辽宁省本溪市第一中学2017-2018学年高一下学期期中考试英语试题
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本溪市第一中学2020届高一年级下学期期中考试
英 语 试 题
本试卷分第一卷（选择题）和第二卷（非选择题）两部分。考生作答时，将答案答在答题卡上，在本试卷上答题无效。考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
第一卷
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）（略）
第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节：（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
If you want to help children develop language and speech skills, UCLA researchers say, “listening to what they have to say is just as important as talking to them.”
The effect of a conversation between a child and an adult is about six times as great as the effect of adult speech input alone, the researchers found. “Adults speaking to children helps language develop, but what matters much more is the interaction，” said the study’ s lead author, Frederick Zimmerman, an associate professor in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles. The researchers also found that TV viewing didn’t have much of an effect — positively or negatively — as long as it wash’ t displacing conversations between an adult and a child.21教育网
The UCLA study included 275 families with children between 2 months and 48 months old. They represented a variety of incomes and education. The researchers found that, in an average day, children hear about 13,000 spoken words from adults and participated in about 400 adult-child conversations a day.【来源：21·世纪·教育·网】
Assessed separately, factors positively associated with language development included each additional 100 conversations a day and each 1,000 word increase in the number of words spoken by adults and heard by children. When looked at alone, TV was negatively associated with language development. But, when the three factors were analyzed together, the only one that stood out was conversation between adults and children.【来源：21cnj*y.co*m】
“The more a child speaks and interacts with an adult, the better idea a parent has about where the child is，” Zimmerman said. “Although it’ s mostly done unconsciously, parents will provide feedback and correct mistakes. They’ll also tailor their speech to the child. Parents can give a child words by talking to them about what they’re doing, such as，“I’m putting on your pajamas now”. But give your child the opportunity to talk, hopefully without the rest of the noise in the environment，” she added. “If parents can carve out some conversation time — maybe at bath time or at dinner time — that’ s a wonderful thing.”
21．The researchers also found that TV viewing ________.
A. could have a positive effect on a child’s language development
B. had a little effect on a child’ s language development
C. affected a child’s language development more negatively than positively
D. affected a child’s language development both negatively and positively
22．Frederick Zimmerman would probably agree that ________.
A. parents should let their children talk most of the time
B. children should watch TV programs selectively
C. the conversation between parents and children should be two way
D. it’ s no good for parents to correct their children’ s mistakes when they are speaking
23．We can conclude from the last paragraph that ________.
A. parents should let a child repeat what he or she says
B. bath time or dinner time is the best chance for parents to talk to a child
C. parent-child conversation should be carried out at a proper time
D. parents should leave a child talking alone
24．The underlined word “tailor” in the last paragraph can be best replaced by ________.
A. control B. improve C. pass D. adjust
B
Recently I came in contact with the true meaning of love. That would have been, Kane, a boy. Kane was the two-year-old son of Jolene, my new neighbor.
At a glance Kane was a sight. He’d been born with hard sticks for legs. And on that morning I witnessed the effect that Kane’s physical shortcomings had on his family. But I also witnessed much more than that.
I saw an extraordinary family that embraced this special child, a family that wouldn’t allow Kane to know he was different. Jolene had constructed a small cart just a few inches off the floor for his son to get around. Using his hands to move, Kane moved the cart to “go to” any place just as everyone else was able to do. Kane worked that little cart like a master. Kane was a vital focus of the entire family. He was more than just a member of the family; he was the soul. This child was the driver, the motivator, and the founder of much of the interaction.
Much later in my life, I came to realize that God had sent this child to help some of us who just weren’t getting what love was all about. Even with my limited capacity for understanding at the time that Kane was a highly-developed spirit with great wisdom.
Kane demanded attention, but not because of his mobility challenges or other apparent shortcomings. In his mind, he had no challenges or shortcomings. The truth is that he received attention because he was alive and real and had so much to offer.
Kane had and still has a lot of warm and powerful energy sent to us all, so we might learn that love is beyond all things. Kane, a fragile yet lovely baby, was here to teach us all an important lesson. And at the age of two he did just that.
