辽宁省大连市2017-2018学年高一上学期英语期末考试试卷

    We found him a few weeks ago, walking along the road in the countryside. He was jumping on cars, and we 1 maybe his family was camping somewhere nearby,2 we passed him by. A few hours later, on our return 3 he was still in the same place,4 trying to get people to 5 for him. When he noticed 6 he lay down in the middle of the road, so we were unable to7 him.

    We stopped the car and looked around for a few minutes, trying to find his 8. But we failed. Then we took a 9 look at the dog. He had no collar（项圈）and he was really 10We decided he was abandoned.

    My husband said, “11 he doesn't bite（咬）me when I try to pick him up to put him in the 12we will have a new dog.” The dog 13 joined us with no fight at all. He kept sticking his head between the two front seats and thanking us for14 him up.

    The dog had been 15 on the road for some time. He was so thin. So, we 16 him a lot over the next two weeks and he gained over twenty pounds. We took him to the vet（兽医）, who said the dog appears to be in good 17The vet guessed the dog is about two or three years of age, from the condition of his teeth.

    We do 18 this dog. He has been mistreated and yet, he is still very sweet. He had no manners, but he is a 19learner. He no longer tries to get on the bed, but he does like sitting in chairs. He has become a 20of our family.

Carol: I started playing the cello（大提琴）when I was about eight or nine. It was great playing the cello because I was in youth orchestras and we went abroad to do tours. But anyway, when I got to university, I stopped playing. Well, there just wasn't time and there were so many other things to do. Luckily, I took it up after my 25^th birthday and joined a band.

Daniel: When I was little, I thought I'd end up learning the guitar like my father, but then I decided that I wanted to have my own instrument, so I chose the trumpet（小号）. I'm in the school jazz band and I'd like to be a musician when I grow up, but my dad says it's difficult to make a living from music. But I don't want to be a lawyer like him. It's so boring.

Carmen: Nobody likes living near someone like me because when I practice, I make a lot of noise! But you have to keep practicing, don't you? Otherwise it gets more and more difficult. The trouble is, in the summer, when it's hot, I have to open the windows, so the whole street gets to hear it if I'm not careful. I love playing the drums and I play in a fantastic band.

Vince: I've played the guitar for as long as I can remember, but when I was trying to make it as a musician after school, I used to play in the Underground in London to make a bit of extra money. I kept on playing, but I ran a restaurant to make a living. When I get any spare time I still play. I've got a few friends who like music too and we have formed a band.

    Winslow Homer was a famous American painter. Since Art History class in college, I had always admired his works and I was lucky to see a large exhibition of his works when I was in my early 30s.It was at this event that I bought a print of his painting, “Snap the Whip”. It always hung in my classroom until I retired from teaching.

    I thought it truly captured the freedom and fun of childhood. In the painting, a group of young boys are playing a game arm in arm on grass ground in front of a farm house. They are jumping and laughing wildly with great joy. One of the boys is falling down to the ground. They are not even wearing shoes!

    During my last year of teaching, there was a young woman in her first year of teaching right next door to me and we got to be good friends. She had been an art student before taking up education. Her eyes were drawn immediately to this print when she entered my room. So on my last day of teaching, after the students had left, I took the painting off the wall and walked next door and gave it to her.

    She was really surprised, but very glad to have it. I was delighted that she liked it and all the students she would have would treasure it as much as I had. We found the perfect place for it on one of her walls and hung it together. I was happy that she brought back this wonderful memory for me.

    Sharing E Umbrella, a new umbrella sharing company based in Shenzhen, China, recently announced that it had lost most of the 300,000 umbrellas since it set up.

    China's sharing economy has been growing rapidly, with companies offering anything from bicycles and basketballs to phone batteries for people to rent. Customers make a small deposit（押金）and get to use the thing for a daily cost, with a fine put in place for every day if they fail to return the product in time. It's a simple business model, and market data shows that people see sharing as a cheap and convenient way to cut down waste.

    Zhao Shuping founded the Sharing E Umbrella, an umbrella sharing service, in April. By the end of June, he had already started in 11 major Chinese cities, including Shanghai, Nanjing and Guangzhou. While picking up the umbrellas was simple, as they were made available（可得到的）at bus and subway stations, the return system turned out to be a different matter. “Umbrellas are different from bicycles,” Mr. Zhao told Chinese news site thepaper.cn. “Bikes can be parked anywhere, but with an umbrella you need something to hang it on.”

