2015年4月福州一中高二下期中考试卷录入：金山高英孙瑞芬老师，黄叶玲老师听力略一．单选15分21. I feel it a privilege ___as chairman of the students union last winter.A. to appointB.to be appointedC.to have appointedD. to have been appointed22. A wireless Internet campus will make students gain easy __to the abundant resources.A. accessB. destinationC. assistanceD. approval23. The desire __as a great writer inspires many young authors.A.to knowB. knownC. knowingD.to be known24.—I wonder why Marry is so unfriendly to us.-- she is ___than unfriendly, I’m afraid.A. shyerB. much shyerC. shy moreD. more shy25. As the situation is still uncertain, many people are waiting to see what the future______.A. happensB. holdsC. declaresD. reflects26. President Obama’s financial measures, ___for the next few years, are intended to improve the current economic situation.A.to planB.to be plannedC. planningD. planned27. We won’t have you ___ everywhere by taxi. It’s too expensive.A. goingB. to goC. goD. gone28.___ their son away to college, the couple got more room in the house.A. AsB. ForC. WithD. Through29. The woman had a ______ escape yesterday when her car left the road.A. sharpB. smoothC. magicD. narrow30. China’s new food law provides for a food recall system ______ producers have to stop production if their food isn’t up to standards.A. thatB. whereC. whichD. when31. MR.White turned the land behind his house into a chicken farm, which would ______ have been deserted.A. thereforeB. howeverC. otherwiseD. anyhow32. You must have left your house in a hurry , for you ___ your sweater inside out.A. are wearingB. had wornC.wearD.have worn33.______ the past year as an exchange student in Hong Kong, George appears more grownup than those of his age.A. spendingB. SpendC. having spentD. to spend34.The silence of the library was sometimes broken by an occasional cough or by the sound of pages_______.A. turnedB. being turnedC. to be turnedD. having turned35.-- Y ou couldn’t have chosen a better gift for me in the year of sheep.-- ______A. sorry, but forget itB. I’m glad that you like it that muchC. sorry, but I’ll choose anther for uD. I’m glad that you have a gift for music二．完型填空20分My name is Nick Vujicic．I was born without any limbs（四肢）.But one of my most __36___ videos on YouTube shows footage（视频片段）of me skateboarding, surfing, playing music, and best of all, __37___ hugs from all sorts of great people．__38___, those are pretty ordinary activities that just about anyone can do, right? So __39___ do you think that video has been viewed millions of times? My theory is that people are ___40__ to watch it because in spite of my physical limitations, I'm living __41___ I have no limits．People often expect someone __42___ a severe disability to be inactive, maybe even angry．I like to ___43__ them by showing that I lead a very adventurous and fruitful life．Among the hundreds of ___44__ on that video, here's one typical remark: "Seeing a guy like this being happy makes me wonder why I feel __45___ for myself sometimes---or feel not funny enough, or ___46__．How can I even think thoughts like that when this guy is living without limbs and still being happy ! ?"I found happiness when I realized that imperfect __47___ I may be, I am the __48___Nick Vujicic．I'm God’s creation,designed according to His Plan for me. That's not to say that there isn't __49___ for improvement．I'm always trying to be better ___50__ I can better serve the world!I do believe my life has no __51___．I want you to feel the same ___52__about your life, no matter what your challenges may he．As we begin our journey together, please take a moment to 53 any limitations you've ___53__ on your life．Now think about what it would be like to be ___54__ those limitations．What would your life be if anything were ___55__? 36．A．favorite B．unforgettable C．popular D．funny 37. A．receiving B．asking C．demanding D．rewarding 38．A．As a result B．All in all C．Apart from that D．Above all 39．A．where B．what C．when D．why 40．A．drawn B．hoped C．required D．supposed 41. A．even though B．in case C．as though D．so that 42．A．of B．from C．in D．with 43．A.disappoint B．greet C．surprise D．persuade 44．A．comments B．films C．returns D．choices 45．A．nervous B．sorry C．eager D．desperate 46．A．whichever B．whenever C．however D．whatever 47．A．if B．as C．while D．although 48．A．perfect B．right C．normal D.kind 49．A．chance B．area C．possibility D．room 50．A．and B．or C．so D．But 51．A．challenges B．limits C．doubts D．endings 52．A．sense B．wish C．way D．goal 53．A．wasted B．set C．placed D．allowed 54．A．free of B．devoted to C．aware of D．worried about 55．A．fortunate B．possible C．easy D．different三．