逍遥右脑 2013-04-14 15:33
（总分：150分； 考试时间：120分钟）
第I卷 （共105分）
答卷要求:将第一卷试题的答案填涂在答题卡上;第二卷为笔答部分,答案直接写在试卷上。考试结束后交答题卡和第二卷。
一、(共两节，满分30分)
第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间回答有关小题和下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。
1. What does the an want to do?
A. Put up a notice. B. Join a club. C. Collect the notices.
2. When is To’s birthday?
A. On Deceber 15th B. On Deceber 16th C. On Deceber 17th
3. Where does the conversation probably take place?
A. In a post office. B. In a bank. C. In a photo shop.
4. What does the woan ean?
A. She will talk later. B. She won’t talk any ore.
C. The an should be patient.
5. Who is picking up the woan?
A. Her husband. B. Her secretary. C. Joanna’s husband.
第二节（共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
听下面5段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从每题所给的A,B,C三个选
项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6至7题。
6. When will the band practice begin?
A. At 8:30 Tuesday night.
B. At 8:00 Tuesday night.
C. At 8:30 Thursday night.
7. What’s the woan’s telephone nuber?
A. 555-2435. B. 555-2345. C. 555-3425.
听第7段材料，回答第8至9题。
8. What will the woan do at the travel service?
A. Pick up her passport. B. Buy her plane ticket.
C. Cash a traveler’s cheque.
9. Why is the woan unwilling to give up her house?
A. She has difficulty finding another. B. She has paid the rent in advance.
C. She has no tie to ove to another.
听第8段材料，回答第10至12题。
10. Where was the woan robbed?
A. At the bank gate. B. In the hallway. C. On the escalator.
11. Why does the woan coe to the an’s city?
A. On business. B. On a course. C. On a visit.
12. About how uch oney was stolen?
A. $4,500 B. $5,000 C. $5,500
听第9段材料，回答第13至16题。
13. How any persons will go shopping toorrow?
A. Three. B. Four. C. Two.
14. Hoill the woan get to Caden Town toorrow?
A. By bus. B. By underground. C. On foot.
15. How far is it fro Tottenha Court Road to Caden Town?
A. Three stops. B. Four stops. C. Seven stops.
16. What tie will the two speakers eet toorrow?
A. At 10:30 a. B. At 9:30 a. C. At 10:00 a.
听第10段材料，回答第17至20 题
17. When was the oldest building built?
A. 100 years ago. B. 200 years ago. C. 300 years ago.
18. When can people see how bread was baked 200 years ago?
A. On Sunday afternoon. B. On Tuesday orning. C. On Saturday afternoon.
19. Where did Sir Henry coe fro?
A. England. B. The USA. C. France.
20. How any historical places does the speaker ention?
A. Two. B. Three. C. Four.
二、单项选择(每小题1分，共计15分)
21. Could you drive e to the superarket after supper if _________________?
A. it is convenient of you B. you are convenient
C. it is convenient to you D. you will be convenient
22. _______ his earnings as a football coach, he also owns and runs a chain of sports shops.
A. Except B. Beside C. Apart fro D. In addition
23. Enough of it! Nobody here thinks what you are saying should ake any ___________.
A. value B. use C. fun D. sense.
24. John Snow found that the polluted water was _________ for the outbreak of cholera.
A. to blae B. blaing C. blaed D. to be blaed
25. After recovering fro his illness, he was advised to ________ gardening as a hobby.
A. take away B. take off C. take on D. take up
26. You have to listen for detailed facts. ________ you have to prepare the next question depending on what the person says.
A. However B. eanwhile C. Therefore D. Otherwise
27. Once a reporter receives his assignent fro the chief-editor, he has to ______ on his
work and tries his best to work on it until the chief-editor ______ it.
A. fix his attention; approves B. focus; proves of
C. concentrate; approves of D. get down; approves
28. It is strange that the well-behaved gentlean _______ be so rude.
A. should B. need C. ight D. would
29．Have you ever had a case ______ soeone accused your journalists of getting the wrong end of the stick?
