湖北襄阳四校高一上期中英语试卷

After gunshots fired on campus, there is a growing _________ about safety among teachers and students.

I’d love to join in your visit to a local museum today, but I’m on a very tight ________ -I’ve got a lot of work to do today.

When the mother realized what had happened to her child, she ________ her face in her hands. So no one could see her expression.

If you’d like to gain more contents from that website, you have to answer some messages ________ personal information.

I think we should ________all the toys to the local children hospital where the children are badly in need of them.

Hundreds of brightly colored balloons were _______ and used as party toys or party decorations on New Year’s Day.

They offered a lot of useful information for your report; I can understand how ________ you must be feeling to them now.

German electronic products are popular in China, where they have the reputation(名声) of being ________ and of good quality.

Countries in Southeast Asia have ________ become familiar with Chinese brands, but there is still a long way to go.

Fishing and seafood harvesting has been forbidden along the coast of Galicia, forcing many fishermen ______.

A woman came out of her house and saw three old men with long white beards sitting in her front yard. She did not         them. She said, “I don’t think I know you, but you must be     . Please come in and have something to eat.” “Is the man of the house home?” they asked. “No,” she said, “he’s out.” “Then we cannot come in,” they      .
In the evening when her husband came home, she told him what     . “Go to tell them I am home and invite them in!” The woman went out and invited them in. “We do not go into the house     ,” they replied. “Why is that?” she wanted to know. One of the old men explained, “His name is     ,”pointing to one of his friends ,and then pointed to another one and said, “He is Success ,and I am Love.” Then he added, “Now go in and        with your husband which one of us you want in your home.”
The woman went in and told her husband what was said. Her husband      out laughing. “How nice!” he said, “ If so, let us invite      . Let him come and      our home with wealth!” His wife     , “My dear, why don’t we invite Success?” Their daughter was      from the other corner of the house. She jumped in with her own suggestion, “Daddy , I     to invite Love, so our home will be filled with love!”
“Let us take our daughter’s    ,” said the husband to his wife , “Go out and invite Love to be our guest.” The woman went out and asked the three old men, “Which one of you is Love? Please come in and be our     .” Love got up and started walking     the house. The other two also got up and        him.
     , the lady asked Wealth and Success, “I only invited Love , why are you coming in?” The old men replied together, “If you had invited Wealth      Success, the other two of us would have stayed out , but since you invited Love , wherever he goes, we go with him.     there is Love, there is also Wealth and Success!”

A．meet B．invite C．recognize D．see

A．thirsty B．hungry C．sleepy D．tired

A．replied B．promised C．thought D．agreed

A．appeared B．meant C．followed D．happened

A．alone B．together C．only D．separately

A．Love B．Wealth C．Health D．Success

A．discuss B．agree C．fight D．quarrel

A．burst B．shocked C．dug D．came

A．Wealth B．Success C．Love D．all

A．put B．start C．leave D．fill

A．disappeared B．disagreed C．disordered D．demanded

A．writing B．speaking C．listening D．watching

A．prefer B．persuade C．dislike D．devote

A．expression B．order C．decision D．advice

A．host B．friend C．guest D．servant

A．towards B．from C．against D．into

A．refused B．followed C．supported D．encouraged

A．Surprised B．Excited C．Pleased D．Disappointed

A．and B．but C．or D．with

A．However B．Whatever C．Whenever D．Wherever

Many years ago, when I was fresh out of school and working in Denver, I was driving to my parents’ home in Missouri for Christmas. I stopped at a gas station about 50 miles from Oklahoma City, where I was planning to stop and visit a friend. While I was standing in line at the cash register I said hello to an older couple who were also paying for gas.
I took off, but had gone only a few miles when black smoke poured from the back of my car. I stopped and wondered what I should do. A car pulled up behind me. It was the couple I had spoken to at the gas station. They said they would take me to my friend’s. We chatted on the way into the city, and when I got out of the car, the husband gave me his business card.
I wrote him and his wife a thank-you note for helping me. Soon afterward, I received a Christmas present from them. Their note that came with it said that helping me had made their holiday meaningful.
Years later, I drove to a meeting in a nearby town in the morning. In late afternoon I returned to my car and found that I’d left the lights on all day, and the battery was dead. Then I noticed that the Friendly Ford dealership --- a shop selling cars --- was right next door. I walked over and found two salesmen in the show room.
“Just how friendly is Friendly Ford?” I asked and explained my trouble. They quickly drove a pickup truck to my car and started it. They would accept no payment, so when I got home, I wrote them a note to say thanks. I received a letter back from one of the salesmen. No one had ever taken the time to write him and say thank you, and it meant a lot, he said.
“Thank you”--- two powerful words. They’re easy to say and mean so much.
The author planned to stop at Oklahoma City ________.

