[湖北]2013-2014学年湖北省荆州市部分县市高一上学期期末考试英语试卷

Because of the recent bad weather, the work is several weeks behind_______.

The _______of our life has been improved greatly since the Party’s policy was carried out.

It is reported that the scientists in our country are_______all possible way to control H7N9 flu. 

It was said that the game was_______for children but adults could also play it.

－The temple looks very old.
－You are right. It’s said that it_______more than 300 years ago.

－What is the rich peasant’s plan?
－He has made up his mind to　　　　a home for the elderly in his village.

Mothers love children, which is a(n) _______fact in spite of cultural differences.

－How can we get to the airport? It’s too far and too expensive to take a taxi.
－Don’t worry. There is a ________bus service to the airport.

I’m afraid I can’t attend your wedding ceremony, but thanks for the invitation_______.

Don’t annoy me again. I must warn you that my patience is almost_______.

Bowen was grown-up, and for his birthday that year his father gave him a     without any pictures in it!
Bowen’s father found he was not     about it, and told him, “Son, this isn’t just any     book; it’s a magic (有魔力的) book. But to discover its magic you’ll have to     it.”
Well, that was better. Bowen liked     to do with magic. He started reading it,     he wasn’t very willing to.
The next morning, his     asked him, “Have you found the magic     ?”
So… there was a key to find! Bowen flicked through (快速翻阅) the book, but there was no      of the key.
And then his father     him, “You won’t find it like that. You have to read the book. ”
Bowen didn’t have much patience (耐心) , thinking his father just told a     .A little later, his little sister, Rainer, asked him      the book. After several days, she     shouted, “I’ve found the key! ” And she wouldn’t stop     all the places she had visited using the magic key.
This made Bowen read the book again. At first it was a     ; there wasn’t even one single      in the book. But, gradually, Bowen became     the adventurous (冒险的) prince’s life. Then, suddenly, he was there.
The book     was the key!
It was true that every time he     it, he felt going to its valleys and seas, and he lived the adventures of the prince.
From then on, with every new book, Bowen never     being attracted by the letters and words inside.

A．diary B．book C．box D．bag

A．sad B．surprised C．happy D．angry

A．ordinary B．special C．new D．famous

A．keep B．take C．read D．value

A．somebody B．everything C．nothing D．anybody

A．though B．so C．and D．or

A．uncle B．father C．mother D．aunt

A．key B．page C．word D．stick

A．mark B．signal C．sign D．way

A．asked B．praised C．told D．followed

A．will B．story C．joke D．lie

A．for B．of C．to D．back

A．badly B．happily C．slowly D．quickly

A．working out B．turning down C．talking about D．looking for

A．pity B．pleasure C．success D．pain

A．note B．picture C．text D．title

A．interested in B．busy with C．tired of D．good at

A．it B．yourself C．itself D．himself

A．put B．opened C．threw D．covered

A．stopped B．tried C．felt D．began

It is winter in many parts of the world. For some areas, that means snow. Maybe even lots of snow. If you don’t have to drive in it or remove it, snow can be very beautiful. When snow covers everything around you, the world looks like a “winter wonderland”. That is the name of a very popular song about winter. Richard Smith and Felix Bernard wrote the song back in 1934. There are hundreds of recordings of this happy song.
But winter is not always such a beautiful and happy time. It’s cold outside. You try hard to keep warm. The days are darker and shorter. The sun rarely shines. The leaves on the trees are brown. It isn’t surprising that some people are sad in winter. And some people dream about being somewhere else where it’s warm and pretty—like the state of California. The Mamas and the Papas recorded this famous song “California Dreaming”.
During the 1960s, many other famous rock groups released songs about winter. Here is a poetic song by Simon and Garfunkel called “A Hazy Shade of Winter”. They sing about life and hope and possibilities.
In 1968, the group Blood, Sweat and Tears recorded this gentle, sad song about winter. They sing about a lost love and forgotten memories in “Sometimes in Winter”.
In the early 1990s, Tori Amos wrote and recorded the beautiful song called “Winter”. She enjoyed singing about winter when she was a child.
Finally, on a happier note comes this song written and recorded by Fountains of Wayne in 2003. They sing about a snowstorm in a New England town. Nothing unusual there. But instead of being sad or tense about the snow, they write a song about it.
When is snow beautiful?

According to the second paragraph, winter is ________ .

Which of the songs can bring us hope of life?

What does the passage mainly talk about?

