—I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have been so rude to you.
—You ________ something not very nice to me, but that’s OK.
A. have said B. had said C. did say D. were saying
科目：高中英语 来源：2015届江西省南昌市高三8月月考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：完型填空
That Christmas Eve, the streets of Boston were crowded with people dressed in wool and flannel(法兰绒). “Jingle Bells” was playing in stores. Everyone, it seemed, was _____ by someone else smiling or ____ I was alone.
The eldest of a Puerto Rican family of 11 children growing up in one of New York’s _____ apartment. I’d spent much of my life _____ solitude(独处). Now, _____, at 27, was enduring the last break-up of a seven-year relationship. Every part of me wanted to be _____, but not at Christmas.
My family had returned to Puerto Rico, and my _____ were involved in their own lives. Dusk was falling, and the unavoidable return to my ____apartment brought tears to my eyes.
I stopped at the local market, feeling even more______ when I saw all the people there filling their baskets with gifts. I _____ my family, my friends and the noisy parties at home, filled with laughter and dancing. I wanted to cry for having wanted to be alone and for having _____ it.
In front of the church down the street, a manger(马槽) had been set up, with Mary, Joseph, and the barn animals in ______ the arrival of baby Jesus. As I walked home, I _____ that the story of Joseph and Mary wandering from door to door seeking shelter was much like my own. Leaving Puerto Rico was still a _____in my soul and I was struggling with whom I had become in my 15 years in the United States. I’d mourned my losses, _____for the first time, I recognized what I’d gained. I was _____, and educated and healthy. My life was still before me, full of ______.Sometimes the best ____ is the one you give yourself. That Christmas, I gave myself credit ____ I’d accomplished so far and permission to go ______ unafraid. It was the best gift I’ve ever received, the one that I most treasure.
1.A. chosen B. botheredC. allowedD. accompanied
2.A. working B. laughing C. studying D. thinking
3.A. crowdedB. expensiveC. cheerfulD. large
4.A. looking forB. looking atC. looking throughD. looking over
5.A. finally B. easilyC. quickly D. likely
6.A. patientB. strictC. aloneD. private
7.A. friendsB. dreamsC. guestsD. customers
8.A. beautifulB. interesting C. cleanD. empty
9.A. pleasedB. upsetC. surprisedD. curious
10.A. hatedB. lovedC. missedD. forgot
11.A. achievedB. refusedC. preferredD. offered
12.A. searchB. expectationC. positionD. control
13.A. imaginedB. sighedC. realizedD. expressed
14.A. effort B. beliefC. wound D. wish
15.A. butB. so C. becauseD. though
16.A. excitedB. independentC. ordinary D. worthless
17.A. desiresB. possibilitiesC. idealsD. advantages
18.A. giftB. lessonC. purposeD. memory
19.A. on B. in C. atD. for
20.A. upward B. downC. aroundD. forward
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015届江西省五校高三第一次联考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
No opera smells of the sea quite like Britten’s Peter Grimes. The music makes us constantly aware of the sea’s immensity, it’s potential for threat, and the play of light on its waves. But the sea isn’t just a special background, it weighs on the lives of the characters, offering them a living, but at a price. In the first act the laboured sound of the strings evokes (引起) the complete heaviness of the sailor’s work, as they haul(用力拉) the boats up the shingle (鹅卵石). Then a storm gathers which rages(肆虐) through the scene at the Inn, and stirs up an orchestral hurricane. Even when it’s calm and favorable, the sea is inescapable.
In the comfortable enclosed world of the opera house, this can only be suggested. In the production of Peter Grimes about to open at the Aldeburgh Festival, it will be really present, because the opera is taking place on the beach, the setting for much of the narrative of Britten’s opera, and also the poem by the Suffolk poet George Crabbe that inspired it.
This won’t be the first opera production to be set in the actual landscape in which the action takes place. There’s a well-known filmed production of Tosca shot in Castel Gandolfo in Rome, and a production of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena was once mounted in the moat(护城河) surrounding the Tower of London. But those were manageable urban landscapes, with comfortingly solid buildings to act as wind shields and acoustic blocks.
On the Aldeburgh beach there’s actually nothing, apart from a few boats, some whole, some wrecked. Here anything more complicated than walking the dog is hard to solve. The wind blows away one’s words, so conversation is hard, and anything not tied down tends to blow away. The sliding shingle turns one’s steps into a drunken stagger.
The idea of performing an opera in these conditions seems quite barmy — an accusation Aldeburgh director Jonathan Reakie takes cheerfully on the chin. Why has he done it? “Well, Grimes is the opera of Britten’s that’s most associated with Aldeburgh, but it’s never been produced at the Festival which he founded. There just isn’t the space for it. In his anniversary year we wanted to focus on Britten’s connection with Suffolk, and this seemed the boldest way to do it.”
Having had the mad idea, Reakie found his colleagues were not just accepting, but enthusiastic. “We spent a long time thinking about ways to do it. One idea we had was to do all the scenes at the right time of day. There’s one scene at dawn, another at midday, and a lot of action at night, but that was too complicated. Then we thought about doing a few scenes on the beach. But in the end, we thought hell, let’s just do the whole thing.”
1.Which of the following can best describe the sailor’s work in the first act?
A. Pleasant.B. Hard.
C. Comfortable.D. Attractive.
2.How is Paragraph 2 mainly developed?
