高二英语上学期期中试题
第Ⅰ卷(共105分)
第一部分：听力(共两节，满分30分)（略）
第二部分：英语知识运用(共两节，满分35分)
第一节：语法和词汇知识(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15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。
21. Mr Brown stood up in defense of the 16-year-old boy, saying that he was not the one ________.
A. blamed B. blaming C. to blame D. to be blamed
22. The girl looked at me with a ________ expression. Maybe the problem was quite ________ .
A. puzzled; puzzling B. puzzling; puzzled
C. puzzled; puzzled D. puzzling; puzzling
23. Ladies and gentlemen, now I will ________ the story where I finished the day before yesterday.
A. keep up B. take up C. keep on D. go on
24. The president spoke at the business meeting for nearly an hour without ________ his notes.
A. bringing up B. looking for C. trying on D. referring to
25. ________ the reasons above, I found I was paying too much attention to the job.
A. Apart from B. Except C. Beyond D. In addition
26. You should understand the traffic rule by now. You’ve had it ________ often enough.
A. explain B. explaining C. explained D. to explain
27. People have always been curious ________ how living things on the earth exactly began.
A. in B. about C. of D. at
28. Education in government colleges is very cheap, but if you go to the ________ college, it is much more expensive.
A. personal B. public C. person D. private
29. ________ from heart trouble for years, Professor Black has to take medicine with him wherever he goes.
A. Suffered B. Having suffered C. Being suffered D. Suffering
30. ________ in the regulations that you should not tell other people the password of your e-mail account.
A. What is required B. What requires C. It is required D. It requires
31. As the business woman in Norton, she made ________ her duty to look after all the other people’s affairs in that town.
A. this B. that C. one D. it
32. Between the two generations, it is often not their age, ________ their education that causes misunderstanding.
A. which B. but C. as D. or
33. ________ homework did we have to do that we had no time to take a rest.
A. So much B. Too much C. Too little D. So little
34. She ________ persuade her husband to give up smoking, but her husband didn’t.
A. managed to B. succeeded in C. tried to D. kept on
35. This is the new plan all the scientists want to see ________.
A. carried out C. carrying out C. to carry out D. carry out
第二节：完形填空(共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分)〖HJ〗
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
It’s Friday morning in the year 2027, and you’re running late. You got interested in watching the music video that was playing in the corner of your ____36____ mirror while you were ____37____ your teeth. How will you get to your office at Mega Giga Industries on time?
A ____38____ check of your Internet-connected machine ____39____ you your train which travels at speed up to 250 miles an hour ____40____ it electromagnetically runs above its guide track is a bit behind schedule, too. ____41____ you decide to drive your environmentally-friendly hydrogen-fuel cell car ____42____, that is; let your car drive you. It’s ____43____ to know the way, and it will get you there without speeding, getting lost, ____44____ crashing.
Sitting into your ____45____ chair, which changes colour to ____46____ what you’re wearing, you pick up ____47____ morning’s newspaper. Printed on ____48____ electronic paper, it quickly rewrites itself with today’s headlines. Now it’s time you ____49____ your big meeting. Oh! You’ve ____50____ your handwritten notes at home. No problem. The digital ink pen you used has stored an electronic copy of what you ____51____.
Your wristwatch videophone suddenly rings. Your best friend’s face ____52____ on the organic screen ____53____ what you’re doing this weekend. Will you put on your 3D contact lenses (隐形眼镜) and play virtual (虚拟的) soccer with the US Olympic team? No, no. You tell your friend you are going to take the new nanotube lift 60，000 miles into space.
Could, things like this really ____54____ in just twenty years? The researchers who are now developing the technology required think so. The items mentioned here may be as ____55____ in 20 years as mobile phones and DVD players are today.