When I was about 12, I had an enemy, a girl who liked to point out my shortcomings. Week by week her list grew: I was very thin; I wasn’t a good student; I talked too much; I was too proud and so on. I tried to bear all these things as long as I could. At last, I became very angry. I ran to my father with tears in my eyes.
He listened to me quietly, then he asked, “Are the things she said true or not? Janet, didn’t you ever wonder what you are really like? Well, you now have the girl’s opinion. Go and make a list of everything she said, mark the points that are true. Pay no attention to other things she said.”
I did as he told me. To my great surprise, I discovered that about half of the things were true. Some of them I couldn’t change (like being very thin), but a good number I could and suddenly I wanted to change. For the first time I got a fairly clear picture of myself.
I brought the list back to Daddy. He refused to take it, “That’s just for you,” he said. “You know better than anyone else the truth about yourself. But you have to learn to listen, not just closing your ears in anger and feeling hurt. When something that is said about you is true, you’ll find it will be of help to you. Don’t shut your ears. Listen to other people’s opinions, but hear the truth and do what you think is right.”
Daddy’s advice has returned to me at many important moments. In my life, I’ve never had a better piece of advice. 
The underlined sentence “Week by week her list grew” means “__________”. 

Why did her father listen to her quietly? 

What did the father do after he heard his daughter’s complaint? 

Which do you think would be the best title for this passage? 

Book 1: Iggy peck, Architect
——By Andrea Beaty
32 pages, US $ 15.95
This book is the classic oddball (古怪的人) story about a kid whose head teacher does not recognize his great talent ( he makes buildings out of anything at hand, including table cloths, fruit and chalk) until it saves her life.
Book 2: The Chicken—Chasing Queen of Lamar County
——By Janice N. Harrington
40 pages, US $ 16.00
Our character here loves to run after chickens, particularly Miss Hen, who’s very fat. But, as all farming folk know, this is not a good way to produce happy, productive chickens. What will make her change her ways? The author is a professional storyteller and this book is full of fun, and has great illustrations (插图) .
Book 3: Diary of a Fly
——By Doreen Cronin
40 pages, US $ 15.99
This is the diary of a fly. A fly who, when she’s not landing on your head or swimming in your soup, is trying to escape her 327 brothers and sisters who are driving her crazy. Even though she’s little—just like her best friends, Worm and Spider—she wants to be a superhero. This is the story of a little fly who’s not afraid to dream really big.
Book 4：Cherry and Olive
——By Benjamin Lacombe
32 pages, US $ 16.95
Children’s books can quickly take little readers into new worlds, such as the big city, 1930s Georgia, or outer space. This book takes us on a little trip to some European capitals. Cherry is fat and likes books, and she has few friends until she meets a stray Shar—Pei puppy (迷途的沙皮犬) . She names it Olive. Through it she finds confidence and friendship. But what will happen when its owner returns?
In book 2, the character__________.

Which of the following can best describe the fly in Book 3?

Which of the following is TRUE, according to the text?

If you are interested in European cities, you may want to read the book by__________.

As the old saying goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But Venezuela, whose beauty queens have won Miss Universe and Miss World over six times, doesn’t leave it to chance. In Venezuela, girls as young as four can be found attending beauty schools, where they can learn a range of skills from how to walk to the correct way to hold a wine glass.
“Hair must always be completely clean, make-up should look natural, and you should always, always wear high-heels,” advises Andrea Reyes, a teacher in a school of Caracas with 160 students.
Beauty contests are treated in Venezuela much as sporting competitions are elsewhere. Many Venezuelan parents believe that if their daughters can succeed and get the beauty crown, their future as famous and public persons is sure to come. As a result, the girls are trained to compete at a young age.
Among former beauty queens are Irene Saez, who went on to compete for the country’s president, and Eva Ekvall, whose battle with cancer helped to make more people know about the illness in Venezuela.
However, voices against the trend can be heard all over the country. At one time, a feminist (男女平等主义者) group tried to stop the Miss Venezuela broadcast. President Hugo Chavez has spoken out against the culture of plastic surgery(整形手术)in Venezuela, calling it a “frightening thing”.
The BBC reporter Sarah Grainger says that acceptance of the contests is partly a result of the country’s “machista” (大男子主义的) view of the different roles that men and women should play, “Men are supposed to be strong and brave and women to be gentle and beautiful”.
Miss Universe 1996, Alicia Machado, knows the price to be paid when you’re no longer seen as attractive. After winning the beauty contest, she said all she wanted to do was “eat, eat and eat”. Her weight gain later and warning by the organizers of the contest to replace her as queen with the runner-up was among the hottest topics in the country, especially in Latin America.
What’s the advice given by a teacher in Caracas to her students?