25. How did the author think of Kane’s family members?
A. It was ridiculous for them to make a cart for Kane.
B. They were greatly brave to face all the difficulties.
C. They were strange because they locked Kane at home.【出处：21教育名师】
D. It was respectable for them to love Kane in their own way.
26. How did Kane “go to” everywhere he wanted to go?
A. By moving his cart with his own hands.
B. By asking his father to lead him ahead with a stick.
C. By asking his grandparents to push him everywhere.
D. With the help of a babysitter employed for him.
27. Kane needed attention because he wanted to show ________.
A. he could challenge his difficulties in moving
B. he had challenges or shortcomings in his life
C. he had the power to prove he was capable too
D. he himself needed to be looked after by others
28. What can we learn from Kane’s story?
A. Love me, love my dog. B. Pure gold fears no fire.
C. Love is above all things. D. Many hands make light work.
C
Mental and health experts believe personality plays an important part in how we experience stress. Personality is the way a person acts, feels and thinks.
Some people are aggressive and always in a hurry. They often become angry when things do not happen the way they planned. They belong to “Type A” personality. Studies suggest that these people often get stress-related disorders. The “Type B” personality is calmer. These people are able to deal with all kinds of situations more easily. As a result, they are less affected by stress.
Studies have also shown that men and women deal with stress differently. Women seem to be better able to deal with stress than men are. However, experts say women are three times more likely to develop depression in reaction to the stress in their lives. American writer John Gray became famous for his book, “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”. He notes that men and women have opposite ways of dealing with stress. For a man, the best way is to rest and forget about daily problems. But a woman suffering from stress needs to talk about her problems.”21·cn·jy·com
Experts say there are several ways to deal with stress, including deep breathing, exercise, eating healthy foods, getting enough rest and balancing the time spent in working and playing. Exercise is one of the most effective stress-reduction measures, as physical changes from exercise make you feel better. In addition, exercise can also improve the body's defense system against disease.
Keeping stress to yourself can make problems worse. Experts say that expressing emotions to friends or family members or writing down your feelings can help reduce stress. And they also suggest that people should attempt to accept or change stressful situations whenever possible.
29. According to the experts, ________.
A. people respond to stress quite differently
B. people make the same response to stress
C. unlike women, men tend to feel depressed more easily
D. personality has nothing to do with how we experience stress
30. Compared with “Type A” personality, “Type B” personality ________.
A. causes more troubles
B. is less able to cope with different situations
C. is more easily affected by stress
D. tends to solve problems more peacefully
31. By saying “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”, John Cray means that they ________. 21世纪教育网版权所有
A. express emotions in a different way
B. cope with stress in a different way
C. suffer from stress in a similar way
D. develop stress in the opposite way
32. If you want to reduce your stress, you can ________.
A. take some exercise B. keep it to yourself
C. remain silent D. ignore the stressful situation
D
I had to knock on the taxi to get his attention. Finally, the driver, a man about 60, looked up from behind the wheel and apologized, “I'm sorry, but I was reading a letter.” He sounded as if he had a cold or a cough.
Since I was in no hurry, I told him to finish his letter. He shook his head, explaining that he had already read it several times and almost knew it by heart. Curious, I asked whether it was from a child or maybe a grandchild. “This isn't family,” he replied, “though he might just as well have been a regular member of the family. Old Ed and I grew up together.”
They were always friends. But since he moved away from the neighborhood 30 years ago, it'd generally just been postcards at Christmas time between them. A couple of weeks ago, Ed died. “I should have kept in touch.” He repeated this, more to himself than to me. To comfort him, I said sometimes we just didn't seem to find the time. “But we used to find the time,” he said. “Take a look.” He handed the letter over to me.
The first sentence “I've been meaning to write for some time, but I've always delayed it.” reminded me of myself. It went on to say that he often thought about the good times they had had together. When I read the part where it said “Your friendship really means a lot to me, more than I can say because I'm not good at saying things like that”, I found myself nodding in agreement.
We had gone several kilometers and were almost at my hotel, so I read the last paragraph: “So I thought you'd like to know that I was thinking of you.” And it was ended with “Your Old Friend, Tom.”