    So instead of bothering to return the umbrellas back to a station, a lot of people just took them home, and Sharing E Umbrella has reportedly lost track of most of the 300,000 umbrellas. Considering that borrowing umbrellas requires a 19 yuan deposit, with a fee of 0.50 yuan per half an hour usage, Zhao says that he suffers a loss of 60 yuan per lost umbrella, so the company is now in the red, but he is not ready to stop it just yet. Zhao announces that Sharing E Umbrella still plans to roll out（推出）30 million nationwide by the end of the year.

    More than 135,000 UK drinkers will die from cancer caused by alcohol（酒精）by the year 2035, researchers say. A study by Sheffield University and Cancer Research UK shows that alcohol will cost the NHS (National Health Service)￡53 billion over the next ten years including ￡2 billion on cancer.

    Although alcohol is known to cause many types of cancer including breast and throat, most people don't realize the relation between alcohol and cancer. A survey of 2,100 Britons by the researchers earlier this year found nine in ten did not connect drinking with cancer. The researchers used a computer model to work out the numbers of alcohol-related cancer deaths, hospital admissions（入院）and total costs to NHS over the next 20 years.

    The study shows that a fifth of men and 1 in 10 women have alcohol every day—many of these are middle-aged and middle class. Researchers are very worried about this group as they believe cancer may be caused by drinking over long periods. The study shows that even if the cost stays as it is, alcohol-related cancer deaths will rise from 6,299 in 2015 to 7,097 in 2034. Alcohol will lead to 891,299 hospital admissions, up from 802,118 in 2015, and 65,005 will be caused by cancer.

    Earlier this year Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies studied carefully the alcohol guidance（指导）for the first time in thirty years. She told people there was no safe level of drinking and advised them to drink no more than 14 units a week. But researchers say this guidance isn't enough and want the government to increase a little price per unit of alcohol.

    It is easy to keep your spirits bright when life is going along smoothly and good news seems to turn up at every turn. It is an entirely different picture when life goes off course or bad news appears. The question then becomes: How do we keep our spirits bright throughout the different stages of life?

Get Enough Sleep

    It wasn't until I became a mother that I realized how important a good night's sleep truly is. Sleep is such an amazing gift to recharge and start.

Back to Basics（基本）

    When I feel tired with too much to do, I love to put on my shoes and get outside for a run. Getting back to basics can include things like: getting outside, having real conversations with real people, enjoying a meal with a loved one or doing an activity that brings you joy.

    Time Management

    If life feels like it is out of control and you can't keep up, see what happens when you try to manage your time. There are many time management systems out there that can help. Have event reminders（提醒）on your phone and computer. Start your day by writing a list of what you plan to achieve. And sometimes we also need to let go of things that aren't important.

    Keeping our deepest desires and dreams alive is the very fuel that keeps our spirits bright. Give yourself the gift of having goals and dreams, and don't allow fear to have a say in how big your dreams may be.

A. Dream Big

B. We can keep your spirits bright anytime

C. Set an alarm to remind you to leave early

D. Try out the following if they sound like a fit for you

E. For this reason, I should never feel tired in the outside

F. Getting enough pillow time has a way of making us feel more human

G. There's something about nature and fresh air that gets my stress away

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删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。

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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。

    I used to like junk food very much, and my mother didn't allow me to eat it. Sometimes I would secret go to eat it. I liked to eat French fries（薯条）, and could eat a lot at a time. One day I went to have some again. I ordered two fries and two sandwich. After finish the meal, I got a sick feeling in the stomach. I was very afraid that I didn't tell my mother. Then I throw up and felt hot all over my body. As a result, my mother came and found that if I got a fever. He took me to the nearby hospital in the hurry. Since then, I never touched junk food again.

    E-commerce（电子商务）has changed the lives of people across the world. With fewer people (leave) home for shopping, physical stores are having a more (difficulty) time. It seems that one kind of physical store is not being hit—the convenience store.

    Convenience store sales in 2016 in China increased by 13 percent (compare) with that of 2015, according to China Daily. There are now(near) 100,000 convenience stores in China. And in Japan, there are 11,000 more convenience stores in 2017 than in 2010.

    Why are these 24-hour stores with average area of 110 square meters enjoying such rapid (develop)?

    One reason is that young people have grown into the habit of shopping at convenience stores, noted Convenience Store News. Convenience (store) not only have everything for daily use, but also fresh food like sushi, bread and salads, are all quite popular among young people.

    What's more, different  supermarkets, many convenience stores sell things they make themselves, like bread and cakes. As these products can only(find) in these stores, many people go there just to buy them.

1). 京剧是中国的国剧；

2). 京剧有两百年的历史；

3). 在国内外享有盛誉。

注意：1). 词数100左右；

2). 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear Tom,

Yours,

Li Hua