广东梅县东山中学2014届高二第一学期期中考试英语试卷 牛津译林版

What is the woman asking for from the man?

What time is the man planning to leave the next day?

Where will the man be working during the summer?

Where is the woman going to work in the summer?

Why can’t the woman visit the man in the month of July?

How many McDonald’s were there in the world by 1982?

Why would workers buy lunches in McDonald’s?

Who first owned McDonald’s?

When does this lecture take place?

Who is the speaker?

How many ways to improve listening skill are mentioned in the lecture?

What shortage is this passage talking about?

What is an expert system?

What can an expert system do according to this passage?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

阅读下面短文，根据上下文填入适当的词语，或使用括号中的词语的适当形式填空。
    On Wednesday morning at eleven o'clock, I was walking down Main Street  ＿＿ I had just parked my car. Suddenly I heard two shots! I thought they had come from the bank. I ran towards the bank. I saw a man  ＿＿ (come) out. He was short and fat ＿＿ a big moustache. More ＿＿ (importance), he had a bag of money and ＿＿ gun in his hands!  ＿＿ I could do anything, he ran up the street, ＿＿ (disappear) behind a bus.
    That afternoon I went to the movies. Guess ＿＿ happened? I saw the thief again at the foot of the stairs! I telephoned the police from a telephone next to the rest rooms. The police arrived in less ＿＿ five minutes. They arrested the thief just as he ＿＿ (buy) a chocolate bar from the candy machine! What an exciting day! And best of all, the bank gave me a $100 reward!

The four men did not feed the cows because________.

The cows broke into the storehouse because________.

What did the five men finally do with the cows?

We can learn from the passage that________.

The underlined word " fright " in the last sentence is closest in meaning to______.

According to the research, people often write e-mails in lower case to        ．

All the following changes can be accepted in e-mail writing except        ．

The second paragraph mainly tells        ．

Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

According to the passage，John Simpson probably agrees that          ．

The underlined word “scarce” in paragraph 1 most probably means_________.

What is putting pressure on the local supply of clean water?

What is the most serious limitation on Laos’ economic growth?

According to the passage, which of the following is NOT a reason for Laos to be hopeful?

What is the best title for the passage?

Watchers doubted if any of the vehicles could finish the race because        ．

DARPA organized the race in order to        ．

From the passage，we know “robotic vehicles” are a kind of machines that        ．

In the race，the greatest distance one vehicle covered was            ．

In the last paragraph，the writer implies that there is a long way to go        ．

Meimei is interested in playing the violin, but she can’t play very well because she has no music teacher to teach her face to face. She really wants to get one.

Peter begins to have his summer holiday today. He is too tired to go out for any activity. Instead, he would like to stay home in the evening.

Tom’s family is not rich. He wants to find a part-time job at weekends to earn some money for his study.

Jany is too fat. This is not good to her health. She knows it well and wants to take more exercise after study.

Liu Hua is going to marry next month. Before that, she is going to take photos with her new husband.

Does Captain Fawcett think any trip is too dangerous?
Captain Ben Fawcett has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new 51 ＿＿ . The 'taxi' is a small Swiss aeroplane called a 'Pilatus Porter'. This 52.＿＿plane can carry seven passengers. The most surprising thing about it, however, is that it can land anywhere: on snow, water, or even on a ploughed field. Captain Fawcett's first passenger was a doctor who flew from Birmingham to a 53. ＿＿ village in the Welsh mountains. Since then, Captain Fawcett has flown passengers to many unusual places. Once he landed on the roof of a block of flats and on another 54. ＿＿ , he landed in a 55. ＿＿ car park. Captain Fawcett has just refused a strange request from a businessman. The man wanted to fly to Rockall, a lonely island in the Atlantic Ocean, but Captain Fawcett did not take him because the trip was too dangerous.

Hospitality is ＿＿ （特征) of Chinese people.

To a ＿＿ the task, we should make a plan first.

John Snow showed that cholera came from the p ＿＿ water.

It is not I but you who are to b ＿＿ for this failure.

Our cook's sudden ＿＿ that she was leaving took us quite by surprise. (announce)

Being e ＿＿ to the strong sunlight for a long time may causes skin cancer.

A sea trip is always ＿＿ in fine weather like this. (enjoy)

Gas is one of the modern ＿＿ （便利设施) that the newly-built apartment building provides.

The scenery of the West Lake is beautiful beyond ＿＿ (描述).

From the stomach the disease attacked the body quickly and soon the ＿＿ (affect) person was dead.

    As I got into a taxi one afternoon, the driver was very angry about something that had happened to him earlier that day. Here’s how he told the story:
    “One of my passengers left a wallet in my cab this morning. Nearly three hundred dollars in it. I spent more than an hour trying to trace the guy. Finally I found him at his hotel. He took the wallet without a word and glared at me as though I’d meant to steal it.”
    “He didn’t give you a reward?” I asked.
    “Not a cent. But it wasn’t the money I wanted,” he fumbled, then exploded, “If the guy had only said something…”
    Why was the driver so upset? All he wanted was something simple, but even more valuable than money: to be thanked for his efforts. In short, what he wanted, what he needed but did not get, was a little bit of gratitude.
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