“I thought your friend's name was Ed,” I said.
“I'm Tom,” he explained. “It's a letter I wrote to Ed before I knew he'd died. I never put it in the mailbox. I guess I should have written it sooner.” His face was pale as he wiped his eyes with a handkerchief.www.21-cn-jy.com
When I got to my hotel room I didn't unpack right away. I had to write a letter and post it.
33. Who wrote the letter?
A. Tom. B. Old Ed. C. The author. D. The driver's grandchild.
34. It can be inferred from the passage that the driver regretted ________.
A. missing Ed's funeral
B. moving away from his neighborhood
C. forgetting to send Ed Christmas cards
D. not being able to keep in touch with Ed
35. From Paragraph 4, we can learn that the author of the passage ________.
A. often failed to write to his friends
B. had no intention to write to his friends
C. had many great moments with his friends
D. was good at expressing feelings to his friends
第二节 （共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Why Do We Forget Things?
When it comes to having perfect memories, it is apparent that we humans must have had some faults in our blueprints! Why don’t we remember everything that we want to remember? It makes us feel upset and get discouraged. 36____ However, it’s true that we are all forgetful. 21*cnjy*com
37____ These are stored in what we call our “long-term memory”. What about before age three? Sigmund Freud, a doctor of Vienna, discovered the fact that we forget most of our early childhood. 38____ They have different opinions. A very good theory, born from the results of experimentation with babies, is that absence of language ability at the time of an event stopped us from describing it to others.
39____ Experts say that you can keep about seven things in your memory at once for up to three days. During that time, you may forget something in order to put something else in its place, or you put it into long-term memory. What goes into short-term memory are things you’ve learned about recently, in the past day or two. 40____ For example, you may have met you favorite star last week, and this week you can tell all the details to a friend. A simple example to explain your short-term memory is to look at a list of twenty words for a minute or two. You will discover that you cannot remember more than about seven of them and that they are the ones in the beginning and at the end of the list because your mind has judged them to be more important than those in the middle.
A. Scientist now know that it may take longer to remember things for the old.
B. However, it is widely recognized that short-term memory can be improved.
C. Sometimes, it even caused us to lose self-respect or others to think less of us.
D. Psychologists (心理学家) have been studying what causes this forgetfulness since Freud’s time.2·1·c·n·j·y
E. Most of us have vivid memories of our lives from about age third to our present ages.
F. Only if something really unusual happens does it stay in your short-term memory for longer.www-2-1-cnjy-com
G. The other type of memory, the “short-term memory”, is what we are usually referring to when we say, “I forgot.”
第三部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
The Town of Pressure and the Town of Pleasure were neighbors but had nothing in common. Residents built walls to?41?influence from the other town.
In Pressure,?42?struggled to be the very best. When women gave birth, they would?43?to have the baby with the loudest cry. There was violent competition in every aspect of life. Because?44?was the index (指数) of success, people were?45?busy making money, with?46?for relaxation. Some young people couldn’t bear the intensity and resorted to drink or drugs to escape.
_47?, over in Pleasure, the motto was “As long as you like it, do it.” People grew up without?48?and?49?do anything they liked. Children played computer games day and night. At school, teachers didn’t?50?whether students showed up or not. Workers might sit around the office?51?sipping coffee and doing nothing.?52?the lack of regulations, nobody worried about losing their jobs. It was?53?that mattered. No one had the?54?thought of moving forward, either for themselves or for the town. The computers they used were?55?models from Pressure.
Some of the young were addicted to?56?because of the meaninglessness of their lives. Then, people in the two towns began asking themselves, “What is?57?for?” But, just before life in the two towns completely?58?, there came a saint – Mr. Reason. He went from door to door, talking with people and giving advice. People in Pressure learnt to be?59?with what they had, while people in Pleasure began to make plans. They?60?the walls between them and built a road to connect the two. The towns’ people came to realize the truth—there is no space between Pressure and Pleasure if they don’t go to extremes.
