北京市重点中学2023-2024学年高一上学期12月月考英语试题

 It took me a long time before I was able to fully appreciate what they __ for me.

 Up to now, the program ____ thousands of children who would otherwise have died.

 —Peter , where did you guys go for the summer vacation?

—We____ busy with our work for months, so we went to the beach to relax ourselves.

 —I'm sorry, but I don't quite follow you. Did you say you wanted to return on September 20?

—Sorry, I ____myself clear. We want to return on October 20.

 — Were you surprised by the ending of the film?

—NO, I ____ the book, so I already knew the story

 I was just going to cut my rose bushes but someone ____it. Was it you?

 When you are home, give a call to let me know you ____safely.

This coastal area _______ a national wildlife reserve last year.

— Why, Jack, you look so tired!

— Well, I ______ the house and I must finish the work tomorrow.

It's 7:30. Hurry up! Your train ____ at 8: 15.

Joseph ____to evening classes since last month, but he still can't say "What's your name?" in Russian.

—Have you finished reading Jane Eyre?

—No, I____my homework all day yesterday.

The church tower which     will be open to tourists soon. The work is almost finished.

"Life is like walking in the snow", Granny used to say, "because every step____"

 Every few years, the coal workers ____their lungs X-rayed to ensure their health.

It is reported that many a new house________at present in the disaster area.

—Guess what, we've got our visas for a short —term visit to the UK this summer.

—How nice! you ____a different culture then.

The discovery of gold in Australia led thousands to believe that a fortune ______.

 I walked slowly through the market, where people ____all kinds of fruits and vegetables. I studied the prices carefully and bought what I needed.

—Joan was badly injured in the accident yesterday and she was sent to hospital.

—Oh, really? I______. I ______ visit her.

 Linda, make sure the tables ____ before the guests arrive.

 Excuse me. I____I was blocking your way.

 In the spoken English of some areas in the US, the "r" sounds at the end of the words____.

 The book has been translated into thirty languages since it ____ on the market in 1973.

 The house ____the capitalist used to live in is now a nursery.　

 My neighbors used to give me a hand in time of trouble, ____was very kind of them.

 Alice received an invitation from her boss, ____ came as a surprise.

It's helpful to put children in a situation ____ they can see themselves differently.

 Mr Zhou, ____　native language was Chinese, could read and write several foreign languages.

 I took my friend to the Summer Palace, ____we had taken some photos.　

 Do you remember the day ____your sister was graduated as a Master of Arts?　

 We all remember the days ____we spent together at school.　

 Do you know the reason ____　he didn't come?　

 He has four dogs, the biggest ____ is called Wang Wang.

 The old lady had one son and two daughters, ____ treated her well, ____ made her very sad.

Look out! Don't get too close to the house ____ roof is under repair.

 The railway tunnel, through ____ the train goes, will be completed soon. 

I'm going to spend my holiday in Beijing, ____live my old parents.

 The boy ____composition won the first prize is the youngest in the group.

In the dark street, there wasn't a single person ____ she could turn for help.

Even though Beecher Prep is just a few blocks from our house, I've only been on that block a couple of times before. In general, I try to avoid blocks ____ there are lots of kids roaming around.

Next week I start fifth grade. Since I've never been to a real school before, I am pretty much totally and completely petrified.

I like when mom tells this story because it makes me laugh so much. It's not funny in the way a joke is funny, but when Mom tells it, Via and I just start cracking up.

I'm not exaggerating when I say this, but my heart literally started beating like I'd just run the longest race in the world. The laughter I had inside just poured out of me.

"Only dorks take leadership," Julian interrupted. "Julian, you're being so obnoxious!" said Charlotte, which made Julian laugh.

Henry kept trying to open his lock but couldn't do it. He was getting frustrated and kind of cursing under his breath.

"Okay, guys, you can talk about Star Wars stuff at recess," said Ms. Petosa cheerfully. "But let's keep going. We haven't heard from you yet," she said to Jack. Now it was Jack's turn to talk, but I admit I didn't hear a word he said.

Up till a few days before, we still weren't sure I would be going to school at all. After my tour of the school, Mom and Dad had reversed sides on whether I should go or not. Mom was not the one saying I shouldn't go and Dad was saying I should.

"That's not true," she said. "I can't believe you would just cut it off like that," she added snottily, and then practically slammed my bedroom door shut as she left the room.

 Kids would take the longest way around me to avoid bumping into me in any way, like I had some germ they could catch, like my face was contagious. 

Ms. Petosa told us a little about who she was. It was boring stuffy about where she originally came from, and how she always wanted to reach, and she left her job on Wall Street about six years ago to pursue her "dream" and teach kids.

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The Party of Their Lives

In Los Angeles's infamous Skid Row, there are hundreds of children living on the streets or in shelters. It's a place where dreams go to die. But one couple is determined to use their own experience with loss to foster a sense of hope.

