2015---2016 学年第一学期第一次阶段考试
英语
第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节（共15题：每小题2分，总分30分）
A
Close your eyes for a minute and imagine what life would be like if you had a hundred dollars less. Also imagine what it would be like spending the rest of your life with you eyes closed. Imagine having to read this page, not with your eyes but with your finger-tips.
With existing medical knowledge and skills, two-thirds of the world’s 42 million blind should not have to suffer. Unfortunately, rich countries posses most of this knowledge, while developing countries do not.
ORBIS is an international non-profit organization which operates the world’s only flying teaching eye hospital. ORBIS intends to help fight blindness worldwide. Inside a DC-8 aircraft, there is a fully-equipped teaching hospital with television studio and classroom. Doctors are taught the latest techniques of bringing sight back to people there. Project ORBIS also aims at promoting peaceful cooperation(合作) among countries.
ORBIS tries to help developing countries by providing training during three-week medical programs. ORBIS has taught sight-saving techniques to over 35,000 doctors and nurses, who continue to cure tens of thousands of blind people every year. ORBIS has conducted 17 plane programs is China so far. For the seven to ten million blind in China ORBIS is planning to do more for them. At the moment an ORBIS is working on a long-term plan to develop a training center and to provide eye care service to Shanxi Province. ORBIS needs your help to continue their work and free people from blindness.
For just US $38,you can help one person see; for $380 you can bring sight to 10 people; $1,300 helps teach a doctor new skills; and for $13,000 you can provide a training programe for a group of doctors who can make thousands of blind people see again. Your money can open their eyes to the world. Please help ORBIS improve the quality of life for so many people less fortunate than ourselves.
1.The first paragraph is intended to ______.
A. introduce a new way of reading B. direct the public’s attention to the blind
C. advise the public to lead a simple life D. encourage the public to use imagination
2.ORBIS aims to help the blind by ______.
A. training doctors and nurses B. teaching medical students
C. running flying hospitals globally D. setting up non-profit organization
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3.What does the author try to do in the last paragraph?
A. Show sympathy for the blind B. Make an advertisement
C. Promote training programs D. Appeal for donations
4.What can be the best title for the passage?
A. ORBIS in China B. ORRIS Flying Hospital
C. Fighting Blindness D. Sight-saving Techniques
B
Although being famous might sound like a dream come true, today’s star, feeling like zoo animals, face pressures that few of us can imagine. They are at the center of much of the world’s attention. Paparazzi (狗仔队) camp outside their homes, cameras ready. Tabloids (小报) publish thrilling stories about their personal lives. Just imagine not being able to do anything without being photographed or interrupted for a signature.
According to psychologist Christina Villareal, celebrities — famous people — worry constantly about their public appearance. Eventually, they start to lose track of who they really are, seeing themselves the way their fans imagine them, not as the people they were before everyone knew their names. “Over time,” Villareal says, “they feel separated and alone.”
The phenomenon of tracking celebrities has been around for ages. In the 4th century B.C., painters followed Alexander the Great into battle, hoping to picture his victories for his admirers. When Charles Dickens visited America in the 19th century, his sold-out readings attracted thousands of fans, leading him to complain (抱怨) about his lack of privacy. Tabloids of the 1920s and 1930s ran articles about film-stars in much the same way that modern tabloids and websites do.
Being a public figure today, however, is a lot more difficult than it used to be. Superstars cannot move about without worrying about photographers with modern cameras. When they say something silly or do something ridiculous, there is always the Internet to spread the news in minutes and keep their “story” alive forever.
If fame is so troublesome, why aren’t all celebrities running away from it? The answer is there are still ways to deal with it. Some stars stay calm by surrounding themselves with trusted friends and family or by escaping to remote places away from big cities. They focus not on how famous they are but on what they love to do or whatever made them famous in the first place.
Sometimes a few celebrities can get a little justice. Still, even stars who enjoy full justice often complain about how hard their lives are. They are tired of being famous already.