36. A. bedroom B. kitchen C. bathroom D. sitting room
37. A. setting B. cutting C. brushing D. showing
38. A. hard B. careful C. strict D. quick
39. A. tells B. asks C. introduces D. says
40. A. because B. that C. since D. if
41. A. Though B. But C. So D. Yet
42. A. above all B. still C. instead D. after all
43. A. told B. improved C. driven D. programmed
44. A. and B. or C. so D. but
45. A. home B. office C. car D. train
46. A. match B. satisfy C. suit D. fit
47. A. Sunday B. today C. tomorrow D. yesterday
48. A. reusable B. suitable C. clean D. new
49. A. are holding B. held C. are to hold D. hold
50. A. fetched B. left C. forgot D. put
51. A. has written B. wrote C. writing D. are writing
52. A. takes B. brings C. smiles D. appears
53. A. asking B. answering C. telling D. ordering
54. A. break out B. take place C. die out D. begin with
55. A. popular B. rare C. common D. ordinary
第三部分：阅读理解(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)
阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
A
If there is one thing I’m sure about, it is that in a hundred years from now we will still be reading newspapers. It is not that newspapers are a necessity. Even now some people get most of their news from television or radio. Many buy a paper only on Saturday or Sunday. But for most people reading a newspaper has become a habit passed down from generation to generation.
The nature of what is news may change. What basically makes news is what affects our lives - the big political stories, the coverage of the wars， earthquakes and other disasters, will continue much the same. I think there will be more coverage of scientific research, though. It’s already happening in areas that may directly affect our lives, like genetic (基因) engineering. In the future, I think there will be more coverage of scientific explanations of why we feel as we do - as we develop a better understanding of how the brain operates and what our feelings really are.
It’s quite possible that in the next century newspapers will be transmitted (传送) electronically from Fleet Street and printed out in our own home. In fact, I’m pretty sure that how it will happen in the future. You will probably be able to choose from a menu; making up your own newspaper by picking out the things you want to read - sports and international news, etc.
I think people have got it wrong when they talk about competition between the different media(媒体). They actually feed off each other. Some people once foresaw that television would kill off newspapers, but that hasn’t happened. What is read on the printed page lasts longer than pictures: on a screen or sound lost in the air. And as for the Internet, it’s never really pleasant to read something just on a screen.
56. What is the best title for the passage?
A. The Best Way to Get News B. The Changes of Media
C. Make Your Own Newspaper D. The Future of Newspaper
57. In the writer’s opinion, in the future, ________.
A. more big political affairs, wars and disasters will make news
B. newspapers will not be printed in publishing houses any longer
C. newspapers will cover more scientific research
D. more and more people will watch TV
58. What will probably be on in the newspaper made by yourself?
A. Sports and international news. B. A menu of important news.
C. The most important news. D. What you are interested in.
59. From the passage, we can infer ________.
A. newspapers will win the competition among the different media
B. newspapers will stay with us together with other media
C. television will take the place of newspaper
D. the writer believe some media will die out
60. The phrase “feed off” in the last paragraph means ________.
A. depend on B. compete with C. fight with D. kill off
B
British Red Cross volunteer Philip Roberts showed how important basic first aid skills can be by saving a road crash victim’s life.
Philip was driving down the M6 motorway early one morning when he came across a serious road accident. A truck had crashed into a car, driving it off the motorway and into a roadside bank.
As the first person on the scene, Philip made sure it was safe to approach the vehicle and found an unconscious woman inside, slumped (陷入) forward and with her airway blocked. As another driver approached, he shouted for them to call the emergency services. Then Philip acted fast.
He recalls：“Climbing into the car, I immediately lifted the woman’s head and opened her airway, so she would be able to breathe. I then kept my hands on her head to keep her neck steady, as the crash could have caused spinal (脊柱的) injury.”
“When the emergency services arrived， they asked me to stay inside the car and maintain(维持) the woman’s airway while they cut off the roof of the car.” By the time the woman was freed from the vehicle, half an hour later, she was starting to regain consciousness.
Philip said, “The simple first aid techniques I used can be learned in five minutes, yet they probably saved the driver’s life. Surely that’s a worthwhile way to spend five minutes!”
“It shows that you don’t necessarily need a big first aid kit full of medical equipment-your hands are the best first aid tools you have.”
Thousands of people are killed on UK roads every year and over half of road accident deaths occur before the emergency services arrive. It can take less than four minutes for a blocked airway to cause death, while it takes around eight minutes for emergency services to arrive.
