2019-2020学年高二英语上学期期中试题牛津译林版

2019-2020学年高二英语上学期期中 试题 中考模拟试题doc幼小衔接 数学试题 下载云南高中历年会考数学试题下载N4真题下载党史题库下载 牛津译林版 注意：请将听力、单选、完形、阅读的答案按顺序填涂到答题卡上；文字题的答案一律写在答卷纸上。 I．听力 （共20小题，每小题0.5分，满分10分） 第一节（共5小题；每小题0.5分，满分2.5分） 请听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。 1. What does the woman mean? A. She won’t borrow money from the man. B. She won’t lend any money to the man. C. She is running out of money herself. 2. How does the man feel about his lifestyle? A. He doesn’t like it. B. He quite enjoys it. C. He’s fine with it. 3. What does the man think of Jim? A. Hard-working. B. Humorous. C. Strict. 4. Who is the man probably? A. The woman’s former colleague. B. The woman’s schoolmate. C. The woman’s teacher. 5. What’s wrong with the woman? A. She hurt her head. B. She is running a fever. C. She is having a toothache. 第二节（共15小题；每小题0.5分，满分7.5分） 请听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 请听第6段对话，回答第6、7题。 6. What do we know about the man? A. He has to pay for parking. B. He parks his car free. C. He has a small garage. 7. When did the man get home last night? A. Around 6:00. B. Around 7:00. C. Around 7:30. 请听第7段对话，回答第8、9题。 8. What will the man do? A. Take a holiday. B. Work abroad. C. Study abroad. 9. Which of the following words can best describe the man? A. Outgoing. B. Shy. C. Honest. 请听第8段对话，回答第10-12题。 10. Which country will the two speakers go to? A. Italy. B. Germany. C. France. 11. Why does the man book the tickets? A. To have a honeymoon. B. To have a holiday to relax. C. To celebrate their wedding anniversary. 12. What’s the date today? A. July 18th. B. June 18th. C. July 20th. 请听第9段对话，回答第13-16题。 13. How old is the car? A. One year old. B. Two years old. C. Three years old. 14. How many miles has the car traveled? A. 750 miles. B. 7,500 miles. C. 75,000 miles. 15. What’s the final price of the car the man can offer? A. $15,775. B. $15,575. C. $16,000. 16. What’s the reason the man gives for the car not starting? A. The gas. B. The battery. C. The engine. 请听第10段独白，回答第17-20题。 17. Who is the speaker probably? A. A teacher. B. A policeman. C. A reporter. 18. How will a boy be punished for breaking the desks in Mark Twain’s school? A. He needs to apologize before the whole school. B. He will be asked to call his parents. C. He will be beaten or pay 5 dollars. 19. What was the punishment for Mark Twain’s behavior? A. Both his father and his teacher beat him. B. He was asked to buy a new desk. C. He was driven out of school. 20. Form whom did Mark Twain earn the first money? A. His teacher. B. His father. C. His classmates. II．课文填空 （请根据课文原文填空） （共20空，每空0.5分，满分10分） 1. He got annoyed, saying it wasn’t his fault if he couldn’t play as well as me, and that I shouldn’t talk to him in this ________. Then we both started shouting at each other and it turned into a ________ argument. 2. Friendships between girls are usually ________ in shared feelings and support, but friendships between boys are .... A boy is ________ to be ________ about sharing his feelings with his close friends. 3. The best way to have a friend is to be a friend. Because I am a friend, I have had to learn patience and ________. Once I had a quarrel with Jenny, and she make some cruel ________ about me. 4. While we damage our environment, we keep producing more and more people who need more land to live on and more food to eat! The world’s population has grown ________ six times what it was in 1800. The ________ is now about 7 billion people. 5. This is not good news for the people who ________ on the Yangtze River for water. Nor is it good news for the wide ________ of fish and wildlife that live in or along the river. 6. Cars and other ________burn petrol in their engines, and ________ power plants most often burn ________ such as coal and oil in order to produce electricity. 7. On the other hand, many people, ________ some scientists, disagree and are afraid that, if mankind ________ with nature in this way, we may be on our way to ________ a real-life Frankenstein’s monster. 8. After ________ of destroying nature and using up natural ________, many developed nations are now concerned about saving nature ________ than developing or destroying it. III．单词拼写 (用单词的正确形式填空) （共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分） 1. F________ me for interrupting, but I really don’t agree with what you said. 2. I don’t have any cash with me. Can I pay this by c________ card? 3. There are ten other people before you. You’ll have to wait your turn, and we can’t allow anyone to jump the q________. 4. It is i________ to place false information on the Internet or spread rumors by means of the Internet. 5. Li Qi prepared fully for every song in The Voice of China, and as a c________, he succeeded. 