一、阅读理解

A

（2020. ）"Our aim is to take our art to the world and make people understand what it is to move," said David Belle, the founder of parkour.

Do you love running? It is a good exercise, yet many people find it boring. But what if making your morning jog a creative one? Like jumping from walls and over gaps, and ground rolls? Just like James Bond in the movie Casino Royale? Bond jumps down from a roof to a windowsill and then runs several blocks over obstacles on the way. It is just because of Bond's wonderful performances that the sport has become popular worldwide.

Yes, that's parkour, an extreme street sport aimed at moving from one point to another as quickly as possible, getting over all the barriers in the path using only the abilities of the human body. Parkour is considered an extreme sport. As its participants dash around a city, they may jump over fences, run up walls and even move from rooftop to rooftop.

Parkour can be just as exciting and charming as it sounds, but its participants see parkour much more than that.

Overcoming all the obstacles on the course and in life is part of the philosophy behind parkour. This is the same as life. You must determine your destination, go straight, jump over all the barriers as if in parkour and never fall back in your life, to reach the destination successfully. A parkour lover said, "I love parkour because its philosophy has become my life, my way to do everything."

Another philosophy we've learnt from parkour is freedom. It can be done by anyone, at any time, anywhere in the world. It is a kind of expression of trust in yourself.

1. Parkour has become popular throughout the world because of .

A. its founder, David Belle B. the varieties of participants

C. its risks and tricks D. the film, Casino Royale

2. The underlined word "obstacles" in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to " ".

A. streets B. objects

C. roofs D. barriers

3. Which of the following is the philosophy of parkour?

A. Sports and extremes. B. Determination and freedom.

C. Dreams and success. D. Excitement and popularity.

4. Which of the following is true of parkour?

A. It is a team sport. B. It is a good but boring sport.

C. It needs special training. D. It challenges human abilities.

B

（2020. ）Years ago, I was so confident, and so naive(幼稚的). I was so sure that I was right and everyone else was wrong.

Unfortunately I was lucky and got successful, so that kept me blind to my weak points. I sold my company, felt ready to do something new, and started to learn. But the more I learned, the more I realized how little I knew and how lucky I had been.

I'd start to make things, but then saw how stupid I was, so I stpped. I lost all confidence. I spent a few years completely stuck.

Finally, some new ideas helped:

Learning without doing is wasted. If I don't use what I learn, then it is pointless! How terrible to waste hundreds of hours spent learning, and not turn them into action. Like throwing good food in the trash: it's wrong.

This isn't about me. How I feel in this moment doesn't matter－it will pass. Nobody is judging me, because nobody is thinking of me. They are just looking for things to improve their own life. The public me is not the real me anyway, so if they judge my public personality, that's fine.

The work is the point, and my work is special. If I can do something that people find useful, then I should. It doesn't matter if it's a masterpiece or not, as long as I enjoy it.

So I'm glad my old confidence is gone. Now I aim(以……为目标)to make my work my little contribution to the world－just special and useful.

1. I lost all my confidence when______

A. I got successful in my career.

B. I Learned more than before.

C. I sold my company.

D. I realized I knew little.

2. According to the passage, the author prefer______

A. learning by using.

B. learning is wasting time.

C. learning by spending hours.

D. learning is pointless.

3. Why does the author think his work is special?

A. Because he is a unique person in his company.

B. Because he can gain confidence by helping others.

C. Because his aim is to be special in the world.

D. Because his old confidence is gone.

C

（2020. 辽宁省本溪市高级中学高二9月考）It is increasingly popular for Chinese young people to share their experiences on Social media, such as the "moments" (朋友圈) on popular instant messaging service WeChat.

"I have been reading 'Jane Eyre' for 40 days with 48,000 words finished," Li Anqi said. Li has been sharing her reading experience on WeChat moments every day since January. Working in Yinchuan, capital of Northwest China's Ningxia, Li wants to learn English very much, but cannot bare (摆脱) the daily grind (日常工作) of school lessons.

"I found many of my WeChat friends had been reading books or learning English on mobile reading apps, and I did not want to fall behind," Li said.

In January, she spent more than 100 yuan purchasing an online reading class at the Bohe Reading app, which tells customers they can: "Finish reading your first English book here." At the reading class, teachers assign reading homework and give instructions to 430 class members every day.

A survey report released (发布) on Thursday said 70.9 percent of primary and middle students in China use the Wechat instant messaging App. At the same time, 75.9 percent of Chinese children have their own mobile phones, according to China National Children's Center.