41. A. connect B. keep C. keep out D. prevent
42. A. everyone B. anyone C. nobody D. somebody
43. A. have B. like C. compete D. try
44. A. health B. joy C. children D. wealth
45. A. seldom B. always C. hardly D. sometimes
46. A. much time B. no reason C. many reasons D. no time
47. A. Meanwhile B. At the same time C. Therefore D. Virtually
48. A. pleasure B. pressure C. work D. happiness
49. A. must B. need C. could D. dared
50. A. know B. find C. recognize D. care
51. A. in the morning B. in the evening C. all day long D. in the afternoon
52. A. Thanks to B. Regardless of C. Owe to D. According to
53. A. money B. time C. pleasure D. pressure
54. A. strongest B. slightest C. most D. smallest
55. A. the old B. the new C. the best D. the same
56. A. books B. work C. money D. drugs
57. A. pressure B. life C. pleasure D. money
58. A. improved B. failed C. succeeded D. lived
59. A. content B. surprised C. patient D. angry
60. A. built B. put down C. pulled down D. set up
第二卷
注意：将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。
第二节 （共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
World Kindness Day is on November 13th. It’s a day when someone might 61______ (unexpected) buy you a cup of coffee or hold a door for you. Maybe it’s a day when you can buy some colorful flowers for 62______ old lady living by herself.
The idea is to be generous in thoughts and actions with the goal of collectively 63______ (become) more human. The concept of World Kindness Day came out of Japan’s Small Kindness Movement, which 64_____ (found) in 1963 after the president of The University of Tokyo was mugged in a public place and nobody 65______ (help) him. Then he started a movement calling for 66______ (brave) in small acts of kindness that he hoped would spread through Japan. Fast-forward to 1998, World Kindness Movement was introduced by the World Kindness Movement, an international organization.
In a world 67______ sometimes seems unkind, I think everybody ought to get benefit 68______ some kindness recognition. I’d like to hear your story in which a stranger performed an act of kindness for you or you did something 69_____ (friend). I am sure that your story will move more people and make 70_____ (they) pass the kindness to others.21·世纪*教育网
2020届高一年级下学期期中考试
英语答题纸
61__________ 62_________ 63__________ 64___________ 65___________21cnjy.com
66__________ 67_________ 68__________ 69___________ 70___________21*cnjy*com
第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节：短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（）划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Dear Mr. Black,
I’m very thank to you for inviting me to stay with you in the come summer vacation. I have been dreamed of seeing you again so that I can get help from you in my English learning. And I’m afraid I cannot go to your place in this summer. I’ve promised my grandmother, she lives in the country, to spend this?summer with her. She misses me too much that I find difficult to refuse her request. I’m busy preparing for my examinations in present. I planned to visit you in winter if it’s convenient to you. Best wishes.21教育名师原创作品
Yours truly,
Li Ying
第二节：书面表达（满分25分）
假设你是李华。你的美国朋友Jim想了解中国人起名字的习惯，并请你帮他起一个中文名字。请你写封邮件，内容包括：【版权所有：21教育】
介绍中国人起名字的习惯；
名字常表达的意义（至少两点）；
给Jim起一个中文名字；
说明起此名的理由。
注意：1. 词数100左右； 2. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
2020届高一下学期期中考试
英 语 答 案
21-24 BCCD 25-28 DACC 29-32 ADBA 33-35 ADA 36-40 CEDGF
41~45 CACDB 46~50 DABCD 51~55 CACBA 56~60 DBBAC
61. unexpectedly 62. an 63. becoming 64. was founded 65. helped
66. bravery 67. that/ which 68. from 69. friendly 70. them2-1-c-n-j-y
短文改错： 1. thank改为thankful 2. come改为coming 3. dreamed改为dreaming 4. And改为But 5. 去掉in 6. she改为who 7. too改为so 8. find后面加it 9. in改为at 10. planned改为plan
范文：????
Possible version：
At the end of the 16th century, English was only spoken by the native speakers. However, English has changed quite a lot over the past four centuries. At present, English, including British English and American English, has become an international language. A great number of people in some African and Asian countries, such as India and China, speak English as the second language or learn it as a foreign language. As far as I’m concerned, English is so important in our daily life that we must try our best to learn it well.