6. Alice must have done something wrong, because she’s looking so ________ (内疚的). 7. The ________ (最初的) Olympic games were religious ceremonies, not the worldwide popular sports game. 8. Jim ________ (发誓) that he would try his best to help those homeless children. 9. I’ve been here for almost ten days and I’ve made ________ (结识) of many wonderful students. 10. Mr. Wang knew that he had hurt his wife and ________ (恳求）her to pardon him. IV．动词填空 (用动词的正确形式填空)（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分） 1. The naughty boy pretended ________ (do) his homework when his mother went into his room. 2. If you don’t eat less, you’ll end up ________ (look) like a whale. 3. ________ (be) out of work for a few months，mother took up the job of waiting on patients in hospitals. 4. ________ (misunderstand) by others when you do nothing wrong at all is quite a bad experience. 5. The secretary asked her boss whether he had anything more ________ (type) before she went back home. 6. The managers were discussing the plan which they all wanted to see _______ (carry) out that month. 7. That piece of music sounds quite familiar. Who ________ (play) the piano upstairs? 8. This is one of the oldest temples in China. It ________ (date) back to the 9th century. 9. The US government was shut down on October 1st because of some financial problems. So far it ________ (solve) and everything returns to normal. 10. Helen ________ (leave) her keys in the office so she had to wait until her husband came home. V．句型转换 （共20空，每空0.5分，满分10分） 1. It is said that John stole a car last week. If it is true, he will be charged with theft. It is said that John stole a car last week. If ________, he will be ________ ________ theft. 2. At present, conditions are getting worse and we are using up supplies. At present, conditions are getting worse and supplies are ________ ________. 3. Typhoon Fitow landed in eastern China’s Fujian Province on October 7th, which brought about great damage to some cities of Fujian and Zhejiang Province. On October 7th Typhoon Fitow’s ________ in eastern China’s Fujian Province ________ ________ great damage to some cities of Fujian and Zhejiang Province. 4. China’s new tourism law took effect from October 1st, 2013, which is highly beneficial to tourists. Tourists ________ a lot ________ China’s new tourism law, which took effect from October 1st, 2013. 5. Everyman has the right to live where he wants to, whatever the color of his skin is. Everyman has the right to live where he wants to, ________ ________ the color of his skin. 6. We judge the workers on the basis of their performance Our judgment on the workers is ________ ________ their performance. 7. All the football players of Guangzhou Hengda are training hard, intending to get the champion in the AFC Champions League. ________ the ________ of getting the champion in the AFC Champions League, all the football players of Guangzhou Hengda are training hard. 8. If weather permits, our class will go out for a picnic after the mid-term examination. ________ ________, our class will go out for a picnic after the mid-term examination. 9. ‘Dad, Where Are We Going’, a popular TV reality show on Hunan Satellite TV, leaves a deep impression on me. I’m ________ a lot ________ ‘Dad, Where Are We Going’, a popular TV reality show on Hunan Satellite TV. VI．完成句子（共20空，每空0.5分，满分10分） 1. 把物价上涨归咎于政府是不对的。 It is wrong to ________ the rise in prices ________ the government. 2. 面对污染问题，我们不应该逃避责任，而应该采取措施加以治理。 Faced with pollution, we should ________ ________ to put it under control, instead of ________ from our ________. 3. 他们对待收养的孩子就像亲生的一样，总是尽量满足他们的要求。 They treat the ________ children as their own and always try their best to ________ their ________. 4. 中央政府决心推进反腐倡廉建设，严厉惩治了一批贪污受贿官员，老百姓对此十分支持。 ________ to ________ ________ with anti-corruption construction, Chinese central government punished some corrupt officials. The civilians are ________ ________ of the policy. 5. 过去，这个工厂经常排放出一团团的烟雾，引起周围群众的担忧。如今，它必须为此付出代价，接受停产整顿的处罚。 In the past, the factory often let off ________ of smokes, which ________ concern of the surrounding people. Now it has to ________ ________ it and accepts the punishment of stopping operation. 6. 学霸指那些专注于学习，考试经常能拿最高分的学生。 Super scholars refer to the students who are ________ ________ study and always get the highest score in exams. VII．