三门第二高级中学2005学年第二学期高二英语期中试题(2006.5)
命题教师：林日沛
本试题分选择题和非选择题两部分。满分150分，考试时间120分
第一部分：英语知识运用（共二小节，满分50分）
第一节 单项填空 （ 共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分 ）
从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项
1.The young couple want to buy a new video camera, but they cannot afford to buy .
A. one B. it C. them D. the one
2. Beijing you see today is quite a different city from what it used to be, for it is designated as city to host the 2008 Olympic Games.
A. /;a B. The; the C. /;the D. The; a
3. The speaker raised her voice a bit but still couldn’t make herself _______.
A. hear B. to hear C. heard D. hearing
4. ----Has Sam finished his homework today?
----I have no idea. He ____it this morning.
A. did B. has done C. was doing D. had done
5. There will be a football match between China and Japan at the Worker’s Stadium this weekend. And the tickets are ________now at every ticket-office.
A. usable B. valuable C. available D. suitable
6.The line was cut off. They couldn’t ____ for help at all.
A. get over B. hold on C. get through D. get on
7.The development of modern science will soon ___ it possible for some patients to recover from these malignant illnesses.
A. make B. find C. consider D. think
8. The kind granny never fails to help ______ she thinks is in need of help.
A. whom B. who C. no matter who D. whoever
9.-Hi! Haven’t seen you so long! What’s up?
-_________.
A. I am fine, thank you. B. Nothing much.
C. Nowhere to go. D. Nothing high.
10. We hadn’t met for 20 years, but I recognized her ________ I saw her.
A. the moment B. for the moment
C. the moment when D. at the moment when
11. ---I hear John has taken up his business in London.
---Really? He has no business _________ and I’m sure he’ll fail.
A. feeling B. idea C. sense D. opinion
12. Information has been put forward ______ more middle school graduates will be admitted into universities.
A. which B. that C. when D. what
13. who do you think it is that he will have _______ the letter?
A. to post B. post C. posted D. posting
14. The foreign friends you referred to _______ looking forward to ________ around our university.
A. are, being shown B. being, being shown
C. being, shown D. are, be shown
15.It proved that many more people had lost their lives in the tsunami than .
A. had commonly been supposed B. was commonly supposed
C. being commonly supposed D. commonly supposed
16.--I didn't go to my evening class yesterday because I lost my textbook.
--You _______mine. I didn't have any class then.
A. could have borrowed B. might borrow
C. must have borrowed D. ought to borrow
17. Edison made a lot of inventions, of great importance.
A. which I think are B. which I think they are
C. which I think they D .I think which are
18. _________in the queue for half an hour, Tom suddenly realized that he had left his wallet at home..
A. To wait B. Have waited
C. To have waited D. Having waited
19. Bill , often regarded as one of the best students in his class, ____________to be a student who cheated in the exam.
A. came out B. turned out C. sent out D. let out
20.Do not cheat the customers, or you will damage our company’ .
A. view B. sign C. opinion D. image
第二节 完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分；满分30分）
Some university in North China went on a clean-up campaign(运动)last week to remind students of their duty to be responsible on campus. The school 21 a photo exhibit on notice boards outside its dining hall, showing 22 of “uncivil behavior”.
The pictures, taken on campus, showed: 23 classroom desks, walls and library books; 24 dorms; game-loving students misusing the Internet equipment; and lovers during close moments.
Many students 25 an interest and almost everyone knew about the show by the second day. It was 26 by the school’s Youth League, which spent half a year preparing it. “We hope the pictures can help students 27 what is happening around them. We won’t punish the students in the pictures, 28we want to remind them of their29 to keep the campus clean,” said Youth League Secretary He Yu.
Many students did agree that carving on desks and 30 activities were “uncivil behavior”. “The school once asked us to behave 31 in daily life and now the pictures have a stronger effect. The show is the first try and it can 32 a deep impression,” said Wang.
Another student, a boy named Lu, said the show had taught him “a good 33”. He said that he hadn’t 34 attention to classrooms’ cleanness in the past and once wrote on a desk and left some waste around his seat.
“It’s our duty to keep the campus clean. We should do something to 35 the situation,” he added. However, some students thought it not 36 to invade(侵犯)the privacy of people in close situations. “It’s common for lovers to kiss or have some bodily 37. It’s natural and it’s not right for the school to 38 it ‘uncivil behavior’,” said Yang.