阅读20分ATim Richter and his wife, Linda, had taught for over 30 years near Buffalo, New York-he in computers, she in special education. "Teaching means everything to us," Tim would say. InApril1998, he learned he would need a heart operation. It was the kind of news that leads to some serious thinking about life's purpose.Not long after the surgery, Tim saw a brochure describing Imagination Library, a program started by Dolly Parton' s foundation that mailed a book every month to children from birth to age five in the singer's home town of Sevier, Tennessee. "I thought, maybe Linda and I could do something like this when we retire," Tim recalls. He placed the brochure on his desk, "as a reminder."Five years later, now retired and with that brochure still on the desk, Tim clicked on imagination . The program had been opened up to partners who could take advantage of book and postage discounts.The quality of the books was of great concern to the Richters. Rather than sign up online, they went to Dollywood for a look-see. "We didn't want to give the children rubbish," says Linda. The books-reviewed each year by teachers, literacy specialists and Dollywood boardmembers-included classics such as Ezra Jack Keats's The Snowy Day and newer books like Anna Dewdney's Llama Llama series.Satisfied, the couple set up the Richter Family Foundation and got to work. Since 2004, they have shipped more than 12,200 books to preschoolers in their in their area. Megan Williams, a mother of four, is more than appreciative:" This program introduces us to books I've never heard of." The Richters spend about &400 a month sending books to 200 children. "Some people sit there and wait to die," says Tim. "Others get as busy as they can in the time they have left."56. What led Tim think seriously about the meaning of the life?A. His death problemB. His love for teachingC. The influence of his wifeD. The news from the Web57. According to the text, Dollly Parton is _____.A. a well-known surgeonB. a mother of a four-year-oldC. a singer born in TennesseeD. a computer programmer58. Why did the Richters go to Dollywood?A. To avoid signing up online.B. To meet Dollywood board members.C. To make sure the books were the newest.D. To see if the books were of good quality.59. What can we learn from Tim's words in the last paragraph?A. He needs more money to help the children.B. He wonders why some people are so busy.C. He tries to save those waiting to die.D. He considers his efforts worthwhile.BHomestay provide English language students with the opportunity to speak English outside the classroom and the experience of being part of a British home.What to ExpectThe host will provide accommodation and meals. Rooms will be cleaned and bedcovers changed at least once a week. You will be given the house key and the host is there to offer help and advice as well as to take an interest in your physical and mental health.Accommodation ZonesHomestays are located in London mainly in Zones 2,3 and of the transport system. Most hosts do not live in the town center as much of central London is commercial and not residential Zones 3 and 4 often offer larger accommodation in a less crowned area. It is very convenient to travel in London by underground.Meal Plans Available●continental Breakfast●breakfast and Dinner●breakfast, Packed Lunch and DinnerIt's important to note that few English families still provide a traditional cooked breakfast. Your accommodation includes Continental Breakfast which normally consists of fruit juice, cereal bread and tea or coffee. Cheese, fruit and cold meat are not normally part of a Continental Breakfast in England. Dinners usually consist of meat or fish with vegetables followed by desert, fruit and coffee.FriendsIf you wish to invite a friend over to visit, you must first ask your host's permission. You have no right to entertain friends in a family home as some families feel it is an invasion of their privacy.Self-Catering Accommodation in Private HomesAccommodation on a room-only basis includes shared kitchen and bathroom facilities and often a main living room. This kind of accommodation offers an independent lifestyle and is more suitable for the long-stay student. However, it does not provide the same family atmosphere as an ordinary homestay and may not benefit those who need to practice English at home quite as much.60. The passage is probably written for _____.A. host willing to receive foreign studentsB. foreigners hoping to build British cultureC. travelers planning to visit families in LondonD. English learners applying to like in English homes61. Which of the following will the host provide?A. Room cleaning.B. Medical care.C. Free transport.D. Physical training.62. What can be inferred from Paragraph3?A. Zone 4 is more crowded than Zone 2.B. The business centre of London is in Zone.C. Hosts dislike travelling to the city centre.D. It is not very convenient to travel in London by underground.63. Why do some people choose self-catering accommodation?A. To experience a warmer family atmosphere.B. To enrich their knowledge of English.C. To entertain friends as they like.D. To enjoy much more freedom.COne minute, Renata Glasner is watching the waves crash on Leblon beach from her wheelchair. The next, she's plowing through the turbulent waters on a specially adapted surfboard.Glasner, a 35-year-old graphic designer who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis four years ago, is one of dozens of disabled people on this special strip of