Luckily, there is a way to be happy. It involves changing the emphasis of our thinking from what we want to what we have. Rather than wishing you were able to take a vacation to Hawaii, think of how much fun you have had close to home. The list of possibilities is endless! Each time you notice yourself falling into the “I wish life were different” trap, back off and start over. Take a breath and remember all that you have to be grateful. When you focus not on what you want, but on what you have, you end up getting more of what you want anyway. If you focus on the good qualities of your spouse (配偶), she’ll be more loving. If you are grateful for your job rather than complaining about it, you’ll do a better job, be more productive, and probably end up getting a raise anyway. If you focus on ways to enjoy yourself around home rather than waiting to enjoy yourself in Hawaii, you’ll end up having more fun. If you ever do get to Hawaii, you’ll be in the habit of enjoying yourself. And, if by some chance you don’t , you have a great life anyway. Make a note of yourself to start thinking more about what you have than what you want. If you do, your life will start appearing much better than before. For perhaps the first time in your life, you’ll know what it means to feel satisfied. 12. Why did the author say that focusing on what we want is destructive? A. If we don’t get what we want, we remain dissatisfied. B. If we do get what we want, we simply recreate the same thinking. C. If we desire what we want, we would be unhappy. D. All of the above ks5u 13. How do you understand the underlined expression “I wish life were different” in the second paragraph? A. Focusing on what you want. B. Focusing on what you have. C. Focusing on ways to enjoy yourself around home. D. Focusing on being able to take a vacation. 14. The passage implies that ______. A. getting what we want, we would be happy. B. if we focus on what we have, we would have a better life C. it is more fun than you have had close to home D. focusing on what you want, you end up getting more of what you have anyway 15. Which is NOT mentioned in the passage? A. If we focus on what we want, we may remain dissatisfied and unhappy. B. Changing our thinking from what we want to what we have would make you happy. C. Focus on the good qualities of your wife, she’ll be more loving. D. It is more fun to around home than taking a vacation to Hawaii. 第二节(共5题,每小题2分,共10分) 根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 Facebook (a social networking service) makes it far too easy to make new friends --- Unfortunately, reality is not like that. 16_ G __ The difference here is that we don’t get to choose our families; friends, on the other hand, are picked, selected and developed through our life. It is quite funny how your best friends know exactly what your are thinking without even telling them. 17_ C __ This friend’s sixth sense is something that takes time to develop through many long-lasting experiences that your go through. I was once asked: which one would be the worst thing, to lose all your loved ones or to lose all your friends? 18_ A __ I believe that I couldn’t live a day if I had lost all my friends. Respect, loyalty (忠诚),and support are few of the qualities that will form a good friendship. There are many others for sure, but it is enough for you to get these. 19_ F __ The ability to trust someone and therefore, be trusted, can be only built with a lot of effort and time. I hate that ugly Facebook’s message “Add to your friends?” It is like a friends was something that you could simply add to your “portfolio(文件夹)” without feeling. 20_ B __ A. My answer was certainly the latter. B. This is definitely not the way to make friends. C. This is not something that happens overnight. D. Life without friends is just like soup without salt. E. We need friends to help us when we meet with difficulties. F. Trust is also one of the major features of a good relationship. G. Friends sometimes are just as important to us as our families. 第Ⅱ卷(非选择题,共25分) 第四部分:写作(共两节,共25分) 第一节:短文改错(每小题1分,共10分) 假定英语课上英语老师要求同桌之间互相修改作文,请你修改你同桌的以下作文。 文中共有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。 删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。 增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),并在该词下面写出该加的词。 修改:在错的词下划一横线,在该词下面写出修改后的词。 注意:1、每处错误及修改均仅限一词。 2、只允许修改10处,多者(从11处起)不计分。 Of all my teachers, Mr. Zhang is the one who impresses me most. Though he is 40, but he looks very younger for his age. He’s one of the most popular teacher in our school. Comparing with other teachers, Mr. Zhang pays more attention to his methods of teaching. He tries many ways of make his classes lively and interesting. In her opinion, we should not only know “what”, but also understood “why”. So, instead of giving us answers immediate, he encourages us think by ourselves first. With his help, we’ve learned how to analyze and solve problems. What a wonderful world of “why” he leads us to! He is so an excellent person that we all admire him very much. 第二节 书面表达 (共15分,其中含卷面分,请注意不使用铅笔、修正带) 作为一名中学生,你肯定经历过多次考试,体验过成功,也遭遇过失败。请你根据提示内容,简要概述中学生普遍存在的对考试失败的两种态度,并结合自身实际,说明你的观点。要求:词数120词左右;可根据内容要求适当增加细节,以使行文连贯。 态度一:当考试结果不尽人意时,情绪低落,丧失信心,不再继续努力。 态度二:当考试失败时,分析失败的原因,鼓励自己,增强自信,避免再犯同样的错误。 你的观点:失败乃成功之母。 ________________________________________________________________________ 山西大学附中2011—2012年高一第二学期开学综合考试(2月月考)英语试题答案 听力(共两节,共10分) 1-5 ACBAC 6-10 BABCB 单项选择(共15小题;每小题1分,共15分) 1-5 CADDB 6-10 CCCDB 11-15 BACDC 完型填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,共30分) 1-5 CABCA 6-10 BCDDB 11-15 CABAB 16-20 AABBD 阅读理解(共20题; 每小题2分,共40分) 1-4 CDAA 5-8 CDAA 9-11 BDD 12-15 DABD 16-20 GCAFB ks5u 短文改错(每小题1分,共10分) 1. 去掉but 2. younger—young 3. teacher—teachers 4. Comparing—Compared 5. of—to 6. her—his 7. understood—understand 8. immediate—immediately 9. think前加 to 10. so—such 书面表达(共15分,其中含卷面分) As middle school students, we all have taken examinations of different types and experienced success as well as failure. Different students have different attitudes towards failure in the exams. Some of us become low in spirits in the face of failure. Worse still, some students are so disappointed that they don’t want to make further efforts in their studies. As a result, their studies go from bad to worse as time goes on. Fortunately, some students take quite positive attitudes towards their setbacks. They spare no efforts in analyzing the cause of their failure and at the same time encourage themselves to become more confident so that they won’t repeat their mistakes in their later examinations. As far as I’m concerned, I believe that failure is the mother of success. As long as we can find out the root cause of our failure and step up our efforts to improve our ways of learning, we can surely make great progress and turn our dreams into reality. (责任编辑:admin) |