“The 39 have shown students’ private moments. They feel embarrassed(尴尬) 40 they are recognized by others,” said a freshman named Lou.
21 A ran B took C held D gave
22 A harmfulness B disadvantages C experienced D examples
23 A repaired B damaged C painted D burned
24 A empty B dirty C beautiful D crowed
25 A became B drew C showed D got
26 A praised B found C opened D organised
27 A see B imagine C watch D stop
28 A however B so C for D but
29 A duty B knowledge C memory D purpose
30 A important B similar C same D personal
31 A hardly B gratefully C well D helpfully
32 A miss B develop C require D leave
33 A lesson B text C passage D way
34 A fix B expected C attracted D paid
35 A prevent B improve C change D notice
36 A reasonable B fair C proper D formal
37 A contact B connection C relation D exchange
38 A call B say C explain D prove
39 A actions B situations C pictures D cleanness
40 A as though B if C so that D although
第二部分：阅读理解（共25小题，每小题2分，满分50分）
第一节：阅读下列短文，选出最佳选项.
A
Mrs. Brown had a daughter, Ann, and she loved her very much. When
she married and moved to another city with her husband, Mrs. Brown was not
happy.
"How is she living there
without me near her?" Mrs. Brown worried about her daughter. She often
wrote to her and asked how everything was going.
A year later, Ann had a happy baby.
It was a boy. She and her husband named it James. They thought that it was the
cleverest child in the world.
After that, Mrs. Brown received
lots of letters and postcards every month. They were all about James and the
wonderful things he had done. There were also lots of colour photos of the
baby, but there was never any news about Ann herself.
Mrs. Brown always wrote to Ann and
wanted to know something about Ann herself-about what Ann was doing. But Ann's
replies were always about James. There was never any news about Ann herself.
At last, Ann's mother was so angry
that she wrote to Ann and said she had had the cleverest child in the world
before, but now she had no more.
41. Mrs. Brown was sad when_____.
A. Ann married B.
Ann and her husband moved to another city
C. She had a daughter D. Ann had a baby a year later
42. After she had a baby, Ann______.
A. wrote to her mother
all about it B. asked her mother to
look after it
C. moved to live with
her mother D. was very busy
43. Mrs. Brown wished that _____.
A. the baby was clever
B. Ann could write to her
C. she could know more about
Ann D. she could go to see
Ann and her
husband
B
Welcome to the National Maritime Museum
The National Maritime（海洋）Museum is the largest of its kind in the world, with over two
million items in its collections. Twenty galleries display some of the finest
sea affairs in historic buildings, which were formerly a school for the sons of
seamen.
Opening times
10:00-17:00 Winter hours
10:00-18:00
Summer hours
Last admission
is thirty minutes before closing. Smoking is not allowed in the museum. Eating
and drinking are only allowed in the designated （指定的）areas. Photography and video are not
permitted inside the building.
Bookings
Our Central Booking Group handles all group visit
enquiries （需求）, from schools, group organizers and tour
operators.
Education and
Interpretation
Schools’ programmes operate in term-time. Programmes
of talks, tours, work-shops, storytelling, living history and interpretation（解说）are run throughout the year, especially at weekends and during
school holidays.
E-library
Facilities （设备）are provided for electronic access（接触）to the museum’s collections. Please ask a member of staff （员工）for directions to the nearest terminals （终端）. These facilities are also available from the comfort of your
own home.
44. This passage mainly tells us _______.
A. the way to get to the museum B. the purpose to build the museum
C. a brief introduction to the museum D. a detailed description of
the
museum
45. Which of the following is certainly forbidden according to the
passage?
A. Trying to enter the museum after 5:00 p.m.
B. Taking pictures in front of the museum.
C. Talking
loudly when you enjoy the collections.
D. Eating and
drinking wherever you are.
46. From the passage we learn that _______.
A. the museum runs a school and has
students of its own
B. students
can receive education here
C. all the
school education has to be done in the museum
D. school
programmes are only run at weekends and on holidays
.
C
A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.
A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises (出现) from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.
There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two - headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say so peculiar (奇怪的) that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girl -friend.
No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.
47.The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is ____ .
A . repeated without any change B. treated as a joke
C. made some changes by the parent D. set in the present
48.According to the passage, great fear can take place in a child when the story is ____ .
