about being able to face any kind of hardship, and to make decisions and face the consequences of those decisions.
Courage means being able to learn from hard times, and to take those lessons with you through life. It means having the resourcefulness (足智多谋) to find ways to deal with your problems yourself, and not being afraid to do so.
Too many young people now rely on parents, siblings, older relatives and others to get them through life. Too often they turn to these figures whenever they get into trouble, and expect to have their problems solved for them.
If we are to help our young people become more courageous, we should stop spoiling them, stop doing everything for them, and teach them the skills necessary to make basic life decisions on their own.
Once these basic principles are instilled (灌输) in our young people, I think we’ll find that they are more courageous than we could have dreamed, and more like the young people of thirty years ago than we had ever imagined.
It’s time to go back to older values and ideas, and to bring courage back into our young people and society.

Theme	_____with young people 30 years ago, those are less courageous.
The behavior of young people today	*They generally show _____for elders and other people. *They take for granted whatever they have or receive. *Many of them are too_____ on their parents or other relatives to get them through life.
______	*They are not_____ of the basics of respecting others. *They are not taught to work hard to ____ their dreams    *They don’t have the ______ to make wise decisions and overcome difficulties independently. *They tend to expect others, such as their parents or siblings, to help them out when they are in____.
Tips	*Never ____ them; only help them when necessary. *Teach them the skills they need to make basic life decisions by themselves.
Conclusion	It’s time we went back to older values and ideas, and____ courage back into our young people and society.

“实行低碳经济”，“过低碳生活”，现在已经成为了人们关注的热门话题。最近，你们班的同学就这个话题展开了热烈的讨论。请你根据下表提供的信息，给21st century 写篇文章，报道你们班级的讨论情况。

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Nowadays, carrying out low carbon economy and living a low carbon life has been a hot topic. Recently our class had a heated discussion about it.
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