61. What would be the best title for this passage?
A. The Importance of First Aid Skills
B. Philip Roberts, a British Red Cross Volunteer
C. Simple Skills Save Crash Victim
D. It’s a Worthwhile Way to Spend Five Minutes
62. What do we learn about the accident?
A. Philip was driving a motorbike when he saw the accident.
B. The car crashed into a truck and then blocked the way.
C. Philip was the only person on the scene of the accident.
D. The woman’s car was driven into a bank by the truck.
63. The underlined word “he” in the third paragraph stands for ________.
A. the truck driver B. another driver
C. Philip D. the woman’s husband
64. How did Philip help save the woman’s life?
A. By helping her to breathe. B. By calling the emergency services.
C. By stopping the bleeding. D. By cutting off the roof of the car.
65. “A first aid kit” most probably means ________.
A. a box with first aid tools inside
B. a vehicle with doctors and nurses inside
C. a simple bed on which first aid is offered
D. a hospital with many first aid equipments
C
A relationship is defined as a state of connectedness between people. Although in today’s society with its crazy rhythm (节奏) of everyday life, when people tend to live in thickly populated cities, spending most of their time in the office and hardly knowing their neighbour’s name, we still find ourselves in some kinds of relationships-with friends, family, or colleagues.
Family relationships are the first relationships people enter. Parents and relatives influence our emotional development by creating a model that we are sometimes bound to follow all our lives, often subconsciously (潜意识地). In day-care, at school, then in the office we spend a lot of time among fellow students and co-workers. We learn to keep business relationships, to work in a team environment, then form smaller groups of like-minded people and finally select some of them as our friends.
What is a true friendship? How does it start? Are we destined (注定) to become friends with certain people or can we actually plan whom to be friends with?
“Everybody’s friend is nobody’s.” said Arthur Schopenhauer. Unlike a companionship based on belonging to the same team or group, friendship is a very personal and selective type of relationship. It calls for trust, sincerity, and emotional bonds.
Sociologists believe that most people are looking for similarities in views, social status, and interests when choosing friends. No wonder that our friends are often people of the same age, sex, and education. Another important factor is joint activity and solidarity. This is the reason why many of us befriend our colleagues and other people who work in the same field.
Most people would agree that a friend is someone who always listens and understands. Understanding in this context implies a lot of meanings-compassion, sympathy, and emotional closeness. It’s a process in which your friend reads your emotional state, shares your feelings, identifies himself or herself with you.
66. What is the best title of this passage?
A. Family and Relationships
B. How to Make Friends with Colleagues
C. What is a True Friendship?
D. People and Relationship
67. According to the passage, which of the following affects us most when choosing friends?
A. Family. B. Kindergarten. C. School. D. Office.
68. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. A companionship is based on belonging to the same team or group.
B. Friendship needs trust, sincerity, and emotional bonds.
C. Relationships are friendships between people.
D. Understanding is a process in which the friend reads our emotional state, shares our feelings, identifies himself / herself with us.
69. The underlined word “befriend” in the fifth paragraph means ________.
A. treat B. work with C. become friends with D. help
70. Why are our friends usually of the same age, sex, and education?
A. Because they are clever and well-behaved.
B. Because most of us are looking for similarities in views, social status, and interests when
choosing friends.
C. Because they help us with our work and share our happiness and sorrow.
D. Because they cooperate with us well.
D
Researchers found that compared with teens who spent much of their free time in front of TV sets, those who were physically active often had higher self-respect, better grades. and were less likely to have risky behavior like taking drugs, smoking， or drinking. The findings, based on a national survey of nearly 12,000 middle and high school students, were published in a journal.
“Across the board, children who were engaged in any kind of activity were better off than kids who watched a lot of TV,” said study co-author professor Penny Gordon - Larsen of University of North Carolina.
Other studies have linked certain content of television programs, such as violence and sex, to children’s behavior. But beyond this issue, Gordon - Larsen said that kids who spend hours watching TV “miss opportunities” to develop skills, learn teamwork and have other experiences that their more active peers benefit form.
That doesn’t mean, however， that kids have to be on the football team. The study found that some activities like skating and skateboarding — which adults sometimes frown upon—were also related to better self-respect and less risk-taking.
That skaters were better behaved than TV -watchers might come as a surprise to some adults who consider these teens to be bad, according to Gordon - Larsen. Skateboarding is forbidden in many public areas, and some communities oppose building skating parks. But if kids who like to skate have nowhere to do it, “it’s a shame，” said Gordon-Larsen.