The figures were based on a survey of nearly 9,000 children across China. However, 28.8 percent of them never read news online and 43.2 percent have never touched newspapers.

The Center called for efforts to address the digital divide between urban and rural education and protect children's privacy as Internet users.

1. In the second paragraph, Jane Eyre is _________.

A. a book B. an advertisement

C. a piece of news D. a film

2. What is Li Anqi?

A. A worker. B. A doctor.

C. A teacher. D. An actress.

3. What percentage of Chinese children have their own mobile phones?

A. 70.9 percent. B. 75.9 percent.

C. 43.2 percent. D. 28.8 percent.

4. Why is Li Anqi taken as an example?

A. To call for us to be a good reader.

B. To tell us to study English on the Internet.

C. To advise us to take an online English reading course like her.

D. To suggest that experience-sharing on social media is getting more and more popular in China.

D

（2020. 辽宁省本溪市高级中学、盘锦市高级中学高二期中）I didn't understand the irony (讽刺) immediately. Only on the way home. The book I had just returned to our local library was called "Unquiet Landscape" by Christopher Neve. He widened my view.

But the ironic word for me in his books title. Irealized, was "unquiet". It applied not to the landscape but to our local library. I have thus visited it again since then, and my conclusion is much the same: This is no longer a quiet place.

On both of my visits the library was packed with small children, and they were doing rather a lot of small-children things, such as dancing in circles, singing, jumping up and down, and so on. Various adults sitting around were clearly not discouraging them, rather the opposite.

I wasn't exactly shocked. But I have to say that my understanding of library behavior and purpose changed somewhat. All my upbringing (教养) about libraries was what they were sanctums(圣地), places of escape in a noisy world. If one clearedone's throat in a library, one was likely to be stared at by the librarians not to mention tolerating the disapproval of fellow library users enjoying their post-lunch nap. The first school I attended had a library that was entirely conventional infunction. In it, we boys did (or were expected to do) one thing only: read. The second school i attended allowed one to write as well as read in the library.

Since those days, my attitude, I hope, has changed a little. I've come across some very pleasant librarians eager to help with my projects. Some of them are surprisingly generous with providing access to their books, which are as dear to them as their own children. And the silence rule has, over the years, become much less strict. Even quite loud laughter, I find, is not always opposed to.

1. What did the author do after finishing the book?

A. He visited the lands mentioned in the book.

B. He expressed his admiration to the book winter.

C. He kept his habit of staying quiet in the library.

D. He made a close observation of the local library.

2. What did the author find out about the adults in the library?

A. They made lots of noise.

B. They were soft with the kids.

C. They didn't listen to the librarians.

D. They couldn't stop their kids bad behavior.

3. What's the author's attitude to librarians nowadays?

A. Positive. B. Disappointed.

C. Unconcerned. D. Worried.

二、七选五阅读

（2020. 安徽省蚌埠市第二中学高二期中）There are always a lot of pressures in life: appointments you are late for, health and financial worries and so on. ____1___. Under such pressure, your child came in: He'd lost his sneakers, and suddenly remembered that he needed a new notebook for school, or he was teasing his little sister.

In your peaceful moments, you could probably have handled any parenting challenge much better from a state of calm. ____2____. How could this kid be so irresponsible, inconsiderate, ungrateful or even mean? So you scolded your child angrily. The whole process only took a few seconds.

If your young child does not seem afraid of your anger, it shows that your child has seen too much of it and has developed defenses against it. The more often you get angry, the more prepared for it your child will be. ____3___. In the end, your child is more likely to be open to the influences of his peer group. That means you have some repair work to do.

Sometimes your child gets angry too, so it's a double gift for you to find constructive ways to deal with your anger: Not only do you not hurt your child, but you also offer your child a role model. ____4____. So the best way is not to yell out. Stop and calm yourself down. Take a deep breath. ____5____. If you really need to scream, go into your car with the windows rolled up and scream where no one can hear, but don't use words.

A. The list is endless

B. Anger is scary enough

C. That deep breath is your pause button

D. How you handle your anger teaches your child a lot

E. There are some parents who never get angry at their children

F. And the less likely your child will want to behave to please you

G. But in the storm of your anger

you might feel it was your right as parents to be angry

三、完型填空

（2020. 北京市北京师范大学附中高二期中）I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight（货物）yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I am thirty-two. I can still___1___the brightness of sunshine. It would be___2___to see again, but a___3___can do strange things to people. I don't mean that I would prefer to go without my eyes. I simply mean that the___4___of them made me___5___more what I had.