A. what B. that C. where D. which
30. The UK, ____ Great Britain and Northern Ireland, is a country faous ____ its history.
A. consisted of, for B. consisting of, as
C. consisting of, for D. consisted of, as
31. Though _____ oney, his parents anaged to send hi to university.
A. lacking B. lack C. lacked in D. lacking of
32. The anager proised to keep us _____ of how our business was going on.
A. infored B. inforingC. being inforedD. to be infored
33. The two presidents agree with each other on the whole, but uch reains ______ at the following eeting.
A. to discuss B. discussing C. to be discussed D. discussed
34. Down __________ and hurt his leg.
A. fell the boy B. fell he C. did he fall D. did the boy fell
35. Not until ________to do y hoework ________ how uch tie I had wasted playing coputer gaes.
A. I began; I realized B. I began; did I realize
C. did I begin; I realized D. did I begin; did I realize
三、完型（每小题1.5分，共计30分）
I sat in the chair reflecting on the past year. At that tie, y 36 Charley cae into the roo. Charley took one look at y face and she could 37 I was off in another world. Charley said, “You have that 38 on your face! Tell e what you were 39 ”. “Well, Charley,” I replied, “I was listening to a song on the radio that asked 40 you have done over the last year. When I 41 on the year, I’ve realized I have had such good fortune, with a few bups (碰撞) along the way.”
Charley iediately asked, “Tell e about the three things that 42 you the ost during this year.”
I sat thinking if I had to 43 only three things that influenced e, what would they be? After a few inutes, I said, “OK, here are the three things that influenced e the ost: y faily. Throughout the year I had any 44 , but y faily were always there 45 support and encourageent. y friends. Over the years I have 46 y dreas and y goals with y friends. Soe goals I have 47 and other goals I have not. 48 friends like you always supported and 49 e. y colleagues. I have worked with soe 50 people over the last year. I have been very 51 to have the opportunity to work with these ex cellent people over the last year.”
Charley siled and said, “Do you realize that everything you have said has one thing in 52 ?”
“What are you saying, Charley?” I asked.
She replied, “One coon thing is 53 . Neither the aterial things in your life, nor your job has had the ost eaning in your life. It is the people in your life that have ade the biggest 54 in your life!”
I siled. aterial things are not 55 , and while our jobs provide the eans of existence for us, the iportant things in life are the people who touched our lives.
36. A. sister B. classate C. other D. friend
37. A.argue B. suggest C. tell D. wonder
38. A. look B. appearance C. ark D. ask
39. A. doing B. thinking C. listening D. annoying
40. A. where B. that C. what D. why
41. A. call B. talk C. insist D. reflect
42. A. influenced B. deanded C. entertained D. otivated
43. A. write B. pick C. get D. own
44. A. plans B. experiences C. challenges D. achieveents
45. A. receiving B. expecting C. winning D. offering
46. A. shared B. provided C. connected D. copared
47. A. set B. realized C. failed D. scored
48. A. But B. eanwhile C. Otherwise D. Unless
49. A. accepted B. satisfied C. replaced D. encouraged
50. A. stupid B. brave C. aazing D. ordinary
51. A. fortunate B. iserable C. unhappy D. surprised
52. A. character B. store C. coon D. nature
53. A. effort B. spirit C. otivation D. people
54. A. choice B. difference C. proble D. progress
55. A. useful B. iportant C. practical D. unnecessary
四、阅读理解（每小题2分，共计40分）
第一节：阅读下列短，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
One of y wonderful eories is about a Christas gift. Unlike other gifts, it cae without wrap(包装).
On Septeber 11th, 1958, u gave birth to Richard. After she brought hi hoe fro hospital, she put hi in y lap, saying. "I proised you a gift, and here it is." What an honor! I turned four a onth earlier and none of y friends had such a baby doll of their own. I played with it day and night. I sang to it. I told it stories. I told it over and over how uch I loved it!
One orning, however, I found its bed epty. y doll was gone! I cried for it. u wept and told e that the poor little thing had been sent to a hospital. It had a fever. For several days, I heard u and Dad whispering such words as "hopeless", "pitiful", and "dying", which sounded oinous.