Not only should parents encourage their kids to engage in the physical activities they enjoy, she said, but schools and communities should also do more to create opportunities for children to be active.
71. From the passage we know that ________.
A. physically active kids get into less trouble
B. more skating parks are being built
C. kids who spend hours watching TNT benefit a lot
D. kids who have nowhere to skate tend to take drugs
72. If your kid is a football player; he is more likely to ________.
A. get into the habit of smoking or drinking
B. develop teamwork spirit
C. have risky behaviors
D. fail in the schoolwork
73. This passage is mainly written to ________.
A. offer some information to teachers and parents
B. persuade kids not to watch a lot of TV
C. urge the public to help children be active
D. show the author’s concern about children’s growth
74. What does the underlined sentence “which adults sometimes frown upon” in the 4th
paragraph mean?
A. Some adults don’t understand the sports.
B. Some adults are impatient with kids.
C. Adults consider it dangerous to go skating or skateboarding.
D. Some adults think them related to bad behaviors.
75. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
A. kids are not expected to be active by some parents
B. professor Penny is a famous writer and journalist
C. skateboarding is popular in schools and communities
D. kids are not encouraged to join the football team.
苍山县2007～2008学年度上学期期中试题
高二英语 2007.11
第Ⅱ卷（共45分）
第四部分：书面表达(共三节，满分45分)
第一节：单词拼写和完成句子，请把答案写在题后指定的答题处。(A部分5个小题，每小题1分；B部分5个小题，每小题2分，两部分满分15分)
A. 请根据句意和首字母或汉语提示写出单词的正确形式：
76.We might be able to draw some different ________(结论) from the facts.
77.It’s so hot today, and the ________(电) fan isn’t working. I am so sorry.
78.I’m on holiday these days. Please come whenever it is c_____ to you.
79.The doctor was very t_____ in his examination of the sick child.
80.We went to an e_____ of Chinese paintings at the museum and we were very impressed by most of the paintings.
B. 请根据汉语提示完成下列句子：
81.________ ________ (每次) I see the American flag, I will wonder whether it ________ ________ (代表) freedom and justice.
82.—I have got a cough and my chest hurts.
—________ ________ ________ (别着急). Let me examine you now.
83.On the one hand they say they wish to reduce the cost of living, ________ ________ ________ ________ (另一方面) they increase the duties on a number of articles.
84.I ________ ________ (迷路) when we reached what looked like a large market because of the people flying by in ________ ________ (四面八方).
85. At the meeting everybody was ________ ________ (全神贯注于) the good plan ________ ________ (提出) by the young newcomer.〖HJ150x〗
第二节：写作 (满分30分)
假如你是李华，目前你们班大约有40%的学生近视，请你以Protecting Our Eyesight为题写一篇120-150词的短文，以引起他们足够的重视，从而有效控制近视率。
1.产生近视的原因；(长时间看书，不注意休息；在昏暗的灯光下看书等)
2.近视带来的不便；
3.你的合理化建议。
提示词汇：近视：nearsightedness; shortsightedness
近视眼：short-sighted eyes; near-sighted eyes
苍山县2007－2008学年度上学期高二期中考试
英语试题 参考答案 2007.11
听力部分：
语法词汇：21-25 CABDA 26-30 CBDBC 31-35 DBACA
完形填空：36-40 CCDAA 41-45 CCDBB 46-50 ADABB 51-55 BDABC
阅读理解：56-60 DCDBA 61-65 CDCAA 66-70 DACCB 71-75 ABCDA
单词拼写：76. conclusions 77. electric 78. convenient 79. thorough 80. exhibition
81. Every time; stands for 82. Take it / things easy 83. and on the other
84. was / got lost; all directions / every direction 85. absorbed in; put forward
写 作： Protecting Our Eyesight
Because of reading for a long time without a rest or in dim light, or reading with the book held too close, about 40 percent of the students in my class have poor eyesight and have to wear glasses.
As we all know, near-sightedness causes many inconveniences. For example, a person wearing glasses has difficulty in doing almost all kinds of sports. In winter, the moment a person wearing glasses goes out or enters a house, they are covered with frost. Furthermore, a near-sighted person can not become a soldier or a professional athlete in some sports fields.
Therefore, we should protect our eyesight. We should read in good light with the book held about 30cm from our eyes. In addition, we should do eye exercises every day.