Life, I believe, asks a continuous series of adjustments to reality. The more quickly a person is able to make these adjustments, the more___6___his own private world becomes. The adjustment is never___7___I was totally confused and afraid. But I was lucky. My parents and my teachers saw something in me—the___8___to live—which I didn't see, and they made me want to___9___against blindness.

The hardest____10____I had to learn was to believe in myself. I am not talking about simply the kind of____11____that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: the confidence that I am, despite being imperfect, a real,____12____person; that there is a special place where I can make myself fit.

It took me years to discover and____13____this confidence. It had to start with the simplest things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball. I thought he was making fun of me and I was hurt. "I can't use this." I said. "Take it with you," he____14____me, "and roll it around." The words____15____in my head. "Roll it around!" By rolling the ball I could hear where it went. This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought____16____: playing baseball. At Philadelphia's Overbrook School for the Blind I____17____a successful variation of baseball and I called it ground ball.

All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a time. I had to be clear about my____18____It was no good trying for something that I knew at the start was wildly out of reach____19____that only invited the bitterness of failure. I would____20____sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress.

1. A. remember B. affect C. measure D. bring

2. A. possible B. wonderful C. hopeful D. reasonable

3. A. question B. mistake C. disaster D. situation

4. A. importance B. value C. loss D. attention

5. A. record B. expect C. offer D. appreciate

6. A. natural B. modern C. meaningful D. challenging

7. A. necessary B. easy C. difficult D. practical

8. A. right B. plan C. place D. potential

9. A. guard B. hit C. argue D. fight

10. A. game B. skill C. lesson D. knowledge

11. A. self-control B. self-confidence C. self-defense D. self-improvement

12. A. modest B. energetic C. generous D. positive

13. A. strengthen B. express C. share D. destroy

14. A. urged B. blamed C. respected D. admired

15. A. held B. stuck C. bothered D. knocked

16. A. important B. specific C. common D. impossible

17. A. invented B. confirmed C. checked D. noticed

18. A. interest B. limitation C. experience D. responsibility

19. A. once B. unless C. because D. though

20. A. fail B. try C. act D. continue

四、语法填空

（2020. 湖北省荆门市高二期末）My dear grandson, your mother tells me that you ____1____(start) smoking some time ago and now you are finding it difficult ____2____(give) it up. By the way, did you know that this is ___3___ you become addicted in three different ways?

Firstly, you can become physically addicted to nicotine, ____4____ is one of the hundreds of harmful chemicals in ____5____(cigarette). This means that ____6____(accustom) to having nicotine in it, you feel good. But when the drug leaves your body, you get withdrawal symptoms. I remember ____7____(feel) bad-tempered and sometimes even more pain.

Secondly, you become addicted ____8____ habit. As you know, if you do the same thing over and over again, you begin to do it automatically. Lastly, you can become ____9____(mental) addicted. I believed I was _____10_____(happy) and more relaxed after having a cigarette, so I began to think that I could only feel good when I smoked. I was addicted in all three ways, so it was very difficult to quit. But I did finally manage.

五、短文改错

（2020. 湖北省宜昌市葛洲坝中学高二期中）假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

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。

Nowadays there was a kind of language called Web language. Some people even speak Chinese mixed in English words. This is a phenomenon which is worth think about. Some people think it will ruin a Chinese language. However, the others, especially the youngsters, are fond this new language. They think it of special help in expressing them. What's more, it may make the language having more uses. In my opinion, it's no good using this kind of language. It may be popular, but you may also get others puzzling. It is hard to say whether it is good or not, but there is going to have a discussion about it tomorrow.

六、书面表达

（2020. 天津市静海区独流中学高二月考）假设你是天津某中学高二年级的学生李津。你校正在讨论是否应该骑自行车上学。请你围绕这一论题，根据以下要点用英语写一封倡议书，号召尽可能多的同学骑自行车上学。

要点：1. 建议骑自行车上学；

2. 自行车是学生常用交通工具；

3. 骑自行车的一些好处；

4. 骑自行车需要注意的问题。

注意：1. 词数： 不少于100字，开头和结束语已经

你写好（不计入总词数）；

2. 可以根据要点适当增加细节， 使行文连贯。

Dear schoolmates,

Recently, a debate concerning whether we should cycle to school or not has appeared in our school.__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Don't hesitate everybody. Let's ride to school.

Li Jin

From Class 1 Grade 1

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