A. in a realistic setting B. heard for the first time
C. repeated too often D. told in a different way
49.The advantage claimed (提出) for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it ____.
A. makes them less fearful
B. develops their power of memory
C. makes them believe there is nothing to be afraid of
D. encourages them not to have strange beliefs
50.The author’s mention of sticks and telephones is meant to suggest that ______.
A. fairy stories are still being made up
B. there is some misunderstanding about fairy tales
C. people try to modernize old fairy stories
D. there is more concern for children's fears nowadays
51. One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that _______.
A. they are full of imagination
B. they just make up the stories which are far from the truth
C. they are not interesting
D. they make teachers of history difficult to teach
D
Liu Xiang, a 21-year-old Chinese athlete, got the gold medal of the fascinating men’s 110m hurdles before a crowd of 70,000 at the Olympic Stadium in the 28th Olympics in Athens late Friday local time. He clocked an excellent 12.91 seconds to equal the world record set by Britain’s Collin Jackson in 1993.
It is the first gold Chinese men’s athlete has ever won from the track and field in the Olympics history. China has won over 100 gold medals from the summer Olympic Games since 1984 but its male athletes only got one medal from Olympics’ most popular sport.
The Shanghai native, with his father a truck driver and mother an out-of-work housewife, loved sports when he was very little. Liu was selected to the Junior Sports School of Putuo District of Shanghai to practice jumping as a fourth grader in the primary school. But after a bone test showing that he will not be able to become a tall man, Liu was asked to give up sports one year later, although he had won the national champion at that level.
In 1998 when he attracted coach Sun Haiping’s attention as a 15-year-old jumper. Sun was a well-known hurdle coach and he believed a star was born at the first sight of Liu. He visited Liu’s parents several times and finally persuaded them to let Liu transfer to the 110m hurdles.
After only three years, Liu launched his career in style in the IAAF Grand Prix in Lausanne in 2001 by breaking the world youth and Asian record with a time of 13.12.
But the first warning he sent to the world was his bronze-winning feat at the world indoor championships in Birmingham, England, last year.
In 2004, Liu won the silver in the world indoor championships in Budapest in March. Two months later, he proved the winner in a race against American great Allen Johnson in the IAAF Grand Prix in Osaka, Japan, where he clocked a new Asian record and world’s season best time of 13.06 seconds.
He went on to win two Johnson-absent races in Lille, France, on June 26 and Zagreb, Croatia, three days later. He put up an exciting show at the Golden Gala meet in Rome on July 3, when he and Johnson clocked an identical time of 13.11. Race officials had to examine a photo finish to declare Johnson the winner. Liu did a better job of clearing the hurdles than Johnson, but Johnson’s stronger start ended up making the difference. The race boosted Liu’s optimism for the Olympics, although Johnson bettered his season best time by 0.01 second in Lausanne, Switzerland, on July 6.
The world has put the Olympics a Johnson-Liu duel but surprisingly Johnson crashed out of the Games after falling at the ninth hurdle at round 2. Johnson’s early exit paved the way for Liu’s win. He finally took the gold medal and put a Chinese man’s name on the record book.
(chinadaily.com.cn /Xinhua) Updated:2004-08-28 02:57
52. According to Paragraph One, which of the following is TRUE?
A. Liu Xiang is the fastest of the four mentioned athletes.
B. Liu Xiang has set a new world record in the event of the men’s 110m hurdles.
C. Both Liu Xiang and Jackson have got a gold medal at the Olympics.
D. In the Olympics history, Liu Xiang is the fastest in this event.
53. Before the 28th Olympics in Athens, .
A. no Chinese athlete got a gold medal from the track and field at the Olympics
B. there was already a Chinese male medalist in the track and field at the Olympics
C. Terrence Trammell got a gold medal from the men’s hurdles at the Sydney Olympics
D. Zhu Jianhua got a bronze medal from the men’s hurdles in the 1984 Los Angeles Games
54. In the last paragraph, the underlined word “duel” most probably means “ ”.
A. contest B. friendship C. partner D. company
55. From the passage, we can conclude that .
A. Liu Xiang had no gift for jumping when he was a little boy
B. Liu Xiang set a new world youth record when he was 17 years old
C. Liu Xiang has succeeded because of his coach Sun
D.Johnson might have won the gold medal if he had no dropped out
E
Technology has been an encouragement of historical change. It acted as such a force in England beginning in the eighteenth century, and across the entire Western World in the nineteenth. Rapid advances were made in the use of scientific findings in the manufacture (制造) of goods, which has changed ideas about work. One of the first changes was that other forms of energy have taken the place of human power. Along with this came the increased use of machines to manufacture products in less time. People also developed machines that could produce the same parts for a product: each nail was exactly like every other nail, meaning that each nail could be changed for every other nail. This means that goods could be mass production, although mass production required breaking production down into smaller and smaller tasks.