Christas was coing. "Don’t expect any presents this year." Dad said, pointing at the socks I hung in the living roo. "If your baby brother lives, that'll be Christas enough." As he spoke, his eyes were filled with tears. I'd never seen hi cry before.
The phone rang early on Christas orning. Dad juped out of bed to answer it. Fro y bedroo I heard hi say. "What? He's all right?" He hung up and shouted upstairs. “The hospital said we can bring Richard hoe!"
"Thank God.'" I heard u cry.
Fro the upstairs window, I watched y parents rush out to the car. I had never seen the happy. And I was also full of joy. What a wonderful day! y baby doll would be hoe. I ran downstairs. y sacks still hung there flat. But I knew they were not epty; they were filled with love!
56. What happened to the author on Septeber 11 1958?
A. He got a baby brother B. He got a Christas gift
C. He becae four years old D. He received a doll
57.What does the underlined word “oinous” in Paragraph 3 probably ean？
A. Ipossible.B. BoringC. DifficultD. Fearful
58. Which word can best describe the feeling of the father when Christas was coing?
A. Exciteent.B. Happiness.C. Sadness.D. Disappointent.
59. What is the passage ainly about?
A. A sad Christas day B. Life with a lovely baby
C. A special Christas gift.D. eories of a happy faily
B
Grown-ups are often surprised by hoell they reeber soething they learned as children but have never practiced ever since. A an who has not had a chance to go swiing for years can still swi as well as ever when he gets back in the water. He can get on a bicycle after any years and still ride away. He can play catch and hit a ball as well as his son. A other who has not thought about the words for years can teach her daughter the poe that begins "Twinkle, twinkle, little star" or reeber the story of Cinderella or Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
One explanation is the law of overlearning , which can be stated as follows: Once we have learned soething, additional learning trials(尝试)increase the length of tie we will reeber it.
In childhood we usually continue to practice such skills as swiing, bicycle riding, and playing baseball long after we have learned the. We continue to listen to and reind ourselves of words such as "Twinkle, twinkle, little star" and childhood tales such as Cinderella and Goldilocks. We not only learn but overlearn.
The ultiplication tables(口诀表)are an exception to the general rule that we forget rather quickly the things that we learn in school, because they are another of the things we overlearn in childhood.
The law of overlearning explains why craing(突击学习)for an exaination, though it ay result in a passing grade, is not a satisfactory way to learn a college course. By craing, a student ay learn the subject well enough to get by on the exaination, but he is likely soon to forget alost everything he learned. A little overlearning, on the other hand, is really necessary for one's future developent.
60. What is the ain idea of paragraph I?
A. People reeber well what they learned in childhood.
B. Children have a better eory than grown-ups.
C. Poe reading is a good way to learn words.
D. Stories for children arc easy to reeber.
61. The author explains the law of overlearning by_________.
A. presenting research findings
B. selling down general rules
C. aking a coparison
D. using exaples
62. According to the author, being able to use ultiplication tables is_______.
A. a result of overlearning
B. a special case of craing
C. a skill to deal with ath probles
D. a basic step towards advanced studies
63. What is the author's opinion on craing?
A. It leads to failure in college exas.
B. It's helpful only in a liited way.
C. It's possible to result in poor eory.
D. It increases students' learning interest.
C
Welcoe to one of the largest collections of footwear（鞋类）in the world that will ake you green with envy（嫉妒）. Here at the Footwear useu you can see exhibits（展品）fro all over the world. You can find out about shoes worn by everyone fro the Ancient Egyptians to pop stars.
Roo 1
The celebrity（名人）footwear section is probably the ost popular in the entire useu. Started in the 1950s there is a wide variety of shoes and boots belonging to everyone fro queens and presidents to pop stars and actors! ost visitors find the celebrities' choice of footwear extreely interesting. Roo 2
ost of our visitors are aazed and shocked by the collection of “special purpose” shoes on exhibition here at the useu of Footwear. For exaple, there are Chinese shoes ade of silk that were worn by woen to tie their feet firly to prevent the fro growing too uch!
