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天水一中 2019-2020 学年第一学期第五次(期末)考试
英语
(满分:120 分 时间:100 分钟)
第一部分 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 A、B、C、D 四个选项中,选出最佳答案。
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Embassy Suites by Hilton Santa Ana Orange County Airport
Neighborhood: John Wayne Airport (SNA), Orange County
1325 East Dyer Road, Santa Ana, CA [来源:学科网]
OVERALL GUEST SCORE
Very Good
Based on 163 Guest Ratings
Free Breakfast Free Airport Shuttle
Fitness Center Business Center
Hotel Description
Being close to airport and freeway access makes the Embassy Suites a top choice for our
guests in the area. The 300-room Embassy Suites offers homey comforts for those on business
and vacation alike — suites with separate living and sleeping areas, refrigerators, microwaves,
coffeemakers, Wi-Fi access and two TVs. Wake up to a free cooked-to-order breakfast and
enjoy the indoor pool and fitness center. A two-hour evening reception offers drinks and
appetizers and the on-site restaurant serves American favorites. The property also has a business
center with copy and fax services. Parking is available for an additional fee. Less than two miles
from I-405, the Embassy Suites is within a half -mile of various restaurants and just three miles
from John Wayne Airport. Our guests say the Embassy Suites’ location, “brilliant” breakfast and
“friendly” staff make it one of their favorite Santa Ana properties.
Guest Ratings
Good Feb 8, 2019
By: Harold
Pros: Loved the breakfast and the friendly, helpful staff. Spacious accommodations made this a
very good value.
Cons: Didn’t love the heating/AC system; room was too cold for comfort. Also was not aware
of the parking fee until we checked in. The parking fee was $17 a night.
Good Jan 24, 20192
By: Micaela
Pros: Breakfast was amazing with a variety of choices and the staff were helpful.
Cons: The room had a very strange old smell when we first got there. I had to open the door to
air it out.
Very G ood Jan 5, 2019
By: Bruce
Pros: The location was very good for us and the included breakfast was a plus.
Cons: The room was not cleaned properly when we got there. The heating system was not
working for the hotel as well.
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1. ________ makes the Embassy Suites a top choice for its guests in the area.
A. The convenient location B. The friendly staff
C. The business center D. Wi-Fi access
2. According to the guest ratings, all the guests are satisfied with its ________.
A. heating system B. accommodations C. breakfast D. parking fee
3. This advertisement is made more believable by ________.
A. interviewing the guests B. using guests’ comments
C. analyzing its pros and cons D. providing the exact address
B
Tail Spin
Two dolphins race around in a big pool in the Ocean Park. The smaller dolphin Grace,
shown off a few of her tricks, turning around and waving hello to the crowd. The most amazing
thing about her, however, is that she’s even swimming at all. She doesn’t have a tail.
Grace lost her tail as a baby when she got caught up in a fish trap. When the dolphin
arrived at the Ocean Park in December 2005, she was fighting for her life. “Is she going to make
it?” Her trainer, Abbey Stone, feared the worst. Grace did make it --- but her tail didn’t. She
ended up losing her flukes and the lower part of her peduncle.
Over the past six years, she has learned to swim without her tail. Dolphins swim by
moving their flukes and peduncle up and down. Grace taught herself to move another way---like
a fish! She pushed herself forward through the water by moving her peduncles from side to side.
The movement put harmful pressure on Grace’s backbone. So a company offered to create
a man-made tail for her. The tail had to be strong enough to stay on Grace as she swam but soft
enough that it wouldn’t hurt her.
The first time Grace wore the artificial tail. She soon shook it off and let it sink in the
bottom of the pool. Now, she is still learning to use the tail. Some days she wears it for an hour
at a time, others not at all. “The tail isn’t necessary for her to feel comfortable,” says Stone, “but
it helps to keep that range of motion(动作) and build muscles.”