单项填空（共30题，每小题0.5分，满分15分） 21. Developing ________ deep and lifelong friendship with someone is not an easy job because it takes time and ________ effort. A. the; an B. a; an C. the; 不填 D. a; 不填 22. The boss has employed a private detective to ________ those employees suspected of giving away the company’s important information. A. focus on B. spy on C. rely on D. insist on 23. More highways have been built in China, ________ it much easier for people to travel from one place to another. A. making B. made C. to make D. having made 24. Many people would rather ________ eating out and going on holidays than give up their mobile phones and iPads, according to a recent survey. A. think back to B. appeal to C. cut back on D. go after 25. After the speech, we will open the floor ________ discussion and all of you are expected to take part ________it. A. for; for B. in; for C. for; in D. in; in 26. I would appreciate ________ if you could give me a lift to Lakefront School. A. that B. it C. you D. one 27. --- Sharon is very ________. --- She always chooses things carefully and is not easily satisfied. A. greedy B. curious C. cautious D. particular 28. My mother ________ as a nurse for five years in a hospital of my hometown, and she is now in charge of the whole hospital. A. served B. has served C. had served D. serves 29. ________ made me upset today was ________ I missed the last bus and had to walk home. A. That; that B. What; that C. What; what D. That; what 30. The murderer killing eleven people overnight has escaped from prison, so a nationwide search for him is ________. A. within reach B. under way C. within sight D. under control 31. Have you ever met with a situation in your life ________ you can’t understand others even if they have repeated themselves several times? A. where B. when C. that D. which 32. Tim is in good shape physically ________ he doesn’t get much exercise. A. if B. unless C. even though D. as long as 33. I’d like to go on holiday this summer vacation, but ________ I should be trying to save money to buy a larger house. A. after all B. on the contrary C. in all D. on the other hand 34. --- Do you know when the sports day will be held? --- I know it is in August, but I can’t remember the ________ date. A. real B. due C. exact D. proper 35. One-third of the country ________ covered with trees and the majority of the citizens ________ black people. A. is; are B. is; is C. are; are D. are; is 36. Despite such big differences in ________ towards what should be eaten, there is no doubt that westerners regard Chinese food as one of the healthiest foods in the world. A. traditions B. routines C. attitudes D. concerns 37. --- Does the book give the information you need? --- Yes. ________ it, I read every page of it. A. To find B. Find C. Having found D. Finding 38. ________ the doors were closed and that all the lights were off, the man left the office for home. A. Checked B. Having checked C. To be checked D. Checking 39. --- Mr. Zhang, the man in the distance seemed to be calling you. --- Oh, I ________ that. A. am not realizing B. haven’t realized C. didn’t realize D. don’t realize 40. --- I can’t stand my wife spending so much money on shopping. --- Don’t be angry. ________, almost all women like shopping. A. In general B. In case C. In all D. In return 41. When ________ why she was willing to give up her well-paid job, Miss Green said that she wanted to be a primary teacher and help poor children in mountainous areas. A. being asked B. asking C. to ask D. asked 42. The man is such a ________ person that there is no doubt that he will do whatever he has promised. A. committed B. sensitive C. cautious D. reliable 43. We provide various outdoor activities, and you can choose ________ according to your own interests. A. either B. each C. one D. it 44. --- Why did you put the wood near the fire? It’s dangerous. --- Don’t worry. Wet wood won’t ________ easily. A. burn B. burnt C. be burnt D. be burning 45. With everything she needed ________, she went out of the shop, with her hands full of shopping bags. A. bought B. to buy C. buying D. buy 46. --- It’s supposed to rain tomorrow. --- I know, but the forecast ________ be wrong. Weather forecasts are not 100 percent accurate. A. must B. could C. should D. will 47. The girl came ________ to the bus stop，only ________ the bus had gone. A. running; finding B. to run; to find C. and run; found D. running; to find 48. --- Tom is a heavy smoker and he never attempts to give up smoking. --- You are right. It’s no use ___ to persuade such a man to quit smoking. A. tried B. trying C. having tried D. try 49. --- May I use your computer for a while? I want to download some music. --- ________. It is on my desk. A. It depends B. Go ahead C. My pleasure D. You said it. 50. --- Mr. Wang is a man of few words, but quick in mind. --- ________, you know. A. A single flower doesn’t make a spring B. A great talker is a great liar C. A light heart lives long D. A still tongue makes a wise head VIII．完形填空（共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分） My life suffered a lot after my father’s death. I had to look after my sick mother and two younger brothers. As the eldest son，I had no choice but to 51 school and work in a factory. A thread of hope flashed in those 52 days suddenly. It was a rainy dusk when I put myself in the rain and walked in the street. 　　