英 语 试 题
本试卷分第一卷（选择题）和第二卷（非选择题）两部分。考生作答时，将答案答在答题卡上，在本试卷上答题无效。考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
第一卷
第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分）（略）
第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节：（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
If you want to help children develop language and speech skills, UCLA researchers say, “listening to what they have to say is just as important as talking to them.”
The effect of a conversation between a child and an adult is about six times as great as the effect of adult speech input alone, the researchers found. “Adults speaking to children helps language develop, but what matters much more is the interaction，” said the study’ s lead author, Frederick Zimmerman, an associate professor in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles. The researchers also found that TV viewing didn’t have much of an effect — positively or negatively — as long as it wash’ t displacing conversations between an adult and a child.21教育网
The UCLA study included 275 families with children between 2 months and 48 months old. They represented a variety of incomes and education. The researchers found that, in an average day, children hear about 13,000 spoken words from adults and participated in about 400 adult-child conversations a day.【来源：21·世纪·教育·网】
Assessed separately, factors positively associated with language development included each additional 100 conversations a day and each 1,000 word increase in the number of words spoken by adults and heard by children. When looked at alone, TV was negatively associated with language development. But, when the three factors were analyzed together, the only one that stood out was conversation between adults and children.【来源：21cnj*y.co*m】
“The more a child speaks and interacts with an adult, the better idea a parent has about where the child is，” Zimmerman said. “Although it’ s mostly done unconsciously, parents will provide feedback and correct mistakes. They’ll also tailor their speech to the child. Parents can give a child words by talking to them about what they’re doing, such as，“I’m putting on your pajamas now”. But give your child the opportunity to talk, hopefully without the rest of the noise in the environment，” she added. “If parents can carve out some conversation time — maybe at bath time or at dinner time — that’ s a wonderful thing.”
21．The researchers also found that TV viewing ________.
A. could have a positive effect on a child’s language development
B. had a little effect on a child’ s language development
C. affected a child’s language development more negatively than positively
D. affected a child’s language development both negatively and positively
22．Frederick Zimmerman would probably agree that ________.
A. parents should let their children talk most of the time
B. children should watch TV programs selectively
C. the conversation between parents and children should be two way
D. it’ s no good for parents to correct their children’ s mistakes when they are speaking
23．We can conclude from the last paragraph that ________.
A. parents should let a child repeat what he or she says
B. bath time or dinner time is the best chance for parents to talk to a child
C. parent-child conversation should be carried out at a proper time
D. parents should leave a child talking alone
24．The underlined word “tailor” in the last paragraph can be best replaced by ________.
A. control B. improve C. pass D. adjust
B
Recently I came in contact with the true meaning of love. That would have been, Kane, a boy. Kane was the two-year-old son of Jolene, my new neighbor.
At a glance Kane was a sight. He’d been born with hard sticks for legs. And on that morning I witnessed the effect that Kane’s physical shortcomings had on his family. But I also witnessed much more than that.
I saw an extraordinary family that embraced this special child, a family that wouldn’t allow Kane to know he was different. Jolene had constructed a small cart just a few inches off the floor for his son to get around. Using his hands to move, Kane moved the cart to “go to” any place just as everyone else was able to do. Kane worked that little cart like a master. Kane was a vital focus of the entire family. He was more than just a member of the family; he was the soul. This child was the driver, the motivator, and the founder of much of the interaction.
Much later in my life, I came to realize that God had sent this child to help some of us who just weren’t getting what love was all about. Even with my limited capacity for understanding at the time that Kane was a highly-developed spirit with great wisdom.
Kane demanded attention, but not because of his mobility challenges or other apparent shortcomings. In his mind, he had no challenges or shortcomings. The truth is that he received attention because he was alive and real and had so much to offer.
Kane had and still has a lot of warm and powerful energy sent to us all, so we might learn that love is beyond all things. Kane, a fragile yet lovely baby, was here to teach us all an important lesson. And at the age of two he did just that.