Girls try to win in the beauty contest to__________.

We can learn from the passage that__________.

What does the underlined word “runner-up” in the last paragraph mean?

Every electronic gadget (小玩意) needs good memory. A music player stores songs, albums and playlists. A computer holds schoolwork and programs and remembers how far a player has advanced in his or her favorite game. Mobile phones store names, numbers and hundreds of texts.
Now, scientists in California say they have come up with a way to turn a living cell into a memory device.
It can store only one tiny bit of information, but it’s a start. In the future, a cell-based gadget might travel through the body and record measurements. The benefit to human health could be big: the right tool, for example, might record the earliest signs of disease.
Doctors, scientists and other curious people want to know what is happening inside the body, even at levels that can’t be seen by the naked eye. So far, there is no device small enough to travel through the bloodstream.
If normal machines won’t do the trick, perhaps biology will. Scientists who work in the field of synthetic (合成的) biology are trying to find ways to turn living things into human tools. In the case of the new memory device, bioengineers from Stanford University used the genetic material inside living cells to record information.
This genetic material consists of DNA. Found in nearly every cell, DNA carries all of the information that keeps a living thing alive.
In the new experiment, the researchers turned DNA from bacteria(细菌) into a switch. They “flip (翻转)” a small section of DNA. Then, using the same procedure (过程) , the scientists flip the section again—returning it into its normal structure.
Using these DNA switches, “We can write and erase DNA in a living cell,” bioengineer, Jerome Bonnet, explained to Science News.
It might take years before his team or others identity whether a DNA-based memory device might be practical. Right now, it takes one hour to complete a flip. That is far too long to be useful. Plus, a flipped section has a very small little memory—less than what a computer uses to remember a single letter.
“This was an important proof that it was doable,” Bonnet told Science News. “Now we want to build a more complex system, something that other people can use.”
What is the aim of listing the electronic things in the first paragraph?

What is possible future benefit of the cell-based gadget for people?

What is the object being researched?
A. The cells of bacteria.         
B. The DNA of bacteria.
C. A section of bacteria.         
C. The nucleus of bacteria.
What do we know about a flipped section of DNA?

单词拼写 根据所给单词的首字母或汉语提示, 完成下列句子(将完整的英语单词写在答题卡上对应的题号上) ( 5分)
It will be a long time for him to r      from the bad cold.
The policeman asked me to show him my i      card.
The new coat just cost her $22, it is really a good         (便宜货).
To our r               , the missing child returned home ten days later, tired but healthy.
You’d better __________(附加) the labels(标签) to the luggage so that it won’t be mixed.

阅读下列各小题，根据每句后的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子。
The professor called to ask me                                   the article. (finish)
教授打电话问我什么时候能完成论文。
It was the first time in a year that                          the night face to face. (see)
这是我一年以来第一次目睹夜晚。
He worked day and night for a long time and now he                        (deserve)
他日以继夜的工作很久了，现在他应该得到很好的休息。
With the improvement of China’s international status, more and more foreigners
                                                            Chinese. (fond)
随着中国国际地位的提高，越来越多的外国人喜欢学习汉语。
If the cook is caught smoking in the kitchen of the restaurant, he                .  (fire)
如果厨师被抓住在厨房吸烟，他将会被解雇。
Today the public                      food safety after the incident happened.(concern)
这个事件发生后，公众担忧食品安全。
This is the only place                 the sea, the mountain and the lake together. (enjoy)
这里是唯一你能同时欣赏大海、高山和湖泊的地方。
Little Kimi asked his father                       the TV, because the Transformers was his favourite. (turn)
小Kimi请求爸爸别关电视，因为《变形金刚》是他最喜欢的卡通片。
MoYan,                  , has been awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature. (worth)
莫言已经获得了2012年诺贝尔文学奖，他的书值得一读。
It was my brother                          to cycle along the entire Yangtze River from where it begins to where it ends. (have)
首先想到沿长江从源头到终点骑车旅游的是我的哥哥。

假设你是李华，你的外国笔友Jim来信告诉你他的家乡刚刚发生一场地震。这场地震不仅造成了很大的损失，也给Jim留下了心理阴影。请根据以下要点，写一封信安慰他：
1.不要独处，要将自己的感受说出来，与别人分享。
2.多和家人、朋友或者同学联系，多与他们沟通
3.如果太过紧张或忧虑，可以求助于医生。
注意：1.词数：100字左右；
2.可适当增加细节，以使内容充实、行文连贯。
3.信的开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。
Dear Jim,
I’m sorry to hear that you just experienced an earthquake…
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Yours,
LiHua