山西省朔州市平鲁区李林中学高考英语综合考查小卷子12.doc

山西省朔州市平鲁区李林中学高考英语综合考查小卷子12本试题共2页 满分55分 考试时间 40分钟 试题共2页 满分30分 时间：30分钟 班级：_ 姓名：_成绩：_（1）have you heard about leap year? leap year is a year that has 366 days instead of the usual 365. it normally occurs every four years, always on an even-numbered year. the extra day is added to our shortest month. that is the second month of the year, which in non-leap years has 28 days, two fewer than any other month. 1 we also call leap year the bissextile year. 2 in our calendar system there is a need for a leap year because the solar year （the time it takes the earth to go around the sun once） is actually slightly more than 365 days long. that extra dayfeb 29 every four yearshelps correct the difference between our calendar and the solar calendar.it is said that leap year was first made part of the calendar by the ancient roman leader julius caesar. his astronomers had calculated the length of the solar year to be 365 days and six hours. so caesar declared that an extra day be added to the calendar. 3 however, caesars adjustment was not completely accurate because his astronomers year exceeded the true solar year by eleven minutes and fourteen seconds. by 1582, a difference of ten days had developed between the calendar year and the true solar year. to correct this error, pope gregory x ruled that every fourth year would continue to be a leap year except for century years that could not be divided evenly by 400. by this system, century years such as 1700, 1800, and 1900 were not leap years, but the year 2000 was a leap year. 4 people born on feb 29 celebrate their growing up a little differently from the rest of us. 5 but if they go strictly by the calendar, they have only one-fourth as many birthday celebrations as most people.a. they acknowledge that they get older each year. b. when you see feb 29 on a calendar, you know that year is a leap year. c. this is its formal, or scientific title. d. this may seem complicated, but it works. e. in a leap year, the extra day is added to the second month, giving it 29 instead of the usual 28 days f. the leap year was introduced in the julian calendar in 46 bc. g. this is done every four years.（2）in two thousand and eight, the main candidates （候选人）for president each used this expression:“ 1 ” this means that it is a waste of time to change something from ugly or unpleasant - looking to beautiful. there are other expressions about improving a pigs appearance, like this one : “a hog in a silk waistcoat （马甲）is still a hog.” 2 americans use many other expressions about pigs, hogs and female hogs called sows. like this one: “ 3 ” this means you cannot create something valuable from something that has no value. then there is the expression “casting pearls before swine”. that means wasting something valuable on someone.however, at least one kind of pig can be useful in saving money. “ 4 ” you can buy a small container shaped like a pig. it has a hole where you can put money into it. hogs are very large animals. if you say you ate high on the hog during a holiday, it means you ate very good or costly food. if you went whole hog on your trip, it means you did everything possible to have fun. but you should never go hog - wild at any time because that means behaving badly. 5_ and a road hog is a driver who uses more than his share of the road. such a driver increases dangers for other drivers.（3）there were times when it was only schoolchildren who felt sick before they got their grades. _1 many teachers are opposed to it. they dont mind being evaluated. but they are upset because the results are then being posted on the internet and accessible to millions of internet users. _2_ the teachers are graded on categories（类别）such as “motivated”, “good instruction”, “easy examinations”, or even “sexy”. 3 the creators of the website say that the students axe only being offered the chance to provide teachers with some feedback （反馈）about their classroom instruction. bernd dicks founded the website with three friends. 4 on a grading scale of one to six, the teachers average grade is as high as 2.7 and it has been improving lately. he often says the impression is that students are bullying （欺负）their teachers.“teachers must also learn to live with criticism,” he added. but still, the website is not totally prevented from being manipulated （人为操纵）, as one teacher near the northern city of hanover recently proved. 5 within a few days, seven of his colleagues were listed in the top 10 rankings of germanys best teachers.a. on the website www. spickmich. de during the past four months students have posted evaluations of 100,000 teachers. b. he registered himself on the website as a student and then rated his own teaching colleagues highly. c. he tried to make friends with students as many as possible. d. but now teachers in germany are scared, too, as they are being graded by their students. e