广东省梅州市重点中学2013-2014学年高一下学期期中英语试题

I. 完形填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

Are you a man or a mouse? When people ask this question they want to know whether you think you are a??1???? person or a coward(懦夫)．But you will never really know the answer to this question until you are??2?? in real life．Some people think they are brave but when they come face to face with real??3? ?，they act like cowards．Others think of themselves as cowards, but when they meet danger, they act like___4___.

??Lenny had always thought of himself as a??5?? person. He got worried before examinations. He worried about his job and his health. All he wanted in life was to be safe and healthy. Then January 5th, 2002, a plane?? 6?? into the Potomac River in Washington. Lenny went to the river to see what was happening．He saw a woman in the __7__water．Lenny did not feel afraid．He kept very??? 8??and did a very courageous thing. He jumped into Potomac， 9 ??to the woman，and kept her head above the water. Seventy-eight people died that day. Thanks to Lenny，it was not?? 10 ??．

??When you are in a very dangerous??11??and feel afraid, the body automatically produces a chemical in the blood. This chemical is called adrenalin(肾上腺素)．With adrenalin in the blood system, you actually feel stronger and stronger and are????12????to fight or run away. However, when you are??l3??frightened, the body can produce too much adrenalin. When this??14??, the muscles become very hard and you find you can't 15??at all. You are paralyzed(使无能为力) with fear. That is why when we are very frightened, we sometimes say we are ‘petrified’; this word comes from a Greek word ‘petros’, which means ‘stone’. We are so frightened that we become stone like.

1．A．brave???? B．real??????? C．tough?????? D．certain

?2．A．told???? B．asked?????? C．tested????? D．balanced

?3．A．1ife???? B．question??? C．mouse?????? D．danger

?4．A．soldiers? B．mice?????? C．heroes????? D．cowards

?5．A．useful??? B．brave????? C．nervous???? D．careless

?6．A．hit?????? B．crashed??? C．turned????? D．felt

?7．A．flesh???? B．hot C．warm??????? D．ice-cold

?8．A. nervous?? B. calm?????? C. frightened D. afraid

?9．A. went????? B. helped???? C. spoke?????? D. swam

?10．A. an accident???? B. none??? C. seventy-seven?????? D. seventy-nine

?11．A．situation? B. universe????? C．place??? D．trap

?12．A．afraid???? B．unable????? C. ready??? D. anxious

?13．A. hardly???? B．absolutely? C．a little?? D．slightly

?14．A．gets??????? B．disappears? C．happens D．goes

?15．A．move?????? B．drive?????? C．wander ????? D. eat

Ⅱ. 语法填空 （共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

A hundred years ago, food was simple. People didn't worry 16________ Trans fats(反式脂肪) in their cheese crackers or artificial colors in their fruit snacks. They didn't have to—they were eating real cheese and real fruit. And food 17_____ (company) used to focus more on making food 18________ on persuading people to buy it. That's 19________ many people refuse 20________(go) to supermarkets today: 21________ is easy to make a false move, even when you're trying to eat healthily.

In the first half of 2010, supermarket ad spending increased 22________ 19% over the first half of 2009. "The influence of marketing on what 23________(America) eat has been gigantic", says Frederick J. Zimmerman, Ph.D., at UCLA's school of public health. "We tend to eat 'typical' meals, but marketers are the ones who define 24________ that is." Thus, for a qualified housewife, to choose food 25________(wise) is the first skill to learn .

III. 阅读 （共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

A

Our first winter in Canada was the happiest we have ever experienced. We were living in the countryside then and had just arrived from Hong Kong that autumn.

One evening in mid December snow began to fall. When we looked out of the window and saw that it was snowing, we all cheered. It was the first snow we had ever seen and we were excited. We could hardly wait for the snow to stop so that we could go out to play. Next morning when we woke up, it was still snowing. We switched on the radio and learned that more than ten inches of snow had fallen during the night and that since the roads were blocked there would be no school that day. We jumped up and down for joy and begged mother to let us go outside to play in the snow. She said we could go out after breakfast if we dressed ourselves warmly and promised to come back as soon as we felt cold.When we went out, the snow had almost stopped. The roads, paths, gardens, and playing grounds were all hidden under a white blanket of soft snow. It was the most beautiful sight we had ever seen. Just then, we saw some neighbors’ children coming out to play. We ran over to join them. Together we built a snowman and a snow house. After that, we took turns sliding down a hill on a large piece of card-board. We were having so much fun when supper time came. Mother almost had to force us to go in and eat.

