广东省汕头市潮南区东山中学2012－2013年度高二年级第一学期期中考试英语 新人教版

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the last yeas of the 1920s, hundreds of record flights were made. A few of them were made by women, but by that time no woman  ＿＿ （fly) acorss the Atlantic Ocean. A wealthy American woman, Amy Guest, boutht a plane ＿＿ （do) this. However, her family were against the idea,  ＿＿ she looked for another woman to take  ＿＿  place. Her friends suggested Amelia Earhart,  ＿＿ whorst became interested in flying while living in Toronto. American publisher George Putnam helped organize the Atlantic Ocean flight which made Amelia famous. Afterwards,  ＿＿ continued to support her flying activities. In 1931, George and Amelia were married. He helped provide financial support ＿＿ her.
On May 20th,1932, Amelia took off from Newfoundland. She headed east in ＿＿ small red and gold plane. Amelia faced great challenges,  ＿＿ ice on the wings and fog from the ocean. At one point, her plane dropped ＿＿ (sudden) nine hundred meters. She regained control, and after fifteen hours, she landed in Ireland. She had become the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone.

Bonfire Night and Halloween ________.

On Bonfire Night, __________

Halloween is celebrated _______.

At Halloween, if your neighbours refuse to give you a treat, you ________.

Bobbing for apple is ______

What is the best title for the passage?

In the writer’s opinion, in the future,______.

What will probably be on in the newspaper made by yourself?

From the passage, we can infer______.

The phrase “feed off” in the last paragraph means______.

Which of these possible factors leading to greater productivity is NOT true?.

Why do workers want more money?

The last sentence in this passage means that is we succeed in making workers’ jobs more interesting________.

In this passage, the author tells us_______

The author of this passage is probably a _____

The helpers in the book “Magnificent Obsession” were not rewarded because ________.

The underlined word “pay it forward” means ________.

What does the writer suggest with the example of “your elderly grandmother”?

From the passage we know ________.

By writing the passage, the author wishes people in the world to be ________.

Greg is a student, aged nineteen. He likes meeting people. He is not free during the day. He can’t cook or drive a car.

Peter is sixty-five. He likes to work outdoors and wouldn’t like to work in the evenings.

Jenny is forty. She does not like children. She can cook and drive, but she isn’t available for work at weekends, or in the mornings.

Audrey does not want to work at weekends. She is a good cook but she can’t drive. She has two children, now grown up. She wants to work indoors, but she doesn’t like housework much.

Gray, aged thirty, likes cooking and gardening. He wants to work as many hours a week as possible and would prefer to work all day on Saturdays and Sundays. He has never worked  with children.

写作内容： 你的英国朋友向你了解广州，请用英语写一篇短文介绍广州，包括下表所有内容。

概况	中国第三大城市；别称：五羊城（Five-lamb City）、花城；广东省省会；全市面积7,343平方公里（square kilometers）；人口1,000多万
历史	2,200多年历史的文化名城，历史上丝绸之路（the Silk Road）的始发港口（starting port）
气候	温暖湿润
旅游	风光旖旎，旅游资源丰富 （travelling resource）

【写作要求】只能使用5个句子表达全部的内容。开头和结尾已经给出（不计入句数）。
【评分标准】句子结构准确； 信息内容完整； 篇章结构连贯。
Let me tell you something about Guangzhou.    

阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇 150词左右的英语短文。
You must have heard stress contributes to 80% of major illness and is responsible for 75% to 90% of doctor’s visits. But that’s not stressit’s distress. “Stress is the only anti-aging agentwe know of – the exact opposite of what we think,” says psychologist James E. Loehr.
What really brings happiness is meeting obstacles and overcoming them. The damage occurs when stress levels never go down. A recent study showed it took nine days longer for the constantly stressed family caregivers of chronically（慢性地） ill patients to heal from wounds than it took other people the same age. Stress is essential. Life without it would be like having a brand-new cherry-red Porsche and driving it only in the driveway（私人车道）.
【写作内容】
1以约 30 个词概括短文的要点；
2 以约 120 个词就“你如何看待压力”的主题发表看法，并包括如下要点：