广州市中大附中下学期期末考试

一、 语法选择（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

Growing up is not always easy. When facing difficulties, courage and a spirit of independence can be more useful than crying for help. That's what’s the story I’ve heard recently tells me..

The young man was born in 1982 in a ____1____ family in a small town. When he was only 11, his father became mentally ill and one day came back with an abandoned baby girl. A year later, his ____2____ left home with his younger brother because she couldn’t ____3____ hard life and pressure from her mad husband. The 12-year-old boy began to ____4____ his whole family: he took care of not only his sick father, but also the little girl. ____5_____, he didn't give up studying. Later the went to college. To care for the little girl, he rented a room near his college and ____6____ her education by doing part-time jobs.

After the young man’s story went public, people were deeply impressed by his behavior. ____7____ his life was hard, he didn’t abandon his father and his sister because ____8____ needed his help very much. And he ____9____ donations from others. He said he felt ____10____ because of kind offers, but he could depend on his own work. With his hard-won money, he ____11____ helped other students in trouble.

Today when many young people worry more about their own happiness, this young man’s behavior reminds us of what we usually ____12____: love and care for others. Nobody could continue to live ____13____ these.

Through his hard life, the young man is regarded as a ____14____. So when facing difficulties, don't ____15____ bad luck. Consider what more you could do for your family and society and you'll find the world smiling back.

1. A. rich B. happy C. poor D. sad

2. A. father B. mother C. sister D. brother

3. A. understand B. stand C. believe D. think

4. A. support B. organize C. hate D. like

5. A. At times B. Sometimes C. At the same time D. For the first time

6. A. planted B. afforded C. ended D. went

7. A. Since B. Unless C. If D. Although

8. A. they B. he C. she D. you

9. A. received B. expected C. refused D. got

10. A. sorry B. worried C. encouraged D. sad

11. A. even B. hardly C. still D. too

12. A. get used to B. worry about C. pay attention to D. look forward to

13. A. with B. without C. by D. for

14. A. fool B. volunteer C. hero D. boy

15. A. knock into B. dream about C. talk about D. complain about

二、 完形填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）

Different people have different ideas about time. People in the USA think that it is ____16____ to know the time. In cities in America, there are ____17____ in stations, factories and other buildings. Radio announcers give you the correct time during the day. Most Americans also have watches with them ____18____ they go. They want to do certain things ____19____ certain time. They don't like to be late. They think everyone is supposed to do ____20____ on time.

But time is not ____21____ important to everybody in the world. When you visit a country in South America, you will ____22____ that people there don't like to rush. If you had an appointment with somebody, he could probably be late ____23____ he may not want to arrive on time.

In South America, even the radio programs may not begin on time. The men on the radio may not think it is

important to tell the exact ____24____. People in South America think that clocks or watches are just machines. They think that you will ____25____ a clock or a watch control your life if you do everything on time.

16. A. quiet B. useless C. important D. easy

17. A. clocks B. cars C. books D. watches

18. A. whenever B. however C. whatever D. wherever

19. A. at B. on C. for D. in

20. A. nothing B. everything C. something D. some things

21. A. such B. as C. so D. only

22. A. understand B. find C. forget D. remember

23. A. while B. but C. though D. because

24. A. time B. place C. weather D. news

25. A. put B. want C. let D. expect

三、 阅读理解

第一节：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

（A）

Singles’ Day falls on November 11th. No one is quite sure exactly who first thought it up, and the most widely-accepted story is emerged from the dorms of Nanjing University in 1993 when four single male students got together to discuss how to break free of loneliness of single life. One suggested that because of the ones in the date, November 11 would be a good day to organize activities for singles. Singles’ Day, started by a small group of friends, gradually grew into something like the anti-Valentine’s Day, a day China’s single young people could use as an excuse to get together and have fun together.

Originally about being with friends and having fun, now Singles’ Day is about shopping — mostly online shopping. How did this happen? It’s a long story, but the short answer is Alibaba.

By the late 2000s, most of China’s Internet users were familiar with Singles’ Day. There might have been some shops online and offline suffering sales on that day earlier, but no major company until Alibaba launched its first Singles’ Day online sale in 2009.