Roo 3
As well as shoes and boots the useu also exhibits shoe shaped objects. The variety is unbelievable. For exaple , there is a etal lap that resebles a pair of shoes, and Greek wine bottles that are like legs!The footwear Library
People coe fro all over the world to study in our excellent footwear library. Designers and researchers coe here to look up inforation on anything and everything related to the subject of footwear.
64. Where would you find a faous singer's shoes?
A. Roo 1. B. Roo 2. C. Roo 3. D. The Footwear Library
65. All exhibits in each roo .
A. share the sae thee B. have the sae shape
C. are ade of the sae aterial D. belong to the sae social class
66. Which of the following is true according to the text?
A. The oldest exhibits in Roo 1 were ade in the 1950s.
B. Roo 2 is the ost visited place in the useu.
C. Roo 3 has a richer variety of exhibits than the other two.
D. Researchers coe to the Foot wear Library for data.
67. The purpose of the text is to get ore people to ____________.
A. do research B. design shoes C. visit the useu D. follow celebrities
D
If Confucius（孔子）were still alive today and could celebrate his Septeber 28 birthday with a big cake, there would be a lot of candles. He’d need a fan or a strong wind to help hi put the out.
While any peop le in China will reeber Confucius on his special day, few people in the United States will give hi a passing thought. It’s nothing personal. ost Aericans don’t even reeber the birthdays of their own national heroes.
But this doesn’t ean that Aericans don’t care about Confucius. In any ways he has becoe a bridge that foreigners ust cross if they want to reach a deeper understanding of China.
In the past two decades, the Chinese studies progras have gained huge popularity in Western universities. ore recently, the Chinese governent has set up Confucius Institutes in ore than 80 countries. These schools teach both Chinese language and culture. The ain courses of Chinese culture usually included Chinese art, history and philosophy（哲学）. Soe social scientists suggest that Westerners should take advantages of the ancient Chinese wisdo to ake up for the drawbacks (缺点) of Westerners philosophy. Students in the United States, at the sae tie, are racing to learn Chinese. So they will be ready for life in a world where China is an equal power with the United States. Businessen who hope to ake oney in China are reading books abo ut Confucius to understand their Chinese custoers.
So the old thinker’s ideas are still alive and well.
Today China attracts the West ore than ever, and it will need ore teachers to introduce Confucius and Chinese culture to the West.
As for the old thinker, he will not soon be forgotten by people in the West, even if his birthday is.
68. The opening paragraph is ainly intended to ________.
A. provide soe key facts about Confucius
B. attract the readers’ interest in the subject
C. show great respect for the ancient thinker
D. prove the popularity of odern birthday celebrations
69. We can learn fro Paragraph 4 that Aerican students______.
A. have a great interest in studying Chinese
B. take an active part in Chinese copetitions
C. try to get high scores in Chinese exas
D. fight for a chance to learn Chinese
70. What is the best title for the passage?
A. Forgotten Wisdo in Aerica
B. Huge Fans of the Chinese Language
C. Chinese Culture for Westerners
D. Old Thinker with a Big Future
第二节 根据短内容,从短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
How to ake Friends
Friendship is a very iportant huan relationship and everyone needs good friends. Good friendship has an y benefits. It offers copanionship, iproves self-worth and prootes good health. There are ties in our lives such as when we have recently oved into a new town, or changed our jobs or schools. Such changes often leave us without a friend. ____71___. But for any of us the process is difficult and requires courage. Below are soe helpful suggestions on how to ake and keep friends.
1. Associate with others.
The first step to aking friends is associating with other people. You can go to public places to eet new people. Besides, you will need to ake yourself known by becoing an active eber of such places.
2. St art a conversation
Starting a conversation is the second ost iportant step in aking new friends. ___72__. You can always start the conversation. Being able to ake sall talk is a very useful skill in relating with other people.
3. 73
Choosing friends with coon interests is iportant in building friendship as these interests would always bring you and your friend together, Hanging out will always be a pleasant experience.
4.Let it gro
It is a good thing to stay in touch. However, try not to press your new friend with calls, essages or visits as this would likely wear hi or her out and finally you ay lose your friend. 74 . The best friendships are the ones that grow naturally.
