38. A. preferred B. expected C. failed 39. A. When B. Until
C. If
D. decided D. Because
D.
40. A. carelessly B. cautiously unwillingly
41. A. trees
B. bushes
C. hopelessly
C. woods D. grasses
D. house
D. smelt D. onto
42. A. stream B. rock C. tree
43. A. found B. sensed 44. A. at 45. A. terrible
C. heard
C. in
B. through
B. strange C. pleasant D. familiar D. ignored D. gently D. travelled
D. hero
46. A. missed B. discovered C. followed 47. A. calmly B. loudly C. merrily 48. A. searched B. wandered C. looked 49. A. window B. girl
C. house
50. A. satisfaction B. disappointment C. embarrassment D. delight 51. A. jumped B. climbed C. walked 52. A. awake B. abandoned 53. A. spotted
D. flew
D. asleep
C. available
B. watched C. observed
C. rescued
D. saw
D. scared D. relief
54. A. disturbed B. comforted 55. A. pain
第三部分 阅读理解（共40分）
B. shock
C. sorrow
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Dear Water Use It Wisely,
More and more water is getting wasted each day. I want to help out and teach people how to conserve water. Please continue reading because your organization is very influential. I had an idea that you could send some workers from your organization to schools all around the world, and they could inform the students about water usage.
Did you know that every minute, 1,000,000,000 (one billion) tons of water falls
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to the earth from rainfall? We are lucky to have rainfall water. It helps fill up our lakes. There is about 326,000,000,000,000,000,000 (326 quintillion) gallons of water on Earth. Yes, this is tons, but it is getting wasted. I want to keep this number BIG.
Everyone needs water-so why waste it? I think it is very irresponsible to let the water run when you are not at home. We can use water with respect by making good choices. Take a shower instead of a bath, use an automatic dishwasher instead of hand washing. You can buy Earth Friendly Cleaner Spray, so that our drinking water will not be polluted. If your washer isn't full then don't start it. With water being wasted every day, by the time we get to the 3000's we are going to have to survive on milk and juice!!! Won't that be boring?!?!? That means we will have to give our dogs a bowl of juice instead of water with their food. I mean, come on, we're talking real life here!!
Water wasting needs to come to a stop and without delay. Water Use It Wisely, PLEASE inform people about their water usage! It plays a big role in my life. It would be really great if you take part in spreading the news about this! Thanks tons!!
An impatient fourth grader waiting for a reply,
Mya Oleksiak
56. Water Use It Wisely is most probably ____________. A. an organization B. a person's name
C. the title of a magazine D. a government department 57. It can be inferred from the second paragraph that ____________. A. water is not effectively saved
B. rainfall is the main source of fresh water C. the amount of water from rainfall is increasing D. we have 326 quintillion gallons of water each year
58. According to the passage, what is a proper way to save water? A. Washing dishes by hand.
B. Starting the washer with a full load. C. Feeding our pets with juice and milk.
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D. Encouraging people to use cleaner spray. 59. This is basically a letter of ____________.
A. comfort B. complaint C. appeal D. recommendation
B
I had to knock on the taxi to get his attention. Finally, the driver, a man about 60, looked up from behind the wheel and apologized, \a letter.\
Since I was in no hurry, I told him to finish his letter. He shook his head, explaining that he had already read it several times and almost knew it by heart. Curious, I asked whether it was from a child or maybe a grandchild. \isn't family,\he replied, \Old Ed and I grew up together. \
They were always friends. But since he moved away from the neighborhood 30 years ago, it'd generally just been postcards at Christmas time between them. A couple of weeks ago, Ed died. \than to me. To comfort him, I said sometimes we just didn't seem to find the time. \to me.
The first sentence \delayed it. \the good times they had had together. When I read the part where it said, \friendship really means a lot to me, more than I can say because I'm not good at saying things like that\
We had gone several kilometers and were almost at my hotel, so I read the last paragraph. \ended with \
\
\I never put it in the mailbox. I guess I should have written it sooner. \
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was pale as he wiped his eyes with a handkerchief.
When I got to my hotel room I didn't unpack right away. I had to write a letter and post it.
60. Who wrote the letter?
A. Tom. B. Old Ed.
C. The author. D. The driver's grandchild.
61. It can be inferred from the passage that the driver regretted ____________. A. missing Ed's funeral
B. moving away from his neighborhood C. forgetting to send Ed Christmas cards D. not being able to keep in touch with Ed
62. From Paragraph 4, we can learn that the author of the passage ____________. A. often failed to write to his friends B. had no intention to write to his friends C. had many great moments with his friends D. was good at expressing feelings to his friends 63. What message does the passage probably try to convey? A. Comfort your friends when they are feeling down.
B. Life is unpredictable so live each day as if it were your last. C. Remember to always mail your letters after expressing your words. D. Always make time to value and experience your lasting friendships.
C
They wear the latest fashions with the most up-to-date accessories（配饰）. Yet these are not girls in their teens or twenties but women in their sixties and seventies. A generation which would once only wear old-fashioned clothes is now favoring the same high street looks worn by those half their age.
Professor Julia Twigg, a social policy expert, said, \shopping for clothes more frequently than they did when they were young in the 1960s. In the 1960s, buying a coat for a woman was a serious matter. It was an expensive item that they would purchase only every three or four years—now you can pick one
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up at the supermarket whenever you wish to. Fashion is a lot cheaper and people get tired of things more quickly. \
Professor Twigg analyzed family expending data and found that while the percentage of spending on clothes and shoes by women had stayed around the same—and 5 or 6 per cent of spending—the amount of clothes bought had risen sharply.
The professor said, \1960s because of the huge expansion of production in the Far East. In the 1960s Leeds was the heart of the British fashion industry and that was where most of the clothes came from, but now almost all of our clothes are sourced elsewhere. Everyone is buying more clothes but in general we are not spending more money on them. \
Fashion designer Angela Barnard, who runs her own fashion business in London, said older women were much more affected by celebrity style than in previous years.
She said, \attractive and fashionable in their sixties, they want to follow them. Older women are much more aware of celebrities. There's also the boom in TV programmes showing people how they can change their look, and many of my older customers do yoga to stay in shape well in their fifties. When I started my business a few years ago, my older customers tended to be very rich, but now they are what I would call ordinary women. My own mother is 61 and she wears the latest fashions in a way she would never have done ten years ago. \
64. Professor Twigg found that, compared with the 1960s, _________. A. the price of clothes has generally fallen by 70% B. the spending on clothes has increased by 5% or 6% C. people spend 30% less than they did on clothes D. the amount of clothes bought has risen by 5% or 6% 65. What can we learn about old women in terms of fashion? A. They are often ignored by fashion designers. B. They are now more easily influenced by stars. C. They are regarded as pioneers in the latest fashion.
D. They are more interested in clothes because of their old age.
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北京市师大附中2017-2018学年高二英语下学期期中试题
