海淀区2015高三年级第一学期期中练习
英 语
第二部分：知识运用【共两节，45分）
第一节单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，共15分）
从每题所给的A. B. C.D四个选项中，选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题 卡上将该项涂黑。
21. it was very dark, ____Jane seemed to know which way佃take at the crossroads. A or B．and C but D s。
22. About an hour after sunrise, I rode across the countryside——birds were singing. A where B which C that D when 23. -Where are you exactly?
I_ ___to you from a small town about 50 miles away from your city A will speak B am speaking C have spoken D speak
24. This kind of music ____ fifty years ago is still popular today
A having created B creating C. being created D created 25. Look! I haven't worn the dress for nearly ten years and it A was still fitting B is still fitting C still fitted D still fits 26. -Where's Amy？
-I'm not sure. She ____ be in the laboratory A might B can c must D should
27.____amazed me most was the young boy handling 8 pen with his feet A That B．What C As D Who
28. 1 was watching Time of Chief Editor__—Phoenix Satellite TV at that time A at B to C for D on
29. We will have six-day holiday during the coming APEC meetings traffic on the roads. A to ease B easing C ease D having eased 30. –He ____ the Most Popular Teacher in his hometown, right? -Yes. ten years before he came to this school
A is awarded B has awarded C was awarded D. awarded 31.____carefully for a long time, the opening was a great success A To have been prepared B. Having been prepared C To be prepared D Being prepared
32. In his youth, Ma Yun finally attended Hangzhou Teacher's Institute he failed the entrance exam twice
A unless B after C. since D until
33 0ut how to put our furniture or we'll have to wait for another week to move in ． A Figuring B To figure C.Figure D Figured
34. There is often disagreement on ____ is the better student. James or Celina? A who B what C that D whose 35. -What life be like without cell phones? -I cannot imagine it!
A. may B can C. will D would
第二节完形填空（共20小题；每小题1 5分，共30分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、c、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，
并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Somebody Loves You
One miserable rainy night,a man named Mark decided to end his life. In his mid-fifties, Mark had never been married.__ 36一the joy of having children or spent holidays with his family. Wet and unhappy, he walked along the streets, feeling as if there was 37 in the entire world that cared whether he lived or died
__ 38，1 was sitting in my room watching the rain hit my window. When I heard the doorbell ring, I jumped from my chair and 39 0ut. But my mother was already at the door. Opening it, she found herself face-to-face with a very dirty-looking man with tears streaming down his face. My mother, overcome by__ 40一，invited the man inside, and he sat with my parents in our living room．
__ 41一，1 walked secretly downstairs so that I could get a better look. I couldn't understand what they were saying,but the 42 0f the man, holding his head in has hands and crying, made my chest ache. I raced back up stairs to my room and__ 43一my hand into my money jar. Pulling out my only half-dollar coin,I ran back downstairs.
When I 44 the door of the living room, I walked right in .The three adults looked at me in 45 as I quickly made my way over the stranger. I put the half-dollar in his hand and told him that I wanted him to have it. Then I gave him a 46,turned and ran as fast as I could out of the room and back upstairs. I felt excited but happy
Downstairs, Mark sat quietly with his head 47 .Tears streamed down his face as he tightly held that coin. Finally looking up at my parents, he said, \_48 that I thought nobody cared. For the last twenty years,I have been so 49 . That is the first hug I have ever got. It’s hard to believe that somebody _50．”
Mark's life changed that night. When he left our house, he was__ 51 to live instead of die.__ 52一we never saw Mark again, we received letters from him every once in a while, letting us know that he was doing fine
My life changed that night, too, as I witnessed the hue healing power of _53一．even if it’s only a gift of fifty cents.
Before Mark left, my parents asked him why he had knocked on our door. Mark said that____ 54一he'd walked along the streets that rainy night, helpless and ready to—55一,he had noticed a sticker on the car. It read: SOMEBODY LOVES YOU. 36.A believed B noticed C. experienced D. understood 37.A. eve17body B. somebody C anybody D nobody 38.A Later B First C Afterwards D Meanwhile 39. A looked B. raced C. spoke D. broke 40．A pity B. anxiety C guilty D. fear
41. A. Worried B. Curious C. Puzzled D. Annoyed 42. A. sense B. thought C. sight D. look
43. A. shook B. Luck . C. pushed D. forced
44. A: answered B. fixed . C. found D. reached 45. A. anger B. delight C. peace D. surprise 46. A. hug B. kiss C. smile D. handshake 47. A. held B. turned C. bowed D. raised 48. A. just B. still C. also D. even
49. A. anxious B. stressed C. lonely D. bored 50. A. cares B. gets C. makes D. knows 51. A. lucky B. proud C. hesitant D. ready 52. A. Since B. When C. Although D. Unless 53. A. receiving B. giving C. loving D. taking 54. A. if B. as C. until D. before 55. A. die B. cry C. leave D. regret
第三部分：阅读理解（共两节．40分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，共30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡
上将该项涂黑。
A
I may not be the wisest person on this planet. but I will tell you a little secret to happiness: Help other,, and live life. It is that simple. Just help a friend study for a test, or volunteer at a nursing home . I learned this after a long, hard search.
I was feeling really down because my long4ime friend had died. Then I started a six-week volunteering at a nursing home all day every Saturday. My routine was to serve the meal and clean up. After that, I would wait for the head nurse to tell me what to do.