A. By giving descriptions.B. By following time order.
C. By analyzing causes.D. By making comparisons.
3.What does Paragraph 4 mainly tell us?
A. The benefits of the actual landscape.
B. The actual landscape of Aldeburgh beach.
C. The location of the Aldeburgh beach.
D. The hardship of performing opera in Aldeburgh beach.
4.The underlined word “barmy” (in Paragraph 5) is closest in meaning to ____.
A. crazy B. impossible
C. wonderfulD. terrible
5.Reakie’s partners’ attitude towards his opera on a beach is ____.
A. eagerB. cautious
C. doubtfulD. unfavorable
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015届江西省五校高三第一次联考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
. -What about the price of these washing machines?
-They are equal in price to, if not cheaper than, ____ at other shops in the street.
A. others B. it
C. that D. the ones
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015届江西省九江市七校高二下学期期中联考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
When scientists accidentally killed what turned out to be the world’s oldest living creature, it was bad enough. Now, their mistake has been worsened after further research found it was even older – at 507 years.
The ocean quahog, a type of deep-sea clam, was dredged (捕捞) alive from the bottom of the North Atlantic near Iceland in 2006 by researchers. They then put it in a fridge-freezer, as is normal practice, unaware of its age. It was only when it was taken to a laboratory that scientists from Bangor University studied it and concluded it was 400 years old.
The discovery made it into the Guinness Book of World Records. However, by this time, it was too late for Ming the Mollusc(软体动物), named after the Chinese dynasty when its life began. Unfortunately researchers who calculated Ming’s age killed it instantly by opening its shell.
The researchers opened the ancient clam up to judge its age by counting growth rings inside. But the rings were so close together that scientists ended up having to count the rings on the outside to be accurate, leading CBS journalists to point out that if scientists had just started there, Ming could have lived on. Now, after examining the quahog more closely, using more advanced methods, the researchers have found the animal was actually 100 years older than they first thought.
Dr Paul Butler, from the University’s School of Ocean Sciences, said: “We got it wrong the first time and maybe we were a bit hasty publishing our findings back then. But we are absolutely certain that we’ve got the right age now.” The mollusc was born in 1499 – just seven years after Columbus discovered America and before Henry VIII had even married his first wife, Catherine of Aragon in 1509.
A quahog’s shell grows by a layer every year, in the summer when the water is warmer and food is plentiful. It means that when its shell is cut in half, scientists can count the lines in a similar way that trees can be dated by rings in their trunks.
Jan Heinemeier, associate professor at the University of Denmark, who helped date Ming, told Science Nordic: “The fact that we got our hands on a 507-year-old animal is incredibly fascinating, but the really exciting thing is of course everything we can learn from studying the mollusk.”
1.At first, the scientists found that _____________.
A. The ocean quahog got a deadly disease
B. The growth rings inside were so close together
C. it was accurate to count the growth rings outside
D. The ocean quahog was 400 years old
2.Why did the scientists open the ancient clam up?
A. To count the growth rings outside of the clam.
B. To study how old the clam was.
C. To see the structure of it.
D. To give an immediate operation on it.
3.The sixth paragraph is mainly about_____________.
A. How to calculate the age of a tree
B. Why a quahog’s shell grows by a layer each year
C. How to calculate the age of a quahog
D. Why a quahog likes it when the water is warmer
4.Which of the following is NOT true?
A. The researchers have got the right age of the ocean quahog.
B. The mollusc was born after Columbus discovered America.
C. The ocean quahog was named after the Chinese dynasty.
D. A quahog’s shell grows by a layer every season.
5.Where does the text probably come from?
A. A magazine of marine life. B. A travel brochure.
C. A biography. D. A science fiction.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015届江西省九江市七校高二下学期期中联考英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
The income of skilled workers went up. ________, unskilled workers saw their earnings fall.
A. Anyhow B. Therefore C. Meanwhile D. Otherwise
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015届江苏省高二期中考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：书面表达
从南京“彭宇案”开始，社会就陷入“助人恐惧”中，最近，你们班就“是否应该帮助陌生人”展开了讨论，同学们就这一话题意见不一，你的看法如何？你认为怎样才能让爱心回归社会，建立人与人之间的信任？请根据讨论结果，以“Should We Help Strangers?” 为题写一篇短文。
| 原因 |
赞成 | 帮助他人是美德……； 帮助他人就是帮助自己……； …… |
反对 | 怕陷入麻烦，甚至危险； 怕被误解； …… |
你的观点？(至少两点) | |
注意： 1.词数150左右； 2.开头已写好，不计入总词数；
3.覆盖所有要点，适当发挥； 4.文稿中不得提及考生所在学校(班级)及本人姓名。
参考词汇： 美德 virtue 名词 (可数)
Should We Help Strangers?
We used to appreciate those who like to help strangers. But nowadays people tend to be very cautious of helping strangers. Recently our class had a discussion about whether we should help strangers.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015届江苏省高二期中考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
The girl _______ in bed _______ to us that she had _______ the dictionary on the bookshelf.
A. lay; lied; lay B. lying; lied; laid C. lying; lay; laid D. lied; lied; laid
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015届江苏省无锡江阴市高二下学期期中考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
________is it ________has made Peter ________he is today?
A. What; that; that B. That; that; what C. What; what; that D. What; that; what
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