2018-2019学年上海市虹口高级中学高一上英语期中

虹口高级中学2018 学年第一学期

高一年级英语学科期中考试

Grammar and Vocabulary (17 分)

Section A

Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

As a student, I get so many assignments every day. I (17) _______ _______ stay up late in order to finish all my homework. I used to complain about all this pressure (18) _______school with my classmates. We did not appreciate our teachers for their hard work. We only knew that we got a lot of homework.

After a few months, we did not complain about homework anymore (19) _______we knew that our teachers worked (20) _______ (hard) than we did. We had no right (21) _______ (complain). Sometimes, we said, “I didn’t go to bed until 2:00 o’clock last night. Now I just want to sleep.” Our teacher would answer us, “I go to bed at 1:00 a.m. every day.” Since we knew how hard teachers work, we started to appreciate them. To give our thanks, we wrote a big card to the teachers when it was teachers’ day. When they got our card, they (22) _______ (touch) because their students finally knew the teachers’ effort.

After giving the card, I realized (23)________ powerful the sentence “thank you” is. When we give our thanks to somebody, the world is full of love. I say “thank you” to my friend, classmates, teachers, and even strangers. I like to see the smiles on their faces, so (24) ________ (say) “thank you” every day is the way I make the world a better place.

Section B

Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

Many trees and shrubs change color in fall. For years, scientists have worked hard to understand the changes that happen to them. They find that three factors ____25____ fall's colorful farewell — leaf pigments (色素), length of night, and weather. The timing of the color change is mainly regulated by the increasing length of night. None of the other ____26____influences, such as temperature, rainfall, food supply, are as unchanging as the ____27____increasing length of night during fall. As days grow shorter, and nights grow longer and cooler, biochemical ___28_____ in leaves begin to paint the landscape with an explosion of colors. And Nature puts on one of its most splendid ____29____ of beauty.

The timing of the color change____30____ by species. Some species in southern forests can become vividly colorful in late summer while all other species are still vigorously green. Oaks put on their colors long after other species have already shed their leaves. These differences in timing among species seem to be genetically ____31____, for a particular species, whether on a high mountain or in warmer lowlands, will change color at the same time.

However, some species are evergreen. Pines, for example, are green all the year round because they have toughened up. They have developed over the years a needle-like or scale-like foliage (绿叶植物), which is____32____ with a heavy wax coating. And the liquid inside their cells contains cold-resistant elements. So the leaves of evergreens can safely withstand (经受住) all but the most _____33___winter conditions, such as those in the Arctic.

III. Reading Comprehension

Section A (15 分）

Directions：For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

Children model themselves largely on their parents. They do so mainly through identification. Children identify with a parent when they believe they have the qualities and feelings that are___34____of that parent. The things parents do and say—and the____35___ they do and say to them—therefore strongly influence a child’s ____36___. However, parents must at all times____37___ like the type of person they want their child to become.

A parent’s actions ____38___ affect the self-image that a child forms___39____ identification Children who see mainly positive qualities in their parents will likely learn to see themselves in a ___40____way. Children who observe chiefly____41___ qualities in their parents will have