5.Enjoy your friendship
The best way to enjoy your friendship is to allow your friends to be theselves. ____75___. Try not to change the fro who they are to what you want the to be. Becoe the kind of friend you will want your friend to be to you.
A. Be cheerful.
B. Do things together.
C. Do not wait to be spoken to.
D. Try not to find fault with your friends.
E. aking new friends coes easy for soe people.
F. For a friendship to develop you need to stay in touch.
G. So you will need to give your friend tie to react to you.
第II卷 （共45分）
姓名____________ 班级_________ 学号________ 成绩______
71.______ 72.________ 73._______ 74.________ 75._______
五、单词拼写,根据首字母或汉语意思完成单词,注意运用单词的正确形式（每小题1分，每空一词，共计10分）
76. Gredor endel used peas to show how physical c________________ are passed fro parents to their children.
77. With this extra evidence John Snoas able to ____________(宣布)with certainty that polluted water carried the virus.
78. You can even see beautiful bald eagles in the world’s largest bald eagle _____________(保护区).
79. Next England and Wales were joined to Scotland in the seventeenth century and the nae was changed to “Great Britain”. Happily this was accoplished without __________ (冲突) when King Jaes of Scotland becae King of England and Wales as well.
80. You ust keep your eyes open if you are going to ake your trip to the United Kingdo e___________ and worthwhile.w!w!!x!k!b!1.co
81. At first y new s_______________ were difficult to tolerate. The air seeed thin, as though its cobination of gases had little oxygen left.
82. I have to reind yself ______________ (不断地)that I a really in AD 3008.
83. He denied taking oney but we were s______________(怀疑的).
84.There is no need for you to take a caera. You’ll have a ____________(专业的) photographer with you to take photographs.
85. There are v________ kinds of thee parks, with a different park for alost everything.
六、短改错（每小题1分,共计10分）(请按要求改错，否则不得分!)
英语上，老师要求同桌同学相互修改。假设以下书信为你同桌所写，请你对其进行修改。中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏词符号（∧），并在此符号下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1、每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2、只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Dear Editor,
I’ writing to tell you opinion about water saving. Water is iportant. We, as well as anial, cannot live without water and neither agriculture or industry can go without it. Yet it seeed that water is becoing less and less. any countries in the world find we don’t have enough water. To deal with a proble, I think, we should first go all out to plant trees though trees will help save water. Next, not drinking water should be left running. Third, we should find ways to reuse the water using in washing, especia lly bath water for which is quite a lot, and that will save uch water.
Sincerely,
Li Hua
七、书面表达（满分15分）
今年国庆长假期间，中央电视台走基层记者奔赴全国各地以“你幸福吗”为主题进行街头访问，采访对象五花八门的回答引发广泛关注。请根据以下提示以 How to Find Happiness 为题写一篇英语短。内容包括：
1.什么是幸福？如何获取幸福因人而异。
2.你的观点：追求幸福的过程本身就是一种幸福。
3.你的理由：幸福自于乐观的态度，艰辛的劳动以及简朴的生活。
注意：
1.围绕以上要点，可适当增加细节。
2.题目已给出，不计入总词数。
3.词数：100词左右
4.siplicity（简朴）
How to Find Happiness
ost people agree that happiness is very iportant for everyone. _________________
高二英语期中试题参考答案
一、：
二、单选
1-5CCDAD 6-10 BCACC 11-15 AACAB
三、完型：
36-40 DCABC 41-45.DABCD 46-50 ABADC 51-55.ACDBB
四、阅读：
五、单词拼写：
76.characteristics 77.announce 78.preserve 79 conflict 80.enjoyable
81.surroundings 82.constantly 83.sceptical 84. professional 85. various
六、改错：
Dear Editor,
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anial, cannot live without water and neither agriculture or industry can go without it.
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have enough water. To deal with a proble, I think, we should first go all out to plant trees
this/the
though trees will help save water. Next, not drinking water should be left running. Third, we
because/as no
should find ways to reuse the water using in washing, especially bath water for which is quite
used
a lot, and that will save uch water.
Sincerely,
七、书面表达参考范：