The words “took off” underlined in Paragraph 2 means “_________”.

What happened when the author found smoke coming out of his car?

How does the author explain the importance of expressing thanks in the passage?

As computers become all the more popular in China, Chinese people are increasingly depending on computer keyboards to input Chinese characters. But if they use the computer too much, they may end up forgetting the exact strokes（笔画）of each Chinese character when writing on paper. Experts suggest people, especially students, write by hand more.
Do you write by hand more or type more? In Beijing, students start using a computer as early as primary school. And computer dependence is more wide-spread among university students. Almost all their homework and essays are typed on a computer.
All the students interviewed say they usually use a computer.
It’s faster and easier to correct if using a computer. And that’s why computers are being applied more and more often to modern education. But when people are taking stock in computers increasingly, problems appear.
“When I'm writing with a pen, I find I often can't remember how to write a character, though I feel I’m familiar with it.”
“I’m not in the mood to write when faced with a pen and paper.”
Many students don't feel this is something to worry about. Now that it's more convenient and quick to write on a computer, why bother to handwrite?
Many educators think differently. Shi Liwei , the headmaster of a famous primary school in the capital said “Chinese characters enjoy both practical and aesthetic(审美的) value. But those characters typed with computer keyboards only have their practical value. All the artistic beauty of the characters is lost. And handwriting contains the writer’s emotion(情绪). Through one’s handwriting, people can get to know one's thinking and personality. Beautiful writing will give people a better first impression of them.”
To encourage students to handwrite more, many primary schools in Beijing have made writing classes compulsory(必修的)and in universities, some professors are asking students to turn in their homework and essays written by hand.
The students interviewed prefer to write using a computer mainly because______.

Which of the following statements of the advantages of handwriting is NOT TRUE ?

The underlined expression “taking stock in”(Paragraph 4) probably means __________.

We can infer from the passage that __________.

Gunman Adam Lanza shot and killed 20 children in two classes of Grade One in Sandy Hook Elementary School. The only survivor(幸存者) is a six-year-old girl. She escaped by lying on the floor pretending to be killed.
After the accident , she ran out of the school building covered from head to feet with blood (血). The first thing she said to her mother was, “ Mommy, I was OK, but all my friends were dead,” Pasrtor(牧师) Jim Solomon told the ABC news’s Lara Spencer this weekend , “I thought it was impossible for her to escape from being killed without others’ help. She could behave so calmly in such a dangerous and frightening situation. She has wisdom beyond her age, for sure.”
The girl, whose name is not being written out for special reasons, was the first student to run out of the accident place at Sandy Hook, Solomon said. He said the young girl described the gunman to her mother in a way that only a young child could. “Well, she saw someone who she felt was angry, and someone who she felt was mad,” Solomon said. “Somehow, at that moment, thank God, she was able to act as if she were already dead and saved herself. And that is very unusual and admirable (令人钦佩的) for so young a girl.” she said.
There were 20 students killed on Friday in Sandy Hook Elementary School, eight boys and 12 girls. Six teachers were also killed. “Her parents told me that they couldn’t stand the feeling of a survivor’s guilt（ 负罪）, because so many of their friends no longer have their children but they have theirs.” Solomon said.
“I think you can understand their feelings as well,” he said how the girl’s mother and father were feeling about the disaster. “I don’t know whether I would have the kind of feeling that they have if the same thing happened to me.”
How did the six-year-old girl escape from being killed?

According to the passage, which word can best show the quality of the girl?

From the passage, we can know that___________________.

Why did the girl’s parents feel guilty?

