2022-2023学年湖南省郴州市高一下学期期末考试英语试题
1. A writer’s home is a kind of autobiography, and visiting the place where a great work of literature was written gives you a deeper understanding of both the book and the person who wrote it. Here are some famous writers’ houses to check out.
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s House
Emerson lived in this house for 46 years until his death in 1882 and wrote his essays Nature and Self-Reliance in a study on the first floor, although his son later said that Emerson’s “real study” was nearby Walden Woods.
Margaret Mitchell’s Apartment
For Gone with the Wind fans, Margaret Mitchell’s house is their dream place. Mitchell moved into Apartment No. 1 of this building when she just got married in 1926 and lived there for six years. She worked on her novel on a table in the living room. When the novel was accepted for publication in 1935, it immediately became a big hit.
William Faulkner’s Rowan Oak
Rowan Oak, Faulkner’s home for almost 30 years, is where he wrote many of his major works, including Light in August. In his study, he sometimes wrote his plot structures on the wall, and then painted over them when he finished the book. In fact, you can still see the plot for his novel A Fable penciled on the wall right where he left it.
Ernest Hemingway’s House
Ernest Hemingway lived in this house for the most productive eight years of his life. He wrote most of his major works in his office, which you could only get to by walking across a bridge that extended from the upstairs bedroom. Almost everything in the house had a story.
1. Which of the four places housed its owner for the longest time?
A．Ralph Waldo Emerson’s House.
B．Margaret Mitchell’s Apartment.
C．William Faulkner’s Rowan Oak.
D．Ernest Hemingway’s House.
2. What do we know from the text?
A．Emerson’s “real study” was on the first floor of his house.
ignore the waste behind youB．Margaret Mitchell’s Apartment was a dream place for her.
C．Faulkner sometimes liked painting his house structures.
D．Hemingway’s office was accessible only by crossing a bridge.
3. What is the writer’s purpose of writing the text?
A．To advertise some famous writers’ works.
B．To recommend some famous writers’ houses.
C．To introduce some famous writers’ birthplaces.
D．To recall some famous writers’ life experiences.
2. It’s been 10 years since Yasuo Takamatsu lost his wife Yuko when a tsunami hit the town of Unagawa, but he continued to search for her every weekend.
On the day when Yuko disappeared, in 2011, Yasuo Takamatsu received the last text mes
sage from her. It read “Are you OK? I’ m coming home.”
Since then, he has been looking for her and won’t stop until he finds her. “I’ m sure she is on the way home. She has never gone back on her words,” Yasuo insists.
In the beginning, he searched for Yuko on land, starting at the bank where she was last seen, then along the beaches of Unagawa, in nearby forests and mountains.
Two years after her disappearance, Yasuo registered at a local diving school to take diving lessons, so he could start searching for her in the sea. He has been going on weekly dives for the past seven and a half years, racking up almost 500 underwater searches.
Yasuo Lakamatsu has been aided in his underwater searches by Masayoshi Takahashi, the diving instructor who taught him to dive. He has been keeping track of Yasuo’s searches, recording what areas he has combed, where the dead bodies might gather on the seabed, etc.
Apart from his own weekly dives, the 64- year-old also joins local authorities in underwater searches for the 2,500 people who remain lost following the 2011 tsunami. In his searches, Takamatsu has found all sorts of things belonging to the missing persons, but nothing helps him find his wife. He refuses to give up, though.
1. What kept Yasuo searching for his wife for 10 years?
A．Takahashi’ s selfless assistance.
B．A new text from his wife.
C．The belief that she is still alive.
D．The latest survivors he found.
2. What does the underlined phrase”racking up”in paragraph 5 probably mean?
A．totaling.
B．forgetting.
C．winning.
D．including.
3. Why has the diving coach been keeping a record of Yasuo’s searches?
A．To find the dead bodies.
B．To avoid searching the same areas.
C．To test the diving equipment.
D．To measure the training effect.
4. Which of the following can best describe Yasuo?
A．Ambitious and confident.
B．Humorous and considerate.
C．Determined and warm-hearted.
D．Selfless and hardworking.
3. Sustainability(可持续性), one of the biggest topics of the last decade, has become the ray of hope to protect the planet. It's a topic we can't ignore and we must act now in a more sustainable way.