Suddenly the rain stopped! 53 , I raised my head, and found that “the sky” was in fact a dark blue 54 . Then I heard a deep voice. “Why not run 55 an umbrella?” A middle-aged man with one leg on crutch(拐杖) said to me, “If you run, you would get 56 .” I shook my head, but after a second I thought: Right, 57 ? His words shocked me deeply. Without my father's 58 , could I only be a 59 to the fate (命运)? While 60 together in the rain, I knew that he was a promoter from the city, and he received an order and spent 61 time on it. Looking at this guy, I had no sympathy but 62 . I took the umbrella from his hand and he told me that he once had 63 of being a policeman, but an accident 64 his dream. Though his present work was 65 and did not suit for his 66 , every outing was a wonderful start to him. He was glad that he didn’t 67 heart and still “ran” on the road of life... 　　 68 by the man’s remarks, I went to a city in the south and became an insurance representative. After two years’ “running”, I got 69 and my family turned better gradually. 　　Everything is so simple: to run without an umbrella! When you 70 the rainy season of your life, there will be bright sky ahead of you. 51. A. desert B. dismiss C. reject D. quit 52. A. dark B. bright C. white D. colorful 53. A. Interested B. Confused C. Excited D. Disappointed 54. A. hat B. raincoat C. umbrella D. jacket 55. A. with B. without C. for D. to 56. A. drier B. warmer C. less wet D. less cold 57. A. why not B. or what C. so what D. who knows 58. A. praise B. protection C. comfort D. attention 59. A. slave B. master C. guest D. commander 60.A. running B. wandering C. jogging D. walking 61. A. much B. no C. little D. some 62. A. envy B. admiration C. love D. care 63. A. approved B. known C. spoken D. dreamed 64. A. defeated B. damaged C. ruined D. wiped 65. A. boring B. demanding C. rewarding D. tiring 66. A. hand B. foot C. arm D. leg 67. A. lose B. take C. change D. gather 68. A. Amused B. Terrified C. Encouraged D. Shocked 69. A. anywhere B. everywhere C. somewhere D. nowhere 70. A. run into B. run across C. run away with D. run out of IX．阅读理解（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分） A Believe it or not, America’s favorite snack food is the potato chip. There is a story behind how it was first made. One might think that somewhere a genius thought up the first potato chips, but it didn’t happen that way. Picture an elegant restaurant in Saratoga Springs, New York, in 1853. The Moon Lake Restaurant’s menu included French-fried potatoes, a popular food recipe brought back from France by Thomas Jefferson. These were thickly cut potatoes, fried until golden brown and crisp on the outside. One evening a guest in the dining hall felt that his potatoes were too thick and sent them back to the kitchen. The cook sliced some potatoes thinner than before and prepared them for the complaining guest. He was still not satisfied and sent them back again! By this time the cook was very angry and decided to do exactly what the dinner guest wanted: slice the potatoes as thin as possible. Then they would be so crisp that the diner wouldn’t be able to use his fork to eat them. When the paper-thin browned potatoes arrived, the diner was pleased. He was so happy with them that other guests started ordering the new potatoes. The cook’s plan to stop the dinner guest from complaining didn’t turn out as expected. Soon Saratoga Chips appeared on the menu and became so popular that people wanted to take some home. The restaurant started selling small packages of the potato chips. A few years later, they were sold all over the United Sates. But because the potatoes had to be peeled by hand, it was a time-consuming job and potato chips were often out of stock. In the 1920s, a mechanical potato peeler was invented and soon there were potato chips in abundance. They gradually spread all over the world and have remained popular ever since. 