In 2013, Mary Davis and her husband lost their first unborn kid. Refusing to let the heartbreak break them, they became volunteers in a Skid Row homeless shelter. They found that many of the kids there had never had a single birthday party before, so they decided to throw a birthday party for those homeless kids. They took over a room in the Union Rescue Mission and filled it with streamers, gifts and a cake. The kids were so excited that they made their own music—singing and clapping and, of course, laughing. 

Since then, the couple have thrown a party each and every month. They routinely attract 250 kids and their parents. An hour before each party, volunteers arrive to set up the decorations and activities: face painting, balloon artists, a DJ, cake, and pizza. There are small presents for the kids celebrating their birthdays, but the Davis make sure there are more than enough to go around. 

"I remember a mom came with her kid," Mary says. "It was their first night at the shelter, and her child had a birthday. We had an extra gift for her—pink headphones. The little girl was so excited. And her mom... she's crying. ‘I never imagined we would ever need to be in a shelter. I didn't know what to expect. But I really didn't expect a birthday party for my child.' she cried with happiness."

Doing her best to normalize these kids' lives is both heartwarming and bittersweet, Mary says. "If you look outside, you see homeless person after homeless person on the street, and it reminds you that these kids don't get to leave this area after the party."

It may be why, after throwing 88 parties, she still cries after each one. She credits the kids in the shelter with helping her hold on to hope. "We didn't realize how much joy they were going to bring us," she told CBS News. "And it was so healing for both kids and us."

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Bright Nights, Big Problems

Astronomers rate the darkness of our skies on a range of 9 (brightest) to 1 (darkest), and most of us spend our lives in the light of levels 5 to 8. All over the globe our nights are growing brighter, and almost nowhere are they growing darker. Studies increasingly link our overuse of light at night with health concerns such as sleep disorders and diseases. Other studies report the damaging ecological consequences and the big waste of energy. But the steady loss of darkness from our lives is not easily measured, for the true value of darkness is something we are barely aware of.

Since the beginning of time, a sky with stars was part of the common human experience. Everywhere on Earth, on most nights, people came face to face with the universe. This experience influenced their beliefs—their very understanding of their place in the world. Today, many of us live under skies which are polluted by light. We live under a night sky showing much fewer stars. Although our night sky continues to shape us, it is the absence of the universe around us that influences our beliefs to create. We are being shaped by a less experience of darkness, and most of us don't even know what we are missing.

Our Milky Way galaxy is home to several hundred billion stars, and the universe home to several hundred billion other galaxies. A sky with a large number of stars encourages us to emphasize our importance, to imagine humanity as the center of all things. Face to face with the endless size of the universe, we have the chance to know how insignificant we really are. But we also realize the true largeness of our living on this planet, and realize that we have an enormous responsibility to care, that there is no other place to go, that home is here.

"Everyone needs beauty as well as bread," wrote John Muir, American naturalist. Lighting designers understand that without darkness, there is no "city of light", and they work constantly to create their city's atmospheric beauty by mixing artificial light with darkness. And with night's moonlit geographies, its smells of desert rain and autumn fires, its insect symphonies interrupted by a bird's call on a lake, natural darkness has many offerings of its own.

Yet we are completely involved in artificial light. Much of this lighting is wholly unnecessary, born of habit and lack of awareness. So let us become aware: simply by keeping our existing lights we could significantly reduce their negative effects on our body, our mind, our soul. Artificial light at night is a wonder, a quality that enriches our lives. But the same has always been true of darkness, and can be again.

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What is a dream?

For centuries, people have wondered about the strange places that they seem to visit in their sleep.  However, they have been valued as necessary to a person's health and happiness. 

Historically people thought dreams contained messages from God. It was only in the twentieth century that people started to study dreams scientifically believing that they tell about a person's character.  He believed that dreams allow a person to express fantasies or fears, which would be socially unacceptable in real life. 

The second theory to become popular was Carl Jung's compensation theory. Jung, a former student of Freud, said that the purpose of a dream is not to hide something, but rather to communicate it to the dreamer.  Thus, people who think too highly of themselves may dream about falling; those who think too little of themselves dream of being heroes. 

Using more recent research, William Domhoff from the University of California found that dreaming is a mental skill that needs time to develop in humans. Until they reach age five, they can't express very well what their dreams are about. Once people become adults, there is little or no change in their dreams. The dreams of men and women differ. For instance, the characters that appear in the dreams of men are often other men, and often involve physical aggression.

The meaning of dreams continues to be difficult to understand.

 If you dream that a loved one is going to die, do not panic. The dream may have meaning, but it does not mean that your loved one is going to die. 

A. Dreams make up for what is lacking in waking life. 

B. However, people should not take their dreams as reality. 

C. They have been considered as meaningless nighttime journeys. 

D. It gives scientists chances to better understand human mind. 

E. Children do not dream as much as adults. 

F. They think their mind is trying to tell them something. 

G. First, there was Sigmund Freud's theory.