One day I was told to go to Room 117 to make sure the patient was all righL. In the room I found a boy of eight sitting in his bed watching a movie. I was shocked to see a child in this seemingly forgotten nursing home for the old. He was so small and weak that you had to look closely to find him. He motioned for me to sit down. I grabbed his medical chart from which later I found out he had a terminal illness.
We started to talk, and I found out that his family rarely visited, and all he did ever7 day was watch TV. I wanted to cry for him, and for my lost friend. As we talked, he had a smile on his face, and I asked him why.
\how do you still manage to stay happy?\
He thought for a moment, and then said that too many people are dead even before they die.
They walk around feeling that God has cursed (诅咒) them and that they have nothing to live for. The boy said that he would not be like that. He wakes every morning thankful to see another sunrise. He keeps his window open so that he can smell the flowers and feel the heat of the sun. He also said that he has hope.
\and we need to live life before it is gone. \
I don’t know what happened to him. I assume he passed away, but his lesson lives on. I now
wake up and live each day to the fullest. The key to life is not money or fame, but the lessons we learn from it.
56. The nursing home in the passage is mainly for _
A. the elderly B. the homeless C. the disabled D. the abandoned 57. The boy stayed happy mainly due to .
A. wonderful TV programs B. his positive attitude C. good medical condition D. others' encouragement 58. The writer participated in the volunteering job in order to . A. find out the secret B. search for help
C. enrich experiences D. get out of sadness 59. What would be the best title for the passage?
A. A Lesson in Hope B. The Life of a Sick Boy C. A Voluntary Job D. The Meaning of Life B
In the last few years the popularity of eBooks has exploded. The advantages are clear: You can carry as many hooks with you as you want. You can simply download ever7 book you like and instantly start reading instead of having to wait for the book to arrive by mail.
However, one thing hadn't changed. If you wanted to rent a book you were still forced to use hardcopy hooks. Until now that is. Amazon. com recently announced the start of a new program where you can rent eBooks. Where to rent eBooks?
As mentioned before, Amazon. com is the first and currently the only retailer (零售商) that has a program in place for renting eBooks. Luckily, Amazon is the largest online retailer in the world and their eBook assortment (分类) is massive. They are also the producer of the Kindle, the most popular eReader, which means you can be sure that the eBooks you rent will work.
You can currently only rent eTextbooks. But this is likely to change as soon as the word gets out
that you can save money by renting eBooks. Why rent eBooks at Amazon? .
~ Save money: Save up t0 80% of the normal price of the eBook.
~ Decide how long you rent: From 30 days t0 360 days, you decide how long you want it. You
can extend the time by as little as a day. Or simply buy the eBook if you want to keep it after all. ~ Use any device: If you rent an eBook from Amazon, you can read it on your PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, Android device, Windows Phone 7. Blackberry. or Kindle. .
~ Keep your notes: Do you like to keep annotations (注释) and highlights in your eBooks? Don't worry. You can always revisit your notes and highlights through Amazon. com. How to rent eBooks?
Simply search for the eBook you want to rent on Amazon. com and select the \eBooks\the eBook. You can read eBooks for a period of 30 t0 360 days.
You decide how long you need the eBook. 1f you later find out you need it for longer. you can simply extend the time. Or buy it for the normal price whenever you want.
[来源:Z#xx#k.Com] Once you've chosen the Lime you want to rent the eBook, you simply go to checkout. Or you can use the \60. According to the passage, _
A. eBooks will be changed into other types by Amazon. com B. eBooks will replace hardcover hooks in the next few years C. readers get a discount of at least 20% of the normal price D. readers are able to rent eBooks only at Amazon. com now 61. To rent an eBook online, which of the following goes last?
A. open a new page B. select the \ c choose a rental date D. press \62. The main purpose of the passage is to _.
A. inform and explain B. discuss and assess C. compare and evaluate D describe and argue c
The Purpose of Boredom
Being bored can encourage people's creativity-partly to escape the horrible, frustrated. And meaningless feeling of boredom-recent studies find. It could even be true at work.
Psychologists at the University of Central Lancashire had participants copy numbers out of the telephone book for 15 minutes,while others went straight into a standard creativity task.
Both groups were asked to come up with as many different uses as they could for a plastic cup. The group that felt more bored came up with more uses.
Dr. Sandi Mann, one of the study's authors said. \as
something to he removed. hut perhaps we should be welcoming it in order to encourage our creativity. What we want LO do next is to see what the practical implications of this finding are. Do people who are bored at work become more creative in other areas of their work-or do they go homeand write novels?\
In a later study, Dr. Sandi Mann found that creativity was reduced when people were still bored but didn't have the chance to daydream.
While we tend to think of boredom as something; that certainly leads to trouble-drinking, gambling. and antisocial behavior, this research suggests differer possibilities.
More than anything, the feeling of boredom is a 8trong signal that we are stuck in some kind of rut and we need to seek out new goals. In the study above, this research led participants to new ideas.
Usually people will do anything to avoid being bored. as it's such an aversive experience. But creative people, like writers, sometimes talk ahout seeking out boredom.
Here is the comedy writer Graham Linehan talking about boredom Lo The Cuardian. \have to use all these programs that cut off the Internet,force me to be bored, because being bored is an essential part of writing, and the Internet has made it very hard to be bored. The creative process requires a period of boredom ,of being stuck. That's actually a very uncomfortable period that a lot of people mistake for writer's block, but it's actually just part of a long process. \
So, when you start to feel bored , instead of g7ancing at your smartphone.,try being bored for a bit. Who knows what creative thought might come of it?
63. From the study of Dr. Sandi Mann, we can learn thaL .
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