四川省成都市东部新区养马高级中学2021-2022学年高一上学期英语期中考试

Some fifty years ago, I was studying in a middle school in New York. One day, Mrs. O'Neil gave a maths test to our class. When the papers were marked she found that twelve boys had made exactly the same mistakes in the test. There is nothing new about cheating in exams. Perhaps that was why Mrs. O'Neil didn't even say one word about it. She only asked the twelve boys to stay after class. l was one of the twelve.

Mrs. O'Neil asked no questions, and she didn't scold us, either. Instead, she wrote the following words on the blackboard: On your way home you find some money and you're completely sure that you will never be found out. Later someone comes to ask you if you have found some money he lost. What will you do?

She then ordered us to write down the question and asked us to take our whole lives to try to find out our own answer to it .

I don't know about the other eleven children. Speaking for myself I can say: it was the most important single thing of my life. From then on, I have been asking this question to myself when I have to make a decision.

Because of this, Mrs. O'Neil has become the most unforgettable teacher for me in my whole life. I often think of this: if Mrs. O'Neil had scolded us as many other teachers often did, would I go to cheating every day?

Scientists can learn about man by studying animals, such as mice and monkeys. The scientists in a laboratory are experimenting on mice and they are studying the relationship between diet and health.

In this experiment, the scientists are studying the relationship between the amount of food the mice can eat and their health. The mice are in three groups. All these groups are receiving the same healthy diet. But the amount of food that each group is receiving is different. The first group is eating a cup of food each day, the second two cups, and the third three cups.

After three years, the healthiest group is the one that is only eating one cup of food each day. The mice in this group are thinner than normal mice but they are more active. Most of the day, they are running, playing with one another, and using the equipment in their cages. Also, they are living longer. Mice usually live for two years, while most of the mice in this group are still alive after three years

The second group of mice is of normal weight. They are healthy, too. They are active, but not as active as the thinner mice. But they are only living for about two years.

The last group of mice is receiving more food than the other two groups. Most of the day, these mice are eating or sleeping. They are not active. These mice are living longer than the scientists thought - about a year and a half, but they are not healthy. They are sick more often than the other two groups.

Popular music in America is what every student likes. Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music before class, after class, and at lunch. Students with cars buy large speakers and play the music loudly as they drive on the street.

Adult drivers listen to the car radio as they drive to work. They also listen to the news about sports, the weather, and the life of American people. Most of the radio programmes are music.

Pop or popular music singers make much money. They make a CD or tape which radio stations use in many places. Once the popular singer is heard all over the country, young people buy his or her tapes. Some of the money from these tapes goes to the singer. Wherever the singer goes, all the young people want to meet him or her. Now the singer has become a national star.

There are other kinds of music that are important to Amercans. One is called folk music. It tells stories about the common life of Americans. Another is called western or country music. This was started by cowboys who would sing at night to the cows which they were watching. Today, any music about country life and the love between a country boy and his girls is called western or country music.

In the world, soccer or football is the most popular sport. This is because many countries have wonderful teams for the World Cup. The World Cup is held every four years.

To remember 2002 FIFA World Cup, children from different countries and more than 60 children from Japanese schools came together and spent three weekends drawing a big picture called "Dream World Cups "in Japan. The children drew animals, flowers and people playing soccer under a blue bright sky. They wished each football team good luck by drawing the flags of all the countries that will take part in the World Cup in Japan and South Korea. The picture was put up in a park near a playground in Yokohama. Some football teams will have games there.

Are you a football fan ? The World Cup makes more and more people interested in football. Teenagers like playing and watching football. Many of them love some football stars so much that they get the pictures of their favourite players on the walls of their rooms. That is the way to show their love for the World Cup as children in Japan.

Three Apples changed the world. The first one seduced (诱惑) Eve. The second one awakened Newton.Here are some famous words from Steve Jobs to share.

On character

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.

On good design

That's been one of my mottos（座右铭）- focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

On his outlook (人生观）

Going to bed at night and saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.

On your working life

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

On the importance of death

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but some-day not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away.

A. It's very character-building.

B. The third one was in the hands of Steve Jobs.

C. This is not a one-man show.

D. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.

E. And yet death is the destination（目的地）we all share.

F. It's really hard to design products by focus groups.

G. Being the richest man in the cemetery（墓地）doesn't matter to me.

I have had thousands of classes since I started school nine years ago. But only one1was the most important.

It happened last term just after I had got a2result in an exam. I was sad and had lost 3. I decided to go to a class which can tell me how to be4.

The speaker walked into the room. But he did not start talking like a teacher. 5, he held up a twenty dollars note!

"Who wants this?" he asked. Unsurprisingly, 6of us in the class held up（举起）our hands. The speaker smiled. Then he put up the note on the blackboard and asked the7question. Again, we all put up our hands. The speaker smiled again, but8nothing. Suddenly, he threw（扔） the note onto the floor! Then he asked the same9a third time.

I didn't10what the speaker was doing. Why was he asking the same question again and again? I didn't know what to do. I wanted the note, 11I put my hand up again. After a while, he12the note and started to laugh. "You have all just told me how to become successful," he said to us13the note in his hand.

"The note is worth（值......钱的） twenty dollars. It is14worth twenty dollars, even though I throw it on the floor. You are like the15. No matter16 happens to you, you still have your worth."

When I heard those words, I was deeply17. Suddenly, I18I was worth a lot. I may have done badly in an exam, but it doesn't19I can't do well in the future. If I believe in20, I will be successful!

Once, there lived an old man. His four sons never stopped(quarrel) with one another.

He always said to his son, " your life would be easieryou worked together. " But none of them would listen to him.

One day he decided (show) them what he meant and the sons were called together. He put a (tight) tied bundle of sticks on the floor in front of them. "Can you break that?" He asked the(young) son. The boy put his knee on the bundle. However, though he pressed and pulled with his (arm), he could not bend the wood.

The father asked each son in turn to try to break the bundle, but of them could do it. Then he united the sticks. "Now try," he said. The boys(break) the sticks easily in their hands. "Do you see what I mean? " Asked the father. " stand together, and no one can hurt you. if you all disagree the whole time and insist going on your separate ways, the first enemy you meet will be able to destroy you. "

注意：1）每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

    2）只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

When I was in high school, most of my friend had bicycles. I hoped I could also have it. One day I saw a secondhand bicycle that was only one hundred yuan. I asked my father the money. But he say he could only give me half of the money. He should find the other half myself. So I went to sell newspapers after the school. My father was pleased if I showed him the money a month after. He gives me the other fifty. You can imagine how much happy I was when I rode to school on my own bicycle.

1）学校环境优美，有一个很大的操场，绿树成荫;

2）老师对我们学习上要求严格，生活中很友好，关心同学;

3）身边的同学都很优秀，很勤奋。彼此相处融洽:

4）高中生活充满压力，但是在老师的帮助下，我充满信心，一定会不断取得进步。

注意: 1）内容应包括以上要点，可以适当发挥，增加细节，以使文章连贯; 

2）词数 100 左右。

参考词汇： 有压力的 stressful