26. The children in the story had come from Hong Kong ____ before the event described in the story happened.

A. the year B. the winter C. a little D. six months

27. The children all cheered when they saw the snow because _____.

A. they knew they would have no school the next day

B. it was the first time they had seen snow

C. they knew that winter had come

D. they liked cold weather

28. The children didn’t have to go school because______

A. their teacher were sure that children liked snow

B. they wanted to play on the snow field

C. heavy snow blocked the roads

D. their mother allowed them to play truant

29. When the children asked their mother to let them go out to play she ____.

A. immediately allowed them to go outB. refused to let them go outside

C. told them to switch on the radioD. told them to wait until after breakfast

30. The writer and his brothers and sisters built ____.

A. a snowman and a cardboard house of their own

B. a snowman and a snow house for themselves to live in

C. a snowman and a snow house with their neighbors’ children

D. a white blanket on the roads

B

Memory, they say, is a matter of practice and exercise. If you have the wish and really made a conscious（自觉的）effort, then you can quite easily improve your ability to remember things. But even if you are successful, there are times when your memory seems to play tricks on you.

Sometimes you remember things that really did not happen. One morning last week, for example, I got up and found that I had left the front door unlocked all night, yet I clearly remember locking it carefully the night before.

Memory “trick” work the other way as well. Once in a while you remember not doing something, and then find out that you did. One day last month, for example, I was sitting in a barber shop waiting for my turn to get a haircut, and suddenly I realized that I had got a haircut two days before at the barber shop across the street from my office.

We always seem to find something funny and amusing（有趣的）in incidents caused by people’s forgetfulness or absent-mindedness. Stories about absent-minded professors have been told for years, and we never got tired of hearing new ones. Unfortunately, however, absent-mindedness is not always funny. There are times when “trick” of our memory can cause us great trouble.

36. If you want to have a good memory, .

A. you should force yourself to remember things

B. you should make a conscious effort of practice and exercise

C. you should never stop learning

D. you should try hard to remember things

37. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A. One night the writer forgot to lock the front door.

B. One night the writer forgot having locked the front door.

C. The writer remembered to lock the door.

D. the writer remembered unlocking the front door.

38. From the sentence “We never get tired of hearing new ones”, we can infer that .

A. we enjoy hearing new stories about absent-mindedness of professors

B. we don’t want to know anything more about absent-mindedness of professors

C. we will never get tired of listening to new stories about absent-mindedness

D. absent-mindedness happens not only to professors but to many other people

39. In the passage, the writer seems to tell you .

A. forgetting things is serious and dangerous

B. always forgetting things is understandable

C. forgetting things at times is natural

D. the way to protect yourself from memory “tricks”

40. The best title for this passage is .

A. How to Get a Good Memory B. “Tricks” Of Memory

C. Forgetfulness and Absent-mindedness is Dangerous

D. Get Rid of Absent-mindedness

C

It is natural that young people are often uncomfortable when they are with their parents. They say that their parents don’t understand them. They often think that their parents are out of touch with modern ways, they are too serious and too strict with their children, and that they seldom give their children a free hand.

It is true that parents often find it difficult to win their children’s trust and they tend to forget how they themselves felt when young. For example, young people like to act on the spot without much thinking. It is one of their ways to show that they have grown up and they can face any difficult situation. Older people worry more easily. Most of them plan things ahead, at least in the back of their minds, and do not like their plans to be upset by something unexpected. When you want your parents to let you do something, you will have better success if you ask before you really start doing it.

Young people often make their parents angry with their choice in clothes, in entertainment and in music．But they do not mean to cause any trouble: it is just that they feel cut off from the older people’s world, into which they have not yet been accepted．That’s why young people want to make a new culture of their own, and if their parents do not like their music or entertainment or clothes or their way of speech, this will make the young people extremely happy.

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