25. How did the author think of Kane’s family members?
A. It was ridiculous for them to make a cart for Kane.
B. They were greatly brave to face all the difficulties.
C. They were strange because they locked Kane at home.【出处：21教育名师】
D. It was respectable for them to love Kane in their own way.
26. How did Kane “go to” everywhere he wanted to go?
A. By moving his cart with his own hands.
B. By asking his father to lead him ahead with a stick.
C. By asking his grandparents to push him everywhere.
D. With the help of a babysitter employed for him.
27. Kane needed attention because he wanted to show ________.
A. he could challenge his difficulties in moving
B. he had challenges or shortcomings in his life
C. he had the power to prove he was capable too
D. he himself needed to be looked after by others
28. What can we learn from Kane’s story?
A. Love me, love my dog. B. Pure gold fears no fire.
C. Love is above all things. D. Many hands make light work.
C
Mental and health experts believe personality plays an important part in how we experience stress. Personality is the way a person acts, feels and thinks.
Some people are aggressive and always in a hurry. They often become angry when things do not happen the way they planned. They belong to “Type A” personality. Studies suggest that these people often get stress-related disorders. The “Type B” personality is calmer. These people are able to deal with all kinds of situations more easily. As a result, they are less affected by stress.
Studies have also shown that men and women deal with stress differently. Women seem to be better able to deal with stress than men are. However, experts say women are three times more likely to develop depression in reaction to the stress in their lives. American writer John Gray became famous for his book, “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”. He notes that men and women have opposite ways of dealing with stress. For a man, the best way is to rest and forget about daily problems. But a woman suffering from stress needs to talk about her problems.”21·cn·jy·com
Experts say there are several ways to deal with stress, including deep breathing, exercise, eating healthy foods, getting enough rest and balancing the time spent in working and playing. Exercise is one of the most effective stress-reduction measures, as physical changes from exercise make you feel better. In addition, exercise can also improve the body's defense system against disease.
Keeping stress to yourself can make problems worse. Experts say that expressing emotions to friends or family members or writing down your feelings can help reduce stress. And they also suggest that people should attempt to accept or change stressful situations whenever possible.
29. According to the experts, ________.
A. people respond to stress quite differently
B. people make the same response to stress
C. unlike women, men tend to feel depressed more easily
D. personality has nothing to do with how we experience stress
30. Compared with “Type A” personality, “Type B” personality ________.
A. causes more troubles
B. is less able to cope with different situations
C. is more easily affected by stress
D. tends to solve problems more peacefully
31. By saying “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”, John Cray means that they ________. 21世纪教育网版权所有
A. express emotions in a different way
B. cope with stress in a different way
C. suffer from stress in a similar way
D. develop stress in the opposite way
32. If you want to reduce your stress, you can ________.
A. take some exercise B. keep it to yourself
C. remain silent D. ignore the stressful situation
D
I had to knock on the taxi to get his attention. Finally, the driver, a man about 60, looked up from behind the wheel and apologized, “I'm sorry, but I was reading a letter.” He sounded as if he had a cold or a cough.
Since I was in no hurry, I told him to finish his letter. He shook his head, explaining that he had already read it several times and almost knew it by heart. Curious, I asked whether it was from a child or maybe a grandchild. “This isn't family,” he replied, “though he might just as well have been a regular member of the family. Old Ed and I grew up together.”
They were always friends. But since he moved away from the neighborhood 30 years ago, it'd generally just been postcards at Christmas time between them. A couple of weeks ago, Ed died. “I should have kept in touch.” He repeated this, more to himself than to me. To comfort him, I said sometimes we just didn't seem to find the time. “But we used to find the time,” he said. “Take a look.” He handed the letter over to me.
The first sentence “I've been meaning to write for some time, but I've always delayed it.” reminded me of myself. It went on to say that he often thought about the good times they had had together. When I read the part where it said “Your friendship really means a lot to me, more than I can say because I'm not good at saying things like that”, I found myself nodding in agreement.
We had gone several kilometers and were almost at my hotel, so I read the last paragraph: “So I thought you'd like to know that I was thinking of you.” And it was ended with “Your Old Friend, Tom.”
“I thought your friend's name was Ed,” I said.