In that first year, Alibaba was only major ecommerce company to offer a sale, and it featured just 27 brands offering discounts via its T-mall marketplace. The sale was definitely successful, but it wasn’t enough to redefine the holiday on its own. In the following year, Alibaba went bigger, offering more brands and deeper discounts. But other companies had noticed the potential of the 2009 sales bonanza and decided to follow suit. E-commerce platforms like JD had their first major Singles’ Day sales in 2010, and overnight Singles’ Day went from a T-mall sale to something that was beginning to look like Cyber Monday in some western countries.

Over the next few years, Alibaba, JD, and other Chinese e-commerce players all expanded their one-day discounts, and sales grew exponentially （以指数方式）. On Singles’ Day in 2012, Alibaba’s marketplaces, Taobao and T-mall, did about $ 3 billion in sales. In 2013 that number nearly doubled, and Chinese shoppers had obliterated America’s Cyber Monday spending records in just the first few hours of the sale. And it’s only getting bigger.

26. We can know that Singles’ Day was first set ________.

A. by a large e-commerce company called Alibaba.

B. for the young people who want to have fun together

C. to organize activities for singles to get rid of their loneliness

D. to express something against Valentine’s Day

27. Before 2009 on Singles’ Day, single young people were most likely to ________.

A. just spend the day alone

B. have fun with friends

C. do some online shopping

D. go back home to visit parents

28. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A. By 2009, Singles’ Day have already became a famous online-shopping day.

B. Cyber Monday in some western countries is to celebrate Singles’ Day.

C. In 2013, Alibaba’s marketplaces did about nearly $4 billion in sales.

D. Alibaba was the first major e-commerce company to offer a sale on Singles’ Day.

29. According to the last two paragraphs, we can know that ________.

A. Alibaba played an important part in the new definition of Singles’ Day

B. Other Chinese e-commerce company like JD followed Cyber Mondy

C. Alibaba offered more brands and deeper discount to make it bigger

D. Alibaba, Taobao, T-mall and JD are different e-commerce dompanies

30. What is the passage mainly about?

A. The origin of Singles’ Day.

B. The life of modern young single people.

C. The e-commerce company Alibaba.

D. How Singles’ Day become a shopping day.

（B）

Dear Lan Lan,

I’m now writing to you at Hartsop, a village in the Lake District, a place to have most beautiful scenery in English couple here to spend Christmas with them. This was planned for overseas students to know British way of life by living with British families.

We came two days before Christmas and during our stay, we have had everything we expected. Christmas turkey, Christmas cake, Christmas puddings, Christmas parties and Christmas gifts under the Christmas tree. All are exciting and amusing, but above all these, we are deeply touched by the hospitality of the family, Roger and Anne Marie.

Anne Marie was a nurse and all these days, she had been busy cooking meals, washing dishes and showing us around. Roger, who was a doctor, knows a lot about China and still wants to know more. He plays us Chinese music and it seems to me he does better in that than we do. In the evenings, we all sit around the fireplace with Tim, a lovely dog, by our side. Like long-time-no-see friends, we talk about all the things that have happened or we hope to happen in our lives. There is always so much to tell and to know.

After three months away from home, we are again feeling how sweet a home can be. Roger and Anne Marrie are not like most of the other people we have met who always make us feel we are foreigners in a foreign country. They show such kindness to us that they bring us a person-to-person feeling, instead of a British-to-Chinese feeling. They make us believe that though there are differences of languages and cultures, one may always expect to find in every corner of the world the feeling of love and being loved.

How I wish Mum and Dad could meet them! How I wish you were here with me! How strange it is that the more I feel at home here, the more I miss my real home and all of you. We always talk about “when we go back home next year…” and soon we will turn this into “when we go back home THIS year…” for the New Year’s Day is coming. Miss you.

Love

Cao Wen

31. The writer is________now in England .

A. a Chinese visitor to an English family B. a Chinese student studying

C. a Chinese teacher working D. a Chinese student living

32. In Hartsop, Cao Wen felt________.

A. quite at home

B. the English home better than her home

C. she was a foreigner in a foreign country

D. she was one member of the family

33. It seems that Roger________.

A. can speak Chinese very well

B. knows something about Chinese for a long time

C. once lived in China for a long time

D. can do everything better than the Chinese

34. When you are away from home, it is good for you to have the feeling ________.

A. of being alone B. of going home soon

C. of love and being loved D. as a foreigner

35. In the writer’s opinion, the best home is________.

A. the home they stayed in England

B. the home that you left behind

C. Chinese home

D. one’s own home

（C）

Super Typhoon Megi crashed into the Philippines on Monday, leaving a trail of destruction in its path. Thousands of residents fled to safety as heavy rains and strong winds caused flooding, collapsed trees and cut off power. It was the strongest storm to hit the island nation in four years.