Rio de Janeiro beach who are conquering the waves. Men and women with cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, people missing a limb, the blind, the deaf and even the paralyzed all hit the water here."The taste of salt water has no price," said Glasner, who began to lose control over her legs shortly after the birth of her first child and now requires a helper to hoist her from her amphibious wheelchair onto the surfboard. "It's the taste of freedom. After you're diagnosed with a disease like mine, you can't even imagine you're ever again going to experience that taste."Glasner is able to savor that experience on a weekly basis thanks to AdaptSurf, a Rio-based non-governmental organization that aims to make beaches accessible to the disabled and encourage them to practice water sports.In Brazil, with its nearly 4,660 mile-long (7,500 kilometer-long) coastline, the beach is center stage for social interactions of all sorts: It's largely there that families reunite, that friendships are forged, that couples come together or dissolve and deals are struck. For the disabled to be deprived of the physical benefits of the beach and also all the socializing that goes on there is doubly isolating, says AdaptSurf co-founder Henrique Saraiva.Several dozen disabled people come from across this metropolis of 6 million to attend AdaptSurf, some braving hours-long bus rides to be there every weekend. The group has even had people come from as far as the capital, Brasilia, some 725 miles (1,170 kilometers) away.Now several dozen disabled people come from across this metropolis of 6 million to attend AdaptSurf meet every staturday and Sunday of the year, weather permitting.64. The main purpose of AdaptSurf is to____.A. inprove its members’ surfing skillsB. enable disabled peoples’ surfing skillsC. research adapted surfboardsD. find practical cures for disabled and paralyzed people65.By saying ‘the taste of salt water has no prize’,Glasner suggests that___A. it took her long time to get used to the sea waterB. surfing skills are difficult for disabled people like herC. surfing is a cheap sport for disabled people like herD. she really treasures the opportunity to surf again66.we can conclude from the article that members of Adaptsurf __A. have to help themselves onto their surfboardsB. mostly live in a Rio neighborhood by the beachC. are required to meet every weekend throughout the yearD. feel they’ve gotten past their disabilities when they’re on their surfboard67. which would be the best title for the passage?A. Disabled surfers brave the waves of BrazilB. why Henrique saraiva started AdaptsurfC. Brazilian disabled people no longer confined to wheelchairsD. water sports popular among disabled people in BrazilDThe coyote, that clever animal of wide-open spaces, has come to the nation's capital. In fact, coyotes have spread to every comer of the United States, changing their behaviors to fit new environments and causing researchers to deal with a troublesome new kind of creature: the city coyote.The coyote originally lived in the middle of the continent. One of its most obvious characters is its smartness, which has made the animal a notorious pest. Hunters trapped, shot and poisoned more than a million coyotes in the 1900s. It's still one of America's most hunted animals. Yet the coyote has survived. How has the coyote shown this extraordinary ability? "I guess if you wanted to use one word, it'd be 'plasticity'," says Eric Gese, an expert at Utah State University. Coyotes can live alone, in pairs, or in large packs like wolves; hunt at night or during the day; occupy a small region or an area up to 40 square miles; and live on all sorts of food, from lizards and shoes, to ants and melons.Unbelievably people helped coyotes increase when they killed most of the wolves in the United States. The spreading of coyotes into city areas, though, is recent. They travel at night, crossing sidewalks and bridges, running along roads and ducking into culverts (閽诲叆娑垫礊) and underpasses. No one knows why coyotes are moving into cities., but experts explain that cleverer, more human-tolerant coyotes are teaching urban survival skills to new generations.Occasionally, coyotes might attack human beings. There have been about 160 attacks on people in recent years. Therefore, people have been consistently told not to feed coyotes or leave pet food unsecured. That, plus a large trapping program in the neighborhood, has cut down on the coyote population.68. The underlined word "plasticity" in Paragraph 2 refers to______A. the ability to fit the environmentB. notorious smartnessC. hunting abilityD. being human-tolerant69. The aim of the passage is to______A. tell people how to fight against coyotesB. tell us why the coyote is the most hunted animalC. supply the reason why the coyote is a kind of notorious pestD. explain how the coyote has spread to and survived in cities70. According to the passage, coyotes_______A. originally lived in the west of the continentB. sleep during the day but look for food