Now, the dolphin is about to get an even happier ending. This month, Grace will star in
Dolphin Tale, a film that focus on her rescue and recovery. Her progress has inspired more than3
just a new movie. Many people travel from near and far to meet her. Seeing Grace swim with
her man-made tail gives people so much courage.
4. When Grace first arrived at the Ocean Park, her trainer worried about her______.
A. physical build B. potential ability
C. chance of survival D. adaptation to the surroundings.
5. A man-made tail is created for Grace to ______.
A. let her recover faster B. make her comfortable
C. adjust her way of swimming D. help her perform better tricks
6. The story of Grace inspires people to______.
A. stick to their dreams B. treat animals friendly
C. treasure what they have D. face difficulties bravely
7. Where does the text probably come from?
A. A pet advertisement B. A news story
C. A novel D. A travel guide
C
There is an old Chinese proverb that states “One Generation plants the trees; another gets
the shade,” and this is how it should be with mothers and daughters. The relationship between a
mother and daughter is sometimes confusing. If close, the relationship can be similar to
friendship. However, the mother and daughter relationship has unique characteristics that
distinguish it from a friendship. These characteristics include a hierarchy(等级) of responsibility
and unconditional love, which preclude mothers and daughters from being best friends.
Marina, 27 years old, says, “I love spending time with my mom, but I wouldn’t consider
her my best friend. Best friends don’t pay for your wedding. Best friends don’t remind you how
they carried you in their body and gave you life! Best friends don’t tell you how wise they are
because they have been alive at least 20 years longer than you.” This doesn’t mean that the
mother and daughter relationship can’t be very close and satisfying. While some adult
relationships are still troubled, many find them to be extremely rewarding. This generation of
mothers and adult daughters has a lot in common which increases the likelihood of shared
companionship. Mothers and daughters have always shared the common experience of being
homemakers, responsible for maintaining and passing on family values and traditions. Today
contemporary mothers and daughters also share the experience of the workforce and technology,
which may bring them even closer together.
Best friends may or may not continue to be best friends, but for better or worse, the mother
and daughter relationship is permanent, even if for some unfortunate reason they aren’t
speaking. The mother and child relationship is closer than any other. There is not an equal
relationship. Daughters should not feel responsible for their mother’s emotional well-being. It
isn’t that they don’t care deeply about their mothers. It’s just that they shouldn’t be burdened
with their mother’s well being.
The mother and daughter relationship is a relationship that is not replaceable by any other.4
Mothers never stop being mothers, which includes frequently wanting to protect their daughters
and often feeling responsible for their happiness. Mother always “trumps”(王牌) friend.
8. What does the underlined word “preclude” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?
A. differ B. prevent C. benefit D. change
9. What do we know from the text?
A. The mother and daughter relationship can be replaced by a best friend.
B. A mother’s love brings her and her daughter a close friendship.
C. The mother and daughter relationship goes beyond best friends’ friendship.
D. Marina has a troubled relationship with her mother.
10. How does the author mainly prove his statements?
A. listing data B. giving explanations
C. quoting sayings D. making examples
11. What is the best title for the text?
A. How to be a good mother and daughter?
B. Who is a mother’s best friend?
C. Mother or friend?
D. Can a mother be a daughter’s best friend?
D
LONDON - A British judge on Thursday sentenced a businessman who sold fake(假冒的)
bomb detectors(探测器) to 10 years in prison, saying the man hadn’t cared about potentially
deadly consequences.
It is believed that James McCormick got about $77.8 million from the sales of his detectors
---which were based on a kind of golf ball finder---to countries including Iraq, Belgium and
Saudi Arabia.
McCormick, 57, was convicted(判罪) of cheats last month and sentenced Thursday at the
Old Bailey court in London.
“Your cheating conduct in selling a great amount of useless equipment simply for huge
profit promoted a false sense of security and in all probability materially contributed to causing
death and injury to innocent people,“ Judge Richard Hone told McCormick. “you have neither
regret, nor shame, nor any sense of guilt.”