At least seven people died in the storm, and at least six others were injured by falling trees, broken rooftops and glass, officials said. More than 4，150 residents were forced to take shelter in schools, town halls, churches and relatives' homes.

A typhoon is a tropical cyclone, or hurricane, that occurs in the western Pacific or Indian Oceans. The storm is named a “super typhoon” when winds exceed 150 mph. Megi crashed ashore in the Isabela province of the northern Philippines with whipping winds that reached 162 mph. The storm created big waves in Palanan Bay. All ships and fishing boats were advised to stay in ports. Several airline flights were canceled.

Luckily, the winds blew high from the ground, sparing many rice fields from damage, says Alvaro Antonio, the governor of Cagayan province. The region also took a hard hit from the storm.

Thousands of military reserve officers and volunteers stood by to help with relief efforts. Evacuations and emergency preparations for the storm were made days in advance. Retired army Major General Benito Ramos heads the Philippines' disaster­ preparedness agency. He said readying for the typhoon was like “preparing for war.”

Notes: ① tropical cyclone 热带气旋 ② evacuation n. 疏散 ③ collapsed adj. 倒塌的

36. How many people were homeless in this natural disaster?

A．At least six. B．At least seven.

C．About 13. D．More than 4,150.

37. Which of the following description about typhoon is RIGHT?

A. It is a tropical cyclone occurs in the eastern Pacific.

B. It is a hurricane occurs in the Atlantic Ocean.

C. When winds exceed 100 mph, the storm is named a “super typhoon”.

D. It can bring a great destruction.

38．What does the underlined word mean?

A．Avoiding. B．Loosing. C．Taking. D. Protecting.

39．Which of the following didn't get involved in this disaster?

A．Military reserve officers. B．Volunteers.

C．Army D．Disaster­preparedness agency.

40．What can we infer from the major General's words?

A．The preparing work is all done by soldiers.

B．The preparing work is a hard and responsible task.

C．The army should get into the relief efforts.

D．They did the same thing with soldiers.

（D）

No one is sure how the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids near Cairo．But a new study suggests they used a little rock‘n’roll．Long-ago builders could have attached wooden pole s to the stones and rolled then across the sand，the scientists say．

“Technically，I think what they’re proposing is possible，”physicist Daniel Bonn said．

People have long puzzled over how the Egyptians moved such huge rocks．And there’s no obvious answer．On average，each of the two million big stones weighed about as much as a large pickup truck．The Egyptians somehow moved the stone blocks to the pyramid site from about one kilometer away．

The most popular view is that Egyptian workers slid the blocks along smooth paths．Many scientists suspect workers first would have put the blocks on sleds（滑板）．Then they would have dragged them along paths．To make the work easier，workers may have lubricated the paths either with wet clay or with the fat from cattle．Bonn has now tested this idea by building small sleds and dragging heavy objects over sand．

Evidence from the sand supports this idea．Researchers found small amounts of fat，as well as a large amount of stone and the remains of paths．

However，physicist Joseph West think there might have been a simpler way，led the new study．West said，“I was inspired while watching a television program showing how sleds might have helped with pyramid construction．I thought，‘Why don’t they just try rolling the things？’ ”A square could be turned into a rough sort of wheel by attaching wooden poles to its sides，he realized．That，he notes，should make a block of stone“a lot easier to roll than a square”．

So he tried it．

He and his students tied some poles to each of four sides of a 30-kilogram stone block．That action turned the block into somewhat a wheel．Then they placed the block on the ground．

They wrapped one end of a rope around the block and pulled．The researchers found they could easily roll the block along different kinds of paths．They calculated that rolling the block required about as much force as moving it along a slippery（滑的）path．

West hasn’t tested his idea on larger blocks，but he thinks rolling has clear advantages over sliding．At least，workers wouldn’t have needed to carry cattle fat or water to smooth the paths．

