高一下学期期末七选五专项训练

1、高一七选五专项训练（一）01Starting high school means changes in your life. Most teenagers look forward to the first day of high school, but still feel a little bit nervous. In order to make your high school life easier,Learn all you can about your first day before the first school day. Take part insome activiti

2、es that are held at the school for new students to know the school better. If parents are invited to these activities, take yours with you. Carefully look over all the materials you receive.Get the things you will need for class. But the things suggested on your teachers9supply lists and place your

3、materials for each class separately. 38 If you find yourenot doing well in a subject, make use of after-school study groups or ask your teacher to help you with your schoolwork. Consider private tutoring to get you through a difficult time. Theres more extracurricular（课夕卜的）activities in high school

4、than in middle school, such as clubs, music and theatre groups, student government, and sports teams. Make friends and be seen at such school activities. 39 Ask someone in the school office about opportunities to take part inschool activities if you dont know how. This is a good time to do what you

5、like doing and an opportunity to try new things. Who said school has to be all work and no play? Since youre attending more activities in high school than in middle school, 40you can follow these tips.Keep up with your high school workload.Here are some tips for you to follow.All work and no play ma

6、kes Jake a dull boy.youll have to learn to manage your time.Be sure you know where the schools buildings are.Join a club or other organizations to meet people and develop friendships.02Learning how to use new words well will make it easier to learn a language and make you more knowledgeable.36 .If y

7、ou are committed to building your vocabulary, set a goal for yourself. Try to learn three new words a day and use them in your speech and writing. With great efforts, you can learn several thousand new words that you will remember and use.Write more. 37, Actively exercising your writing muscles will

8、 keep your vocabularystrong. Write letters to old friends and use lots of specific details. 38 If you typically avoid composing memos or writing group emails or participating in group discussions, change your habits and write more. You might as well get paid while you are building your vocabulary.Us

9、e flash cards or post-it notes around your house. If youre going to make a habit of learning new words, try some simple memorization techniques. Hang post-its with the definition of a particular word you hope to memorize above the coffee maker, so you can study it while making your morning cup. 39 E

10、ven if youre watching TV or doing other activities, keep some flash cards with you and study your new words.Use accurate adjectives and precise nouns. The best writers aim to keep it short and accurate. Get out the dictionaries and use the most accurate words possible in your sentences. 40 A word is

11、 a useful addition to your vocabulary if it reduces the number of the words in a sentence.A. Have a goalSet an exampleDont use three words when one will doStart keeping a diary if you dont, or start a blogConsider taking on more writing tasks at workStick a new word to each house plant so you can st

12、udy while wateringIt also pays to create a good habit of guessing what the writer is really trying to say.03How to make friends at a new schoolStarting with a new school can be difficult. Everything seems to be different, and you dont even know where to go for your own classes. 36 However, if you us

13、e these skills, you can quickly turn some of those strangers into friends.Be yourself.37 If some people dont accept you, they*re not the kind of friends you need. People often stay together because they have similar interests. For example, someone who does a lot of sport may make friends with those

14、who also run or swim a lot.38Remember to be nice to the people you meet at your new school. If you think that you will say something that may make them feel sad, do not say anything and just nod your head if they talk to you. Also, remember to be as helpful as possible!Believe in yourself.A smile go

15、es a long way. When you walk in the halls, dont keep your eyes on the floor. Raise your head and make eye contact （目光接触）with other people. 39 Introduce yourself. Tell them your name and where youre from.Remember peoples names.You like it when people use your name, and so do other people. 40 Besides,

16、 ask them in a kind way if they have a nickname （昵称）.Youd be surprised how often this might come in handy.Be friendly to others.Making new friends can be hard, too.Join after-school activities you like.Never change who you are to try and fit in.If you see someone you know, smile or say Hi”.People ma

17、y become angry if you just begin by saying Hey” each time.Dont sit at the back of the classroom where other people dont notice you!04What will you do if you cant eat everything bought in the canteen? 36 According to a survey, what students waste every year could feed over 10 million people. 37 Accor

18、ding to Xinhua News Agency, the food wasted by Chinese people is about 50 million tons of grain every year, which could feed 200 million people.Food waste, which has become a global issue, serves as a mirror that reflects various cultural and social issues in different countries. In the West, for in

