湖北省黄冈中学2011-2012学年上学期高一期末考试 英语 无答案

C. Services are convenient for its members. D. Fees are necessary for the account keeping.

B. are free to all teenagers

D. help to make more of your money B. be permitted by your parent D. be in your twenties B. To provide part–time jobs.

64. The Winners Club provides magazines which . A. encourage spending

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Modern inventions have speeded up people’s lives amazingly. Motor-cars cover a hundred miles in a little more than an hour. Aircraft cross the world inside a day, while computers operate at lightning speed. Indeed, this love of speed seems never-ending. Every year motor-cars are produced which go even faster and each new computer boasts (吹嘘) of saving precious seconds in handling tasks.

All this saves time, but at a price. When we lose or gain half a day in speeding across the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so. We get the uncomfortable feeling known as jet-lag; our bodies feel that they have been left behind on another time zone. Again, spending too long at computers results in painful wrists and fingers. Mobile phones also have their dangers, according to some scientists; too much use may transmit harmful radiation into our brains, a consequence we do not like to think about.

However, what do we do with the time we have saved? Certainly not relax, or so it seems. We are so used to constant (经常的) activities that we find it difficult to sit and do nothing or even just one thing at a time. Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio, letting imagination take us into another world.

There was a time when some people’s lives were devoted simply to the cultivation (耕作) of the land or the care of cattle. No multi-tasking there; their lives went on at a much gentler pace, and in a familiar pattern. We might envy about a way of life like this. Yet before we do so, we must think of the hard tasks our ancestor faced: they farmed with bare hands, often lived close to hunger, and had to fashion tools from wood and stone. Modern machinery has freed people from that primitive existence.

67. The new products become more and more time-saving because ________. A. our love of speed seems never-ending C. are full of adventure stories A. be an Internet user

65. If you want to be a member of the Club, you must . C. have a big sum of money A. To set up a club.

66. What is the purpose of this text?

C. To organize key-cards. D. To introduce a new banking service.

B. time is limited

C. the prices are increasingly high D. the producers boast a lot

68. What does “the days” in Paragraph 3 refer to? A. Imaginary life. C. Times of inventions.

B. Simple life in the past. D. Time for constant activities. B. Objective (客观的). D. Negative (否定的).

69. What is the author’s attitude towards the modern technology? A. Critical (批判的). C. Optimistic (乐观的). A. The present and past times. B. Machinery and human beings. C. Imaginations and inventions. D. Modern technology and its influence.

第四部分：书面表达（共两节，满分40分）

第一节：完成句子（共10小题；每小题1. 5分，满分15分）

阅读下列各小题，根据括号内的汉语提示，用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子，并将答案写在答题卡上的相应题号后。

71. The Amber Room ______________ (用作) a small reception hall for important visitors before it was moved to a palace outside St Petersburg. (serve)

72. The second-hand dictionary ______________________ (我花了10块钱买的）is just as useful as a new one．(spend)

73. Only the doctors who have enough experience _______________(将被允许进入) the working team to be sent to Africa . (admit)

74. ____________________（当我被邀请）to speak in front of a large audience, I found it difficult to express myself. (invite)

75. Nelson Mandela, ____________________ (他的故事鼓舞了) generations of people, is highly thought of all over the world. (inspire)

76. Before the sales start, I make a list of ___________________ (孩子们所需要的) for the coming season. (need)

77. Today radios have become out of date because they can’t offer _____________________ (和……一样多的信息) computers. (as)

78. Only when the term was at an end ________________ (我们才意识到) how time had flown. (realize)

70. What does the passage mainly discuss?

79. Tibet has been one of the hottest places for traveling, _____________________ (在那里游客 能够欣赏) wonderful scenery as well as a colorful ethnic (民族的) culture . (appreciate) 80. Do you think such popular words on the Internet as Geili _________________ (应该放入) modern Chinese vocabulary? (deserve)

第二节：短文写作（共1题；满分25分）

下面是三名高中生想对父母说的话，请你就此谈谈作为中学生我们应该如何理解父母对我们的严格要求和爱护，并提出自己的看法和建议。 姓名 胡慕清 刘怡婷 沈颖 年龄 16 16 17 城市 成都 武汉 黄冈 想对父母说…… 我需要放松，希望有时能看看电视，上上网。 我需要朋友，希望能和朋友们一起说笑、玩闹。 我希望得到父母信任，希望他们能像朋友一样对待我。 注意：1．词数100 — 120； 2．可适当增加细节。

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