41. It’s widely believed that the stone blocks were moved to the pyramid site by________．

A. rolling them on roads

B. pushing them over the sand

C. sliding them on smooth paths

D. dragging them on some poles

42. The underlined part“lubricated the paths”in Paragraph 4means________．

A. made the path wet

B. made the path hard

C. made the path wide

D. made the path slippery

43. What does the underlined word“it”in Paragraph 7refer to？

A. Rolling the blocks with poles attached．

B. Rolling the blocks on wooden wheels．

C. Rolling poles to move the blocks．

D. rolling the blocks with fat．

44. Why is rolling better than sliding according to West？

A. Because more force is needed for sliding．

B. Because rolling work can be done by fewer cattle．

C. Because sliding on smooth road is more dangerous．

D. Because less preparation on path is needed for rolling．

45. What is the text mainly about

A. An experiment on ways of moving blocks to the pyramid site．

B. An application of the method of moving blocks to the pyramid site．

C. An argument about different methods of moving blocks to the pyramid site．

D. An introduction to a possible new way of moving blocks to the pyramid site．

第二节 阅读填空

Taking good notes is a time-saving skill that will help you to become a better student in several ways. ____46____ Second, your notes are excellent materials to refer to when you are studying for a test. Third, note-taking offers variety to your study time and helps you to hold your interest.

You will want to take notes during classroom discussions and while reading textbook or doing research for a report. ____47____ Whenever or however you take to tell and to know notes, keep in mind that note-taking is a selective process. ____48____ The following methods may work best for you.

● Read the text quickly to find the main facts and ideas in it.

● Carefully read the text and watch for words that can show main points and supporting facts.

● Write your notes in your own words.

● ____49____

● Note any questions or ideas you may have about what was said or written.

As you take notes, you may want to use your own shorthand (速记). When you do, be sure that you understand your symbols and that you use them all the time. ____50____

A. Use words, not complete sentences.

B. Otherwise, you may not be able to read your notes later.

C. You will also want to develop your own method for taking notes.

D. That means you must first decide what is important enough to include in your notes.

E. First, the simple act of writing something down makes it easier for you to understand and remember it.

五、写作（共三节，满分35分）

第一节 单词拼写

51. When meeting something difficult or dangerous, he showed great c________.

52. When she came in, she didn’t s________ our hands or raise your hand.

53. The police asked the shopkeeper to d________ the thief so that they could know more about the theft.

54. That’s great! We have s________ another goal!

55. Some of the stones w________ twenty-six tons.

56. I prefer the quiet countryside to the n________ cities.

第二节 完成句子

57. 妈妈正在为圣诞晚餐做准备。

Mum was ________ ________ the Christmas dinner.

58. 有时他还是因为这些弱点二吃苦头。

Sometimes he still ________ ________ these weakness.

59. 战士下潜并在水下寻找那名妇女。

The soldier ________ ________ and stayed under the water to look for the woman.

60. 大卫住在学校附近。

David lives ________ ________ the school.

61. 玛丽吧所有工作都做了而他却无所事事。

Mary did all the work while he ________ ________.

62. 他不同意你的观点。

He ________ ________ your idea.

63. 厨师吧沙拉和酱汁混合在一起。

The chef ________ the salad ________ the sauce.

第三节：书面表达（共1小题，满分15分）

目前，很多学校取消了初三学生的春游，你班针对这一现象进行了讨论。请你根据下列表格内容提示，用英语写一篇蹲问，介绍讨论情况，并发表自己的见解。

注意：（1）短文必须包括表中所有内容，可适当增加细节；（2）词数：80-130；（3）短文首句仅供选择使用，不计入总词数。

Recently our class have had a heated discussion on whether students should be allowed to go for a spring outgoing…

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四、 语法选择

1-5 CBBAC 6-10 BDACC 11-15 ACBCD

五、 完形填空

16-20 CADAB 21-25 CBDAC

六、 阅读理解

(A) CBDCD (B) DABCD (C) DDACB (D) CDADD

第二节 阅读填空

ECDAB

五、写作（共三节，满分35分）

第一节 单词拼写

51. courage

52. shake

53. describe

54. shot

55.weigh

56. noisy

第二节 完成句子

57. preparing for

58. suffers from

59. dived down

60. close to

61. lay around

62. disagreed with

63. mixed/mixes with

第三节：书面表达

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