71. According to this passage, mass production of potato chips was made possible when ________. A. potatoes could be peeled by machines B. potatoes were peeled by a large number of cooks C. there was a growing demand for them D. they first appeared in a Saratoga restaurant 72. According to this passage, the cook of the Moon Lake Restaurant ． A. enjoyed making potato chips very much B. planned to sell potato chips everywhere C. wanted to silence a complaining diner D. was pleased that other guests liked the chips 73. Potato chips have been popular in the US ． A. for more than 200 years B. every since 1920 C. for less than 100 years D. since the 19th century B Have you got any wonderful plans for your coming winter vacation? Here are some wonderful films for you to kill time. Away We Go With a baby on his way, a young couple, Burt and Verona, look at their lives and are puzzled about what they really want. So they hit the road and seek a place to call home. On their journey, they visit a handful of characters and learn a lot. It’s about taking the scenic route in life, preparing for the hope and excitement and fear of new beginnings, while never forgetting to look out of the window. Orphan  Esther, a bright and well-behaved child, however, is not as innocent as she appears. Soon after being taken home, the peace of her adoptive family is completely changed... You want a good horror film about a child from hell? Then you got one! Do not, in any cases, take children to see it. 500 Days of Summer  Tom is in love with Summer from the moment he sees her. Can he accept that she simply likes him for now, not for forever? The movie is about Tom wrestling with that reality. Tom remembers his love, Summer, as a series of joys and bafflements. But Summer is just herself and he cannot have her. Here is a rare movie that begins by telling us how it will end and is about how the hero has no idea why. 2012 The director Roland Emmerich successfully dresses a corny story with an old Mayan prediction, which is believed by many to happen in the coming 2012 and as a result, attracts millions of people into the cinema.     It’s just an entertaining Hollywood blockbuster(大片) with plenty of jokes, instead of a description of what the end of the world is really like. Don’t take it too seriously! 74. This passage aims to __________. A. make comments on films for a cinema     B. introduce films for a film corporation C. recommend several films for fun           D. advertise several films for a website 75. If you bring your seven-year-old sister to the cinema, which of the following films should you avoid? A. Away We Go.        B. Orphan.             C. 2012.       D. 500 Days of Summer. 76. Among all the characters mentioned in the passage, who directed films in Hollywood? A. Roland Emmerich.   B. Tom and Summer.  C.  Burt and Verona.  D. Esther. 77. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage? A. Orphan is a comedy about Esther adopted by a kind family. B. 500 Days of Summer is a romance with a happy ending. C. Away We Go reminds people to enjoy beautiful scenery on their journey of life. D. The ancient Mayan prediction is going to happen in 2012. C What happens when a big meat eater is removed from its home? What happens when it comes back? The answers became clear in Yellowstone National Park, the oldest national park in the United States. The story began more than 100 years ago, when most people wanted to kill off all wolves, for many reasons. Ranchers (农场经营者) were angry that wolves killed some of their sheep and cattle. Park visitors loved to see deer, and wolves hunted them, too. At the time, people thought that wolves would eat humans. So people began to exterminate wolves throughout North America. In 1926, the last wolf in Yellowstone was killed. Once the wolves were gone, mysterious changes began to happen in the park. Trees began to die. Fewer birds nested in the park. Beavers (河狸) left to find new places to live. More and more wildlife disappeared. Wildlife biologists realized that wolves had been important to the park. One winter morning in 1995, the first of several wolves was set free in the park, but a lot had changed in Yellowstone. Could the wolves survive there? Naturalist Jim Garry remembers leading a class of wolf watchers when they heard their first wolf. “We never saw the wolf, only heard a howl(嚎叫). Our hair stood on end. Our frozen smiles widened. Silently we put our thumbs up in a universal sign of success!” Now songbirds have returned to the park. In the trees, the birds can hide, find insects to eat, and build nests. Tall trees act like big beach umbrellas over streams. As the trees came back, so did the beavers. Not everyone agrees that wolves should travel free. After all, some wolves still take ranchers’ sheep and cattle. But today we know the wolf plays an important role. The wolf is a keystone animal --- an animal that many others depend on for their survival. 