5. It can be learned from the passage that stars today___________ .
A. are often misunderstood by the public B. care little about how they have come into fame
C. spend too much on their public appearance D. can no longer have their privacy
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protected
6. What is the main idea of Paragraph 3?
A. The problem faced by celebrities has a long history.
B. Great heroes of the past were generally admired.
C. Well-known actors are usually targets of tabloids.
D. Works of popular writers often have a lot of readers.
7. What makes it much harder to be a celebrity today?
A. Huge population of fans B. Inadequate social recognition.
C. Lack of favorable chances. D. Availability of modern media..
8. What is the author’s attitude toward modern celebrity?
A. Sincere. B. Skeptical. C. Sympathetic. D. Disapproving.
C
Elizabeth Freeman was born about 1742 to African American parents who were slaves. At the age of six months she was acquired, along with her sister, by John Ashley, a ealthy Massachusetts slaveholders. She became known as “Mumbet” or “Mum Bett.”
For nearly 30 years Mumbet served the Ashley family. One day, Ashley’s wife tried to strike Mumbet’s sister with a spade. Mumbet protected her sister and took the blow instead. Furious, she left the house and refused to come back. When the Ashleys tried to make her return, Mumbet consulted a lawyer, Theodore Sedgewick. With his help, Mumbet sued(起诉) for her freedom.
While serving the Ashleys, Mumbet had listened to many discussions of the newMassachusetts constitution. If the constitution said that all people were free and equal, then she thought it should apply to her. Eventually, Mumbet won her freedom---- the first slave in Massachusetts to do so under the new constitution.
Strangely enough, after the trial, the Ashleys asked Mumbet to come back and work for them as a paid employee. She declined and instead went to work for Segdewick. Mumbet died in 1829, but her legacy lived on in her many descendants(后裔). One of her great-grandchildren was W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the founder of the NAACP, and an important writer and spokesperson for African American civil rights.
Mumbet’s tombstone still stands in the Massachusetts cemetery where she was buried. It reads, in part: “She was born a slave and remained a slave and remained a slave for nearly thirty years. She could neither read nor write, yet in her own sphere she had no superior or equal.”
9. What do we know about Mumbet according to Paragraph 1?
A. She was a slaveholder B. She was born a slave
C. She had a famous sister D. She was born into a rich family
10. What did Mumbet learn from discussions about the new constitution ?
A. She should always obey her owners’ orders B. How to apply for a job
C. How to be a good servant D. She should be as
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free and equal as whites
11. What did Mum bet do after the trial?
A. She chose to work for a lawyer B. She found the NAACP
C. She continued to serve the Ashleys D. She went to live with her grandchildren
12. What is the test mainly about?
A. A story of a famous writer and spokesperson B. The friendship between a lawyerand a slave
C. The life of a brave African American woman D. A trial that shocked the whole world
D
Common phrases like “ no pains, no gains” give the impression that we ought to be suffering while we study. It’s almost as though the only way to know if we’re putting in enough work is the sense of hardship we bear.
When we haven’t taken the time to come up with another idea, all we know how to do is shut ourselves in a room with a book. It’s no surprise that we find revision boring and difficult. Just as children learn from playing, we can learn from doing, or at least from study techniques that interest us, rather than make us switch off.
Shutting yourself away can make you learn to hate studying. This leads to a situation where instead of being able to concentrate on your work, you are troubled by how unfair it is that you must study.
When you hate your work it’s very difficult to make yourself star, or approach it with any kind of structure or enthusiasm. This can be part of a vicious cycle(恶性循环) that traps you into ineffective revision, your poor progress fuelling further annoyance.
Just being around other people really helps fight against feelings of loneliness and, thankfully, it’s perfectly possible to work in the company of other people. We just need to learn how to deal with distractions(使人分心的事).
It’s not necessary to avoid all company, just idle(懒散的) company. Studying in the same room as someone who is ironing or working out is perfectly possible. People who are bored and looking to be distracted, however, are terrible to work around. They constantly try to keep others in conversation.
It’s also a good idea to avoid the company of people involved in activities that you would rather be doing than studying. Working while sitting next to someone playing video games is much more likely to end with a new high score than a productive few hours of revision.