The detectors, sold for up to $42,000 each, were said to be able to find such dangerous
objects as bombs under water and from the air. But in fact they “lacked any grounding in
science” and were of no use.
McCormick had told the court that he sold his detectors to the police in Kenya, the prison
service in Hong Kong, the army in Egypt and the border control in Thailand.
“I never had any bad results from customers,” he said.
12. Why was McCormick sentenced to prison?5
A. He sold bombs. B. He caused death of people.
C. He made detectors. D. He cheated in business.
13. According to the judge, what McCormick had done _______.
A. increased the cost of safeguarding
B. lowered people’s guard against danger
C. changed people’s idea of social security
D. caused innocent people to commit crimes
14. Which of the following is true of the detectors?
A. They have not been sold to Africa.
B. They have caused many serious problems.
C. They can find dangerous objects in water.
D. They don’t function on the basis of science.
15. It can be inferred from the passage that McCormick _______.
A. sold the equipment at a low price
B. was well-known in most countries
C. did not think he had committed the crime
D. had not got such huge profit as mentioned in the text
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。
A new study suggests that the timing of a wound affects the speed at which it heals.
Wounds suffered during the day heal around 60 percent faster than those at night.
The study showed how the bodies circadian rhythm (昼夜节奏) controlled the healing of
wounds. 16 It tells our bodies when to wake up, eat and sleep in a circle---a series of
activities that repeat themselves day after day. 17
In the study, researchers found that skin cells moved faster to repair wounds suffered
during the day. Their findings were published in the journal Science Transnational Medicine .
The researchers examined cells, mice, and burn injury databases. 18 Night-time
burns -burns suffered between 8 o’clock at night and 8 o’clock the next morning were 95
percent healed after an average of 28 days.
But after an average of 17 days, daytime burns-burns suffered between 8 o’clock in the
morning and 8 at night were 95 percent healed. 19
Wounds are very costly to treat. 20 In Britain’s National Health Services, for
example, such services cost around $6.56 billion per year. Experts say the high costs result, in
part, from a lack of drugs that speed up the closure of wounds.
A. Each cycle lasts about 24 hours.
B. The circadian rhythm is like a clock or timer.6
C. Specifically their investigation found the following information.
D.The new study’s findings could help scientists develop better drugs.
E. In other words, nighttime injuries took an average of 11 days longer to heal.
F.Worldwide, billions of dollars are spent every year on wound-treatment services
G.That’s what a group of researchers from a university in Canada recently published
第二部分 语言知识运用(共两节,满分 45 分)
第一节(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 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的
最佳选项。
The universe has a way of sending help from even the most unlikely of places.
When Tony received a wrong-number message on his mobile phone, he could have just
22 it. Instead, he gathered five of his six children and 22 a picture to send to Syd, the
girl on the other end of the line, just to give her a little 23 . However, he had no idea that
replying to this random message would 24 his family’s life.
The message was from Syd, who was dress shopping when she decided to get a second
25 . So she took a picture of herself in the new dress that she had chosen and sent the
message to who she thought was her friend.
Tony sent her a message 26 right away, but he also wanted to let her know that her
pretty picture hadn’t ended up in the 27 hands, so he included a picture of his kids giving a
big thumbs-up, “I figured that the children’s 28 would be far better than some middle-aged
man!”
Syd’s friend Mandi was so deeply touched by the 29 that she posted it online, where it
quickly went viral. Not only is it just a sweet 30 of kindness on Tony’s part, but look at
those cute kids of his!
Once the story 31 the web, people discovered that one of Tony’s children was 32
from the picture. The youngest child, Kaizler, wasn’t home at the time 33 his mom had
taken him to his chemotherapy(化疗)appointment.