78. The underlined word “exterminate” in Paragraph 2 probably means ________. A. eat B. drive C. kill D. raise 79. From Jim Garry’s words, we can learn that ________. A. Wolves survived very well in the park B. Wolves brought about changes in the park C. They were glad that no wolves were in sight D. They were afraid of being attacked by wolves 80. We know from the last two paragraphs that ________. A. The park now takes on a new look B. More wolves should be put into the park C. Ranchers don’t realize the importance of wolves D. Wolves should be stopped from harming sheep and cattle 81. What would be the best title for the passage? A. Wolves are not bad guys B. Bringing back the wolves C. Keeping the balance of nature D. Animals in Yellowstone National Park D Why can some people sleep through noises like a honking car or flushing toilet, while others are awakened by the lightest sound? To find the answer, sleep researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital conducted an unusual study of 12 self-described deep sleepers. After tests confirmed that the healthy volunteers were solid sleepers, they took part in a three-night study in the university’s sleep laboratory. The participants spent the night in a big and comfortable room. But the room also included four speakers positioned near the top of the bed. During the night, the deep sleepers were subjected to 14 different recorded sounds, like street traffic, toilets flushing, an ice machine dispensing and an airplane flying overhead. Next door, the researchers monitored their sleep patterns and brain waves. As expected, all of the participants slept relatively well, but there were differences in how they responded to the noisy interruptions. Some of the sleepers didn’t wake up even when a sound was blasted at 70 decibels (分贝); others were awakened by sounds at 40 or 50 decibels. The researchers discovered that the difference in a sleeper’s reaction to noise could be predicted by the level of brain activity called “sleep spindles’’. A sleep spindle is a burst of high-frequency brain activity coming from deep inside the brain during sleep. The source of the spindles is the thalamus, a part of the brain that sends sensory information to the rest of the cortex (皮层). Before the study, the Massachusetts researchers theorized (推理) that the spindles are the brain’s way of preventing sensory information from passing through the thalamus and waking the rest of the brain during sleep. They found that the sleepers who experienced the most sleep spindles during the night were also the soundest sleepers and were least likely to be awakened by noise. Scientists already know that most people become lighter sleepers with age, most likely because older people experience less “slow wave sleep’’, which is the deepest stage of sleep. People also produce fewer sleep spindles as they age. But even when controlling for the stage of sleep a person was in, the number of sleep spindles still predicted their risk for awakening because of noise. More research is needed, but the findings suggest that a better understanding of sleep spindles could lead to new behavioral or drug therapies for people with sleep disorders. For instance, future studies may try to determine whether diet, exercise or other behaviors may influence the number of sleep spindles a person produces during the night. 82. Some participants can sleep well through loud noises mainly because ________. A. their brains don’t respond to outside noises B. their brains react differently to noises C. they adapt to the environment quickly D. they don’t pay attention to the monitors 83. Scientists believe that the key to affecting deep sleep is ______. A. sensory information B. stages of sleep C. sleep disorders D. sleep spindles 84. It can be learned from the passage that ________. A. the older a deep sleeper becomes, the lighter his sleep must be B. the more “slow wave sleep” one experiences, the deeper sleep one has C. the more frequently a sleeper’s brain works, the less information it sends D. the deeper sleep people have, the more likely they will be awakened by noise 85. From the passage we can predict ________. A. deep sleepers will probably enjoy a more healthy life B. more solid sleepers will take part in relative experiments C. sleep spindles will be applied to changing one’s behaviors D. more factors in influencing sleep spindles may be discovered X．任务型阅读（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分） （请认真阅读下列短文，并在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。每空一词。） Parents can help their seventh and eighth grade students stand out in and out of their English classroom by introducing them to newspapers. Newspapers not only offer information on current events, but they can also be used to test your child's knowledge of grammar, vocabulary, and more. Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How Have your child read the first couple of paragraphs of a news story. Ask them to write down all of the important facts, such as who, what, where, when, why and how. This helps parents to see if their children comprehend the basic facts and information they read. Grammar Parents can monitor a child’s understanding of grammatical parts of speech (词性) without a grammar textbook. Ask your child to read a paragraph in an article and then list a specific number of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, prepositions and the like, which serves more of a test of their grammatical knowledge. Encourage them to list each of these parts of speech in a paragraph. Then, reread the paragraph to see if they missed anything. Persuasion Ask your child to select an advertisement from the newspaper. Have them investigate how specific words or phrases influence their feelings about a particular product. Then, encourage them to create an advertisement of their own for an item they do not like. Tell them not to show their true feelings and try to make people want to buy this unwanted item. After that, ask them to list the persuasive techniques used in their ad. Facts vs Opinions Select an editorial for your middle schooler to read. Have your child divide a piece of paper into two columns, one marked fact, and the other marked opinion. Have your student decide which column it fits under. This will help your child better understand facts versus opinions. Another related exercise is responding to an editorial. Encourage your child to write letters to the editor or responses to editorials or other articles. Before your child sends his or her letter, check the opinion section to see what requirements there are. Headlines and Synonyms (同义词) Ask your middle schooler to rewrite a couple of headlines using the synonyms of the original words. Compare the headlines. Do the original versions or the rewrites sound better? This is a great exercise to help students learn synonyms and expand their vocabulary. If you find your seventh or eighth grade child is struggling with these newspaper activities, it may be an indicator that they have fallen behind in their reading skills. These activities were designed with a seventh or eighth grader in mind; therefore, while they are educational, they should be more of reinforcement (增强) instead of a major reading challenge. Outline Supporting details An approach to learning 1.________students in seventh and eighth grades to newspapers can be helpful in learning English. Newspaper 2. ________ ● Ask students to read the first paragraphs of a news story and write down the important and 3.________ facts to see if they can understand them. ● Have students read an article and list different parts of speech to improve their understanding of 4.________. ● Select an ad and ask students to find the persuasive expressions 5.________ in it, and then create their own ad for a product they dislike. ● Select an editorial and have students distinguish between facts and 6.________. After that encourage them to write a 7.________ to an editorial. ● Ask students to write a few synonyms and compare them with the 8.________ headlines to help them with their vocabulary expansion. Possible results ● It may 9.________ that a child is poor at reading if he or she has 10.________ with these activities. ● These activities, designed for special graders, can not be used as a major reading challenge. 参考答案 I. 听力 （共20小题，每小题0.5分，满分10分） 1-5 BABAC 6-10 BBCAC 11-15 CBCCB 16-20 BACAB II．课文填空 （共20空，每空0.5分，满分10分） 1. manner, horrible 2. anchored, likely, cautious 3. mercy, comments 4. by, figure 5. rely, range 6. vehicles, electrical, fuels 7. including, toys, producing 8. decades, resources, rather III．单词拼写 （共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分） 1. Forgive 2. credit 3. queue 4. illegal 5. consequence 6. guilty 7. original 8. swore 9. acquaintance 10. begged IV．动词填空 （共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分） 1. to be doing 2. looking 3. Having been 4. Being misunderstood 5. to be typed 6. carried 7. is playing 8. dates 9. has been solved 10. had left V．句型转换 （共20空，每空0.5分，满分10分） 1. so, accused of 2. running out 3. landing, led to/ resulted in 4. benefit from 5. regardless of 6. based on 7.With intention/purpose 8. Weather permitting 9. impressed with/by VI．完成句子（共20空，每空0.5分，满分10分） 1. blame on 2. take measures, hiding, responsibilities 3. adopted, meet/satisfy, needs/ requirements/demands 4. Determined, push ahead, in favor/support 5. clouds, raised, pay for 6. absorbed in VII．单项填空（共30题，每小题0.5分，满分15分） 21-25 DBACC 26-30 BDABB 31-35 ACDCA 36-40 CABCA 41-45 DDCAA 46-50 BDBBD VIII．完形填空（共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分） 51-55 DABCB 56-60 CABAD 61-65 ABDCB 66-70 DACCD IX．阅读理解（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分） 71-75 ACDCB 76-80 ACCAA 81-85 BBDBD X．任务型阅读（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分） 1. Introducing 2. activities 3. basic 4. grammar 5. used/applied/ adopted 6. opinions 7. response/reply 8. original 9. indicate/show/ suggest 10. difficulty/trouble/problems