If being around others means working in a noisy environment, a pair of headphones and some background music can block out even noisy children. They also act as a psychological barrier, so that people think twice before interrupting you.
When you’re studying for a big exam, it seems like your whole life is taken up with study. Friends and family can lessen feelings of isolation(孤立). And connecting with other people makes us happy, so it’s important not to give that up and to make sure that we take the time to socialize.
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13.The author might believe that the phrase “no pains, no gains” ______.
A. best describes how to study well B. makes people treat study as a habit
C. encourages people to learn step by step D. is not a good inspirational phrase for study
14.Which might lead to an effective study based on this text?
A. A correct goal. B. A good teacher. C. A favorable interest. D. A hard task.
15. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 7 implies that ______.
A. playing video games is helpful for an effective study
B. one shouldn’t let a video player to be his / her company while studying
C. one should study from certain activities that he / she is interested in
D. the more time one spends in playing games, the higher marks he / she will get
第二节（共5题；每小题2分，满分10分）
How to Sleep Better
If you’re having trouble getting good sleep through the night (turning, waking up more than once, for example), this text will tell you what you can do to ensure a peaceful night’s sleep.
Get on schedule. Changing your sleeping time by more than an hour can severely disturb your sleep quality 16 For example, if you normally wake up at 6 a.m. on weekdays to get to work, you might go to bed around 10 p.m., because that’s when you start to feel sleepy, and it’s also a good time to ensure 8 hours of sleep. If, on the weekend, you sleep until 9 a.m., you probably won’t be able to fall asleep that night until 1a.m.
17 Wait at least three hours after dinner before going to sleep. Digestion slows down while asleep, and a full stomach may interrupt sleep. Similarly, you should avoid going to bed on an empty stomach, as a completely empty stomach may equally disturb your sleeping patterns.
18 Exposure to light during the time when you’re supposed to be sleeping can disturb your body’s internal clock. Turn your light off, or use a very dim night light, 19 They include windows, LED clocks, computer lights and cable boxes.
Change your sleeping position. You may think that it’s impossible to control what position you sleep in since you aren’t fully aware of what you are doing, but it is possible and it can make a considerable difference. 20
A. Try to avoid all sources of light.
B. Keep the room as dark as possible.
C. Make notes of unusual circumstances.
D. Be mindful of what you eat or drink before bed.
E. Sleep is considered to be adequate only when there is no daytime sleepiness.
F. In other words, sudden change sleeping time will affect your “biological clock”.
G. If you wake up in the middle of the night, make an effort to have a comfortable posit
第二部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
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第一节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
I used to be a very self-centered person, but in the past two years I have really changed. I have started to think about other people 21 I think about myself. I am happy that I am becoming a 22 person.
I think my 23 started when I was at Palomar College. At first, I just wanted to get my 24 and be left alone. I thought I was smarter than everyone else, so I hardly ever 25 to anyone in my classes. By the end of my first semester, I was really 26 . It seemed as if everyone but me had made friends and was having fun. So tried a(n) 27 . I started asking people around me how they were doing, and if they were having trouble I 28 to help. That was really a big 29 for me. By the end of the year, I had several new friends, and two of 30 are still my best friends today.
A bigger cause of my new 31 , however, came when I took a part-time job at a Vista Nursing Home. One old lady there who had Alzheimer’s disease became my 32 . Every time I came into her room, she was so 33 because she thought I was her daughter. Her real daughter never 34 her, so I took her place. She let me 35 . that making others feel good make me feel good, too, when she died, I was 36 , but I was very grateful to her.
I think I am a much 37 person today than I used to be, and I hope I will not 38 these experiences. They have 39 me to care about other people more than about myself. I 40 who I am today, and I could not say that a few years ago.