We don’t know how different our future will be in the future. We can only try to imagine it.
At first we think about human relationship. In the year 2050, we will use computers almost every day. We will be making new friends through the Internet----even our husbands or wives will be met in this way. It will be much faster and easier for us. On the other hand, our relationships with people won’t be as important as they are today----we will feel a little lonely.
Computers will also help us in many other activities in 2050. For example, they will be used by the children at school to make their learning easier. In addition, there will be much more other machines which will play a similar role as computers, like robots which will do the housework for us.
Spending holidays will also be completely different. Traveling to other planets or to the moon will be available for everyone. Means of transport will, of course, change, too. We will be using solar-powered cars, which will be much more environmentally friendly.
We could expect that the faster technological progress would lead to a more polluted environment. But it isn’t true. We will pay more attention to protecting the environment. And, scientists will probably find cures for many dangerous diseases, like cancer or AIDS. Therefore, our surroundings as well as our health will be in a better condition.
Although we can’t predict the exact changes which will be made in the world, we often think about them. We worry about our and our children’s future; we have expectations, hopes as well as fears. But I think we should be rather sanguine about our future. We should be happy and believe good things will happen.
Why will people probably feel a little lonely in 2050?

According to the passage, which of the following will happen in 2050?

The underlined word “sanguine” in the last paragraph most probably means ______.

What does the passage mainly talk about?

Students who date (约会) in middle school have significantly worse study skills, are four times more likely to drop out of school and report twice as much alcohol and tobacco use than their single classmates, according to new research from the University of Georgia.
“Romantic relationships are a symbol of adolescence（青春期）, but very few studies have examined how adolescents are different in the development of these relationships.” said Pamela Orpinas, study author and professor in the College of Public Health.
Orpinas followed a group of 624 students over a seven-year period from 6th to 12th grade. Each year, the group of students completed a survey indicating whether they had dated and reported the frequency of different behaviors, including the use of drugs and alcohol. Their teachers completed questionnaires (调查表) about the students' academic efforts. He found some students never or hardly ever reported dating from middle to high school, and these students had the best study skills according to their teachers. Other students dated infrequently in middle school but increased the frequency of dating in high school.
“At all points in time, teachers rated the students who reported the lowest frequency of dating as having the best study skills and the students with the highest dating as having the worst study skills,” according to the journal article. Study skills refer to behaviors that lead to academic success such as doing work for extra credit, being well organized, finishing homework, working hard and reading assigned chapters.
“Dating a classmate may have the same emotional complications of dating a co-worker,” Orpinas said, “When the couple break up, they have to continue to see each other in class and perhaps witness the ex-partner dating someone else. It is reasonable to think this could be linked to depression and divert (转移) attention from studying.”
“Dating should not be considered a ceremony of growth in middle school.”Orpinas concluded.
According to the passage, students who date in middle school may_____.

When doing his study, Orpinas _____.

What can possibly happen to the school couples after they break up?

Orpinas’ attitude towards dating in middle school is _____.

阅读下列各小题，根据括号内的汉语提示，用句末内的英语单词完成句子，并将答案写在答题卡上相应的括号内。
After the earthquake, the cleaners had worked day and night about a week ________________
normal. (return)
地震过后，清洁工夜以继日地工作了大约一周后交通才恢复正常。
It is the first time that he                  such a heavy attack.  (go )
这是他第一次遭受如此沉重的打击。
_______________ that I caught a bad cold and stayed in hospital for several days.(because)
正是因为那场大雨，我患了重感冒并在医院里住了好几天。
When you called I                       a meeting .  ( happen )
你打电话时我碰巧在开会。
In the dark street there was not a single man                          .  (turn)
黑暗的街上没有一个他可以求助的人。
The student insisted that he                    our discussion.      (join )
这个学生坚持要求参加我们的讨论。
Don’t you feel hot                    ?      (with)
穿这么多的衣服，难道你不热吗？
           his facial expressions, he was frightened by your words.    (judge)
从他的面部表情判断，他被你的话吓着了。
There are 60 students in our class,                       girls.  (be )
我们班有60人，其中三分之一是女生。
I suggest that better use should                           our spare time. (make)
我建议应该更好利用我们的业余时间。

Winners are not those who never fail but those who never give up.
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