第二节：语法填空(共10小题;每小题l.5分.满分l5分)

One day Mary was busy working in her office in London ___36___ she received an E-mail from her friend Joan .In Joan’s e-mail, she persuaded Mary ___37___( look) for a flat in London for her. As she had __38___ (little) money at her command than before, the flat had to be cheap, but it had to be modern, with elevators, gas lines. It had to be in the ___39____ (east) part of London, with petrol and subway stations nearby. Though Mary found __40____difficult to find such a flat, she still went from one block to another, looking for a flat ___41____would meet Joan’s requirements. Having tried too many times, Mary met her boss and politely asked him __42___advice. It was the first time that she ____43___ (talk) with his boss about her personal problems. It happened that the boss just had such a flat for rent, so they quickly reached ___44__agreement. But to her surprise, when she e-mailed Joan, telling her the good news, Joan said that she had changed ___45__ mind--- she was not returning to London.

第三部分 阅读(共两节，满分30分)

第一节：阅读理解 (共15小题，每题1.5分，满分22.5分)

阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Elizabeth Blackwell was born in England in 1821, and moved to New York City when she was ten years old. One day she decided that she wanted to become a doctor. That was nearly impossible for a woman in the middle of the nineteenth century. After writing many letters asking for admission(录取) to medical schools, she was finally accepted by a doctor in Philadelphia. She was so determined that she taught school and gave music lessons to get money for the cost of schooling.

In 1849, after graduation from medical school. she decided to further her education in Paris. She wanted to be a surgeon(外科医师) , but a serious eye problem forced her to give up the idea.

Upon returning to the United States, she found it difficult to start her own practice because she was a woman. By 1857 Elizabeth and her sister, also a doctor, along with another woman doctor, managed to open a new hospital, the first for women and children Besides being the first woman physician and founding her own hospital , she also set up the first medical school for women.

46. Why couldn’t Elizabeth Blackwell realize her dream of becoming a surgeon?

A. She couldn’t get admitted to medical school

B. She decided to further her education in Paris

C. A serious eye problem stopped her

D. It was difficult for her to start a practice in the United States

47. What main obstacle(障碍) almost destroyed Elizabeth’s chances for becoming a doctor?

A. She was a woman.

B. She wrote too many letters.

C. She couldn’t graduate from medical school.

D. She couldn’t set up her hospital.点击进入》》》高一英语期末试卷

48. How many years passed between her graduation from medical school and the opening of her hospital?

A. Eight years    B. Ten years      C. Nineteen years     D. Thirty-six years

49. According to the passage, all of the following are “firsts” in the life of Elizabeth Blacekwell, except that she ______.

A. became the first woman physician

B. was the first woman doctor

C. and several other women founded the first hospital for women and children

D. set up the first medical school for women

50. Eilzabeth Blackwell spent most of her lift in _______.

A. England       B. Paris      C. the United States      D. New York City

B

Have you eaten too much over the holidays? You should try fidgeting for a while. Those around you might not like it, but scratching (moving your nails (指甲) against a part of your body) and twitching (moving suddenly and quickly when you don’t want to) is an important way of burning up calories (卡路里).

American researchers have found that some people’s squirming (continuously turn your body when nervous) and wigging (move in small movements, especially from side to side) equals (等于) several miles of slow running each day.

The scientists, based at the National Institute of Health’s laboratory in Phenix, Arizona, are studying why some people get fat and other stay slim.

In one study 177 people each spent 24 hours in a room in the institute where the amount (量) of energy is measured by their oxygen and carbon dioxide (二氧化碳) levels. By the end of the day, some people had burned up 800 calories in toe-tapping, (moving the front part of your foot up and down) finger-drumming (hitting your fingers continuously and lightly against something hard) and other nervous habits. However, others had burned up only 100 calories.

The researchers found that slim(苗条的)women fidget more than fat women, but there was no significant difference in men. Heavy people burn up more energy when they fidget than do thin people.

51. Which of the following can be used to explain the meaning of “fidgeting”?

A. scratching and twitching            B. squirming and wigging

C. slow running                      D. moving one’s body nervously

52. We can know from the passage that scientists believe the reason why some people get fat and other people stay slim is that ____ .

A. thin people burn up less calories than fat people

B. fat people burn up more calories than thin people

C. those who burn up more calories than others will be thinner

D. those who fidget more than others will be thinner

53. Scientists found in the experiment that ____ .

A. the energy burned up by fat people when they fidget was more than that burned up by thin people when they fidget

B. some people’s fidgeting burned up more than 800 calories, but some people’s fidgeting burned up less than 100 calories

C. slim women fidget more than fat women but fat men fidget more than thin men

D. thin men fidget more than fat men

54. If someone is thin in a pleasant way, we say they are ____ .

A. skinny     B. bony      C. slim         D. underweight

55. Scientists think a fidget habit to be ____ .

A. a way to lose fat

B. a nervous habit annoying(使讨厌) the people around

C. a better exercise than slow running

D. a habit of thin people