at nightC. are teaching survival skills to their younger generationsD. suffered a population decrease because people killed wolves71. According to the passage, to cut down on the coyote population, people are advised to_______A. leave pet food securedB. keep coyotes in small regionsC. force coyotes to live aloneD. avoid using trapping programsEEveryone looks forward to progress, whether in one personal life or in the general society. Progress indicates a person ability to change the way he is living at the moment. Progress must lead a better way of doing things. All these, however, remains true only in so far as people want to accept technology and move forward by finding new and more efficient ways of doing things.However, at the back of the minds of many people, especially those who missed ‘the good old days’, efficiency comes with a price. When communication becomes efficient, people are able to contact one another no matter where they are and at whatever time they wish to. The click of a button allows people miles apart to talk or to see each other without even leaving their homes. With the communication gadgets, such as mobile phones and ipads, people often do not take the effect to visit one another personally. A personal visit carries with it the additional feature of having to be in the person presence for as long as the visit lasts. We cannot unnecessarily excuse our selves or turn the other person off.With efficiency also comes mass production. Such is the nature of factories and the success of industrialization today. Factories have improved efficiency. Unskillful tasks are left to machines and products are better made and produced with greater accuracy than any human hand could ever have done. However, with the improvements in efficiency also comes the loss of the personal touch when making these products. For example, many handcrafts(鎵嬪伐鑹哄搧) are now produced in a factory. Although this means that supply is better able to increase demand, now that the supply is quick and efficient, the demand might fall because mass production lowers the quality of the handicraft and it is difficult to find unique designs on each item.Nevertheless, we must not commit the mistake of analyzing progress only from one point of view. In fact, progress has allowed tradition to keep up. It is only with progress and the invention of new technology that many old products can be brought back to their old state. New technology is required for old products to stay old.It is people attitude towards progress that causes the type of influence that technology has on society. Technology is flexible. There is no fixed way of making use of it. Everything depends on people attitude. The worst effects of progress will fall on those who are unable to rethink their attitudes and views of society. When we accept progress and adapt it to suit our needs, a new ?is created.72. According to Paragraph 1, progress can benefit people when they are willing to _______.A.live a better lifeB.look for better methodsC.change ways of livingD.accept technology and advance steadily73. The underlined word ‘gadgets’ is closest in meaning to _______.A. toolsB. messagesC. barriersD. skills74. Compared with home-made handicrafts, machine made products _______.A. lack great accuracyB. lack the personal touchC. are of high valueD. are quite welcome75. What can be learned about technology from Paragraph 4?A. it can destroy old traditions.B. it can lead to social progress.C. it can be used to correct mistakes.D. it can be used to preserve old products.四．单词拼写10分1. To curb the problem, the Indian government has l_____ save the girl child campaigns.2.With expressions r_____ from happy to sad to angry, emojis are a popular way to communicate on online messaging platforms.3.Their larger size can also protect them against being s_____ ,as they can move from an area with no food to another area rich in food without eating.4.The past 10 years has w_____ great changes of the new campus of Fuzhou No.1 high school.5.He told us some amusing _____ (轶事)of the president ‘s childhood.6.A c_____ is a friend that you spend a lot of time with, or someone you are traveling with.7.Hearing the dog barking fiercely, away f_____ the thief.8.Just as the clothes a person wears, the food he eats and the friends with whom he spends his time, his house _____ 反映his personality.9.The pianists a_____ the height of the chair before the performance.10.The company promised its employees a paid vacation of a _____ 两周every year.五．课文填空6分1. I love listening to the family softly talking to each other in their language, even I could not ____2. Sometimes I wonder _____ most of whom will be going back to their villages after year 8 anyway.to be honest, I doubt ____ these boys’ lives at all.3. On the afternoon I arrived at the station, as I ____ ,I heard a loud noise coming from the bay.4. We ran down to the shore in time to see ____ out of the water and then crashing down again.5. From James’ face, I could see he was terrified of ____ by us.六. 翻译9分1.宇航员在进入太空之前，要进行几百个小时的训练。