Once Mandi read about Kaizler’s cancer diagnosis, she shared his GoFundMe page, which
snowballed into a widespread 34 of giving. Thousands of people have donated to the little
boy’s page.
Kaizler’s mom says she can’t express how 35 her family is for the financial help, and
no one can believe this rush of good fortune 36 from a simple wrong-number message!
“It is so refreshing to be 37 that there are good people in the world who still care
about others and are quick to be 38 and kind to others,” she stated. “I would also like to
thank EVERYONE from the bottom of my heart 39 all the kind words, all the donations,
all the love and support. We honestly would never have been able to 40 it this far in our
journey without every single one of you!!!”
21. A. copied B. returned C. ignore D. recognized7
22. A. borrowed B. invented C. found D. took
23. A. space B. peace C. encouragement D. description
24. A. change B. ruin C. control D. plan
25. A. picture B. opinion C. place D. chance
26. A. off B. over C. up D. back
27. A. different B. wrong C. ordinary D. free
28. A. company B. response C. explanation D. permission
29. A. exchange B. participation C. preference D. strategy
30. A. act B. talk C. state D. smile
31. A. caught B. ran C. hit D. searched
32. A. hiding B. escaping C. dropping D. missing
33. A. unless B. although C. because D. once
34. A. anxiety B. prediction C. roll D. wave
35. A. grateful B. concerned C. famous D. eager
36. A. fell B. came C. left D. heard
37. A. reminded B. arranged C. greeted D. persuaded
38. A. outspoken B. generous C. faithful D. energetic
39. A. of B. with C. about D. for
40. A. urge B. pass C. make D. build
第二节(共 10 小题;每小题 1.5 分,满分 15 分)
阅读下面短文,在空白处填入 1 个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Recently 41 internet slang word Foxi, or “Buddhist”, has become popular, encouraging
young people to remain calm and peaceful and avoid conflict as much as possible, in other
words, to live like a Buddha.
The phrase 42 (create) in Japan in 2014 to describe young men who no longer bother
to start relationships with women or follow someone else’s life path. They prefer to stay in their
own world without 43 (disturb) and care little about passion and success.
Now, Chinese Internet 44 (use) are pairing the phrase with other words to describe a
similar mindset. For example, “Buddhist students” are those 45 study just the right amount
– they don’t cut class, but they don’t burn the midnight oil, either. However, some are worried
about it, for they say that Foxi actually reflects the 46 (real) that young people are losing
their will 47 (fight). They are pretending to keep a healthy and wise attitude toward failure
48 (simple) because they’re incapable of succeeding.
But no matter what, there is one thing that “Buddhist youngsters” should keep 49
mind: you may want to keep a calm mindset regarding failure, 50 you should also be
passionate and positive about school, work and life.
第三部分 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)8
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 处语言错误,每句中最多有两处;每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),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:在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写出修改的词。
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。
Last Saturday morning, my mother and I were taking bus home. I told her how much her
English teacher Miss Smith loved me, saying I was the teacher’s favourite student. I didn’t
know Miss Smith’s mother is sitting behind us. On Monday, Miss Smith kept chat with me after
class. To my shames, she told me that what her mother had heard. I thought she would scold me
for talking too proud on the bus, so she didn’t. She said, “The important thing is that you work
for yourself, not as my approval. If you feel that doing well matter to you, you will become your
own fan.”
第二节 书面表达(满分 25 分)
假如你是校学生会主席李华.新年即将到来,为了帮助你校的外国留学生更好地了解
中国文化,学生会将为他们举办一个晚会.请你根据以下提示,用英语向他们发出口头通
知.
时间: 下周五 6:00p.m.-8:00p.m.
地点: 教学楼 101 室
内容:
1. 唱中国歌;
2. 比赛用筷子;
3. 学习包饺子.
注意:
1. 词数不少于 100; 2. 可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯;
提示词: 筷子(chopsticks)
Good afternoon, everyone!
May I have your attention, please?
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Thank you for your attention.