19、stance, consumerism, the belief that it*s a good thing to use a lot of goods and services, is often to blame for food waste. 38 Chinese people are well known for being hospitable and generous. Many even feel that they lose face if their guests have eaten all the food. On campus, a generation of sing

20、le children is less aware of the food waste issue. Students nowadays are well protected by their families and hardly have any concept of how much toil others go through in order to provide them with the food they eat. 39 There are over 925 million hungry people in the world, most of whom live in und

21、erdeveloped countries and areas. They dont have enough food to eat. Many children die for lack of nutrition each year in some African countries. And farmers work very hard to grow the crops. 40 Its also important that everyone should think about how they can do their bit to reduce food waste.Student

22、s waste is extremely serious.China, in turn, features its own eating culture.But canteen waste is extremely the tip of the iceberg.Students can never realize the serious food crisis.Compared with them, some live in a different world.So there*s no excuse that we should waste our food.Most of us would

23、 simply throw away any leftover food.05The importance of self-improvement often goes unnoticed. Truth is - you cant run away from yourself. The idea should be to focus on continuous self-development at every stage of life. 36Increase self-awarenessThe first step of self-improvement asks you to becom

24、e more self-aware. Self-awareness is an ongoing journey. As life goes on you meet with different experiences and challenges. 37 .To be on the path of self-improvement, its important to never lose touch with yourself.Improve strengths （优点）Self-improvement lets you identify your personal strengths. 38

25、 It gives you a better understanding of what you are seeking and where you are likely to thrive （繁荣兴旺）. It helps you set life goals and make them happen.Step out of the comfort zoneChoosing to work on improving yourself requires you to step out of your comfort zone. It lets you face your fears, try

26、new things, and challenge yourself. There will be times when youll discover a new side of your personality. 39 Dont let failures get you frustrated. And never get too comfortable in familiar spaces because life begins outside your comfort zone.40People whore invested in their continuous sell-improve

27、ment come with an extremely positive attitude towards learning. Instead of being ignorant and escaping from their problems, they make it a point to learn from their mistakes to grow and succeed. This is a wonderful quality to have as having a learning attitude is instrumental in achieving success.Im

28、prove mental healthDevelop a learning attitude.And knowing your strengths is important.However, there will also be times when youll fail.They make you more aware of your personality, thoughts and feelings.After all, you can only achieve what you want when you know what you want.Here are some reasons

29、 why self-improvement is important regardless of your age.06Things I Wish Vd Known in High SchoolSometimes high school seems like a necessary evil. Now at the end of my college journey, I know that there are still more things I could have done to make my high school experience more beneficial.36 Tak

30、e a class that scares you during high school. The experience will definitely prepare you for future academic challenges.Dont worry about your grades too much. Getting a B is not the end of the world. 37 I have started college with all As since seventh grade, and it was hard to deal with not being ab

31、le to repeat that. I stayed away from taking some harder courses I might have done well in because I was afraid of doing poorly. Now, I can fully accept that if I try my best in at least one harder class and get a B+, that is still something to be proud of.Find your own de-stressing（角星压）routine. Ano

32、ther essential skill to begin building in high school is how to manage work and stress. Maybe you deal with stress by going for a run, or watching a silly movie. Talk with a friend for a while or play with your dog. 38Spend your summers wisely. Dont take on a full-time job the first summer you decid

33、e to work. 39 Do find something to do that will make the ten weeks worthwhile. Look for programs that take you to interesting places, or a job that will give you insights into something you might be interested in.Finally, remember to have fun. Your life does not depend on high school. 40 You will ha

34、ve plenty of time to work hard in college and beyond. Be prepared, but don*t stress out too much about it. If you can make your high school experience fun, you will have no problem doing the same for your life in college and beyond.In fact, its a kind of good thing.Take full advantage of your brain.