Once this was (lone, workers no longer started on the product and labored to complete it. Instead, they might work only one thousandth of it, other workers completing their own parts in certain order. There is nothing strange about this manufacturing work by today's standards. Highly skilled workers were unable to compare with the new production techniques, as mass production allowed goods of high standard to be produced in greater number than could ever be done by hand. But the skilled worker wasn't the only loser, the common workers lost too. Similar changes forced farmer away. The increased mechanization (机械化) of agriculture freed masses of workers from ploughing the land and harvesting its crops. They had little choice but to stream toward the rapidly developing industrial centers. Increasingly, standards were set by machines. Workers no longer owned their own tools, their skill was no longer valued, and pride in their work was no longer possible. Workers fed, looked after and repaired the machines that could work faster than humans at greatly reduced cost.
56. In this passage, which of the following is NOT considered as a change caused by the use of scientific findings in the production of goods?
A. Other forms of energy have taken the place of human power.
B. The increased exploitation of workers in the 19th century.
C. The increased use of machines to make products in less time.
D. The use of machines producing parts of the same standard.
57. The underlined word this in the first paragraph refers to ____
A. the use of scientific findings
B. the practice of producing the same parts for a product
C. the human power being replaced by other forms of energy
D. the technology becoming the encouragement of historical change
58.The underlined word this in the second paragraph refers to the change that ______
A. each nail could be taken the place of by every other nail
B. each nail was exactly like every other nail
C. producing tasks became smaller and smaller
D. goods could be mass produced
59.According to the writer, highly skilled workers ______
A. completely disappeared with the coming of the factory system
B. were dismissed by the boss
C. were unable to produce goods of high standard
D. were unable to produce fine goods at that same speed as machines
60.According to the passage, what did the farmers have to do with the coming of mechanization of agriculture?
A. Many of them had to leave their farmland for industrial centers.
B. They stuck to their farm work.
C. They refused to use machines.
D They did their best to learn how to use the machines.
F
第二节：John, Mary , Peter,和Jenny想要上网查阅各自所需的信息。阅读下面六个信息的介绍选项（A，B，C，D，E 和F），选出符合各人需求的最佳选项。选项中有一项是多余的选项。
61.John is a father of two young kids. The teacher of the kindergarten asked pupils to look for some information online with the help of their parents about the founding of the country. Now John is busy searching some websites, and trying to figure out which one is the best to satisfy the need.
62.Kate will graduate from college, and she is working on her final paper recently. Her topic is on American Indians. So far, she has already had enough information about their current situation in the library and all she needs now is about their past, so she is determined to turn to the Internet for help.
63.Mary is a full-time employee, and she really wants to use her spare time to improve herself and to get a diploma of a college. Her favorite field is IT. Now all she needs to do is simply turn on the computer, get it online, and then click.
64.Peter has great interest in the world of the South Pole. How do the lovely animals survive the long and cold winter, and how do they produce the younger generation? What do they look like, and what do they live on?
65.Jenny is an American middle school student. She seems to be born with the talent of art, and she is extremely showing great interest in the culture of other counties. A few days ago, she and her African-American classmates were assigned to prepare a big project by their teacher. So they need to take action now.
