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1301、1302、1304、1306、1307、1309-1311、1321、1322班
《英语》期中考试试卷 （考试时间90分钟 ）
… … …一、单词拼写（20%）
线 …1. 习惯 名……2. 有挑战性的 姓 … …3. 不健康的 … …4. 无家的
…5. 启发思考；激励 … …6. 荣幸 … 7. 综合性大学 … …8. 最后 … 封 9. 克服 … 号……10. 精力；能量
学
… … …二、词组互译（20%）
… … …1. make a plan … …2. say goodbye to … 3. even though … …4. as long as 密 …5. in the way
6. once in a while 16. …级…班 7. talk behind one……’s back 17. 8. have to do with 18. …… 9. do wonders 19. …… 10. a collection of 20. ……
………三、翻译句子（20%）
11. 公寓 12. 懊恼；沮丧 13. 有耐心的 14. 改进 15. 品质；质量 16. 吸引 17. 相似的 18. 真诚的 19. 欣赏 20. 复杂的
11. 养成……的习惯 12. 以……开始 13. 上瘾 14. 致力于 15. 苏醒，醒来
度过（困难） 倾诉；倾倒 逐渐消失 带来
对……有好处 1. 如果我没去汶川会怎么样？
2. 作为成年人，我们应该照顾好自己。 3. 海伦凯勒的经历深深地鼓舞了我。 4. 事实上，玩手机占据了我们太多时间。 5. 空气污染与经济发展有关系。
6. She decided to go to high school, even though she was still homeless.
7. It’s a great honor to stand here and share with you my experience about change.
8. As long as you keep knocking, somebody will eventually say “yes”.
9. The more they laugh, the more they will enjoy your company. 10. Honesty is the best policy.
四、单项选择(10%)
1. Born in 1900, he ______ peacefully in his sleep in 1982.
A. was away B. went away C. passed away D. past way
2. Michael Jackson showed his _____ sills in singing and dancing in his early years.
A. famous B. important C. extraordinary D. good
3. That’s why ______ you earn a lot of money, you still feel unhappy.
A. if B. even though C. even so D. even if 4. It ______ raining for two days.
A. will B. has been C. rained D. rains 5. If you lie to him, he _______ tell the truth either. A. won’t C. would D. has
6. One day he started waving to me, his neighbor, at the ______side of the street.
…………………………… 线……… ………………………………封………线………………………………密密………封……………………………… 姓名 号 名 学 姓 级号 班 学 A. opposite B. behind C. both D. my
7. Life is full of changes. You don’t know what you will ______around the next corner.
A. come up with B. come across C. come in on 8. There is no super man ______ .
reality B. in real C. in actual D. in world 9. Do you know the girl _____just left the room? B. whom C. whose D. what
10. Do you believe ______ the earth will disappear one day? A. that B. when D. what
五、阅读理解（20%）
(A)
country is trying to find ways to turn salt water into fresh.
Many places in the world need more fresh water. Every Why aren’t there many factories like the Symi factory? In some places, the sun is not hot enough. Or it does not
shine every day.
In such places, other way of heating (加热) sea water can be used. These ways cost more money, but they work faster than the sun. By boiling (煮沸) see water with high heat, a lot of fresh water can be made quickly.
But heating is not the only way to get fresh water from salt water. Other ways are tired.
One way is freezing (冷冻). The fresh part of salt water freezes first. To get fresh water, the bits of ice are taken out.
Which way is best? The one that gives the most water for the least money. It may be a different way for each place.
Symi’s way seems very good for small, hot places. It does
not make very much water at a time. But the factory is easy to build and costs little.
That’s why people in many dry places talk about Symi! 1. From the passage we know that fresh water__________. A. is needed in every country B. can be found in many factories
C. can be used in many ways D. is very important for factories
A. Water-making factories in different countries. B. The ways of making fresh water from sea water. C. Hot and dry places. D. How to make use of the sun.
3. Which is the best way for small and hot places to get fresh water?
A. Boiling or heating the sea water. B. The way in hotter and drier places.
C. The Symi’s way.
D. Freezing the sea water in cold places.
is the writer mainly talking about in the passage?
(B)
Suppose (假设) a man has a car accident. He is hurt badly and is unconscious，that is, he can’t think, speak, or hear. His family takes him to the hospital. The doctors tell the family that his brain is dead. A machine can make him breathe.
Now the patient’s family must answer some difficult questions. Should they think he is dead? Should they ask the doctors to use the machine to make him breathe? Sometimes machines can make an unconscious person breathe for years. However if his brain is dead, he will never think, speak, or hear again. Then, should his family ask the doctors not to use the machine and let him die?
Someone who is unconscious can’t say he wants to die. Can his
family say this for him? Some people think this is a good idea. Some think otherwise.
Many people are hurt when machines keep a person alive. The unconscious person doesn’t know it. Machines only make the family and friends hurt longer.
4. When a person is badly hurt and is unconscious, he ________. A. shall feel pain B. can still think C. doesn’t feel pain D. sometimes feel pain
A. will perhaps wake up again
B. will perhaps wake up again by using a machine C. may sometimes wakes up D. has no chance to wake up
…………………………………封……………………………………线…………………………………… 5. When someone’s brain is dead, she or he ____________.
学号 姓名 6. What’s the writer’s opinion?
B. An unconscious person knows that he will die. C. Don’t save him if someone’s brain is dead.
D. When someone’s brain is dead, use machines to keep him
A. An unconscious person is clear about his condition.
breathe.
(C)
One day a few years ago a very funny thing happened to a neighbor of mine. He is a teacher at one of London’s big medical schools. He had finished his teaching for the summer term and was at the airport on his way to Russia to a lecture. shoulder bag, but he had put Rupert, the skeleton (人体骨架) to be used in his lecture, in a large brown suitcase.
He had put a few clothes and his lecture notes in his
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