35、You do have to be active in making friends.Do your best, but leave time for fun with friends.They will be improved if you make great efforts.Find out what relaxes you, and you will feel less stressed.Forty hours a week will be a huge shock and youll have plenty of time for that in the future.07We we

36、re high in the mountains of Xishuangbanna, as far south as you can get in Yunnan, skirting the borders of Myanmar and Laos. The drive was typical, textbook beauty: mountains thick with rubber tree forests, pure tea plantations, banana palms and tiny Dai villages. Hidden among the fields of green, I

37、spotted an odd collection of wooden boxes near a tent on the side of the road. 36We run into the current home of Wei Dajing, a 17-year-old apprentice （学徒）beekeeper who was manning his hives. Wei was fresh to the bee-keeping life, and had been on the job for just two months and was here to learn from

38、 a master bee-keeper. Their tent and hive set-up is always temporary. 37 This particular spot was stationed at a sunny patch of yellow flowers. Once these flowers die, the rubber trees will be flowering, so we will move toward them J he told Sam.Like thieves in the night, the bee-keepers will stealt

39、hily pack up their hives in the dark once the bees go to sleep. They are most active around midday when they are collecting their nectar （花蜜）38 Wei explained.The hives were humming, and bees were invasively buzzing around Wei as he spoke to us. Pieces of fruit laid drying among the hives, used to fe

40、ed the bees and give them an extra boost of energy once Wei bottled up their hard-earned honey. Sam, who also had a couple of his own small hives in his backyard, told us you must always leave a little bit of honey in the hive. 39We waved goodbye to Wei. Back at Sams house, he gave us a bowl of loca

41、l honey. 40 Lacking the usual sweetness of honey but instead rich with a more savory, spiced flavor, it tasted just like China.It was smooth, thin and runny.Wei skillfully collected honey from the hives.Otherwise the bees would get fed up and abandon you.Maybe it is the flowers that give such unique

42、 taste to the honey.By 10 pm they are asleep in their hives, which is when we move.F.I asked our excellent guide and new best friend, Sam, to pull over.G. Wei and his master move their camp as the flowers bloom and die.08Before there was the written word, there was the language of dance. Dance expre

43、sses love and hate joy and sorrow, life and death, and everything else in between.36 We dance from Florida to Alaska, from north to south and sea to sea. We dance at weddings, birthdays, office parties and just to fill the time.“I adore dancing J says Lester Bridges, the owner of a dance studio in I

44、owa. I cant imagine doing anything else with my lifb. Bridges runs dance classes for all ages. Teaching dance is wonderful. 37 Its great to watch them. For many of them,its a way of meeting people and having a social life/938 I can tell you about one young couple J says Bridges. TheyYe learning to d

45、o traditional dances. They arrive at the class in low spirits and they leave with a smile. 39 ”So, do we dance in order to make ourselves feel better, calmer, healthier? Andrea Hillier says, Dance, like the pattern of a beating heart, is life. Even after all these years, I want to get better and bet

46、ter. 40 I find it hard to stop! Dancing reminds me Im alive.”So why do we dance?Dance in the U.S. is everywhere.If you like dancing outdoors, come to America.My older students say it makes them feel young.I keep practicing even when Pm extremely tired.Dancing seems to change their feeling completely

47、.They stayed up all night long singing and dancing.09Many students want to learn a foreign language well, but what must they do? In my opinion, in order to know a foreign language thoroughly, four things are necessary. 36 Secondly, we must be able to speak it ourselves correctly with confidence and

48、without hesitation. Thirdly, we must be able to read the language, and fourthly, we must be able to write it. 37There is no easy way to succeed in language learning. A good memory is a great help. 38 It is not much use learning by heart long lists of words and their meanings, studying the dictionary

49、 and so on.39 If we are satisfied with only a few rules we have memorized, we are not really learning the language. Learn through use is a good piece of advice for those who are studying a new language. Practice is important. 40We must learn by using the language.To master a foreign language is very

50、 important.Firstly, we must understand the language when we hear it spoken.We must be able to make sentences that are grammatically correct.We must study how we have to do to learn a foreign language.But it is not enough only to memorize rules from a grammar book.We must practice speaking and writin

51、g the language whenever we can.10How similar are language and music?Language is part of our daily lives, no matter where we live in the world. 36 Both language and music play a huge role in our culture and here are some of their similarities.Both language and music have a writing system.In English we