“I'm Tom,” he explained. “It's a letter I wrote to Ed before I knew he'd died. I never put it in the mailbox. I guess I should have written it sooner.” His face was pale as he wiped his eyes with a handkerchief.www.21-cn-jy.com
When I got to my hotel room I didn't unpack right away. I had to write a letter and post it.
33. Who wrote the letter?
A. Tom. B. Old Ed. C. The author. D. The driver's grandchild.
34. It can be inferred from the passage that the driver regretted ________.
A. missing Ed's funeral
B. moving away from his neighborhood
C. forgetting to send Ed Christmas cards
D. not being able to keep in touch with Ed
35. From Paragraph 4, we can learn that the author of the passage ________.
A. often failed to write to his friends
B. had no intention to write to his friends
C. had many great moments with his friends
D. was good at expressing feelings to his friends
第二节 （共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Why Do We Forget Things?
When it comes to having perfect memories, it is apparent that we humans must have had some faults in our blueprints! Why don’t we remember everything that we want to remember? It makes us feel upset and get discouraged. 36____ However, it’s true that we are all forgetful. 21*cnjy*com
37____ These are stored in what we call our “long-term memory”. What about before age three? Sigmund Freud, a doctor of Vienna, discovered the fact that we forget most of our early childhood. 38____ They have different opinions. A very good theory, born from the results of experimentation with babies, is that absence of language ability at the time of an event stopped us from describing it to others.
39____ Experts say that you can keep about seven things in your memory at once for up to three days. During that time, you may forget something in order to put something else in its place, or you put it into long-term memory. What goes into short-term memory are things you’ve learned about recently, in the past day or two. 40____ For example, you may have met you favorite star last week, and this week you can tell all the details to a friend. A simple example to explain your short-term memory is to look at a list of twenty words for a minute or two. You will discover that you cannot remember more than about seven of them and that they are the ones in the beginning and at the end of the list because your mind has judged them to be more important than those in the middle.
A. Scientist now know that it may take longer to remember things for the old.
B. However, it is widely recognized that short-term memory can be improved.
C. Sometimes, it even caused us to lose self-respect or others to think less of us.
D. Psychologists (心理学家) have been studying what causes this forgetfulness since Freud’s time.2·1·c·n·j·y
E. Most of us have vivid memories of our lives from about age third to our present ages.
F. Only if something really unusual happens does it stay in your short-term memory for longer.www-2-1-cnjy-com
G. The other type of memory, the “short-term memory”, is what we are usually referring to when we say, “I forgot.”
第三部分：英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
The Town of Pressure and the Town of Pleasure were neighbors but had nothing in common. Residents built walls to?41?influence from the other town.
In Pressure,?42?struggled to be the very best. When women gave birth, they would?43?to have the baby with the loudest cry. There was violent competition in every aspect of life. Because?44?was the index (指数) of success, people were?45?busy making money, with?46?for relaxation. Some young people couldn’t bear the intensity and resorted to drink or drugs to escape.
_47?, over in Pleasure, the motto was “As long as you like it, do it.” People grew up without?48?and?49?do anything they liked. Children played computer games day and night. At school, teachers didn’t?50?whether students showed up or not. Workers might sit around the office?51?sipping coffee and doing nothing.?52?the lack of regulations, nobody worried about losing their jobs. It was?53?that mattered. No one had the?54?thought of moving forward, either for themselves or for the town. The computers they used were?55?models from Pressure.
Some of the young were addicted to?56?because of the meaninglessness of their lives. Then, people in the two towns began asking themselves, “What is?57?for?” But, just before life in the two towns completely?58?, there came a saint – Mr. Reason. He went from door to door, talking with people and giving advice. People in Pressure learnt to be?59?with what they had, while people in Pleasure began to make plans. They?60?the walls between them and built a road to connect the two. The towns’ people came to realize the truth—there is no space between Pressure and Pleasure if they don’t go to extremes.