| A.Celebrate American independence by testing your knowledge of the American Revolution. Each correct answer gets you closer to liberty- the passage of the Bill of Rights in 1791. Start with the Tea Party in Boston in 1776 for the sighing of Thomas Jefferson’s world-shaking document. Even if you don’t know all the answers, you’re guaranteed to learn a lot along the way. | B. Each winter, emperor penguins migrate across the ice fields of Antarctica to mate, lay eggs, and hatch their chicks. This new movie from National Geography documents their extraordinary journey. Watch the trailer, view photos, or download screensavers. The Kids Arcade features sound and video clips. Check it out-the penguins are too cute! |
| C. African art is meant to be used for dancing, wearing, holding, or healing. The theme of this colorful exhibition is exploring the life and culture of current Africa through its art. Discover what an Akuaba is and how it is used by the Asante women in Ghana. You can examine the art in detail by using the cool rotating and zooming features. | D. the fourth of July is more than just a great excuse to have a barbecue and watch fireworks. Ask Earl to find out what happened 229 years ago that made July 4th such an important day in the US history. Then watch the cartoon Liberty’s Kids to witness the events of the American Revolution that led up to Independence Day. |
| E. The mission of the Center of Distance Learning Research at Texas A&M University is to provide timely and appropriate information of the development, application and maintenance of information technology systems. This information is provided through demonstration, training, publications and technical assistance. | F. Long before the Europeans settled in North America, the natives living there had established a diversity of rich cultures and spoke over 2000 language dialects. (Of these, about 300 are known today.) As the newcomers moved in, the Native Americans were gradually pushed off their lands into reservations and forced to assimilate into European culture. |
第三部分写作（共三节，满分50分）
第一节 单词拼写（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
66.Two years after their m , they had a lovely baby.
67.D of the rain, the sports meet went on.
68.To our joy, there are so many b in science and technology these years.
69.The driver of the bus was killed in the crash but all the p escaped unhurt.
70. The rich man had a large house with a garden and he hired three s________ .
71.That boy is g in painting. He has won many awards in painting competitions for children.
72.Jane’s d does not prevent her from reaching her goals in life.
73.Some people are g for money and some for power.
74.Successful people learn to g the opportunities that come alone.
75.You should not look down on people who do physical l .
第二节 短文改错（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
We are all busy use the Internet set up in 76.
the 1960s. At first the Internet used only by the 77.
government, but in the 1970s,universities and hospital 78.
were allowed to use them too. But computers were 79.
still very expensive and the Internet was difficulty to 80.
use. At the beginning of the 1990s, computers become easier 81.
and cheaper. Today it’s easy to get on –line, but it’s said 82.
that millions of people use on the Internet every day. And 83.
send e-mail is more and more popular. It has become 84.
one of the most important parts of people’s life. 85.
第三节 书面表达（共1小题，满分30分）
假如你是台州某高中的高 三学生 李名，计划今年暑假去澳大利亚游学。你请澳大利亚某一中介 替你找适合你的住家。请你根据以下要点介绍自己的基本情况和你的要求，写一封信给改中介。
一、 个人基本情况：姓名、年龄、爱好等。
二、 游学目的：提高英语口语、了解澳大利亚文化等。
三、 你的要求：单独住宿房间、提供电脑、家里有年龄相仿的中学生、时间三周。注意：可根据内容要点适当增加，以使行文连贯
开头语、结尾已写好 提示：住家 home stay family
词数：100-120
| May 9,2006 |
| Dear Sir/Madam |
| I’m a senior school student from China. I’m Li Ming. |
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| I’m looking forward to your reply. Thank you! |
| Yours, |
| Li Ming |
高二英语期中考试参考答案（2006.5.8）
一．单项填空
1-5 ACCCC 6-10 CADBA 11-15 CBBAD 16-20 AADBD
二．完型填空
21-25 CDBBC 26-30 DADAB 31-35 CDADB 36-40 CAACB
三．阅读理解
41-45 BACCD 46-50 BCBAB 51-55BDBAD 56-60 BCDDA 61-65 DFEBC
四．单词拼写
66．Marriage 67.despite 68.breakthroughs 69.passengers 70.servants 71.gifted 72.disability 73.greedy 74.grasp 75.labour
五．改错
76 use----using 77.加was 78.hospital---hospitals 79.them--- it 80.difficulty---difficult
81.become---became 82.but--- and 83.去on 84.send---sending 85.正确
六．书面表达
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am a senior student from China. My name is Li Ming. I am a boy of 18years old. I do well in all the subjects. I show special interest in English and geography. I have dreaming of becoming an interpreter. In order to improve my English and learn about the culture of Australia ,I am planning to go to Australia for a three- week trip study. I wonder if you can find me a suitable home stay family. I hope I can have a single room with a computer so that I can go on-line whenever I want to. I also hope that the family has a child of my age so that we have much in common and communicate with each other easily.
I am looking forward to your reply. Thank you!
Yours sincerely,
Li Ming