21. A. since B. unless C. or D. before
22. A. simple B. famous C. different D. skilled
23. A. education B. tour C. career D. change
24. A. homework B. balance C. degree D. interest
25. A. reported B. wrote C. lied D. talked
26. A. lonely B. careful C. curious D. guilty
27. A. game B. argument C. experiment D. defence
28. A. dared B. offered C. happened D. hesitated
29. A. dream B. problem C. step D. duty
30. A. us B.
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them C. which D. whom
31. A. hobby B. attitude C. hope D. luck
32. A. partner B. friend C. guide D. guest
33. A. happy B. polite C. strange D. confident
34. A. answered B. bothered C. visited D. trusted
35. A. explain B. declare C. guess D. see
36. A. bad-tempered B. heartbroken C. homeless D. hopeless
37. A. better B. busier C. quieter D. richer
38. A. forget B. improve C. face D. analyze
39. A. forced B. preferred C. ordered D. taught
40. A. like B. miss C. wonder D. expect
第Ⅱ卷
第二部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
第二节（共10题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
My friend Vernon Davies kept birds. One day he phoned and told me he was going away for
a week. He asked me to feed 41 birds for him and said that he would leave the key 42 his
front door in my mailbox.
43 (fortunate), I forgot all about the birds until the night before Vernon was going to return.
What was worse, 44 was already dark when I arrived at his house. I soon found that the key
Vernon gave me could not unlock either the front door 45 the back door. I was getting desperate.
I kept thinking of 46 Vernon would say when he came back.
I was just going to give up 47 I noticed that one bedroom window was slightly open. I found
a barrel and pushed in under the window. As the barrel was very heavy, I made a lot of noise.
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But
in the end, I managed to climb 48 and open the window.
I actually had one leg inside the bedroom when I suddenly realized that someone 49 (shine)
a torch up at me. I looked down and saw a policeman and an old lady, one of Vernon's neighbours.
"What are you doing up there?" said the policeman. 50 (feel) like a complete fool, I replied, "I
was just going to feed Mr Davies' birds."
第三部分 写作（共两节，满分35分）
第一节 短文改错 （共10题；每小题1分，满分10分）
My soccer coach retired in last week. I wanted to do anything special for him at his retirement party. My mum makes the better biscuits in the world, so I decide to ask her for help. Mum taught me some basic step of baking. I insisted on doing most of the baking myself. I thought the biscuits were really well. My only mistake was that I dropped some on the floor after I was packing them up.
At a party, my coach, with a biscuit in his mouth, asked surprisingly who made them and joked, “I might have to retire again next year just get some more of these biscuits.”
My favorite picture at the party is of my coach and me enjoy the biscuits with happy laughter!
第二节 书面表达（共25分）
假如你是李华，现任你们学校的学生会主席。你将代表学生会起草一份倡议书，号召全校同学行动起来，为环保运动做出自己的努力。同时下周六学校将组织同学在全市进行环保宣传活动，征召志愿者到校学生会报名。
注意：(1)短文应该包括以上所提供的主要信息，可适当发挥; (2)词数：120左右;
(3)倡议书格式以提供，不计入总词数; (4)参考词汇：征召(新人) recruit。
2015-2016第一次阶段考试答案
阅读理解：1-4 BADB 5-8 DADC 9-12 BDAC 13-15 DCB
七选五： 16-20 FDBAG
完形填空： 21-25 DCBCD 26-30 ACBCB 31-35 BBACD 36-40 BAADA
语法填空： 41. the 42. to 43. Unfortunately 44. it 45. or 46. what
47. when 48. up 49. was shining 50. Feeling
短文改错：
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书面表达:
15 May, 2015
Dear brothers and sisters,
On behalf of the University Students' union. I, the Chairman of the union , am earnestly calling for your active participation in our environmental protection campaign. It is the duty of every global villager; man just can not keep on his glorious civilization without a rewarding environment, which will be possible only if man makes considerable efforts to protect the environment.
Do you cherish precious opportunities to volunteer in our joint efforts in environmental protection? Here is a great one not to be missed by any enthusiastic youth; Right next Saturday, our university is to run a publicity campaign to advocate environmental protection across the city. The University Students' union will be in charge of recruitment of volunteers. Let's join our hands and take action immediately.
Yours sincerely,
Li Hua
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