41. A. connect B. keep C. keep out D. prevent
42. A. everyone B. anyone C. nobody D. somebody
43. A. have B. like C. compete D. try
44. A. health B. joy C. children D. wealth
45. A. seldom B. always C. hardly D. sometimes
46. A. much time B. no reason C. many reasons D. no time
47. A. Meanwhile B. At the same time C. Therefore D. Virtually
48. A. pleasure B. pressure C. work D. happiness
49. A. must B. need C. could D. dared
50. A. know B. find C. recognize D. care
51. A. in the morning B. in the evening C. all day long D. in the afternoon
52. A. Thanks to B. Regardless of C. Owe to D. According to
53. A. money B. time C. pleasure D. pressure
54. A. strongest B. slightest C. most D. smallest
55. A. the old B. the new C. the best D. the same
56. A. books B. work C. money D. drugs
57. A. pressure B. life C. pleasure D. money
58. A. improved B. failed C. succeeded D. lived
59. A. content B. surprised C. patient D. angry
60. A. built B. put down C. pulled down D. set up
第二卷
注意：将答案写在答题卡上。写在本试卷上无效。
第二节 （共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
World Kindness Day is on November 13th. It’s a day when someone might 61______ (unexpected) buy you a cup of coffee or hold a door for you. Maybe it’s a day when you can buy some colorful flowers for 62______ old lady living by herself.
The idea is to be generous in thoughts and actions with the goal of collectively 63______ (become) more human. The concept of World Kindness Day came out of Japan’s Small Kindness Movement, which 64_____ (found) in 1963 after the president of The University of Tokyo was mugged in a public place and nobody 65______ (help) him. Then he started a movement calling for 66______ (brave) in small acts of kindness that he hoped would spread through Japan. Fast-forward to 1998, World Kindness Movement was introduced by the World Kindness Movement, an international organization.
In a world 67______ sometimes seems unkind, I think everybody ought to get benefit 68______ some kindness recognition. I’d like to hear your story in which a stranger performed an act of kindness for you or you did something 69_____ (friend). I am sure that your story will move more people and make 70_____ (they) pass the kindness to others.21·世纪*教育网
2020届高一年级下学期期中考试
英语答题纸
61__________ 62_________ 63__________ 64___________ 65___________21cnjy.com
66__________ 67_________ 68__________ 69___________ 70___________21*cnjy*com
第四部分：写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节：短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（）划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Dear Mr. Black,
I’m very thank to you for inviting me to stay with you in the come summer vacation. I have been dreamed of seeing you again so that I can get help from you in my English learning. And I’m afraid I cannot go to your place in this summer. I’ve promised my grandmother, she lives in the country, to spend this?summer with her. She misses me too much that I find difficult to refuse her request. I’m busy preparing for my examinations in present. I planned to visit you in winter if it’s convenient to you. Best wishes.21教育名师原创作品
Yours truly,
Li Ying
第二节：书面表达（满分25分）
假设你是李华。你的美国朋友Jim想了解中国人起名字的习惯，并请你帮他起一个中文名字。请你写封邮件，内容包括：【版权所有：21教育】
介绍中国人起名字的习惯；
名字常表达的意义（至少两点）；
给Jim起一个中文名字；
说明起此名的理由。
注意：1. 词数100左右； 2. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
2020届高一下学期期中考试
英 语 答 案
21-24 BCCD 25-28 DACC 29-32 ADBA 33-35 ADA 36-40 CEDGF
41~45 CACDB 46~50 DABCD 51~55 CACBA 56~60 DBBAC
61. unexpectedly 62. an 63. becoming 64. was founded 65. helped
66. bravery 67. that/ which 68. from 69. friendly 70. them2-1-c-n-j-y
短文改错： 1. thank改为thankful 2. come改为coming 3. dreamed改为dreaming 4. And改为But 5. 去掉in 6. she改为who 7. too改为so 8. find后面加it 9. in改为at 10. planned改为plan
范文：????
Possible version：
At the end of the 16th century, English was only spoken by the native speakers. However, English has changed quite a lot over the past four centuries. At present, English, including British English and American English, has become an international language. A great number of people in some African and Asian countries, such as India and China, speak English as the second language or learn it as a foreign language. As far as I’m concerned, English is so important in our daily life that we must try our best to learn it well.
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